Monday, 17 September 2018

Homework 17th - 21st September 2018

There are four parts to the homework for this week. You can decide which activity you wish to do each night, but we have a suggested plan below. For the homework to be as beneficial as possible, it would be our preference that you spread out the homework over the course of the week. 



Activity 1:
My Sounds Booklet pg. 13 - New sound for this week sh


Activity 2:
Word families 'a' sheet

1. Read word list 1.

Writing activity based on word list 1 - Call out the following sentence and encourage your child to do their best to write the sentence into the homework copy. 

"The cat sat and had a nap."

2. Read word list 2.

Writing activity based on word list 2 - Call out the following sentence and encourage your child to do their best to write the sentence into the homework copy.

"He ran to get a cab."

*Please write both sentences on the same page.
*Remind your child about finger spaces between words and full stops at the end of the sentence.
*Encourage your child to check over their own work, however we don't expect perfect spellings as the children are still learning.


Activity 3:
Graded reader - Please try to do a little bit of reading each night.


Activity 4:
This year the children will have 2 tricky words each week for homework. The tricky words from last year are on a sheet in the homework folder if you feel your child needs to revise them. 

The tricky words to memorise for this week are: live, give

*Please remember you cannot blend tricky words. 

We will give a list of suggested games to play for learning tricky words when we have built up enough words to play games.   


Suggested Plan for this week's homework:

Monday:
My Sounds Booklet pg. 13 - New sound for this week sh. 
Graded Reader

Tuesday:
'a' Word Family List 1  - Reading and Writing activity.
Graded reader

Wednesday:
Memorise Tricky Words.
Graded Reader

Thursday: 
'a' Word Family List 2  - Reading and Writing activity.
Graded reader
Revise over this week's Tricky Words.





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