Homework Room 8 Term 2 Week 8

Reading
Readers each week, please ensure the sheet at the back of your child’s homework book is filled out.


Spelling
This week we are learning about the long and short ‘a’ vowel sounds. The word apple has a short ‘a’ vowel sound and the word ape has a long ‘a’ vowel sound.
Get your child to brainstorm words which have both vowel sounds:
Short vowel sound: Long vowel sound:




Maths
Many of Room 8 are finding it hard to count backwards from 20 and know the number that comes before.

Practise counting backwards from 20 with your child.

Write the number that comes before:

_____ 20 _____ 9 _____ 10


_____ 16 _____ 3 _____ 2


______5 _____ 19 _____ 4

______11 _____ 17 ______ 13