Talk homework for Friday 22nd February

This week we will be writing a poem that can be put forward for this year’s St David’s Day Bard competition. We will be looking at the  poem ’Seven Lies’ which is about trees. We will take the structure and idea behind this poem to write seven lies about something Welsh! I would like you to think and talk about the possible lies you could tell about some of the following themes:

· The Welsh rugby team

· Cardiff City Football Club

· Leeks

· Daffodils

· Castell Coch

· The Welsh flag

Have lots of fun talking about the themes and inventing the lies!  I can’t wait to hear about them!

Mrs Tucker

Talk homework

This week we will be writing a story linked to our topic on Robots and the visit to the Dr Who Experience. Dr Who has asked for your help as the world is in danger of being attacked. You build a robot.

You and your robot help Dr Who to save the world! I would like you to think and talk about the following:

· How does Dr Who contact you?

· What is the danger to the planet earth?

· How do you feel about the danger?

· What do you build the robot out of?

· What special powers does the robot have?

· What is the robot called?

· How do you save the world?

· How do you feel now?

Remember to think of as many WOW words as you can to help make your writing more exciting!

Dr Who Experience

Pictures of our 'Wow' day at the Dr Who experience (for our 'Robot Rampage' topic), courtesy of our unofficial photographer - Mrs Taylor-Dodd!

maths

This week's maths is data handling. We will be making tally charts and using that information to complete frequency tables and bar graphs. To help read a tally chart pupils need to be confident at counting in 5s and then counting on in from a multiple of 5. 

Next week we will be looking at measurements. We'll start the week looking at measuring liquids: using the vocabulary capacity, litres and millilitres. They will be comparing how much different bottle and jugs hold, reading the measuring jugs and making estimates. At the end of the week we will be looking at time. Pupils will be looking at the relationship between days, hours, minutes and seconds (ie how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour etc.) 

Please could you send in any clean, empty, plastic bottles that we can use to measure with eg shampoo, shower gel. All shapes and sizes welcome! Thank you.

Talk Homework for Friday 25th January

Due to Friday's school closure we did not get the chance to do our Big Writing last week. Therefore we hope to do it this Friday - weather permitting! Here is a copy of last week's talk homework letter:

This week our writing will form a poster to highlight the dangers of electricity. I would like you to talk about the following:

*   What are the dangers of electricity?
*   How can we use it safely?
*   What 'wow' words can we use instead of the word danger so that we do not 'wear out 
    the batteries' by over using the same word!

There are also several games they can play on the internet that highlight the different dangers. One that we have been looking at in class can be found on the Topmarks website by typing 'electricity power up' into the search bar.

Remember, the more talking the better! Have fun!

Mrs Tucker