As well as giving you the spellings and maths facts that your child needs to know each week, I’m hoping you will find this page a useful place to keep up with what we have been doing in class with some ideas for extra support you can offer at home. If you have any questions please do email me on cwood@southill.dorset.sch.uk

Super Spellers

here   there   where   any   many

Sparkly Spellers

continue  arrive   women   describe   height

Reading

If you have a Lexia login please try to do some at home – we are all trying to meet our weekly targets. It doesn’t matter if you have already met yours; the more you do, the better you get!

If you finish your reading book and want to do the quiz you can login here. Don’t forget you can quiz on your library book or home books too. (Not all books have quizzes but it’s worth typing in the title to check).

Writing

This week we have been writing our own cumulative tales and focussing on great character descriptions and interesting dialogue. Then we had a go at putting all our newly learned skills into practice by writing a new story of our own. Why not have a go at home at writing a story about anything you choose. Remember your story needs a good plot with a beginning, middle and end. It needs to hook in your reader with exciting vocabulary and dialogue and it needs a great main character. Have fun and be creative. If you choose to write a story at home, we’d LOVE to read it.

Maths

Practise the number bonds of 15 and their subtraction facts.

10+5   9+6   8+7   7+8   6+9   5+10

15-5   15-6   15-7   15-8   15-9   15-10

A great way to help your child with sharpening up their number bond recall is to play games. For example this week the focus is on number bonds of 15. Make some cards, each with a digit on: ….. 5  6  7  8  9  10. Lay the cards face down on the table then turn 2 cards over. If they are a number bond of 15, keep the cards. If not, turn them both face down again. Don’t forget to practise the subtraction facts too.  Let me know if you have another game that helps you.

It’s a great idea to login to TT Rockstars and practise at home too.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Wood and Mr Price