Welcome to our homework page
Below is a note of the reading books and phoneme’s and common words that we will be focusing on in Class this week.
For phoneme and common words, activities could be finding the words and phonemes in a book or in the environment. Practice, reading and writing the words and using them in a sentence or choose an activity from this grid of activities.
When reading BugClub , if you complete the book and bugs, then you can go to your library and read others or read a book of your own choice at home.
Please note that the Sumdog tasks set are in the Task box and labelled with the week beginning date homework.
13th June 2022
Please find attached the links to the homework and spelling words grid for this week.
Spelling words for 13th June 2022
23rd May 2022
Please find the links to the homework and spelling words grid for this week.
16th May 2022
Please find the homework grid for this week.
For the spelling activities this week please use one of the activities from the spelling grid link above and complete in your jotter.
1605 Homework Grid —— Homework activities
Spelling words for 16th May This link here will give the list of phoneme and common words for this weeks homework.
9th May 2022
Please see below the homework grid for this week. You can complete these in your jotter or put in some photos of your tasks in you jotter. Please see above, I have attached a link to to a grid of spelling activities, that you can choose one from for a spelling activity, also.
P12 Homework Grid 2 9th May Please click the grid link above to see the grid.
Literacy and Numeracy are on Sumdog this week and the sounds and common words are as follows:
P1– ‘ai’ phoneme – hair, fair. chair, train, rain, stair, brain,
Common words – said, big, could
P2 – ‘ss’ phoneme – class, dress, moss, mess, lesson, kiss,
Common words- four, miss, never, these
Reading – Bug Club
Lollipops: Epic Adventures
Chocos: Zeke and the Pop Pop Bird
Chewies: Pippa’s Pets: Scaredy Cat
Haribo: Eco Apes use Rubbish
Numeracy:
We continue to work in class on recognising and counting coins and giving change, any opportunity at home, or when out shopping, to use money will support this learning in class. Thank you.
Practice counting in 2’s, 5’s, & 10’s, at home.
3rd May 2022
Please see below the homework grid for this week. Please click the link, for the activities.
0205 Homework Grid
Literacy:
Phonemes and common words this week, consolidation. Activities in Sumdog. Practice reading and writing and saying words as listed below. Use in sentences, create a story using the words. ( record in jotter)
P1 – ‘ck’ phoneme- sack, rock, luck, lick, made, like, make, play, no, look, had, see, has
P2 – ‘e-e’ phoneme – here, these, even, eve. father, mother, jump, every, find, want, girl.
Reading – Bug Club
Lollipops: Silly Jack & the Beanstalk
Chocos: Zeke & the Big Sandcastle
Chewies: Shaun the Sheep: Too Many Jobs!
Haribo: Go West, Ox!
Numeracy:
In class we have been practicing number bonds recall.
We have also been consolidating our knowledge of halves and quarters, cutting, folding, and sharing into equal pieces.
P1- halves and sharing objects into 2 equal groups.
P2- recognizing halves and quarters and sharing out objects into 2 or 4 equal groups, using the vocabulary halves and quarters.
For homework activity there are 2 links attached in the grid, for consolidating halves and recognizing fractions.
Explore around the house, looking for objects and items that can be halved or quartered.
25th April 2022
Good Afternoon, please find listed below the homework for this week. I will also be adding in a grid of activities that can be complete as well. During this week I will also send home a jotter that can be used for writing/creating pictures/number work/ or any other task completion into and these can be sent back in on a Friday morning to me.
Literacy
Phonemes and common words for this week are as follows:
P1 – ‘ck’ joined phoneme – sack, back, rock, lock, clock, peck, pick, jacket
Common words – made, make, like
You can practice writing these into your jotter and using them to write a simple sentence.
P2 – ‘e-e’ split phoneme – these, eve, complete, here,
Common words – father, mother, head, jump
You can practice writing these into your jotter and make sentences using these to.
Keep practicing to read and spell correctly.
Sumdog has spelling homework challenge tasks set up for practice as well.
Reading:
Lollipops- Amazing Trees and Dixies Pocket Zoo: Brave Waves
Chocos – Shrek: Can we keep him?
Chewies – Bug Boy: Spider Camp and I ilike to Collect
Haribo – What is in my Net?
Some groups have had books reallocated and they have not been completed.
