Emergency Homework
Homework for Thursday 6th January
Lower School Mathematics
Years 1 and 2 : Practise your times tables
Lower School English
Pre-schoolers: should draw a picture of themselves playing in the snow. Mummy or Daddy might like to write a sentence that their child gives them about what is happening in their picture.
Reception: should draw picture of themselves playing in the snow and write a sentence or two about what is happening in their picture.
Years 1 and 2: should draw a picture of themselves playing in the snow and write a story retelling Wednesday's eventful happenings.
Upper School Mathematics
Years 3-6: Visit the Mathletics site and practise your mathematical skYear 3:ills. We will be interested to know how you have done! Also, for those with their Mental Arithmatic books at home, you can continue with the next test.
Upper School English
Children are to write on neat, lined paper as they are unlikely to have their books with them
Year 3: Write a story with the title 'A Day in the Life of a Snowman' as if you were the snowman.
Remember to use exciting description so the reader can really 'see' and 'feel' the story.
Year 4: Write a story with the title ' Stranded - An ice-cold adventure' about an exciting snow experience.
Remember to build up the excitement in the story. Use interesting verbs and adverbs.
Year 5: Plan a story with the title 'Tracks in the Snow'. Think especially about how to describe the snow using all five senses.
Year 6:
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
A) Read the poem carefully and answer the questions below
a) Why do you think the poet has stopped to watch the woods fill up with snow rather than continue his journey?
b) Besides the beauty of the woods on a snowy evening, what else holds the poet spellbound?
c) What rouses him and breaks the spell?
d) What reasons does he give himself for driving on?
e) Can you think of a reason for the poet’s journey in this snowy weather? Where do you think he might be headed and what do you think are the promises he has to keep?
f) Using the same rhyming scheme can you attempt writing an extra verse for this poem? Your verse may be inserted into the poem at any point, beginning, middle or end.
B) Write one paragraph of at least 10 lines imagining you are the poet and describe what you see as you sit and watch the woods fill up with snow. Concentrate on your senses, what can you see, hear, feel? What are the emotions you feel as you watch the silent woods?