Homework has officially started again for the Middles. 

Reading: It is your responsibility to find a book that you absolutely love to read so that it won’t be difficult for you to read for 15-20 min a night. In fact, the only difficulty should be putting the book back down when you need to. (Don’t forget about the parent signature each night in the diary, and signatures in the overall grid for the term.)

Spelling: Learn your personal sounds/words (based on individual goals). Some children like to try out the activities from the menu in your homework book.

Maths Operations: This term we are inquiring into the four operations used to solve number problems. This week you may use MATHLETICS either to revise last terms place value work, or to make a start on your times tables. Mathletics has a special section for the multiplication tables which you might find helpful. Each week we will post a new idea for learning the tables so that you can experiment to find what works best for you. Just so parents are aware, the benchmark for end of grade 3 requires children to thoroughly know their twos, tens, fives and threes with related division facts. Grade 4 children are expected to know all times tables, with related division facts, up to ten times ten. We generally learn them in the following order of difficulty-twos, tens, fives, threes, fours, sixes, sevens, eights, nines.

Inquiry: Technology impacts on work and leisure around the world

Big talk with parents about your personal/grade inquiry. What type of technology are you looking into? What are your questions? You will probably be busy over the next couple of weeks collecting information to answer your questions, and parents may be helpful. That is, children might come home with a questionnaire or survey for you to fill out. Alternatively, they might be searching for information on the internet, and while not taking over the task, you might be able to guide them towards sites that are kid friendly with information that they can readily absorb.