Ruma Kākāpō Home Learning 2015
Dear Parents and Students of Ruma Kākāpō
Listed below is a range of activities that you can regularly include in
your Home Learning. It is important that
you work together to develop good strategies and habits to continue learning at
home. Parent’s please do not assume that your child knows when is the best time
to engage in Home Learning, the best time in my opinion is all the time. They should do around 20 – 45 minutes on a
range of activiites each day including reading.
Home Learning can include lots and lots of regular discussion on any items
of interest / family history / current events that catches your family’s
imagination.
It doesn’t matter what your child reads, as long as they get a balance of
reading to you, reading with you, and reading for themselves. Books, magazines,
comics, newspapers, model aeroplane instructions, the back of the Weet Bix
packet … whatever: it doesn’t matter. As long as kids are doing something that
they are interested in, they will read it, enjoy it, and be all the happier and
better off for it (so will you). You could read a book together or share
opinions about the books that you are both reading. Students should be reading for at least 15
minutes at home per day.
Spelling practice is not just lists of words (which the pupil may never
otherwise use) set by a teacher: it includes crosswords, word-finds, word
puzzles, secret codes, Scrabble – all of which can be easily found. Have your
child write you a letter, you'll soon be able to develop an additional set of
words to learn as part of their Home Learning. The class blog has the students’s spelling
list posted on it weekly, commencing in Week 3.
These words are also recorded into the Home Learning Spelling Notebook
on a Monday at school.
If your child has trouble with basic addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division; don’t rely solely on the practice that he or she will get at school
to improve the situation. If you sit together a couple of times a week and work
through some practice examples that you have set together, the practice will be
far more valuable than facing five set questions on a class homework sheet.
Why? Because it will be individualised to your child’s needs. Because you will
be sharing the experience. Because you will be able to provide instant and
positive feedback.
Regular sharing and reflecting on student's learning through the monitoring
of their Learning Portfolios is essential. Ask your child to share their work
samples on their blog or log in to their email accounts to see how their
assessments are going. Students
regularly log onto their blogs and email accounts at school, please get them to
show you how to access theirs. You can
also access your child’s blog from our class blog by selecting the Learning
Portfolio link. Our class blogs web
address is:
Home Learning can include outside the home experiences; all those Sport
practices, clubs and family excursions and holidays. It can also include the chores that your
child is required to complete to contribute to your home life.
Student may aso like to join our classes Science Badge group. This group meets every Wednesday lunchtime to
share the projects they have worked on at home.
This will commence after camp.
From time to time there will be an additional Home Learning task required
for students to prepare for school activities.
These will be glued into the students’ Home Learning Books, emailed to
your families and the students school email address. The first of these is a sheet that explains
the Home Learning preparation that is required for their class Autobiography project.
I hope this letter helps to support the Home Learning that your family
choose to engage in. If you would like
to clarify any of the information that I have included, please contact me.
Warm regards
Linda Douglas
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