Homework Reminder

Dear Parents

Just a reminder that your child needs to spend 20-25 minutes each school night on their homework.  This is an outline of what your child needs to do each week night to complete their homework.  Homework is checked on Friday and any uncompleted work will be done in break times on Friday.

It is now Term 3 and some students are still finding it hard to follow this routine .  Next year your child will have more homework than this so please help your child to manage their own learning and move towards being a 'self-directed' learner.

To help them to become more self managing children are given a choice of how to use any free time in class with completing homework being the priority.  During this time students have access to laptops and iPads.  Students are also able to access ICT equipment in the Library during afternoon break times Monday - Thursday.

READING – 10 minutes

·       Monday to Wednesday - read their reader with an adult or older family member for 10 minutes and respond to questions that you ask them about what they have read

·       Thursday – read to library book to a family member or be read to by a family member

·       Friday – read the poem of the week to a family member.

SPELLING – 10 minutes

·        Fill in the diagram above by learning to spell 2-3 words each night (Monday - Thursday).  All words must be learnt before Friday.

MATHS – 10 minutes

·        Learn basic facts using flash cards.  All children now need to be able to recall the basic addition and subtraction facts to 20 instantly by the end of Year 4 to meet the standard.  Students also need to be able to instantly recall the multiplication and division basic facts for the 2, 5, and 10 times tables to meet the Year 4 standard. Your child has a set of basic fact flash cards that match the level that they are working at.   

·       \Log onto Study Ladder and complete some of the activities that will support in class learning.

REFLECTION – COMPLETED ONCE A WEEK BY THURSDAY

·       Log onto their own blog and write a sentence, using one of the sentence starters on the board, to reflect on their own learning.  This needs to be a detailed sentence to show that they are thinking deeply about their learning.  Some students choose to include photographs of their learning.  Again, class time is given to complete this activity.

Regards

Sonya Harris