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Week Beginning 13th July 2020

• KS1- Home Learning Pack (week commencing 13th July 2020)
• KS1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 13th July 2020)
• English - Handwriting Template for Books
• Maths - Lesson 1 - Find a Half (Part 1)
• Maths - Lesson 2 - Find a Half (Part 2)
• Maths - Lesson 3 - Find a Quarter (Part 1)
• Maths - Lesson 4 - Find a Quarter (Part 2)
• Maths - Daily Challenges
• Maths - 'One More and One Less' Card Game
• Maths - The Place Value Mystery in the Palace Game
• Topic - PSHE - Memories
• Topic - Geography - Clothes sorting Weather Activity
• Topic - Science - Animal Fact File Templates

Week Beginning 6th July 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 6th July 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 6th July 2020)
• English - Postcard
• English - Wordsearch
• Topic - PSHE - Eat Well Plate
• Topic - Science - Habitat Exploration Log
• Maths - Lesson 1 - Ordering Numbers
• Maths - Lesson 2 - Recognising Coins
• Maths - Lesson 3 - Recognising Notes
• Maths - Lesson 4 - Counting in Coins
• Phonics Grid (week commencing 6th July 2020)
• Phonics - Roll and Read 'IE'

Week Beginning 29th June 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 29th June 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 29th June 2020)
• English - Popping Punctuation
• English - Design a New Front Cover
• English - Handwriting Practise
• Topic - Science - Animal Groups
• Maths - Lesson 1 - Counting to 100
• Maths - Lesson 2 - Partitioning Numbers
• Maths - Lesson 3 - Comparing Numbers (1)
• Maths - Lesson 4 - Comparing Numbers (2)
• Maths - Diving into Mastery - Activity Cards
• Maths - Diving into Mastery - Answer Sheet
• Phonics Grid (week commencing 29th June 2020)
• Phonics - 'ph' Real or Nonsense Words
• Phonics - Hard and Soft 'g' Sound Sorting Game

Week Beginning 22nd June 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 22nd June 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 22nd June 2020)
• Phonics Grid (week commencing 22nd June 2020)
• Phonics - 'ee' Phoneme Spotter
• Phonics - 'ee' Sorting Grid
• Phonics - 'ee' Alternative Pronunciation Sorting Game
• Phonics - 'i' Alternative Pronunciation Sorting Game
• Phonics - 'o' Alternative Pronunication Sorting Game
• Maths - Lesson 1 Make arrays 2020
• Maths - Lesson 2 Make doubles 2020
• Maths - Lesson 3 Make equal groups - sharing 2020
• Maths - Lesson 4 Make equal groups - grouping 2020
• Maths Reasoning Challenge
• English - Helping Others
• English - 'Doing Chores' Worksheet
• English - Reading comprehension
• Topic - PHSE - Emotions Board Game
• Topic - PE - Fitness Challenge Cards
• Topic - Science - Identifying Trees

Week Beginning 15th June 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 15th June 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 15th June 2020)
• Phonics Grid (week commencing 15th June 2020)
• Phonics - 'ai' Matching Cards
• Phonics - 'u-e' Magic Wand
• Maths - Lesson 1 'Count in 2s'
• Maths - Lesson 2 'Count in 5s'
• Maths - Lesson 3 'Count in 10s'
• Maths - Lesson 4 'Add Equal Groups'
• Maths - Reasoning Challenge
• English - Handwriting Sheet
• English - Ocean Animals Fact Files
• English - Under the Sea Wordsearch
• English - 'The Runaway Iceberg' Comprehension
• Topic - History 'Gandhi' Comprehension
• Topic - Science 'Nature Walk Diary'

Week Beginning 8th June 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 8th June 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 8th June 2020)
• Phonics Grid (week commencing 8th June 2020)
• Phonics - 'u-e' Words
• Phonics - Phase 5 - Spot the 'i-e' Words
• Phonics - 'i-e' Four in a Row
• Maths - Lesson 1 - Measure Mass
• Maths - Lesson 2 - Compare Mass
• Maths - Lesson 3 - Introduce Capacity and Volume
• Maths - Lesson 4 - Measure Capacity
• Maths - Addition & Subtraction Challenge
• Maths - Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
• English - Describe the Monster
• English - Story Boards
• English - Comic Book
• English - Rainbow Simile Poem
• Topic - PSHE - Friendship Wordsearch
• Toipc - History - Queen Victoria Fact File
• Topic - History - Queen Victoria Comprehension Sheet
• Topic - Science - Plant Life Cycle
• Twinkle Twinkle

