COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.
Group 1 – well, were, what, when.
Group 2 – don’t, eat, each, every   PLUS common words from the word wallets.
SPELLING
Practise writing these words in your jotter in capital and small letters. Do each word three times. Group 1 -like, so, do.
Group 2 – now, for, see.
Use Sumdog to practise your spelling skills too.

Sounds
Group 1 –  “ew” sound (grew, flew, news, threw etc). Practise reading the  “ew”words from your sound booklet each night.
Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the ‘oo’  sound words from your new sound booklet every night ( room, stool, spoon, school etc).
READING
Read your book each night being careful to read the words on the page accurately (don’t add extra words, miss out words or read different words from the ones on the page).

We will be working on questioning to gain understanding of the story. Can you find any questions in your reading book or a story book? Can you make up some questions for someone else to answer?

HANDWRITING
Practise these letters in small and capital letters –
vV, wW, zZ
Remember to start at the correct place and make the capitals and tall letters touch the top line in your jotter.
Make tall letters and capitals twice as big as the small letters.
Sit your letter on or below the line.

MATHS

Make up some oral mental calculations using these subtraction words – TAKE AWAY, SUBTRACT, LESS THAN, MINUS etc, for example;

What is 3 less than 17?  What is 19 minus 5?  Subtract 4 from 18,  20 take away 5?  If you want write the sum in your jotter too.

FAIRTRADE

This is Fairtrade Fortnight and we are running a competition to come up with words associated with Fairtrade.

Your child will come home with a competion form which needs their name and class on it. Please return when completed or no later than Friday 6th March.