Numeracy:
We are starting to explore money this week, recognising and counting coins / notes to £2. What coins and notes can you find at home ( with parents permission) and can you count them?) Make a note in your jotters of the different coins and notes that you find and add.
Sumdog has also got tasks set to practice addition and subtraction and time task to. Please login and complete these as well.
Grid for other activities complete. Please click the link below to find the grid. Thank you
P12 Homework Grid 2 25th April
Have a good week
19th April 2022
I hope you have all had a great Easter holiday.
Thank you to all who took the time to support your child with the Toys Homework Challenge. They were all fabulous and they were so excited to talk about their toys and presented these to the class.
A slight change to homework this week as it is a revision week for sounds, words and time.
Please complete tasks anyway you feel, is best for your child this week. This will reinforce the learning in class this week. Books are allocated in Bug Club.
Please can you send in for Friday any written homework that your child completes.
Literacy – Phoneme and Common Words:
This week we will revise the sounds and common words from the last few weeks below: You can practice reading and writing these on a piece of paper this week, or using them in a sentence, to practice sentence writing.
There may look as if there are a lot of words to learn this week, but please just select a few to practice as this is a revision week .
Play spot and spell the word. – When reading a book or words in the environment, can you say the word and then sound it out.
P1– Phonemes – ‘wh’, ‘ph’ ‘ee’ ‘oo’ — pool, book, spoon, cook feet, been, tree, seed, dolphin, photo, phonics, elephant, phone, graph, when, what, whisk, wheel, whisper.
Common word: play, no, look, has, had, see, out, new, now
P2 – Phonemes – i-e, o-e, u-e, a-e for words, make, cake, plate, fake, name, sure, rude, ruler, June, flute, hole, stone, note, woke, broke, smoke, five, time, life, line,
Common Words: take, gave, cold, don’t, every, find, want, girl, home, more, school, Mrs.
I have allocated books into Bug Club , some are reallocated from the last weeks homework as were not read and I have added in a new one for each too, for those who had read them.
Reading Books are allocated into Bugclub,
Lollipops: Zoo Map, Amazing Trees
Chocolates: Zeke goes to Space School, Football
Chewies: Pippa’s Lost Dog, Bug Boy Spider Camp
Haribro: In the Garden, Truck Town : It is Hot
Numeracy:
Time: How many different things can you find in the house and around you that tell the time. Can you write a list of them sorting them into analogue and digital devices – talk to your family about what the difference is between digital and analogue clock and practice reading the time.
This is a link to a Telling the time game that they can play, to practice and challenge themselves.
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/time/clock-splat-game/
Number work:
P1 – Practice recalling number bonds up to 10 _ (Topmarks – Mental Maths train – addition)
P2 – Practice recalling number bonds up to 20_ (Topmarks – Mental Maths train – addition)
Please select one one of these links below that will take you to Topmarks for some number practice games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
28th March 2022
Toys Challenge:
I am looking forward to seeing the Toys Challenges in on Thursday and hearing the children talk about them.
Literacy – Phoneme and Common Words:
P1: ‘oo’ phoneme– pool, book, spoon, cook
Common words- play, no, look
P2: ‘a-e’ split diagraph ,make, cake, plate, fake, name
Common words – take, gave, cold, don’t
Reading Books are allocated into Bugclub,
Lollipops: Zoo Map
Chocolates: Zeke goes to Space School
Chewies: Pippa’s Lost Dog
Haribro: In the Garden
Number Homework:
The tasks are set this week within Sumdog continue to build on skills being learnt in class. (calendars, time, sequencing days of the week, months of the year.)
Have a fabulous Easter Holiday when it arrives.
21st March 2022
Homework Tasks for this week:
Toys Topic Task:
This week I will be sending home a Toys topic Challenge. As you will know we have been looking at Toys of the past and present. We have explored the materials that are used to make toys and hows toys move, using forces e.g. push/pull/twisting.
The challenge is to design and make a Toy. You have to draw your design and label the parts and materials to be used. Then once you have made you toy, bring it to school to present it to the class. — A separate sheet will be sent home with all the details on it.
This challenge is to be completed and brought to school on Thursday 31st March.