Week Beginning 1st June 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 1st June 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 1st June 2020)
• Phonics Grid (week commencing 1st June 2020)
• Phonics - Tuesday's ' a-e' Recap Activity
• Phonics - Thursday's Alternative 'ee' Activity
• Maths - Daily Maths Challenges
• Maths - Lesson 1 - Compare Lengths and Heights
• Maths - Lesson 2 - Measure Length (1)
• Maths - Lesson 3 - Measure Length (2)
• Maths - Lesson 4 - Introduce Weight and Mass
• Maths - Number Bonds to 20 Challenge
• Topic - Gross motor skills
• Topic - Geography - Australia
• Topic - Leaf Activity
• Topic - Plants and Flower Hunt

Week Beginning 18th May 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 18th May 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 18th May 2020)
• Phonics Grid - Week Commencing 18th May 2020
• Phonics - My 'a_e' Workbook
• Maths - Add by Making 10 (Lesson 1)
• Maths - Subtraction - Crossing 10 (Lesson 2)
• Maths - Subtraction - Crossing 10 (Lesson 3)
• Maths - Compare Number Sentences (Lesson 4)
• Maths - 'A Challenge a Day' Booklet
• English - Book Review
• English - The Bear Who Came to Babysit
• Topic - Observe Draw Imagine Worksheet
• Topic - Science 'Investigation Flowers'

Week Beginning 11th May 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 11th May 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 11th May 2020)
• Phonics Grid - Week Beginning 11th May 2020
• Phonics - 'ew' Sounds
• Maths - Addition Recap
• Maths - Adding by Counting On
• Maths - Number Bonds
• Maths - Find a Part
• Maths - Related Facts
• Science - Naming Flowers

Week Beginning 4th May 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 4th May 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Guidance and Answers (week commencing 4th May 2020)
• Phonics Activites - week beginning 4th May 2020.pdf
• Phonics - My 'OY' Workbook
• Phonics - 'UE' Roll and Read Activity
• Phonics - 'IR' Real and Nonsense Words Activity
• English - 'Nouns' Activity.pdf
• Maths - 'White Rose' Find a Quarter
• Maths - 'White Rose' - Find a Quarter (2)
• Maths - 'White Rose' - Finding Half
• Maths - 'White Rose'Problem Solving challenge
• Maths - Place Value Recap Activity
• Growth Mindset Statements
• Topic - NHS Collage Rainbow
• Topic - Make your own Hero Mask
• Topic - Pyjamarama Wordsearch
• Topic - Pyjamarama 'Create a Comic Strip'
• Topic - Parts of a Plant Worksheet

Week Beginning 27th April 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 27th April 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack Guidance and Answers (week commencing 27th April 2020)
• 'Pippety Skycap - A Tale of Mischief' - Talk for Writing Home-School Booklet (supporting GOSH)
• Phonics Activities (week commencing 27th April 2020)
• Maths - Learning Grid
• Maths Activities
• Float or Sink Activity
• Weather Diary
• Four Seasons Tree Drawing
• Design an Outfit
• Five Ways I Can Help the Earth

Week Beginning 20th April 2020

• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack (week commencing 20th April 2020)
• Year 1 - Home Learning Pack - Parent Guidance and Answers (week commencing 20th April 2020)
• Maths - Homework Grid
• Maths - 'Measuring' Activity
• English - 'Question Mark or Full Stop' Activity

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First Grade Homework For the Entire Year

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I have one template per month and then change the date and wording each week!

Behind the weekly newsletter I send home different homework pages based on all sorts of factors. I like having options!!!! I made at least one page for each topic I teach throughout the year. Also, I have never been a fan of longgggg homework. I find that it is too overwhelming and I think students just need *quick* reinforcing practice each night so that played a big role in the way I set up my homework. You can see a little more about the homework pages below.

Again, I like having options and I know most teachers do too! Based on the skills I’m teaching that week, a student’s ability level, parent involvement, I will send home what I believe to be a reasonable HW packet for the week. You can do the same for your students!

^^ Again, it’s all up to YOU!^^

Maybe you don’t send home homework because in your community it doesn’t get sent back. Well, these quick check-ins can easily be made into morning work that only takes minutes to complete while students practice their skills.

If you think this type of first grade homework might be for you or you want to try and switch it up this year, go ahead and take a closer look at some of the pages in my unit by clicking the unit below and downloading the preview!

