Homework – Class 3
Dragons Topic
Please remember that you should be reading 3 times a week for at least 15 minutes per session.
These sessions have to be recorded in your reading diary by your parents (or readers), and
sometimes yourself.
On top of this there are the fortnightly spellings and mental maths tasks.
Core Task 1 To be completed by Friday 30th January
Write a book review for a book that you know really well. It may be a favourite book of
yours or one that you have read recently. Write about what happened in the book and
what you thought about it. Here are some questions to help get you thinking:
What is the title? Who is the author? What kind of book is it? (fiction – adventure, science fiction,
poetry, playscript; non-fiction- information, explanation, recount..) What was the book about? What
happened in the story? What was the best bit? Which characters did you like most and why? Which
parts of the book did you like most and why? Have you read anything else like this before? Have you
read anything else by the same author? Who is the book aimed at? Who would you recommend the
book to?
Core Task 2 To be completed by Monday 9th February
Write two excellent paragraphs about a role model or person who has achieved a goal that you
respect or would like to achieve yourself. You should do some research. This can be done in
different ways depending on the person you have chosen. Please bring in pictures, items and/or
magazine articles relating to the person and what they have achieved. These questions might help:
• What have they achieved?
• Why do you respect them for this?
• What obstacles were in their way?
• How did they overcome them?
• Who helped them achieve their goal?
• What do you think they said/did when they felt like giving up?
For your third homework task choose one of the following
and bring it into school when you have completed it:
Choose which homework you would like to do from the
following list:
Artistic homework
 Design a cartoon dragon. Draw a comic strip story about
the dragon.
Writer’s homework (linguistic)
 Pretend that you are a dragon rider or a dragon hunter.
Write about one of your most daring adventures.
Musical homework
 Write a song or piece of music about ‘The dragon that
turned bad’.
Logical/mathematical homework;
 Invent 3 different dragons and write their measurements
down. Draw 3 diagrams showing their sizes to scale. Eg.
1cm (in diagram) = 1m (in real life); so a 9m long dragon
would be 9cm in a diagram.
Active homework:
 Design a warm-up (or Take 10) activity that is about
dragons. It must warm-up different parts of your body.
(eg. Duck the Dragon’s Fire means do 3 press-ups which
exercises your arms) Write or draw your ideas.
Scientific homework:
 .Write down 10 materials words (eg. metal, glass, foam..)
on separate slips of paper. Write 10 objects (eg. teacup,
DVD player, bike) on 10 other slips. Choose 1 word
from both piles to make some funny combinations. Write
down and draw th e3 craziest objects you make (eg. a
paper mobile phone)