Challenge homework Term 2.pdf
Squirrels Year 2 and 3 Learning Challenge homework. Autumn 2 Topic: Would you have survived in the Stone Age?
NC: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Science Secondary focus – Why don’t sharks eat vegetables?
NC: Animals, including humans
You should read daily, practise your times tables and learn your spellings every week. Here are our homework ideas, please choose one piece of homework every two weeks. Each piece is worth a different number of house points. Week Start date: Monday 31.10.16 Due in on: Friday 11.11.16
2 house points
5 house points
10 house points
Draw a cave person.
Design your own cave painting.
Stone age maths. Archaeologists
Draw a picture of a man or
Design your own cave painting.
have found these marks on cave
woman from the Stone Age. What
You could even put it on a rock
walls that they think might be a
do you think they might be
or stone. Use natural colours
form of counting.
wearing? What will their hair be
that cave people could have
like? What might they be holding?
made from earth and plants.
Can you come up with your own way of counting? You might want to choose symbols to mean a certain amount. Will you count in sets of 10 or will your counting system work in another way?
Start date: Monday 14.11.16 Due in on: Friday 25.11.16
Time travel Imagine that you
Cave art
Stone age recipe Stone age people
have been whisked back to pre-
Cave people may have had a
could not just pop to the shops
historic Britain. You have been
way of telling stories using
for food. Everything they ate had
allowed to take one person or one
pictures. Make up your own
to be either caught or collected.
object with you from 2016. What
story, it can be about anything
Can you write your own set of
or who would you take? Explain
you like, but tell it through cave
instructions to create a Stone
the reasons for your choice.
art pictures!
Age dinner? Don’t forget to use headings and set you work out very carefully.
Start date: Monday 28.11.16
Due in on: Friday
9.12.16
How can Usain Bolt move so
A balanced diet
Dem bones! Dem bones!
quickly?
Can you create a healthy meal
How could you teach someone
Can you sketch the position that
which is nutritionally balanced?
else all about the human skeleton?
Usain Bolt is in for the start of
Don’t forget to include all five
Perhaps you could construct a
a race? Look at how hard his
food groups! You can draw
model or create a presentation?
muscles are working.
your plate, collage it, paint it,
Your challenge is to take a short
but make sure that it is clearly
(5 min max) lesson on the
labelled with the food groups.
skeleton for your class with the resources you will need to help the other learners.
Useful Websites to explore the Bronze age, Stone age and Iron age. BBC Primary history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/ British Museum website, this explores prehistory through objects:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers/resources/cultures/prehistoric_britain.as Woodlands Junior has timelines of prehistoric Britain with interesting facts and information:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/timeline.html Stone Age information for children:
http://timetravellerkids.co.uk/time-travel/stone-age/
These websites offer some guidance for creating a nutritionally balanced meal.
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?siteId=14§ionId=61&contentId=55 http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-eatwell-guide.aspx
Squirrels’ Learning Challenge Homework Record Autumn 2 Week
Homework chosen
Parent comment
Teacher comment
House points awarded
Start date: Monday 31.10.16 Due in on: Friday 11.11.16 Start date: Monday 14.11.16 Due in on: Friday 25.11.16 Start date: Monday 28.11.16
Due in on: Friday
9.12.16
NC: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
Science Secondary focus – Why don’t sharks eat vegetables?
NC: Animals, including humans
You should read daily, practise your times tables and learn your spellings every week. Here are our homework ideas, please choose one piece of homework every two weeks. Each piece is worth a different number of house points. Week Start date: Monday 31.10.16 Due in on: Friday 11.11.16
2 house points
5 house points
10 house points
Draw a cave person.
Design your own cave painting.
Stone age maths. Archaeologists
Draw a picture of a man or
Design your own cave painting.
have found these marks on cave
woman from the Stone Age. What
You could even put it on a rock
walls that they think might be a
do you think they might be
or stone. Use natural colours
form of counting.
wearing? What will their hair be
that cave people could have
like? What might they be holding?
made from earth and plants.
Can you come up with your own way of counting? You might want to choose symbols to mean a certain amount. Will you count in sets of 10 or will your counting system work in another way?
Start date: Monday 14.11.16 Due in on: Friday 25.11.16
Time travel Imagine that you
Cave art
Stone age recipe Stone age people
have been whisked back to pre-
Cave people may have had a
could not just pop to the shops
historic Britain. You have been
way of telling stories using
for food. Everything they ate had
allowed to take one person or one
pictures. Make up your own
to be either caught or collected.
object with you from 2016. What
story, it can be about anything
Can you write your own set of
or who would you take? Explain
you like, but tell it through cave
instructions to create a Stone
the reasons for your choice.
art pictures!
Age dinner? Don’t forget to use headings and set you work out very carefully.
Start date: Monday 28.11.16
Due in on: Friday
9.12.16
How can Usain Bolt move so
A balanced diet
Dem bones! Dem bones!
quickly?
Can you create a healthy meal
How could you teach someone
Can you sketch the position that
which is nutritionally balanced?
else all about the human skeleton?
Usain Bolt is in for the start of
Don’t forget to include all five
Perhaps you could construct a
a race? Look at how hard his
food groups! You can draw
model or create a presentation?
muscles are working.
your plate, collage it, paint it,
Your challenge is to take a short
but make sure that it is clearly
(5 min max) lesson on the
labelled with the food groups.
skeleton for your class with the resources you will need to help the other learners.
Useful Websites to explore the Bronze age, Stone age and Iron age. BBC Primary history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/ British Museum website, this explores prehistory through objects:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers/resources/cultures/prehistoric_britain.as Woodlands Junior has timelines of prehistoric Britain with interesting facts and information:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/timeline.html Stone Age information for children:
http://timetravellerkids.co.uk/time-travel/stone-age/
These websites offer some guidance for creating a nutritionally balanced meal.
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?siteId=14§ionId=61&contentId=55 http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-eatwell-guide.aspx
Squirrels’ Learning Challenge Homework Record Autumn 2 Week
Homework chosen
Parent comment
Teacher comment
House points awarded
Start date: Monday 31.10.16 Due in on: Friday 11.11.16 Start date: Monday 14.11.16 Due in on: Friday 25.11.16 Start date: Monday 28.11.16
Due in on: Friday
9.12.16