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When giving homework, it must always be based on learning goals your students have to reach, just like in your lessons. But it’s sad to see that lots of teachers are using homework as extra lesson time. Of course, as a teacher, you’re on a clock. But that doesn’t mean your students have to suffer from it and keep working on those boring textbooks and worksheets at home.

Consider goals like attitudes, real-life experiences, and practice, physical exercise, social encounters, creative solutions, and philanthropy as crucial as your lesson goals. These are things students don’t just pick up in your classroom. These are things they pick up in life.

In this blog post, I’ll give you some innovative homework ideas that will engage your students more. These alternatives to traditional homework will thereby also teach your students new things that can’t be taught in the classroom. You will find a variety of homework ideas: online and offline.

I will mention homework alternatives for primary school and high school. Some of these ideas can be changed a little bit, so they are the perfect fit for the right audience.

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You can divide homework tasks into the following themes or categories:

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• Games and activities
• Physical activities
• Digital or computer activities
• Philanthropy & social work

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Crafts and arts homework

1. prepare a dish from a recipe book.

2. Make a board game

3. Create a birdhouse

4. Transform a fictional book character into a hand puppet

Outdoor homework activities and outings

5. coupon game.

Students can also go grocery shopping with their parents. Here, they have to read the ingredients of the products and help their parents choose the healthiest products for the best prices, figure out the best deal between the sizes of items, …

6. Visit the zoo

7. Visit the local dumping ground or container park

8. Build a tree house

Games and activities as homework

9. bookwidgets games.

10. Minecraft

11. Play Cards

12. Play Zoo Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon

Physical homework activities

13. rope skipping.

Many rope-skipping songs let your students do different tricks while rope-skipping. This is an excellent opportunity for homework as well. Ask your students to transform a rope skipping song into a song with lesson content. Let them count or spell or even sum up the different states or capitals. To engage their lifestyles even harder, you can additionally give them the assignment to create a TikTok in which they are jumping and singing.

Click here to see how you can get Tiktok more involved in the classroom.

14. Walking quest

If there aren’t any walking quests in the neighborhood, you could ask your students to create a walking quest like this for their fellow students. What a fun day it will be!

15. Obstacle Quiz

In order for students to answer the questions, they have to run and pass a challenging parkour. This is a fun homework exercise, and in the end, it’s a great lesson starter or lesson end.

16. Swimming games

After the activity, they can fill out an Exit Slip:

Digital or computer homework activities

17. create a picture album.

This teaches them to handle the online software, add pictures and write without spelling mistakes. And of course, creating memories is so much fun!

18. Video job application

19. Your life in 10 minutes - video

20. Email pen-pals

Is it still too complicated? Read the messages from your students, before they send them, and provide them with some feedback.

Philanthropy and social homework

21. grow a community garden.

22. Help in a retirement home

23. Help at a homeless shelter

24. Collect litter

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Interesting ideas for primary homework

• Author: Kevin Harcombe
• Main Subject: CPD
• Subject: Leadership
• Date Posted: 12 January 2011

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Evenings and weekends are precious to us all. So don't waste children's time, and your own, by setting dull homework...

Homework – a compound word that resonates down the chalk dust swirling corridors of all our school days. Home: warmth, security, a place to relax. Work: well, fill this one in yourself, why don’t you?

The point is, the two things don’t often sit well together and I have always been ambivalent about the value of homework for children under 11. An Ofsted inspector once told me that they’d stopped being critical of schools about parental attitudes to homework, because invariably half of parents thought the school set too little and the other half set too much, so schools couldn’t win (no change there, then).

Some parents think homework must be a ‘good thing’, without being quite sure why. They may have read it in the Daily Mail, or they may be of the “I had to do it and it never did me any harm” school of thought, in which case what’s wrong with flogging and outside lavatories?

These may well be the same parents who can remember how to do quadratic equations; unlike me whose secondary school child regularly weeps into her calculator at half nine of a Tuesday evening whilst bewailing the fact her parent is a mathematical imbecile. (Watch out, I riposte, it’s genetic.)

When homework has a positive impact

The nub of the matter is that homework is only useful when meaningful, related to and supporting class based work, well matched to the child, time limited and marked with top notch feedback from the teacher. Sadly, this is only the case in a minority of cases. Having got those longwinded caveats off my chest, here are some suggestions where homework can be manageable (for both the setter and the doer) and have a positive impact.

