Rangitoto: Home Learning

These are guidelines and helpful notes for supporting your child's learning at home.

Reading

Readers: We are learning to read fluently. Please listen to your child practice their reader each day. Help them to fill in their Reading log and sign it to acknowledge your input. Some learners will receive a new reader each day, moving towards one every two days as they improve and texts increase in length. Please ensure they return these to school every day.

Sight words: Ākonga bring home a list of sight words to support reading at their level, up to level 14. The leaflets provide suggested ways to practising these. They should be quickly recognised rather than worked or sounded out.

Extra reading: Take some time to read other books, magazines, comics, instructions or newspaper headlines with your child.

Spelling

New spelling words are now coming home most weeks. The day on which the new words come home will depend on the learner's spelling class and group. Repetition and practice proves very effective in learning new words.

Say the word
Sound the word
Letters of the word aloud
Cover the word
Write the word without looking
Check the word
Repeat for each word
If you get it wrong, write it five times and try again.

Make practice interesting by alternating how they are written. For example:

writing the words with water using a paintbrush
learn to spell words from the essential word list
make the words with playdough or magnetic letters

Maths

You can help your child by practising these skills at home.

Counting

Count forwards & backwards to 10, 20, 50 , 100.
Skip count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards to 20, to 50, to 100.

Basic Facts

Learn addition & subtraction facts to 5
Learn addition & subtraction facts to 10
Learn "ten and ?" makes teen numbers
Learn addition & subtraction facts to 20

Fractions

Share grapes, raisins, pegs, etc. into equal groups.
Look for shapes that are shared into halves, quarters, etc.

Measurement: Length

Choose some objects and use items around the house to measure them. For example; The book is 7 pegs long. The chair is 26 lego blocks long.
Use a ruler or tape measure and practise measuring objects. Remember to start from zero.

Measurement: Capacity

Collect a range of everyday containers. Ask your child to order them from largest capacity to smallest capacity.
Fill the containers with water and experiment with how much water each holds. Notice that "This container holds two times as much water as this container."

Other Suggested Activities: Term 3

Pack your own bag for school.
Help to cook a meal and set the table.
Get a ball and practise throwing and catching.
Talk about what you are good at and what you find tricky. Share what makes us great learners.
Share a time when you have been resilient, collaborative or curious.

Report abuse