Thank you to those everyone for taking the time to speak with me last week during our parent appointments. I enjoyed speaking with each of you. If you did not receive a call last week but would like to discuss your child’s progress, please contact the school office and this can be arranged.

Reading homework

Our reading homework for this week is:

Book Bandits – Zeke goes to Space school

Page Pirates – Pippa’s Pets: Lost Dog

Word Wizards – Lots of Legs

Sound stars – Is Nan In?

To help build fluency with reading, the book should ideally be read each night of the week. If anyone has issues accessing bug club at home please let me know and I will send home paper copies of books where I can and provide your child the opportunity to complete the bugs within the books in class.

Literacy homework

This week our class is learning the sound aw. I have attached the grid from which your child can choose activities to practice these sounds. Many of these activities can be done using the magnetic boards the children were given last year. If you would like to provide your child with further challenge, ask them to make other words they can think of using the aw sound. Below are some aw words for practicing at home along with this weeks common words.

november spelling grid

Numeracy homework

In class we are moving on to use money in our numeracy. We will be recognising all coins in our system as well as adding together small amounts of money, working out change that can be given when making small purchases and deciding what coins to use when paying for an item. The class will be working out change from 10p, 20p, 50p and £1. This ensures that everyone finds some level of challenge in their work.

The children can get some more practise using top marks on the links below. While I encourage everyone to challenge themselves, if you find your child is struggling try taking them back a level and work towards the harder levels.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

I would also recommend Sum Dog as a good way of the children building on their numeracy skills at home. All log ins for this system are in the front of the children’s jotters.

Mrs MacNee