Home learning will be posted on the class home learning page on a Friday and should be returned to school by the following Thursday. Home learning books will be used on alternate weeks and should be returned to school on Thursdays. We will be using Purple Mash or other internet sites for learning on the alternate weeks. Again work completed on Purple Mash etc should be submitted for marking by the following Thursday please.

THIS WEEK WE ARE USING COMPUTER BASED LEARNING.

Reading:

Read at home every day. You can quiz during school time when a book has been completed.

(Parents: Don’t forget you can check on your child’s progress on Accelerated Reader - this will let you know which books they have read and quizzed on and also their progress towards their reading target.)

Maths:

IXL maths using the IXL website. Please complete units A1, A4 and L1

Spellings:

Please learn the spellings below ready for a spelling quiz in class next Thursday.

Don’t forget to find different activities from “Fun Ways to Learn your Spellings” sheet to help your child to learn their spellings.

The children should be able to write the spellings independently - this will need to be written clearly and correctly during the spelling quiz.

This week our spellings:

answer island history learn

silliness shyness chattiness dizziness

Computing

Please can the children practise logging into the different computer based learning sites for themselves so that they are able to do it independently.

Our topic this half term is ‘Typing’ and the children have been practising using all of their fingers and thumbs to increase their accuracy and speed on the keyboard. This is so helpful in all aspects of the curriculum. We have been working on our posture too, no slouching! Some of them even told me about bad habits they have seen with grown ups at home and their typing, there are no secrets with children are there? I best keep my correct seating position at school too! I would like your child to reinforce this at home by accessing Purple Mash and completing the 2dos on there. There are 12 in total, but they can be played for just one minute by changing the time at the beginning of the game. They get harder as you progress through the levels, so please play them in this order. Please sit with your child throughout the games to remind them to use every finger and thumb - no index finger for every single letter children! They are called

Home row keys
Bottom row keys
Top row keys
1 - home row keys
1 - bottom row keys
1 - top row keys
2- home row keys
2 - bottom row keys
2 - top row keys
Home row keys (underneath it will say falling home row keys) Choose a speed of around 12 seconds to start with and get faster if you can.
Bottom row keys(underneath it will say falling bottom row keys) Choose a speed of around 12 seconds to start with and get faster if you can.
Top row keys(underneath it will say falling top row keys) Choose a speed of around 12 seconds to start with and get faster if you can.