This week Spelling and Reading homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket. I have attached a copy of the nativity songs below, please try to practise these as often as possible. 

mama mary lyrics

Spelling 

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using any active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.

Pencils and Rubbers group(o-e):
stair, hair, chair, rain, brain, train, stain, said, could

Pens and Crayons Group(ai):
home, rope, stole, awoke, hope, smoke, Mrs, school

Crayons and Rubbers group, can you come up with two of your own words using the same sound? Can you spell them correctly?

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).

Reading *Personal choice*

This week is a personal choice week in which all children can read any book, magazine or comic at home. Later in the week the children will complete a book review.

This week Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Reading tasks:
Kinneys: Pages 15-24
Dahls: Pages 8-15
Rowlings: Whole book

Numeracy tasks:
Circles: Learn Its
Squares: Learn Its
Triangles: Learn Its

This week Spelling, Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using any active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.

Spelling task:
Pencils and Rubbers group:

sack, back, neck, peck, pick, bucket, rocket, make, like, made

Pens and Crayons Group:

side, white, smile, hide, shine, mother, father, know, yellow

Crayons and Rubbers group, can you come up with two of your own words using the same sound? Can you spell them correctly?

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).

Kinneys: Pages 9-15
Dahls: Pages 1-7
Rowlings: Pages 8-15

Numeracy tasks:
Circles: Learn Its
Squares: Learn Its
Triangles: Learn Its

This week Spelling, Reading and  Numeracy  homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using any active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Can you think of any more words which have the same phonemes as the ones we are revisiting this week? Can you spell them correctly?

Spelling task

Pencils Group:

zoo, mood, fool, spoon, look,  stool, cook, play, no, look

Pens Group (consolidation of ‘igh’ and ‘y’):

fly, shy, cry, sky, why, dry, myself, bring, two, Mr.

high, right, thigh, bright, might, light

Reading tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Kinneys: Read pages 1-8
Dahls: Read chapter 8
Rowlings: Pages 1-7
*Some children from the Rowlings group have taken home the book from last week. Please ensure that this book is finished by Thursday.

Numeracy tasks

Circles: Worksheet
Squares: Worksheet
Triangles: Worksheet

This week Spelling, Reading and  Numeracy  homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using any active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Can you think of any more words which have the same phonemes as the ones we are revisiting this week? Can you spell them correctly?

Spelling tasks
Pencils Group:
see, green, three, sleep, feel, need, deep,  are, come, of, new

Pens Group:
fly, shy, cry, sky, why, dry, myself, bring, two, Mr.

Reading tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Kinneys: Read pages 15-24
Dahls: Read chapter 7
Rowlings: Read chapter 6

Numeracy tasks
Please try to practise learn its every night this week.

This week  Reading and  Numeracy  homework has been issued. The numeracy worksheets will be given out on Tuesday.

There will be no spelling words as this is a consolidation week. Pencils  group can you please revise the /ph/ phoneme from last week. Pens group can you please revise a mixture of previous sounds.

Reading tasks
Please complete by Wednesday and ensure that reading books are brought to school each day.

Kinneys: Read pages 9 to 15
Dahls: Read chapter 6
Rowlings: Read chapter 5

Numeracy tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Circles: worksheet
Squares: worksheet 
Triangles: worksheet  

*Please try to practise Learn Its every night.

This week Spelling, Reading and  Numeracy  homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using an active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Can you think of any more words which have the same phonemes as the ones we are revisiting this week? Can you spell them correctly?

Spelling tasks
Pencils Group:
Phil, phone, elephant, photograph, phoneme, are, come, of , new

Pens Group:
high, right, thigh, bright, might, light, who, after, hand

Reading tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Kinneys: Read pages 1-8
Dahls: Read chapter 5
Rowlings: Read chapter 4

Numeracy tasks
Please complete and return by Friday.

Circles: worksheet
Squares: worksheet 
Triangles: worksheet  

*A new Learn Its challenge has been issued.  Please try to practise these every night.

This week Spelling, Reading, Numeracy and Science homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using an active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday. All children have been issued with a list of spelling strategies to choose from.

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Can you think of any more words which have the same phonemes as the ones we are revisiting this week? Can you spell them correctly?

Spelling tasks

Pencils Group:
what, wheel, whisk, when, why, whisper, are, come, of, new

Pens Group:
owl, brown, growl, now, crown, outside, sound, house, count, found, where

Reading tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Kinneys: Read pages 16 – 24
Dahls: Read chapter 4
Rowlings: Read chapter 3

Numeracy tasks
Please complete and return by Friday.

Circles: worksheet
Squares: worksheet 
Triangles: worksheet  

*Continue to practise Learn Its challenge every night.

Science
Can you find three facts about any organ in the body? Be prepared to share your findings on Friday.

This week Spelling, Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Please try to practise phonemes/words each night using an active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday. All children have been issued with a list of spelling strategies to choose from.

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words? Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation). Can you think of any more words which have the same phonemes as the ones we are revisiting this week? Can you spell them correctly?

Spelling tasks

Pencils Group:
strong, ring, thing, string, bang, bring, sting, your, only, ask

Pens Group: 
crawl, hawk, toilet, spoil, because, pause, threw, drew, their, there

Reading tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Kinneys: Read pages 8 – 15
Dahls: Read chapter 2 and 3
Rowlings: Read chapter 2

Numeracy tasks
Please complete and return by Friday.

Circles: worksheet
Squares: worksheet 
Triangles: worksheet  

*Continue to practise Learn Its challenge every night.

Welcome to the Room 6 Blog. We will use this to keep you up to date with weekly homework tasks and information related to ongoing class work. Everyone has had a fantastic start to Primary 3 and we are looking forward to a fun filled year.

This week Spelling, Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued. You will find this in their homework folders or a poly pocket.

Each week phonemes or a list of phoneme and common words will be given for each group to learn.  Please try to practise these phonemes/words each night using an active spelling strategy in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.  All children have been issued with a list of spelling strategies to choose from.

Challenge Activities – Can you write a sentence for each of your words?  Remember to use V.C.O.P. in your work (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).  Can you think of any more words which have the same phonemes as the ones we are revisiting this week? Can you spell them correctly?

For the first few weeks, we will be revisiting phonemes or phoneme and common words taught last year to ensure retention when reading and writing words.

Spelling tasks

Pencils Group: shop, wish, bath, thin, chin, rich, by, have, of

Pens Group: glue, true, clay, prayer, neat, speak, have, each, before

Reading tasks
Please complete by Thursday.

Kinneys: Read up to page 7
Dahls: Read chapter 1
Rowlings: Read chapter 1

Numeracy tasks

All children have been given a Learn Its homework sheet. This must be done every night with a partner. The children have been shown what to do in class.