Primary 4 Home Learning - fortnight commencing Monday 15 th January; Home Learning jotters due back in on Thursday 25 th January Literacy and English Spelling Individual Common Word spelling lists will be assessed this week and any words still needing work will be sent home next week. All groups are now working on common spelling patterns and rules. Spelling words should be practised each day using an activity from the Spelling Menu – you will not remember the words by copying them out once into your Home Learning jotter. As we are now learning/practising to join our handwriting in class the expectation is that this will be carried through to home learning and that there will be some written evidence of spelling practice recorded in the Home Learning jotter in neat joined handwriting. Week commencing 15 th January Odin –cue, flute, amuse, statue, threw, fewer, bluebell, venue, pollute, volume, newt, fortune, avenue, attitude, costume, absolute Thor – miss, cross, giant, magic, large, danger, orange, vegetable, March, April Freya (Platinum) - map, fix, jump, fault, autumn, haunt, August, after, every, astronaut Loki (Gold) – in, leg, glad, ring, sad, strong, lung, be, was, length Literacy and English Reading Reading homework is back on track. Check your yellow Reading Record for pages to be read and remember to get your jotter signed. Check on the meaning of any unfamiliar words – ask someone at home, or use a dictionary (online dictionaries are fine too). Numeracy and Maths Remember that you can access the excellent http://www.interactive-resources.co.uk/ website from home; both the username and password are crownprimary (all lower case). Go into the ‘P4 – Miss Gray’ folder and you will find plenty of games to keep practising your mental addition and subtraction. We also now have access to Sumdog – you should all have stuck your password into your Home Learning jotter. If you cannot access Sumdog at home you need to let Miss Gray know so that we can create more opportunities for you to access Sumdog at school. You are now also registered to play Times Tables Rock Stars at: https://ttrockstars.com/site/index You should have stuck your username and password into your Home Learning jotter. Miss Gray sets the times tables you practise under some of the headings but you can practise all of your times tables under others. If I see that you are making good progress I can set you more Follow our blog at Follow our blog at https://crownprimary1718p4.wordpress.com/