Literacy – Phoneme and Common Words:
P1: ‘ee’ phoneme– feet, been, tree, seed
Common words- has, had, see
P2: ‘u-e’ split diagraph , sure, rude, ruler, June, flute,
Common words – every, find,want,girl
Reading Books are allocated into Bugclub,
Lollipops: What makes you laugh
Chocolates: Shrek Nowhere to go
Chewies: Bug Boy Beetle Cookies
Haribro: What is in my net?
Number Homework:
The tasks are set this week within Sumdog continue to build on skills being learnt in class.
14th March 2022
Homework Tasks for this week:
Phoneme and Common Words:
P1: ‘ph’ as ‘f’ – dolphin, photo, phonics, elephant, phone, graph
Common words – out, new, now
P2: split diagraph -‘o-e’ as in hole, stone, note, woke, broke, smoke
Common words – home, more, school, Mrs.
Reading Books allocated on Bug Club
Lollipops – Horribly: Slow and Sticky
Chocolates– Let’s Eat Lunch
Chewies – Butterflies
Haribo – Top Cat
Numeracy this week:
Please see Sumdog for Number homework this week. The homework is building on last weeks homework of number bonds and reading the time, as detailed last week.
P1 – are sequencing events in a day.
P2 – are starting to look at calendars and the number of days in the month.
7th March 2022
Homework tasks for this week are as follows:
Phonemes and common words:
P1 – ‘wh’ as in when, what, whisk,, wheel, whisper
Common words – old, do, going,out, now, new
P2- split diagraph – ‘i-e’ as in, like, kite, nice, twice,
Common words – five, time, life, line,
Reading Books allocated on Bug Club
Lollipops – Dixies Pocket Zoo: Brave the Waves
Chocolates– Jay & Sniffer The Bile Race
Chewies – Bug Boy Beetle Cookies
Haribo – In the Garden
Numeracy this week:
Please practice the following
P1 – recall of number facts up to 10 e.g. 3+1 = , 3 + 7=, 4+2=
P2 – quick recall of number facts up to 20 e.g. 12+2= ? 7+8 =?
These can be played in a variety of ways, by asking questions, counting out objects, or writing them out as fact families, cant hey see a pattern. This will help consolidate the learning in class.
It would be great if you could assist them to read time on clocks – analogue and digital to help practice what we are learning in class.
P1 – o’clock and half past the hour
P2, revise o’clock and half past and introduce quarter to and quarter past.
These can be done in practical ways reading clocks, of all kinds in the house and the environment.
28th February 2022
As you may already know we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday, and we have been set some challenges which will start on Thursday, I will send a copy of these challenges home, and hopefully you will be able to help us complete some of these Challenges.
This week we will be consolidating phonemes learnt over the last couple of weeks.
There is a practice challenge set in Sumdog to complete, and you can also practice by how many words can you make, read and write with these phonemes in?
P1 – sh,ch,th,ng phonemes in words
Common words are also being revised and assessed as well, see list of words in last weeks homework below.
P2 – consolidating and assessing ‘y’ as in fly and ‘igh’ as in high.
Common words are also being revised and assessed as well, see list of words in last weeks homework below.
Reading books have been allocated as listed below:
Lollipops: Time to sleep
Chocolates: Splash
Chewies: Timmy’s Snowball
Haribo: Can you see Cat?
For numeracy this week I have allocated Sumdog Challenges for each person practicing the skills we have been learning in class. In non-number this week, please continue to practice reading, writing and ordering the days of the week and months of the year. Can you name the days or months before and after??
21st February 2022
Spelling words and phoneme practice: Activities have been set in Sumdog to support the spelling work.
P1- ‘ng’ as in bring, wing, swing, ping, song, strong,
Common words we are revising the last few weeks words, to read and write these words.
she, come, from, this, that, then, with, us, so, much, of, or.
P2 – ‘y’ as in sky, fly, try, cry, by, my,
Common words – fly, bring, Mr. two
BugClub books have been allocated. Please read the book highlighted below. They will have other books in their stuff, but this book I have highlighted is the focus text for the week.
Lollipops – Mermaids visit the Vets
Chocolates – Shaun the Sheep ‘What a Mess!’
Chewies – Look Outside
Haribo – Sarah & Duck- Duck and the balloon.
Maths Focus this week.
Sumdog activities have been set to support the learning in class as well, for number work and time. It would be appreciated if you are able to complete these.
Time- To read and write and order days, of the week and months of the year.
