Dear Parents/ Guardians,
Here are some homework arrangements that you can do with your child to keep her up to date during this school closure.
Reading:
Digraphs:
Writing:
Maths:
Other suggestions:
Resources:
Thank you very much for your continued help and support with your child's homework. Stay safe and healthy.
Ms Duffy
Here are some homework arrangements that you can do with your child to keep her up to date during this school closure.
Reading:
- Two supplementary readers have been sent home in your child’s homework folder.
- Revise blue Starlight reader: Read My Classroom and Cow Takes a Bow!
- Revise word lists 1-10.
- Revise all sight words in her folder.
- Play sight word games- find the words in Starlight reader and other books, hide words around the home to be found and read aloud (hide and seek), play sight word bingo.
- Encourage your child to put all these words into sentences.
Digraphs:
- Revise all digraph sounds learned last term: sh, qu, ch, th, ai, oa, ng, ie, oo, oi, ou, ue, er, ar, ee, or.
- Ask your child for examples of words containing these sounds (some examples can be found in her spelling notebook)
- Have your child write some of these words sounding them out as she does.
- Jolly Phonics songs to accompany each digraph sound can be found on YouTube.
Writing:
- Revise the formation of lowercase and capital letters covered so far. Your child can use the letter card in her homework folder as a guide.
- Your child should engage in free-writing.
Maths:
- Recite days of the week, seasons and months of the year. Talk about what comes before/after/in between.
- Have your child make amounts up to 10c using 1c, 2c, 5c, and 10c coins.
- Request alternative ways of making certain amounts.
- Have your child answer some mental maths money problems. Start with two amounts then move on to three remembering to have a maximum total of 10c. e.g. An apple costs 2c. A banana costs 4c. How much would an apple and a banana cost altogether?
Other suggestions:
- See ‘School News’ page on the school website for a full list of suggested activities.
- Picture books
- Drawing and colouring
- Jigsaws and board games
- Cutting and sticking activities
- Get some exercise - dance, skip, practise GAA skills learned in PE
Resources:
- www.twinkl.ie/resources/roi-resources There are lots of amazing resources available on Twinkl. They are offering free access to all their resources for parents during school closures.
- dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents Dabbledoo have lots of fun interactive music activities which are free to parents during school closures.
- www.gonoodle.com/ Provides movement and mindfulness videos.
Thank you very much for your continued help and support with your child's homework. Stay safe and healthy.
Ms Duffy