** As always, homework remains optional and in Week 1 there was a return of 26% and in Week 2, the return was 56% so definitely an improvement, thank you. All tasks set for homework are revision and consolidation of the concepts being taught in class each week so your child will benefit from completing as many of these tasks as possible**
P.E. – Tuesday and Friday
Please send pupils in with a suitable P.E. kit including change of shoes on these days. P.E. kit is yellow t-shirt and dark shorts/joggers.
Literacy Tasks
Red and Blue Group
Task 1
Revision of phonemes “i-e”, “o-e”, “e-e ”
i-e – fire, pine
o-e – score, alone
e-e – here, phoneme
Write each word out 3 times each remembering to form your letters properly.
Choose 3 words (one from each phoneme list) and write a sentence about each one.
Task 2
Please make sure you can spell all of these common words –
know, yellow, brother, mother
Ask your family to test you on your spelling of these words. Can you put them into a sentence? You may want to write a sentence for each and draw a picture to illustrate one of them.
Task 3
Read your book each night, practising the words you find difficult and try to read smoothly, stopping at full stops.
Green Group –
Task 1 – Revision of phonemes;
sh – shop, brush
ch – chop, chair
th – that, bath
ng – sing, bring
Write each word out 3 times remembering to form your letters properly the way we have practised in class.
Choose 2 words and write a sentence about each one.
Task 2
Please make sure you can spell all of these common words –
mother, father, brother, sister
Ask your family to test you on your spelling of these words. Can you out them into a sentence? You can write a sentence in your jotter for as many of them as you want.
Task 3
Read your book each night, practising the words you find difficult and try to read smoothly, stopping at full stops.
Maths and Numeracy
Task 1
Log on to Pictograms – 6-8 year olds – Topmarks
There are a range of activities to suit our new topic of Data Handling which we will link to our topic work in the coming week, your child may do as many as they wish.
Task 2
Below is a link to open this week’s numeracy task.
pictograms.PDF (primaryresources.co.uk)
Try out as many examples as you can, your child may want to attempt them all. They differ in challenge but feel free to encourage and support as necessary.
Heading in jotter should be Ordering Numbers
The answers should be recorded neatly in their Homework Jotter with the heading and date underlined neatly with a ruler.
RME
Below is a copy of the prayers that we ask you to practise with your child so that they can join in our celebrations fully.
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/HolyFamilyteachingstaff78/Shared%20Documents/General/Prayers/Pr%203%20Prayers.docx?d=w6a7cf5f0b2e94423b6c9659b36d696b9&csf=1&web=1&e=Uzvute
