Home work Suggestions

Spend 15-20 minutes with your child each night.

Your child will bring home a book 4 nights a week that they have read at school with their teacher. Your child should be confident reading this book and have little trouble with it. The point of taking it home is for your child to share what they know and to consolidate the learning from their reading lesson. Please fill in the Reading Journal as often as you can for good communication between you and your child’s teacher. A poem goes home on Fridays for your child to share with you over the weekend. Some children will also have sight words to read to you. Please check these off each night and the children will be tested each Friday.

Support your child by:
• Listening
• If they come across a word they don’t know, ask them how they would work it out. They should firstly look at the first letter, what does that letter sound make? What other sounds in the word can you see? Look at the picture, will that help you?
• Make sure they are stopping at full stops and using other punctuation.
• Reading with expression and fluency – encourage it.
• Reading their library book to them for enjoyment to help develop a love for reading. Please get library books back to school on their due date.

Your child will bring home spelling words on a weekly basis. Work with your child to help them learn the words. Some ways include:
• You say the word and your child spells it verbally
• You say the word and your child writes it down
• Have letter cards and get your child to put the cards together to spell the word

When supporting your child with Maths it is important you focus on supporting your child’s learning around number knowledge. We focus on teaching strategies in class and with a sound number knowledge your child will progress through the maths stages at a faster rate. Refer to the maths workshop notes for further information but some areas to focus on:
• Number identification – naming numbers you see up to 20 and then 50 (eg: letterboxes, at the supermarket, on TV, in books)
• Numbers before and after these numbers
• Place value – what are numbers worth? How many tens in 25? There are 2 tens in this number and 5 ones.
• Doubles and halves to 30
• Skip counting in 2,5s and 10s to 50 – forwards and backwards. If your child can do this then increase it up to 100 and also skip count in 3s.
• Number bonds 20 (eg: 7+3=10, 3+7=10, 10-3+7, 10-3=7. 10-?=3, 3+?=10 etc)