Home Learning Week 9-10

Home Learning Week 9-10, Term 3, 2012

Home-School Partnership

Every week this sheet will come home with activities to help support and consolidate your child’s learning at school.  Remember Reading takes priority.   Poetry, spelling, word families, Smart Words and writing all reinforce learning done in Reading.  This year children will also have a Maths Workbook with set tasks to be completed that correspond with your child’s learning in class.  Have a look in your child’s book, talk to your child about what they are learning. If you have any concerns or are unable to complete tasks talk to your child’s teacher.  Teachers appreciate parent feedback in books as to what is working and successes you have had.

Thank you for your continued support.

EVERY WEEK

WEEK 9-10

General ·  Only pencil is to be used for writing in books ·  No felt pens in books please – coloured pencils, crayons or Jovis are to be used ·  Please feel free to use the Home Learning Book to practise tasks, but also be creative and use chalk etc. to make learning fun. ·  Parents can assist with writing answers in books if your child is struggling with the writing component. ·  Please write on any Home Learning if it is not completed, or if children do not understand.  I will follow up on this. ENGLISH Reading Complete reading log every night detailing the amount of time you have spent reading.  Children fill in the details, including pages, parents just need to sign.  20 minutes a night is expected. Please use the fluent readers sheet to ask your child questions about the text they are reading.  You can give your children specific questions and get them to record the answers in their Home Learning Book. Spelling 10 words to learn at home each week Smart Words This program covers grammar, spelling rules and is essential to helping children become better writers and readers.  Please discuss these words with your children, what sounds are they hearing, what rules are they using, reinforce plurals, endings etc. Correct punctuation and spelling should be use at all times when completing these sheets. MATHS Basic facts Addition and subtraction up to 100 All  times tables Multiplication and division family of facts Children need to be learning and revising times tables every night.  They should be able to say the answer instantly to any times table in any order.  Please help your child achieve this.  Practice equations set out like:  20 +      = 55, and subtraction examples as well. Count with your child backwards and forwards up to the millions beginning at any number.  Can your child write these numbers as well. . Maths Home Learning Books Book 1 – Activity 16  P 49, Activity 38 Page 71 Book 2 – Activity 13  P 46, Activity 27 Page 60 Book 3 – Activity 19 P 52, Activity 20 Page 53 Book 4 – Activity 19 P 52, Activity 20 Page 53 Please mark these with your child as you go.  If not marked at home, children will use a marking book before school to mark their own books. Study Ladder Please focus on fractions, addition, subtraction multiplication, division, basic facts and volume, area, perimeter, measuring length and temperature activities.  Telling the time on analogue and digital clocks continues to be difficult for some children.  Please find any opportunities at home for children to tell the time, or to work out how long something is going to take.  Get children to use 24 hour clocks to tell the time. Communication All information and notices are now going out on School Links.  If you are not linked up with this, please see Karen in the office urgently otherwise you will be missing essential information.

Events This Week: Treasure Chest Keys are on sale every day before and after school. Thursday Friday Monday Sports Gear Tuesday Junior School Assembly Totara and Pohutukawa Team 2.15 (even weeks) Wednesday Sports Gear Upcoming Events Agriculture Day – Friday 28 September General Agriculture Day Registration closes this Friday.  No late entries are accepted.  Spare forms are available from the office. Registration Forms for animals and seeds have been sent home.  Forms are to be returned to the office before Friday 14 September. Thank you for all the Jolly Jars!  They are still being accepted if you couldn’t make the deadline last week. Stationery We are still missing a number of essential items that make the school day a lot easier.  Please make sure your child has a ruler, pencil, blue pen, and rubber.  A number of children are bringing their own dictionaries that are at a level suitable for them which has been fabulous. Some children need new Home Learning Books, Pads and writing books.  Children have been told to organise this.  Year 4 students should have it written in their individual diary.  Please see me if you are unsure what book to purchase. Brrrr..It’s Cold We have started our Agriculture Day technology project.  Thank you to all the parents who discussed this with their children.  We have had some very interesting ideas.  They need to do the research about similar products at home (refer to the letter glued into Home Learning Books).  Get your child to bring all their information to school or email it to me as the project is being done in their Integrated Studies book.  At home they are also working on a title page for their brief.  Learning that is not finished in class may be sent home for completion. Behaviour In Room 10 we have been revisiting the school’s behaviour policies. Room 10 has in–class management strategies for behaviour.  As part of PB4L it is also important that repeated behaviours are tracked by the school.  As a result of this, children have been advised that if they have three warnings for behaviour in a day, they will be asked to complete a Think Sheet which will come home to you.  Please read these, comment if necessary, sign and send back to school.  If Think Sheets are being completed for the same behaviour, it will help me to put some strategies in place to change the behaviour, with your support. Room 10 Blog We now have a blog.  It is very new and will be developed as we get better at using it.  The address for the blog is mssholson.blogspot.com.  Type this address into the address bar on Google and you should get to it.  The children know what it looks like. Student From Monday we will have Vicki Cartwright in our class.  Vicki is doing her practicum with us and will be a great asset in the classroom. Please bring in your barcodes from McCain frozen vegetable packets so that we can get enough to buy some gardening products. Save your Meadow Fresh stickers so that we can get new sports gear for the school.  . Thank you for your ongoing support. Tracey Sholson tsholson@clevedonschool.co.nz