Homework Update

Here is a quick update of a few changes to homework and reading starting this week:

Reading

The children are ready to move on to the next stage of our reading scheme. To prepare the children for their new books, homework this week is to learn the new reading words, as well as revising previous words.  New reading books will be issued on Tuesday 27^th February.

Phonics

We are now moving away from using the blue jotters for phonics homework to doing a phonics worksheet.  The children should copy the sounds, copy the words and finally read the words and draw a picture for each word. 

Common words

The children will be issued with a green jotter to practise common words.  Each week the children will be given five common words to read and write.  The children should copy the common words onto the next page in column ‘try 1’ and ‘try 2’.  When this is returned to class on Thursday the children will be tested on these words.  Please ensure this jotter is returned every Thursday.

Maths

The children have been learning basic addition using numbers to 10.  As part of this we are learning number stories.  This week we are learning the number story of four.