Children have CGP books for their English and Maths home learning; teachers will let them know on Thursday which page(s) they need to complete for the following Tuesday. Please encourage your child to look over their home learning on Thursday, so their teacher can answer any questions on Friday. 

Children are also expected to be reading for 20 minutes a minimum of 5 times a week, as well as practising times tables as necessary.

Recommended Reading List

Topic Projects or Activities

If you would like to do some additional home learning, here are some ideas linked to our foundation learning. Remember to bring in anything you do at home so we can share it with the class.

This half term, we will be learning about the earth's different climate zones, the reasons for their formation and how they compare (temperature, precipitation and vegetation). If you would like to carry out some home learning linked to this topic, we would love to see anything you find out or create, so please bring it into class to share! See below for some ideas:

• Find out about the wettest and driest places on Earth. You could display your findings in charts, on a poster or in a PowerPoint
• Do the same but with the hottest and coldest places on Earth!
• Climate zones and the human impact on these can lead to some extreme weather. Research the role of emergency aid workers responding to natural disasters around the world
• Create a piece of art inspired by the earth’s different biomes. This could be a drawing, painting, or maybe something 3D!
• Choose an animal that you think is particularly well adapted to its environment and explain these adaptations in a poster
• Investigate a small-scale ecosystem in your local area. Think about: the weather, vegetation, animals, soil type and how people use the space. Take pictures and use them to display your findings
• Make biome bunting - include facts about each biome on a bunting flag
• Create a map to show the Earth’s major terrestrial biomes. This could be a 3D map

A couple of suggested websites for research are:

Biomes - BBC Bitesize

School Learning Zone - Climate Zones and Biomes

If your child is using the Internet for research, please remember that you may not have the same level of filtering and monitoring at home as we have in school. The website suggested above has been checked, but if your child is carrying out free research please be vigilant about what they are accessing.

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