Homework

Room 9
Brightwater School
Brightwater
Nelson

30 January 2013

Dear Room 9

This is an outline of what I expect for homework this year, so that you, your parents and I are all clear about the expectations.

• You should know your basic addition and subtraction facts up to 20, and be able to recall them with speed. You should learn your multiplication tables so that you can recall them accurately.
• Some of you will have directed reading homework. I expect that everyone will read silently or with an adult for at least 20 minutes every night. Most of you will have the opportunity to make your own choices about reading material eg: library books, journals, magazines, newspaper etc.
• Each week you will have 10 spelling words to learn from your group list. Your words will be tested at school on Friday.
• Occasionally you may have homework related to our Topic Work or you may need to complete work not finished during the day.
• Each week on your current events day you are expected to have prepared a news article for Current Events. You will present this orally to the class and then your written summary of the key points (who, where, when, what, why/how) will be displayed in our Current Events book.
• During Term 1 & 2 you will make one “Book of the Week” presentation. This will require research, organization, time management and neat presentation. You will make an oral presentation about a book you have read and enjoyed as well as a wall display, which will go on the “Book of the Week” board in our room.
Some ideas to help you…..
Introduce the book (title, author, illustrator)
Share some of the story (catchy beginning, some action,
favourite part, sad part, etc)
Talk about the illustrations (do they fit the story?)
Discuss the characters
Act/dress as one of the characters
Give the book a star rating out of 5 stars
Make sure you present your wall display neatly and make it interesting so
that everyone will want to read your book.

• You will also make one “Author of the Week” presentation. This will involve the same format as the Book of the Week but the focus is on one of your favourite authors. You are required to make an oral presentation and a wall display about your author.


This framework is flexible enough to give you time off, but it can be clearly seen that there is always a ‘little’ homework to do.
If you’ve got any questions or are worried about your homework we can have a chat about things.
Please share this letter with your parents.


Yours sincerely
Mrs Edwards