Home Learning

Home Learning at Lime Wood Primary School  

Reception	Phonics matched text Reading for Pleasure text Weekly phonics	Magma Maths (from Summer term)	Please look at our website for a list of Reception common exception words, letter formation and number formation
Year 1	Phonics matched text Reading for Pleasure text Phonics learning tools can be accessed via Showbie	Magma Maths	Please look at our website for a list of Year 1 common exception words Curiosity Challenge
Year 2	Phonics matched text or chapter book (as appropriate) Reading for Pleasure text EGPS	Magma Maths	Please look at our website for a list of Year 2 common exception words Curiosity Challenge
Year 3	Phonics matched text or chapter book (as appropriate) Reading for Pleasure text EGPS	Magma Maths  Times Table Rock stars	Please look at our website for a list of Year 3 common exception words Curiosity Challenge

Daily Reading -

At Lime Wood Primary School, we value daily reading with your child/ren. When parents/carers read regularly with children in a positive and enjoyable way, it has been proven to benefit children by providing them with comfort and reassurance, confidence and security, build self-esteem, develop vocabulary, feed imagination and even improves their sleeping patterns.

Phonics matched text -

Teachers will teach the children how to read the book in school, teaching decoding, prosody and comprehension skills to the children. Your child will then bring this book home with them for them to practice reading with parents/carers. Initially, these books may be wordless. We encourage children to look for words that contain a particular sound. They will then develop to being books with words and then sentences. The children should be able to read the practice book with developing confidence and fluency without any significant help. The parent/carer’s role is to listen with interest and, most importantly, to encourage and praise, enthusiastically acknowledging the child’s achievement (even if, at the early stages, this is only small). After the child has read the book, it may be helpful to talk about the book, but only so far as the child is interested. The parent/carer should keep the experience positive and avoid turning it into a test.

Reading for Pleasure text -

If children are to become lifelong readers, it is essential that they are encouraged to read for pleasure. The desire of wanting to read will help with the skill of reading. To help foster a love of reading, children will take a book home that they can share and enjoy with their parent/carer. These books offer a wealth of opportunities for talking about the pictures and enjoying the story. Parents/carers should not expect their child to read this book independently and should not try to get their child to do so. The book is for the parent/carer to read to or with the child. Again, it is good to talk about the book with the child, but important not to turn the discussion into a test. The goal is enjoyment. 

Phonics –

Phonics learning can be found on Showbie.  In Reception this will be uploaded for parents and carers, from Y1 onwards, any phonics lessons can be found in your child’s phonics folder on Showbie.

Name Writing, Letter Formation and Number Practice -

For some children, you can support by helping them learn to write their name and form numbers and letters. 

EGPS –

From Y2, children will be provided with some questions to have a go at working through in order to consolidate class learning.

Magma Maths –

From Reception summer term, children will have access to questions on Magma Maths in order to consolidate class learning.

 

Curiosity Challenge –

From Y1, children will be invited to participate in our year group Curiosity Challenges – a series of tasks and opportunities that can be selected from a list!  Have a go!  We would love to see your child’s learning – bring your learning in, upload a photo to Showbie or email us!