Reading
Please read with your child every day. The first time they read their book please help them 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.
Some children are now ready to take Accelerated Reader Quizzes. If your child has login details in their reading diary this link can be used to access the ARP quizzes.
https://ukhosted74.renlearn.co.uk/2236795/
Please make sure your child really understands the book before they take a quiz and only help them with prompts such as directing them to the text to help them answer questions.
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
Next week’s words are:
careful
careless
hopeful
happily
playfully
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
Learn the division facts for the ten times table, in any order.
Test: complete the equations, e.g. 40 ÷ 10 = __, 70 ÷ 10 = __, etc.
If your child has a TT Rockstars login, this is the link: https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/5669
Optional Challenge
Have a go at either, or both, of these optional challenges and please let us know how you got on.
As we are learning about mass, volume and temperature in maths at the moment, why not have a go at cooking or baking something that uses these skills in a practical context? We would love to see photos of what you make.