6 creative homework tasks

Interview a family member about their school days, work, play, food, etc. This develops questioning skills and can be recorded rather than written. Digital dictaphones are available for 20 quid and are within the reach of most schools. Results can be shared and presented in any way from a video presentation to a pie chart.

2. Pack a suitcase

Following some input on WWII and the mass evacuation of the young, set the children the task of making their own evacuation suitcase. (Some children will literally make one out of cardboard, but it’s the contents that are the key). What five things would they take with them and why? They can write this, or simply talk through their suitcase with the rest of the class. It’s the thinking behind this task that is the real learning. The speaking/ listening/writing is, as so often, a secondary benefit.

3. Flour babies

Read Anne Fine’s tremendous book of the same name, then provide the children with their very own flour baby (basically a 1 kilo bag of flour they have to look after as if it’s a baby). Children will draw faces on theirs, dress it, even push it to school in a toy buggy. Again, the real learning is in the thinking and empathy the activity generates.

4. Parent portraits

Sketch a parent in Henry Moore / Lucian Freud style, i.e. unflatteringly. It’s great fun, gives the parents a break from the child’s “I don’t know what to draw” cry and is a chance to look at more recent British artists.

5. Set up a museum

Our Y3 and Y4 children were recently given the task of designing their own Egyptian artefact at home. Resourcefulness from children – irrespective of family background – was stunning. We received several hieroglyphic scrolls (rolled up around cotton reels, rubbed with a tea bag to give the ageing effect) a multiplicity of pyramids (made from card, plasticine, lego), sarcophaguses, jewellery and lots of mummified Barbies and Kens. The class was turned into a museum, with carefully written exhibit cards and children curators on hand to explain the historical background to why the Egyptians valued these things, and opened up to parents and other classes on a Friday afternoon.

6. Serve breakfast

Sanctions for not having done homework don’t work, rewards do. Compare “If you don’t hand in homework you’ll miss break / lunch / PE / life.” With ” If you do hand it in regularly you’ll be invited to the end of half term Big Breakfast in the hall where your teacher will serve you toast, cereal, yoghurts, juice, etc.” Simple really, and a special occasion to look forward to at the end of half term.

Level the playing field

Set up a homework club…

For those children who don’t have access to books, internet, paper, pencils, scissors, glue at home, you could start a homework club and give those attending use of the school’s ICT facilities. For those familes who are ‘book poor’ you need to make sure your own library is well provided for. Last Christmas I asked assembly, “How many of you got some sort of a book as a Christmas present?” Less than half the hands went up. In the People’s Republic of Harcombe, when I get round to setting it up, the giving of books as presents would be enforced by presidential decree.

Throw the book at them

When parents ask about homework for their child I always respond that a) the best thing for a child to do of an evening is have some quality time with family and friends, sit down for a meal together, play a sport, learn a musical instrument or sing and not feel badgered into working all the hours God sends, and b) reading is just about the best homework anyone, adult or child, can do.

Parents don’t count reading as homework, see, and we need to educate them (this parent thinks homework is when you have indentations in your finger from holding the pen/tapping the keyboard for three hours, because writing is homework).

Time spent reading is seldom wasted and is either entertaining, thought provoking or informative or – just like this article, hopefully – all three. If you like you can structure what the children read by recommending lists (The Redlands Ten – ten books to read before you’re 10) to add a little challenge to the task. Local libraries might be able to help by ordering multiple copies of books for those parents that can’t/won’t buy them. Children get a certificate (and a book!) when they complete the ten.

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Homework Activities Matrix - Year 1

Updated:  14 Mar 2020

An editable matrix of literacy and numeracy homework activities linked to the Australian Curriculum.

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This homework activities matrix includes 40 activities which directly address the Australian Curriculum content descriptions for English and Mathematics.

Homework requirements vary significantly from class to class and from school to school. We completely understand this! In light of this fact, this resource has been designed specifically for flexibility, enabling you to select as many or as few activities from the matrix as you wish each week. Once you have chosen the desired activities, simply copy and paste them into a text box on the homework grid of your choice and distribute to your students. In the interests of flexibility, two different grid versions are available (4 x text boxes and 6 x text boxes).

Before working with this document, ensure you ‘Enable Editing’ when opening the file. You may also wish to highlight or change the font colour on the activities as you use them – you don’t want to double up as the year progresses!

