HOMEWORK - HELP YOURSELF!

Guidelines for homework
For families who choose to partake in homework, teachers recommend the following activities which will support ongoing progress in the classroom.

Engage in family activities around the house, e.g. reading with whanau, recommending books to one another, playing some touch or soccer, gardening and growing food together, budgeting with spending money, tracking savings and calculating total costs and change when shopping.  Cooking tea and baking is great!  Doubling and halving recipes, estimating amounts of food necessary for different groups of people.

Read for at least 20 minutes a night.
Engage in quality conversations about what they are reading with family members and friends.
Take a look at the books students are recommending to one another.
Sign up using your CQS gmail account and password and increase your vocabulary on this site.

Write Regularly
Practice spelling for at least 10 minutes a night.  Their first priority are the Essential Spelling Lists 1-7 and the Commonly Misspelt lists.  
Here is a useful spelling practice page that help to identify spelling patterns.
Go to www.spellingcity.com and follow the teacher search for 'Tandi' to find the Essential Lists that you can learn, practice and test online.

Writing Tasks
-Describe a person, object or event in as much detail as possible.
-Write a letter/email to someone you know.
-Write an Acrostic poem to describe yourself or someone you know.
-Find something you disagree with.  Write a short but strongly worded paragraph about the main reason you oppose it.
-Write three short sentences that don't include the letter e.
-Write a short review of a school library book to add to Access-it.
-Write a short fictional story and get your parents to check for punctuation and grammar.

Practice math knowledge for at least 10 minutes a night.
Go to your sumdog or your Khan Academy account to complete tasks assigned by your teacher or practice any other area you need to work on.

Useful Websites

Here are some activities we use at school
Be Curious
Encourage curiosity and give plenty of opportunity to gain information from a range of sources. Your child can 'Find Out' about questions they are inquiring about, in or out of school. Take them to the library, encourage them to engage with experts in the area they are investigating, help them to safely source information on the internet.

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