In regards to homework I have written an earlier post. It contains all the spelling words that the children need to learn and what is expected of the children. Every night the children are expected to read either a browser book from school or a book from home. If there is a book that the children are interested in, but the reading level is too high, then it is acceptable that the parents can read to their children. I am now encouraging children to write stories at home on their blog. However I ask if parents could review what their children have written, and help them to fix up bits and pieces, so that their writing reads smoothly. This will aid the children's interest in writing and show them that this is not an exercise confined to school.

Also some parents were impressed with our work we did with our comics. If you would like to download 'Comic life' and use it on your home computer to make your own comics you can download the file from here. Just look in the box below and click on comic life. When it asks you if you want to save it click 'ok'. It should start downloading straight away. All these programs are hosted by me so they are completely safe and virus free. You will have to pay for a subscription to comic life but you do have a 30 day trial period. If you would like to change your digital photos into a comic 'look', you can go to this site 'Befunky'. Your children know the logon and passwords so that you can use our account. You can upload your pictures there and change them and then download them onto your hard drive. Then import them into comic life. Waalaa! You have a comic!

If you would like to use 'Tux Paint', which is a painting type of program you can download it as well. It is a free program and you do not need to pay a subscription fee.