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Creative Homework Ideas For Your Students

Setting appropriate homework tasks is a big part of your teaching role. Setting homework is an opportunity to ensure that your students have absorbed the lesson and can apply what they've learnt to individual study. Homework allows students to reflect on your teachings and broaden their understanding of a particular subject or topic.

However, motivating your class to view homework this way might be something of a challenge! Most young people find settling down to complete homework outside of school hours challenging. If the task feels overwhelming or difficult or seems monotonous, they might just go through the motions of getting it done rather than giving it their full energy and attention and completing it the best they can.

So how can you ensure students' love of learning continues outside the classroom and that they not only give their all to completing homework but actually enjoy it too?

By getting creative with the work you set and thinking about how you can engage and motivate students to complete their homework, you will undoubtedly see better results.

Here are some excellent homework ideas to help encourage creative, student-led learning.

Exciting, engaging homework ideas to keep your students paying attention

Write their own lesson plan.

If you want to give your students a chance to step into your shoes for the day, why don't you ask them to create their own lesson plan around a topic they've learnt about or are about to learn? This will give them a chance to showcase their knowledge, do research and think creatively. You'll also learn more about how your students like to work and what would make a good lesson from their perspective, which could help inform how you shape your lessons in the future.

Write a speech or story from a different perspective

If your students are learning about a famous historical figure or studying a classic text, why not get them to think about different perspectives? You could ask them to embody someone influential from a particular period or a character from a play or story and write a speech or story from that person's point of view.

Create a board game

Gamification is always a fun idea to try to inject energy into the classroom, and getting your students to create their very own board game is a fantastic way to keep things fun while also getting them engaged in their learning. Games could centre around a particular topic; they could be quiz-based, matching games, or number games - let them get as creative as they like. You can then have fun in class playing the best ones too.

Go on a treasure hunt

As a fun homework task that will get your students out and about, ask them to go on a treasure or scavenger hunt, finding certain things that are related to your topic. For younger children, this could be as simple as collecting leaves, flowers, or twigs they might find in their local park, or particular shapes or colours, but older children can benefit from this kind of task too by setting more complicated challenges.

Create a collage

Creating collages can be a fun and interesting way for students to demonstrate their learning, improve their research skills and use their creativity and imagination and can be based on a variety of different topics so they work well across lots of subjects. Encourage them to stick cutouts, fabrics, tickets, photographs, and any other relevant materials to make up their collages, and then they can take turns presenting these in class.

Film a video

If your students are older and have mobile phones, you could set a video-making task for them to do at home. This could involve interviewing friends and relatives about a topic or filming themselves talking about a specific subject, or answering a particular question. Students could share their videos in class and will love being able to use their phones in school for once!

Create a crossword

Get your students to think creatively about questions and answers by asking them to create their very own crossword puzzle, using the material you've taught them in class as a basis. You can ask them to bring all their crossword puzzles into class and then swap them with each other to see if other students can fit the answers in correctly.

Find fun facts

Almost every subject has weird and wonderful facts surrounding it. Did you know, for example, that the word 'hundred' derives from an old Norse term 'hundrath,' which actually means 120?! Or that water can both boil and freeze simultaneously? Encourage your students to find the most obscure or interesting facts about the subjects you are teaching them, and then you can all share your findings in class.

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Year 1 Homework

Within Year One, children are given homework on a weekly basis. This will include weekly spellings / words to learn and maths work. Parents are asked to read with their children each night, if possible.

Each piece of homework has its own return-by date. Please see your child’s class teacher for more details.

A piece of Maths and English homework is available for every week within Year One:

Reading and Spelling Workshop:

The below resources are based on word-level work taught during Reading and Spelling Workshop Lessons.  Each week, children are introduced to new ‘sounds’ and then learn how to apply them when reading and writing (by ‘segmenting’ and ‘word building’). Children are also taught ‘Tricky Words’, which they need to memorise or learn ‘by rote’.  Please speak to our Year One teachers for more information about this or how you can help extend your child’s learning further.

• 1a Week 1 Extra Help
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• Holiday Homework Groups AB & C
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• 2b Easter Holidays Homework
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• 3a Holiday Homework
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• LA-Produced Maths Homework for term 1a
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• LA-Produced Maths Homework for term 2a
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• LA-Produced Maths Homework for term 2b
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• LA-Produced Maths Homework for term 3a
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• 3a Maths Week 1 – Extra Help
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• LA-Produced Maths Homework for term 3b
• 3b Maths Week 1
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Extra Homework

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