Reminders & Homework

Some important reminders:

• Children can continue to bring in clean, plastic milk or juice bottle tops whenever they can.

The Homework expectations for this term are:

• Hearing your child read their take home book every night. After they have read, ask them questions focusing on who, what, when, why and where. Also ask them questions that will make them infer meaning and think beyond the text. Try to encourage them to relate the book to something in their lives.
• Practising reading the Magic Words every week. Magic Word writing practice is optional. There are also opportunities to integrate Magic Words into card games, such as Snap, Go Fish and Memory.
• Asking your students about their personalised learning goals in Writing, Reading and Mathematics and working together to practise those goals.  Their goals will be set by the end of week 2 and will change as students master them throughout the term. 
• Playing some previously learnt maths games from Michael Minas' website Love Maths. Students will be familiar with many of these from the classroom, and most of them only require dice and/or playing cards.
• Using the available electronic resources such as the PM eCollection, Matific and Nessy Learning.  

Kind regards,

The Year 1 Team

Julia Nitsios (1A), Maria Oanca (1B), Rachel Buntz (1C), Bec McLaren and Sim Paul (1D)