Thank you for engaging with the optional extra home learning - a number of children have arrived in class with an analogue wrist watch. I have been listening to them and I can see that they have already begun to understand which hand is which - in science today Luca was working on an i-pad and informed me that the time showed it was almost hometime and we had to stop!
PLEASE HAND IN HOMEWORK BOOKS EVERY WEEK - even handwriting and spelling practice should be there each week and it helps us to celebrate all work.
READING
We ensure that every child quizzes each week. This allows our system to collect data on how well the child is progressing. We have needed to chase a few children in this regard. Please read their reading book from school so that we can monitor and celebrate in class - Thank you
MATHS
Working through the Story Mode on Numbots. Please encourage your child to engage with Numbots as much as possible. I can see how much time the children spend engaged. There is a clear relationship between those trying their hardest to move through the levels and their confidence with fluency/automaticity in maths lessons. I thought you might find this very short video useful - it explains how Numbots helps the children to master the maths and have rapid recall (automaticity). When a child can do this it reduces brain overload - it is a game changer.
Click on the image to open this short film
SPELLINGS
This week we move on from verbs and suffixes and explore words with the “r” sound and are spelt “wr”:
wrap
wreck
wrong
wrist
wriggle
wrote
wrestle
write
wrinkle
HOMOPHONE ALERT - watch out for write and right and wrap and rap
HANDWRITING
Please log into “letter join” - there you will find this weeks task.
OPTIONAL TAKS FOR SUMMER 1
Have fun!