7th February 2022
Spelling word phoneme focus this week are as follows below:
P1- phoneme focus is reading and spelling words with ‘ch’ for chop
Tricky words for reading and spelling are: much, of, or
Within Bug Club you will also notice some activity games allocated for you to practice phoneme read and spelling tasks too.
Reading Bug Club:
Haribo – Get the Map
P2 phoneme focus is reading and spelling words with ‘igh’ words as in light, bright, fight. How many others can you think of and read and spell?
Tricky words this week are: who, after, hand, right
Reading – Bug Club:
Chewies – Look Outside
Chocolate– Pippa’s Pet Runaway Pony
Lollipops – A Little look at Big Reptiles
Maths focus this week:
P1- Tasks – We will explore the fact families to 6 this week, looking at 2 numbers that we add together to make 6 and recalling these facts. This will be the focus the focus on the set Sumdog task as well. Keep practicing reading and writing number words to 20.
P2 – Tasks – In class we are exploring the fact families( number bonds) to 13. We are doing this by setting out objects and counting to find the total, and using a number line to jump on. Developing our mental recall of these facts. e.g. 6+7 =? 7+? = 13 3+?=13
Our Non- Number focus this week is Time
We are reading and ordering and writing the Days of the Week and Months of the Year.
What significant events happen in some of the months for example Christmas – December, Valentines Day in February.
I hope you have a good week.
31st January 2022
Congratulations, to everyone for the fantastic job that you did learning your Scots Poems. Your performances on Friday to the class were great. I am so proud of you all.
Spelling word phoneme focus this week are as follows below:
This week we are in a consolidation week for our phonemes and tricky words and the challenges have been set on Sumdog.
P1- phoneme focus is reading and spelling words with ‘th’ & ‘sh’ and tricky words.
Within Bug Club you will also notice some activity games allocated for you to practice phoneme read and spelling tasks too.
P2 phoneme focus is reading and spelling words with ‘ow’ (owl)/’ou’found and tricky words.
These have been set as challenges….. Good luck everyone, I will be checking in to see how you get on.
Reading Book focus on BugCLub is as follows this week.
We have been reviewing our reading in class and new books have been allocated. Remember you can go back and read ones previously read and any others in my stuff.
Haribo – Can Cat Get Cod?
Chewies – Rat & Cat – Let’s Jump
Chocolates – Bug Boy: Slug Picnic
Lollipops – Plant Traps
Maths focus this week:
P1- Tasks – We continue to explore the fact families to 5 again this week, looking at 2 numbers that we add together to make 5 and recalling these facts. This will be the focus the focus on the set Sumdog task as well. We are also learning the number words up to 20 to read and spell them independently. This could be practiced at home as well read and writing the numbers to 20 from places they see the numbers.
P2 – Tasks – In class we are exploring the fact families( number bonds) to 13. We are doing this by setting out objects and counting to find the total, and using a number line to jump on. Developing our mental recall of these facts. e.g. 6+7 =? 7+? = 13 3+?=13 The Sumdog activity will help practice this to.
Have a great week.
24th January 22
Scots Poem: Thank you for all the support that you have given your child to assist learning and performing their Scots Poem last week. Remember actions help to tell the story of the poem along with expression in your voice. We will continue this week to learn and practice and on Friday we will perform our poem to each other within class.
Spelling word phoneme focus this week are as follows below:
P1 – ‘sh’ as in ship and Common words are: she, come, from
P2 – ‘ou’ as in found : This may cause a little confusion as last we did ‘ow’ as in owl. But I am sure they will do their best. Common words- found, round,
Reading Book focus on BugCLub is as follows this week. You may see that some of these books are the same as last week. This is because my records show that these books weren’t read, so have left them on for this week. Where the books have been read then I have allocated new books for the group. There are always books in their my stuff that they can read as well.
Haribo – Tin Man Tim
Chewies – Eco Apes grow Food.
Chocolates – Zip, Zap and the Think
Lollipops –Jay and the Sniffer Cake Sale Goo
Maths focus this week:
P1- Tasks – We are continuing to explore the fact families to 5 again this week, looking at 2 numbers that we add together to make 5 and recalling these facts. This will be the focus the focus on the set Sumdog task as well. We are also learning the number words up to 20 to read and spell them independently. This could be practiced at home as well read and writing the numbers to 20 from places they see the numbers.
