Class 3 Homework Summer 2016

Spy Kids

All Class 3 children are expected to do homework each week. It should take around 2½ - 3 hours a week (which is around ½ an hour a day). Each week you will need to choose a starter, curry course, main course or a dessert (a dessert is a real treat so is worth two mains and may take 2 weeks to complete).

Reading is no longer expected as homework it is just expected - daily for at least 20 minutes.

Homework will be set on Wednesdays and handed in on Mondays. Please make every effort to hand in on time to ensure work is read, appreciated and marked before being handed back.

All work should be completed to the same high standards expected in school: -

  • Neatest handwriting and presentation
  • Completed in pencil unless you are a pen licence holder
  • Ruler used to draw straight lines
  • Date and title on every piece of work - underlined neatly using a ruler
  • All work should look and read as if care and effort has been used
  • Colouring should be neat and carefully done
  • Every effort to spell words correctly should have been taken
  • No felt pens or highlighters unless otherwise specified

There may be times when work can be completed as a presentation. These can be emailed to school or put on a memory stick and arrive in school on Monday mornings.

Useful websites for this project:

Spy Soup

  • Play one of these Maths times tables games for 10 minutes each day

Record when you played and for how long and your scores in your Homework Book.

  • Play one of these Maths games for at least 30 mins

Record when you played and for how long and your scores in your Homework Book.

  • Solve at least one of these problems

Record your progress in your Homework Book.

  • Take one of the Laminated Times Tables Games home and play for 10 minutes each day and record when you played, for how long andyour scores, in your Homework Book.

Secret Salmon

Learn your spellings using one of these methods:-

  • Look, cover, write, check
  • Design a poster using all the words
  • write them with your wrong hand joining all the letters
  • Mirror write them

Check out these spelling games:-

Undercover Steak and Agent Sweet

Choose one activity each week(or 2 weeks) and remember to use the features for the type of writing you are going to use.

Find out how many Bond cars there have been. What make and model and what special features does each one have? Don't forget to include facts and figures, pictures of at least some with explanations of their special features and which do you think is the best and why.

You could upgrade this to Agent Sweet by including a set of Top Trumps or making a model or designing your own Bond Car with diagrams and explanations of any special features.

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Find out how to make a periscope for seeing around corners. Explain how to make it by writing instructions and drawing detailed diagrams.

You could upgrade this to Agent Sweet by also making a working model of your periscope making sure it looks good too.

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Imagine you are M - what kit would a spy need to have when they are working in the field. You can choose the spy - man, woman, boy, girl or animal. Draw a picture of them and show where the gadgets are hidden.

Design a spy kit for them. Include detailed explanations, pictures and diagrams of what each gadget is and how or when it should be used and any safety warnings.

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Devise a code for sending secret messages using symbols, numbers or letters or anything else you can think of. Don't make it too easy. Write a message in your code.

Design and make a spy board game that includes using your code as part of it. Include all the pieces and detailed instructions on how to play the game.

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Homework Record

Don't forget that one Agent Sweetcan be done instead of two Undercover Steaks. Reading can be independent or reading to someone else (adult or younger child) but must be sustained for 20 minutes a day for maximum impact.

Date to be handed in / Spy Soup
/ Secret Salmon
/ Undercover Steak
/ Agent Sweet
/ Daily Reading minimum of 20 minutes a day
Week 1
11th April
Week 2
18th April
Week 3
25th April
Week 4
2nd May
Week 5
9th May
Week 6
16th May
Half Term
Only Reading is expected

Completing this chart will give you a bonus privilege session. During which you can negotiate a wider range of choices.