"Homework, when are we getting homework?"

Homework for Room 10 starts today.

Learning doesn't just happen at school it happens all the time and even at home too!

Writing Ideas

• Writing a story for 20 minutes to build up your stamina for writing.
• Illustrate your writing, write a little bit each day and then on Friday you can draw a picture and bring it in to show Miss Suze.
• Be creative and make a homework book to write in.
• Use kids blog and post your stories/writing.
• Make a book and make it about yourself and put it in the library in our class.
• You can go on storybird and write a booklet.
• Write an email to someone in your family and tell them about school.
• Write the shopping list for Mum this week.

Spelling Ideas

• Write 5 sentences and use your spelling words.
• Someone in your family can test you on your spelling words.
• Look, Cover, Spell and repeat.
• Search the word on the internet.
• Spelling websites that build up your vocabulary. 

Reading Ideas

• You can take your HES library book home to read but bring it back every day!
• You can read whenever you have spare time and after you have finished your other homework.
• Snuggle up in bed and read for 20 minutes before you go to sleep.
• Read the newspaper with your family and talk about it.
• Read a book or a magazine on the toilet.
• Read or listen to books and stories on the computer if you have one.
• Read the HES blogs and other childrens writing (kidsblog)
• You can read magazines.
• You can read the HES newsletter.

Maths Ideas

• Practice times tables with flash cards, 2 dice and times them, xtramaths.com website
• Maths websites online, lots of links are on our class blog.
• Get your family to write down some sums or equations for you to work out.
• Play Yahtzee, monopoly or cards with your family.
• Help your parents when you go shopping at the supermarket and look at prices.