Welcome to Room 5’s Homework Blog.

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

Spelling

Please try to practise cvc words/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 words using play dough, painting the words, writing the words in a sand tray or on a whiteboard/chalkboard, as well as, writing the words on a computer then changing the font/size, writing the words using fancy letters or with eyes shut.  The 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.

Words for the Blue Group:

sit, nip, pan, tip, pip, sip Complete cvc worksheet and return to school on Friday.

Words for the Green Group:

speak, clean, steal, team, stream, wheat, each, year, eat, ask

Words for the Red Group:

mess, lesson, class, dress, less, moss, kiss, miss, four, never, these

Words for the Yellow Group:

Same as the Red Group.  In addition, think of two additional words which have the “ss” phoneme.  Write them down on both post-its given out in class on Monday.  Are the words spelled correctly?  Keep one post-it at home and bring the other into school to allow practice to be done in class too.

Challenge Activity – Try writing a sentence for each word. Remember to use V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation).

Reading

Please read/discuss the following pages:

Apples: Pages 1 – 8 of “The Big Box” and practise Key Words for Thursday

Pineapples: Pages 9 – 16 of “Super Shopping” for Thursday

Grapes: Pages 1 – 16 of “Animal Feet” for Thursday

Strawberries: Pages 1 – 8 of “The Inventions of Thomas Edison” for Thursday

Numeracy

Circles: Please practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet.  Complete worksheet and return to school on Friday.

Squares: Please practise tasks outlined on the Big Maths Sheet.  Complete Worksheet D only of the Mental Maths Homework Booklet and return to school on Friday.

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.  Continue to discuss numbers before and between, e.g. What number comes before 9?  What number comes between 3 and 5?

Additional Information

Thank you for all your support in helping us get our “Book Swap” idea up and running. Your help is very much appreciated.  The children have all really enjoyed swapping books and getting “new” ones to read!

Thank you also for those of you who managed along to taste the soup we made as part of our Scots Week activities.  We hope you thought it was tasty!