Homework Help

Spelling Homework 

1.    Ask someone at home to test you on the words in your list. Write them down instead of spelling them out loud. 

2.    Tick the words you already know on your list. Highlight the words you need to learn. 

3.    Practise the words that you need to learn. 

Here are some activities that might help you with the difficult words.

Write down words and look up their meanings and histories. Happy- Glad or content.

Write words in sentences. I am happy when I go to school.

Discover how to change a word to mean the opposite. Happy- Unhappy

 

Spell out loud. “H, A, P, P, Y”

Write words so their shape makes a picture of the word.

Break words into syllables and write each syllable in a different colour. hap-py

To see the connections between words, build word families. happy, happier, happiest

 Use the computer or typewriter--change the type often.

happy     happy     happy     happy     happy     happy     happy

Use stencils to write words.

Trace letters in the air with an extended arm or a torch.

Use familiar tunes to memorize the letters to a word.

Use rhymes to remember words, "I'm a friend to the end" or "Miss-iss-ippi."

Play Scrabble.

A website that might help you-

www.spellingcity.com

Reading Homework 

1.    Read books, magazines, readers from school, poems, library books… lots and lots of books!

 

2.    Ask someone to listen to you read.

 

3.    Read with someone.

 

4.    Read on your own.

 

5.    Ask someone to quiz you on the book.

 

6.    Tell someone about the book, the characters and your favourite part of the story.

  Maths Homework  

1.    Learn and practise your basic facts.

 

2.    Learn and practise your timestables.

 

3.    Count forwards and backwards in 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, 100s…

 

4.    Make up questions for your family.

 

5.    Ask your family to make up questions for you.

 

6.    Play card games.

Websites that might help you-

http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/index.html

http://www.fun4thebrain.com/

See the Curriculum Links page for more ideas!

  

 

 
 
 
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