Learning At Home

About your child's learning at home

Rooms 3 & 4: Here are some ways to practise our alphabet and sight word cards at home



What is the procedure for reading at home?



  • From Mondays to Thursdays, the children will bring home their reading folders, with their reading log and a book inside. They can read the book at home with you, and return it in their reading folder the following morning. Each night a new book will be added to the reading folder, so by Thursday, your child will have four books in his or her reading folder, with the idea being that they will be gaining 'reading mileage' by reading and rereading these familiar texts.
  • On Friday all the books in the children's reading folders will be returned to the resource room by their teacher. The teacher will sign off in the far right hand column in the reading log to show that all four books have been returned to school.
  • Please refer to your copy of Home Reading Information for further details (received at learning conferences or Headstart), or see your child's class teacher for more information.

Home Learning Book


  • Your child's Home Learning Book will come home every Monday afternoon, starting Week 3, Term 1.
  • Every second week, it will contain an alphabet rhyme or activity designed to help your child develop specific letter knowledge, the associated letter sounds and key words related to each focus letter. You can help your child look for magazine pictures (which can be glued into the book) and label each of the pictures found. If your child prefers to draw pictures, that's absolutely fine! 
  • Every other week, the Home Learning will have a Maths focus, and is likely to be a fun, practical, hands on activity. The children can record their findings by drawing pictures, or sometimes it works well to take photos and include them in the Home Learning book. 
  • Whatever the method chosen for recording, the most important thing is that these activities are fun and enjoyable - times that you can enjoy experimenting and working together. Home Learning for children in Rooms 3 and 4 should be short, enjoyable and relaxed, and the activities are for you to enjoy together with your child. Your child will benefit enormously from the in-depth discussions and the questioning that you engage in together.
  • When completed, or on Friday, your child can return their home learning book to their classroom to share with the class. 

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