Some important reminders:

By the end of Week 5, each student will need a long cardboard roll (e.g. paper towel, foil or glad wrap) to make a rainstick instrument.
By the end of Week 8, students need to bring in cardboard shoeboxes, tubes, rolls or other to make marble runs.

The Homework expectations and Home Learning ideas for this term are:

Reading and writing the ‘Write to Read’ codes every night (no more than thirty, but always including the vowels). These can be found at http://hps.phonograms.com.au Username: hampton3754 & Password: hampton3754.
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.
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, Mathletics and Literacy Planet.

Kind regards,

The Year 1 Team

Julia Nitsios (1A), Kate Siebert (1B), Katia Mance (1C), Bec McLaren and Alison Powell (1D), and Maria Oanca (1E)

Hampton Primary School

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