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This week Phonemes/Spelling, Reading and Numeracy homework has been issued.

Phonemes/Spelling

Please try to practise phonemes/phoneme words/common words each night using a multi-sensory activity in preparation for a quiz in class on a Friday.  Multi-sensory ideas could include: making the phonemes/words using play dough, painting the phonemes/words, writing the phonemes/words in a sand tray or on a whiteboard/chalkboard, as well as, writing the phonemes/words on a computer then changing the font/size, writing the phonemes/words using fancy letters or with eyes shut.  The phonemes/words could even be written using the hand not normally used for writing.  Can you think of any new multi-sensory activities to try?  These jobs do not have to be returned to school.

Challenge Activities – Try writing a sentence for each word.  Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).  Try to think of more words which have the same phoneme as the one you are learning this week.  Try to write them down.  Are they spelled correctly?

Words for the Red Group:

high, right, thigh, might, light, bright, who, after, hand

Words for the Green Group :

air, hair, rain, pain, brain, stair, said, big, could

Phonemes for the Blue Group:

x, y

Reading

Please read/discuss the following pages:

Strawberries: Pages 33 – 40 of “Poppet” for Thursday

Grapes: Pages 1 – 16 of “What’s It Made Of?” for Thursday

Pineapples: Pages 1 – 16 of “Funny Ears” for Thursday

Apples: Pages 1 – 8 of “The Lost Panda” for Thursday

Numeracy

Circles: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet.  Also, continue to practise counting in sections within numbers to 1000, as well as, try to practise numbers before, after, between, 1/2 more than, 1/2 less than within numbers to 1000, focusing especially on crossing tens and hundreds, e.g. What number is 1 more than 189?  What number is 2 more than 499?

Squares: Please continue to practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet.  Also, continue to practise counting in sections within numbers to 100, as well as, try to practise numbers before, after, between, 1/2 more than, 1/2 less than within numbers to 100, focusing especially on crossing tens, e.g. What number is 1 more than 89? What number is 2 less than 70?

Triangles: Please continue to practise counting forwards to 10, as well as, counting backwards.  Also, practise writing numbers to 10 correctly and try to count different  objects around the house e.g. spoons, crayons.