3/4 Homework 2025

Reading: 20 minutes

Other activity: Any amount of time

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Ideas for activities are outlined in this slide deck.

Your family may decide for your child to complete another activity that you deem important.

Whichever activities your child completes need to be recorded in their diary (ideally by the child)

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We believe that it up to you, as a family, to choose the types of activities and time spent on these activities that best suits your life.

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3/4 Homework 2025

Our approach is based on the work of many educational theorists and neuroscientists, our belief is that homework (in its traditional sense) is ineffective in the primary school years.

Without proper support and immediate feedback, many children (and families for that matter) find the process of homework frustrating, time consuming and, ultimately, insufficient in developing or even consolidating skills.

Whilst practises such as reading remain encouraged, we envisage more broadly incorporating activities which our students can do at home that will help to develop them as fully-rounded individuals who grow up learning that their families, peers, teachers and school values their whole-being and wishes them to succeed in any of many of life’s endeavours in which they may pursue.

Maths

• Cook a meal or a sweet for a friend, family, sporting club, local library, volunteers at an Op-Shop - get creative!
• Play a card or board game. Change the game to make it more complex or competitive. Teach someone in your family a game that we have learned in class (many of these can be found on Google Classroom).
• Spy number plates or numbers in the environment and practise doubling, halving, finding the number one more or less than, 10 more or less, 100 more or less, find combinations in the numbers, can you use operations to get to a different number plate (BEW-482) is 233 more than (MWX-249), the 4 is double 2, 8 is double 4.
• Practise skills on My Numeracy (in Essential Assessment). These come from questions answered incorrectly during assessment. Complete activities from your Essentials Booklet (ask your teacher if your family would like one)
• Challenge a family member to complete an investigation we have attempted in class - compare strategies!
• Research the length of the 5 longest rivers in the world. Order the rivers from the shortest to the longest.
• Research the distance between your home town and 5 other towns in another state. Write each distance in numbers and in words.

Maths

• Check Google Classroom regularly for links to online resources for practising skills - eg. Times Tables Rockstars
• List 5 situations in everyday life where the fraction 1/2 might be used. Draw a picture to represent each situation.
• Find a recipe that contains fractions. Draw and label a representation of any fractions in the recipe e.g. a half a cup of sugar.
• Research a currency used in another country. Draw and label some examples of their coins and notes.
• Create a number pattern that increases and a number pattern that decreases. Describe the rule for each pattern.
• Find 10 food items in your pantry. List each item and record its mass (written on the packaging). Order the items from lightest to heaviest.
• Write a detailed set of directions (at least 5 instructions) explaining how to get from your front door to another part of your home.
• Create a timetable for all the important events in your day. These might include waking up, eating meals, going to and from school and going to bed.
• List 5 questions that you could ask your friends if you were doing a survey. Explain how you might display your data.
• Play or create a board game to practise your number skills (e.g addition facts, times tables, doubles facts etc)

Reading

• Read for pleasure at a time that suits. Some prefer mornings, some when they get home from school, some before bed. Carve out time to read books you love - talk about them with members if your family.
• Borrow books from the library.
• Listen to a kids’ podcast or audio books like “brains on” “short and curly” or “squizz kids” news.
• Find an experiment that you would like to do - this links well with maths as experiments often involve $ and measuring. You could even write up what you see happen in the experiment!
• Write an alternate ending for a book you have read.
• Write an acrostic poem to describe a character of a book you are reading.
• Draw a flow chart ordering 5 important events from a book you are reading.
• Define 10 new or unusual words you have found in a book you are reading.
• Create a board game which retells the main events of a book you have read.

Writing

• Write a factual recount about a family celebration.
• Write an information report about the moon.
• Write a procedure about how to make your favourite meal.
• Write a procedural recount about an activity or game you played at school.
• Write a persuasive text about why children should do more exercise.
• Write a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of homework.
• Write a literary description of a famous fairy tale character.
• Write a literary recount about a time when you felt proud.
• Write a review of a television show or movie you have watched recently.
• Look through newspapers or magazines and cut out any examples of contractions you find. Use these examples to create a contractions collage.

Well-being

The following slides are examples of activities you may undertake that you could record in your diary.

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It is not a complete list. There may be other activities you undertake that are not in this list but you feel are important to you. Your teachers would love to read about them :)

Sport: training or a match, a bike ride, swimming or shooting hoops in the driveway

Building: something around the house

Art: painting, sculpting, sketching

Cooking: bake a treat for someone

Visit: family or friends

Music: practising or learning an instrument, make a playlist, find a new artist

Language: learning a new language or having class or practising the skill

Write a paragraph about a time that you overcame a tough challenge. Explain what helped you to complete the task and how you felt once you succeeded.

Create an informative poster showing how to make your classroom a safe, healthy and fun place to learn.

Every day this week, record an activity you have done to help your body or your mind stay healthy.