Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had an enjoyable festive break and you are ready to get back to work!
Homework
Literacy
Spelling Tricky Words
Please practise these words this week. This list is made up of words which are not spelled as you would expect them to be and ones that we have trouble spelling in class and we have chosen ourselves.
Choose whether you want to practise only the first column or both columns.
Practise by writing them down, carrying out spell well activities and covering them and testing yourself.
| people | miniature |
| cupboard | temperature |
| library | separate |
| neighbour | conscience |
| rhythm | coincidence |
| antique | necessary |
| different | definitely |
| difficulty | acceptable |
| island | embarrass |
| favourite | jewellery |
| restaurant | suspicious |
| responsible | |
| government |
Mnemonics and silly sentences
Some people make up mnemonics (a sentence to help your memory of spelling words) or silly sentences to help remember tricky sentences. Here are some examples:
because – Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.
necessary – Never Eat Cabbage; Eat Slug Sandwiches And Remain Young.
island – and island IS LAND surrounded by water.
Can you come up with a memory sentence like these, for 2 or 3 of your tricky words, to help you remember to spell them.
Maths
We have been learning a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. We concentrated on this a lot before the holidays and are having one last week, this week, to push our learning in this area. It is so important that you know your basic number bonds to 10, 20 and 100, doubles and halves, fact families and inverses, counting on and back, partitioning. If you are really good at these mental calculations it will help you in all aspects of maths.
Try this great website for addition and subtraction games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/addition-and-subtraction
If you need slightly easier games click on the 5-7 year old tab at the top of the web page. If you would like a further challenge, click on the 11-14 tab at the top of the website.
Health and Wellbeing
Your Eat Like a Champ Passport!
Some of you will have your Eat Like a champ Passports at home, as some were not handed in after the last set homework.
Complete Task 2 – ‘Nutrients and Fibre Hunt’ in your Passport.
