Homework from 7/3/16 until 18/3/16

Language

French Practise saying the days of the week in French:

lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche and counting up to 20.

Phonemes

We are continuing to learn the phonemes which make the O sound in words.

This week we will be learning words with the ow phoneme as in snow and grow

Next week we will be consolidating the different ways to make write long o sounds – ow, oa, o-e. Why not try to make sentences with as many words as you can.

• Challenge – in your jotter, write a sensible and a silly sentence using some oa, ow, o-e phoneme words.
• Homework ideas:

http://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list.cfm?wordlist=249

Common sight words:

• Keep practising the words you have been learning to read and add in the new sight words

well        what        when      where      which       who

never      other        some        take          them      thing

again     always       book        cold         day         fast

ask         best         eat          find         gave     home

  don’t       fell         jump        long       people     right

each       find         men         room       soon       these

bring       keep      know     there     their     every 

time         took       under     school     wish     life

• Take the sight word challenge How many can you read confidently?

http://www.spinandspell.com/game.swf

http://www.ictgames.com/wordreader.html

 

Reading

A new reading book will now usually be given each Wednesday. The days for reading are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so please make sure that pupils have their reading books in their bags so that they can complete reading activities.

• Make a trip to/join the library to look at all their useful resources.
• Look at any non-fiction books at home and look at the contents, index and glossary pages if the book has them. Ask an adult to find information with you by looking for page numbers and highlighted words.

Number

This week we will be learning about measurement and will be starting by looking at length and height. Here are some ideas for supporting our learning in class:

Measuring the family – Your child draws their family members, putting them in order of height. Then they draw them in order of age. Talk about whether the two orders are the same.

Non-standard units at home – Give your child a list of 10 things they are likely to have at home, e.g. TV, magazine, toothbrush, mug, spoon. Your child chooses a body unit of measure such as their finger width or hand span to measure the lengths of five of these objects.

Here are some websites that you may find useful

Reading measures – http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm

Harbour measurements – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/length_and_weight/play/

Fish catch – http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/math/games/first-second-grade/time-to-move/

Interdisciplinary Learning

Climate Zones

We are going to learn about climate zones – arctic, temperate, desert and rainforest climates.

• Use any information books to find out about these climates and how people live there.
• We will be having another presentation at the end of this term, so start collecting any junk materials ready to make a model of the climate zone of your choice!!!
• Take a look at this website, it has some really interesting information:

http://climatekids.nasa.gov/

Weather

We have been learning about some extreme weather conditions and taking notes from what we have seen or heard.

• Challenge, why not try to take notes from watching information on this site.

http://kidsahead.com/subjects/5-extreme-weather