Homework Note Week 33

Post date: 14-May-2017 21:07:37

Dear Parents,

It is planned that the major will visit the school on Tuesday morning. 1st class will be completing the standardised Micra (English) and Sigma (Maths) tests on Tuesdays the 23^rd and 30^th of May. Please let me know if you child will not be here on those days.

Word Wallet activities.

This week we are learning words that have a magic e at the end and contain the ‘a’ sound

1. ate, ape, game (Mon)

2. lane, gate, save (Tues)

3. made, name, cake (Weds)

4. bake, wake, make (Thurs)

Click into http://www.ictgames.com/phonemePatterns/index.html or on the ICT GAMES link on the right side of our class webpage to see list of words containing of all these sounds we have been learning.

Tricky Word activities. – We are learning the Tricky Words 7 list – yellow words

1. Match the coloured card to its place on the white card.

2. Say the word.

3. Ask the children for a sentence with that word in it. (I saw that they were lost.)

We are continuing to learn the Yellow Words this week – Tricky Words list 7. We are drawing some bar graphs and using a tally to count. Hurling continues on Mondays and Thursdays. We plan to have a class hurling blitz on Thursday week the 26^th (TBC) at the GAA pitch 1-2pm. The class will play as Clare, Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary teams.

Thanks

Mr. Gleeson

Homework Monday – Thursday

Bookworm club reader and Word Wallet activities

Seniors – Operation Maths Snrs at home book p26 + 27 (½ page each night)

Jolly Phonics Workbook 4 p19 + p20 (½ page each night) Add some colour.

1^st Class – Operation Maths 1st at home book p25 + 26 (½ page each night)

- Tricky word sentence – List 14 - 2 per night

- Spellings (see spelling copy)

Studyladder activities at https://www.studyladder.co.uk/myschool/220213/myclass/838624

Jolly Phonics 42 sounds in order.

Tricky Words 7