2nd November 2021
Dear parents,
In the coming days we will share a link with you to our new Google Classroom and your child's @powerstownet.com email address. We will not email anything but the account on Google Classroom will be used to share all important information regarding homework. Please do not use it to message us about important information as it will not be monitored everyday. Continue to use our email addresses for anything important!
Today and tomorrow we are sending home 2 books for use at home. The first is a book containing our phonics in one half and our sight words in the other half. The second book is for handwriting.
As we move through our phonics and sight words, we will update you on Google Classroom to let you know what words/sounds we are working on. We would recommend that you practice these at home daily for 4 or 5 minutes. Short, regular practice of sounds and words will help the children significantly in their progress through this programme.
For the handwriting book, we would recommend a few tracing activities (not a full page) per day. It's more beneficial for the children to practice for a short amount of time regularly, than sit for long periods of time once or twice a week.
PETNS also subscribe all children to an online phonics/reading programme called Reading Eggs. The login details for this will be shared with you via Google Classroom as soon as they are available. This is an online programme that can be done independently on laptops/tablets/phones which has proven to be both enjoyable and educational for the children. Again this is something that will have the most benefit if done for short periods of time regularly.
Please contact us if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
Eoin, Siobhán, and Aoife
Dear parents,
In the coming days we will share a link with you to our new Google Classroom and your child's @powerstownet.com email address. We will not email anything but the account on Google Classroom will be used to share all important information regarding homework. Please do not use it to message us about important information as it will not be monitored everyday. Continue to use our email addresses for anything important!
Today and tomorrow we are sending home 2 books for use at home. The first is a book containing our phonics in one half and our sight words in the other half. The second book is for handwriting.
As we move through our phonics and sight words, we will update you on Google Classroom to let you know what words/sounds we are working on. We would recommend that you practice these at home daily for 4 or 5 minutes. Short, regular practice of sounds and words will help the children significantly in their progress through this programme.
For the handwriting book, we would recommend a few tracing activities (not a full page) per day. It's more beneficial for the children to practice for a short amount of time regularly, than sit for long periods of time once or twice a week.
PETNS also subscribe all children to an online phonics/reading programme called Reading Eggs. The login details for this will be shared with you via Google Classroom as soon as they are available. This is an online programme that can be done independently on laptops/tablets/phones which has proven to be both enjoyable and educational for the children. Again this is something that will have the most benefit if done for short periods of time regularly.
Please contact us if you have any further questions.
Kind regards
Eoin, Siobhán, and Aoife