Homework from 17/11/15 until 27/11/15

Language

Phonemes

We have been learning the phonemes ay and ai saying A as in play and sail

Homework ideas:

• Create rhyming patterns and poems using ay and ai words.
• Write phoneme words in the shower or in bath bubbles
• Look for the phoneme in your reading books and any other texts – comics, recipes, instructions etc. and print in the environment; signs in shops, street signs, etc.

Try these games to reinforce spelling/phoneme patterns

http://www.spellzone.com/games/

 

Common words:

Keep practising previous words and add in your new ones;

see, for, now, down, look,    too

he,   she,   we,   me,   be,   was

This is a great site for recognising sight and spelling words.

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

 

Onset and rime

We are continuing to practise the onset and rime revised and introduced so far this year:   at   an   ap   am   it   in   ab

• Why not time yourself to see how quickly you can think of 5 words for each set?
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/game.shtml

 

Reading

A new reading book will usually be given each Friday. 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.

• Look at the differences between fiction (story) and non-fiction (fact) books. How many differences can you find?
• Look for facts around the house. There will be notices on electrical goods, on food packaging and flyers through the door. Make a note of some facts that you have found in your jotter.
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-1.html Toys, past and present.   This non-fiction site includes a contents and index page.

Number

Talk about money

Discuss with your child at home or at the shops about how you use money. Encourage your child to choose an example and record this in drawings and/ or pictures.

Using coins

Ask your child to choose an item from a shop with a price shown on the item. Ask children to record the coins that could be used to pay exactly for this item. Can they make up a different combination for the same total? At first choose prices up to 20p, increase the price if your child is confident totalling to a higher number.

 

Price list

Ask children to choose a type of shop and think of items that the shop is likely to sell. They think of three items costing less than £5 and three items costing more than £5. They write these in order from lowest to highest price to make a price list for the shop.

Here are some websites that you may find useful to use with me!

Money Splat – http://www.ictgames.com/moneysplat.html

Price Challenge – http://www.ictgames.com/moneypayer.html

Interdisciplinary Learning

We have been learning how sound is created and how we can make different sounds. There will be more experiments during this fortnight showing how we can change the pitch of sounds.

Try this site – it is amazing for budding musicians

http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/index.htm

The children will be making a musical instrument model as one of the next homework tasks and bringing it into class to talk about it, so please start to collect any suitable junk materials.

Remember to tell us about any games you have played on the computer or any other ways that you have been developing your skills for homework.