How to complete your homework task
- Earn a minimum of 10 points a week.
- Use a pencil and do your tasks neatly in your homework book.
- Remember a date and a heading.
- Extend yourself and try to earn as many points as you can!
- Choose your activities from the list below. You may repeat activities, however not in the same week.
- Write the words neatly in joined up writing.
- Write your words using one colour for vowels and another colour for consonants
- Draw a picture of 10 of your spelling words.
- Write your words in ABC order.
10 point choices
- Write your words three times in joined up writing.
- Write your words three times each in three different colours
- Make a word scramble and solve it using your words.
- Use all your spelling words to write 10 or more questions
- Write an antonym for each word
- Look up your words in the dictionary and write their meaning
- Using your dictionary find ten of your spelling words and write down the page number along with the two guide words at the top of the dictionary page.
- Classify the words according to parts of speech.
- Write sentences with each words.
- Write a newspaper article using ten or more of the words.
- Write a great story using at least ten of your spelling words.
- Write newspaper headlines using your words.
- Make a word search with all of your words.
- Write a letter to a friend using all your spelling words.
- Create a cartoon strip using at least 8 spelling words
- Type your spelling list four times; with each list typed in a different font.
15 point Choices
- Cut the words out of magazines and newspapers and make a collage
- Cut out a picture from a newspaper or a magazine and use spelling words to write a story about the picture.