P2 – Tasks – In class we are exploring the fact families( number bonds) to 13. We are doing this by setting out objects and counting to find the total, and using a number line to jump on. Developing our mental recall of these facts. e.g. 6+7 =? 7+? = 13 3+?=13 The Sumdog activity will help practice this to.
I hope you all have a good week and keep practicing.
17th January 2022
Please can you assist your child to complete the online Home Learning Survey by the 19th January. The link is in the class blog. Thank you
Scots Poem:
Please focus on helping your child learn and perform ( add in actions and expression) the Scots poem of their choice form the sheet that was sent home last Thursday. We will practice in school as well.
Reading Book Focus for this week is:
Haribo – Tin Man Tim
Chewies – Be a Pirate
Chocolates – King Pip and the Troll
Lollipops – Jay and the Sniffer Cake Sale Goo
P1- Common Words – she , come, from
Phoneme focus – ‘sh’ as in shop
P2 – Common word focus this week is —– how, where, now, too
Phoneme focus – ‘ow’ as in owl
Maths focus this week:
P1- Tasks – Counting 2 more or 2 less and learning fact families to 5. This will be the focus for the next couple of weeks, in class and on Sumdog.
P2 – Tasks – In Sumdog, we are exploring the fact families ( number bonds to 12) Developing our mental recall of these facts.
13th December 2021
Reading Book for each groups focus this week.
I have not changed the books this week as looking at the records on BugClub the books were not read last week, with the exception of The Chocolates group where I have allocated a new book.
Haribo – Tom’s Mad Mop
Chewies – Beep Beep Timmy
Chocolates – Sport is Fun/ Timmy’s Snowball
Lollipops– Let’s Eat Lunch
P1- Common words focus this week is — are, dad, not
Phoneme focus – ‘qu’ for queen and ‘x’ for x-ray
P2 – Common word focus this week is —– book, many, took, soon
Phoneme focus – ”ew’ as in grew
Maths focus this week:
P1- Tasks – Challenge assigned on Sumdog – Continuing to count up and back to 30, and reading and writing number words to 20, This will complete this block of learning.
P2 – Tasks – Challenge assigned in Sumdog, continuing to count and ordering numbers to 100 and finding the missing number and counting in 10’s ( 10 more or 10 less)
6th December 2021
Reading Book for each groups focus this week.
Haribo – Tom’s Mad Mop
Chewies – Beep Beep Timmy
Chocolates – Sport is Fun
Lollipops– Let’s Eat Lunch
P1- Common words focus this week is — your , by, only
Phoneme focus – ‘y’ for yes and ‘z’ for zoo
P2 – Common word focus this week is —– because, week, keep, when
Phoneme focus – ‘au’ as in sauce
Maths focus this week:
P1- Tasks assigned on Sumdog – Continuing to count up and back to 30, and reading and writing number words to 20
P2 – Tasks assigned in Sumdog, continuing to count and ordering numbers to 100 and finding the missing number and
counting in 10’s ( 10 more or 10 less)
29th November 2021
Reading Book for each groups focus this week.
Haribo – Nod
Also attached some phonics games for them to revise some of our phonemes already learnt.
Chewies – King Pip and the Wish
Chocolates – Sport is fun and Rat and cat: Let’s Jump
Lollipops– Jay and Sniffer the Bike Race
P1- Common words focus this week is — have, just, to
Phoneme focus – ‘j’ for jug ‘v’ for van
P2 – Common word focus this week is —– their, some, then,last
Phoneme focus – ‘oi’ as in coin
Maths focus this week:
P1- Counting up and back to 30, and reading and writing number words to 20
P2 – Counting and ordering numbers to 100 and finding the missing number and
counting in 10’s
22nd November 2021
Reading Book for each Groups reading focus this week. These books will be in their My Stuff tab n Bug Club.
Haribo – Is Nan In?
Chewies – Rat and Cat -The Hat Trick
Chocolates – Rat and Cat – The Dance
Lollipops– The Mermaids and the Dolphins
P1- Common words focus this week is
was, went, his, you, but , be
Phoneme focus – ‘h’ ‘w’
P2 – Common word focus this week is
very, took, fast, there
Phoneme focus – ‘aw’ as in saw
