YEAR 3 HOMEWORK

16.9.2014

HOMEWORK TIMETABLEMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Spellings Times tables

The Big Talk

Due Thursday

Literacy MathsDue Wednesday

Reading Reading Reading Reading

Times tables: What should they know and by when? By the end of Year 3: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10By the end of Year 4: All times tables up to 12

LITERACY & MATHS• HANDED OUT EVERY FRIDAY AND DUE BACK THE FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY

• LITERACY:

• GRAMMAR / VOCABULARY /WRITING

• WILL ALWAYS RELATE TO SKILLS AND TOPICS BEING STUDIED WITHIN THE CLASSROOM

• MATHS:

• TIMES TABLES

• REINFORCING CLASSROOM LEARNING

• TESTING APPLICATION OF SKILLS

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THE BIG TALK • EVERY THURSDAY THE WHOLE SCHOOL TAKES PART IN THE BIG WRITE

• THIS IS TO HELP RAISE ATTAINMENT LEVEL IN SPEAKING, LISTENING

AND WRITING.

• THE BIG TALK IS PREPARATION FOR THE BIG WRITE

• IF A CHILD CAN’T SAY IT A CHILD CAN’T WRITE IT.

• A FUN WRITING SESSION THAT PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN TO:

• EXPERIMENT WRITING DIFFERENT GENRES

• HAVE THE TIME AND THE FREEDOM TO WRITE

• IMPROVE CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

• DEVELOP AND EXPERIMENT USING NEW VOCABULARY AND PHRASES

• IMPROVE GRAMMAR SKILLS

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Sithee! If kid c’nt say’t kid c’nt reet’t!Us reets as us spiks an’ us spiks as us eers … Wot cums owt o’t pen is wot’d cum owt o’t mowt. Us c’nst ownli reet wi’t langwage

THE BIG TALK

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?

• HELP YOUR CHILD EXPLORE IDEAS AND TALK THROUGH POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

• TALK ABOUT SIMILAR STORIES / FILMS / DAYS OUT /EXPERIENCES THEY CAN USE AS STIMULUS

• ASK YOUR CHILDREN QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR IDEAS TO HELP THEM DEVELOP THEIR IDEAS ABOUT THEIR PLOT , SETTINGS AND CHARACTERS

• CHILDREN BRING BRIEF NOTES IN TO SCHOOL TO HELP THEM REMEMBER IDEAS OR KEY WORDS / PHRASES THEY WANT TO USE

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READING• AIM TO READ TOGETHER 4 TIMES PER WEEK

• READ LOTS OF DIFFERENT BOOKS AND AUTHORS TO ENRICH THEIR IMAGINATION

• ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE READING:

• DO YOU AGREE / DISAGREE WITH THE CHARACTERS ACTIONS? WHY?

• WHAT OTHER STORY HAVE YOU READ THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THIS ONE? WHY?

• WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN?

• FIND NEW WORDS AND DESCRIPTIVE PHRASES TO INCREASE YOUR CHILD’S VOCABULARY

• CAN THEY EXPLAIN THE MEANING? Back