Author: ealinzi.cree@glow

Apologies to P3C – Mrs Cree forgot to give out the homework jotters – it’s a bit Christmas Crazy at the moment!! You will have them tomorrow.

Here are your word lists for this week –

Get active with your spelling this week, you could –

• do JUMPING JACKS while you sound out your words
• THROW A BALL/SMALL OBJECT to a friend while you are sounding out your words – take turns each for each letter
• do HIGH KNEES while sounding out each word
• PRESS UPS/SIT UPS as you sound out each word

Here is a bit of Christmas Fun! Please choose at least 3 of the activities listed below (you can do more of course if you wish)

Have a go at these skip counting strips – choose any 5 strips to complete – will you choose skip counting by 2, skip counting by 5 or even a mixture of both? You can do more than 5 if you wish!

REMEMBER – tomorrow is your Christmas lunch! Yummy!!

 

Click on the passage to make it bigger, read the passage and write out the words with the -se pattern. Then answer the questions on the next picture. Write the answers in a sentence please.

Now copy this sentence for read and draw –

 

 

 

Have a go at this read and draw activity.

 

 

Here are your tricky words for the week – can you karate spell them?

Click on this link to see Geraldine Giraffe learn about the -ea joined phoneme – Geraldine learns ea 

Click on this link to see Geraldine Giraffe learn about the -se joined phoneme – Geraldine learns the -se joined phoneme

Click on this link to play Paint the Squares on the 100 square grid. 100 square grid This can help you to skip count in 2s, 5s and 10s. Try out some addition calculations with the grid – see if you can give yourself a challenge – here’s a few to get you started –

16 + 12 =             23 + 31 =           56 + 43 =                 67 + 22 =

 

Remember to check your for books and to play the Maths games.

 

 

 

 

Red/Blue

Now try these activities for your words –

Watch this clip of Mr Thorne talking about ‘tch’ Mr Thorne talks about ‘tch’

Green/Yellow

Now try these activities for your words –

Watch this clip of Geraldine learning the ay joined phoneme. Geraldine Learns ‘ay’

 

We are skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and have been grouping numbers together to answer multiplication calculations. What can you tell your grown ups about this?

Can you show them what you have been up to?

Have a go at this Top Marks game – Hit the Button Hit the Button

Choose your challenge level – remember you can skip count or draw groups to help you find the correct answer.

• This week our phonemes are ‘u’ as in ‘pull’ and ‘oa’

 

• Red/Blue Groups

• Green/Yellow

 

• Karate spell your words with a grown up or sibling. Take turns to spell out the words. Can you do it quickly?
• Read these sentences – copy them out and draw what they say –

The computer sat on a unit that had wheels.

The bull is eating french fries!

 

• Choose 5 of your words and write a silly sentence for each one.

Please remember you have your Christmas Song list in your bag – please try to sing your songs at home and learn the words as we will not have the song sheet on the day of the concert!

Here is a reminder of the date for your diary –

 

 

 

Our phonemes this week are ‘ie’ and ‘oy’

Red/Blue Groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green/Yellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try this fun active spelling strategy!

 

 

 

 

Now write a sentence for 5 of your spelling words.

Our tricky words are

together     buy      eye

Write out these words using 2 colours – one colour for the consonants and one colour for the vowels

(vowels – a e i o u)

Remember to check Bug Club for your books and maths games.

Tomorrow we are going outside for outdoor learning – the weather may be rainy – so please bring suitable clothing – wellingtons/jackets with hoods etc.

Look out for a letter in the bags about our ‘Coorie in Afternoon’ on Friday. It will be lovely and cosy!

 

Thank you everyone for having a go with your homework in your homework jotter. We are hoping to have TEAMS up and running soon, please bear with us as we get this organised.

This week we are all learning about ‘ea’. This can be a tricky one as it can make different sounds. The words we are looking at this week with ea make the e sound.

Red/Blue Groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green/Yellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week try out these active spelling activities –

Write out your words in CAPITAL LETTERS

Write a sentence for 5 of your words.

We are working hard on sentences in class – REMEMBER – capital letter, neat writing, finger spaces, interesting words, full stops.

 

Common words this week are

head   pretty   another

Have a go at using the pyramid word spelling strategy for these common words

 

Your Bug Club account has been updated with new books. Have a look through them and remember to answer the bugs.

Have you tried the maths games we sent out?