Home Learning
Reading every night
Every week student's in Kotare Whanau will bring home reading, spelling, and basic maths facts for homework.
READING – Please listen to your child read every night. If they get stuck you can support them to use reading strategies by saying “try that again, sound it out, break it down or what word might fit there?" Please record the date and title of the text.
Term 3 Spelling Groups & words
SPELLING - Each week your child will have a spelling list. This may come from errors in their writing that week or from the SmartWords spelling scheme which groups words together by rules. They need to learn these words by heart. It helps if students are able to articulate the spelling rule.
SAY IT ... SOUND IT … SPELL IT ... WRITE IT ... CHECK IT
Term 3 Basic Facts
BASIC FACTS - Each week your child will have also have basic maths facts to learn by heart. This knowledge helps them to solve maths strategies more easily as they get older.
To know something off by heart they should be able to recall it within 5 seconds.
Visit the Teacher Tools web page for videos on the maths strategies
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