Reading
Please keep reading with your child as often as possible. The holidays provide great opportunities to snuggle up by the tree and share some favourite Christmas stories. When reading a book for the first time please help your child use phonic skills to decode new words, or recognise words that cannot be decoded. Help them to understand new vocabulary. The next time they read their book please help them read fluently with expression. Finally, please ask questions about the book helping them use the text to answer. The VIPER bookmarks are a perfect resource for finding lots of different question styles to ask; focusing on retrieval, inference and vocabulary.
If your child has a Lexia account please use this at home. Lexia can be accessed using this link:
If you need the teacher email to access Lexia at home please use: lexia@southill.dorset.sch.uk
Spellings
Words for the first week back are:
July
why
by
reply
cry
Parents: We are now following the year 2 curriculum for spellings. Many of these words will be in sets with common or alternative spelling patterns. For the first few weeks our focus is homophones – same sound; different spelling – their meaning and use in context. Other words have more complex or unusual spelling patterns and are on the list of common exception words for year 2. Later, we will be looking at how suffixes are added to the end of root words and how the spelling of the root word might need to change (e.g. ‘drop the ‘e’ add the suffix). The children are being taught strategies for learning spellings as part of their work at school. Please encourage them to practice at home during the week and carry out an occasional test to prepare them for Friday morning. When your children are confident spelling the words please encourage them to use them in sentences. This will help with understanding and using the words in context. They could also explore more words with these spelling patterns and bring them to school to share with us. They will be tested by writing the words in dictated sentences.
Mental Maths Facts
Adding three single digit numbers. The children have been taught strategies to add three numbers mentally, such as looking for two numbers that total ten or adding doubles or near doubles first. Please remind and support them to use these strategies.
E.g. 3 + 7 + 5 or 4 + 7 + 4
Test: complete number equations similar to these examples.
Project
Our new project starting next term is Coastline. You could have a go at one or both of these home learning activities during the holidays: