This week we will be going up to Kincorth library on Tuesday morning.

Wednesday is our digital curricular evening 6-7.30pm.

Thursday is World Book Day – don’t forget to come dressed as your favourite book character.

Homework – Spelling and reading homework will continue this week. Spelling words will be given home on Monday and the book should be returned to school on Friday.  Our spelling pattern is ai/ay/a-e as in make and clay. Please write each word 3 times and choose 2 words and write a sentence with each. Spelling test will be on Friday so homework should be completed by then.

Reading – The children will get 1 new book this week on Monday. Thursday will involve lots of literacy activities for World Book Day.

Maths

C – counting in 2s then 20s

L – 6+7=13    8+7=15    8+9=17

I – doubling and halving 2 digit numbers

C – division by 2 – halving

Our focus for other maths work this week will be fractions starting with halves and quarters,

French – This week our French will be our daily routine of the day and date for our calendar. We will also focus on counting up to 30.

Topic – Last week the children were finding out about where the Vikings came from and where they travelled to. They found out about Viking longships and did some writing about them and made longship pictures.

This week our star of the week is Megan. She has settled in very well to her new class.  Well done Megan.

Homework – Spelling and reading homework will continue this week. Spelling words will be given home on Monday and the book should be returned to school on Friday.  Our spelling pattern is ch as in echo and chemist. Please write each word 3 times and choose 2 words and write a sentence with each. Spelling test will be on Friday so homework should be completed by then.

Reading – The children will get 2 new books this week on Monday and Thursday.

Maths

C – counting in 5s

L – + 2 to 4, 5, 6, 7, 9              +3 to 4, 5, 6

I – doubling 2 digit numbers

C – subtraction   2 digit – 1 digit numbers

Our focus for other maths work this week will continue to be be subtraction working within 100.

French – This week our French will be our daily routine of the day and date for our calendar. We will also focus on the months of the year.

Topic – The children have decided what they want to learn about the Vikings. We will start this week by finding out when they lived and where they came from.

This is a very short week for the children.

Monday is a holiday for all and on Tuesday and Wednesday the school is closed to pupils for in-service days.

Homework – There will be no spelling homework this week.

Reading – The children will get 1 new book this week on Thursday.

Maths

As last week.

Topic 

Our author study is now over and we will be starting a new topic this week. We will be learning about The Vikings so our topic will be history based.

This week’s star of the week is Daniel.  He always tries his best in all our class activities.  Well done Daniel.

Monday will be the last chance to bring in money for the book fair.

We will be going up to Kincorth Library on Tuesday morning.

The photographer is in school on Wednesday this week.

Homework – Spelling and reading homework will continue this week. Spelling words will be given home on Monday and the book should be returned to school on Friday.  Our spelling pattern is air as in hair and chair. Please write each word 3 times and choose 2 words and write a sentence with each. Spelling test will be on Friday so homework should be completed by then.

Reading – The children will get 2 new books this week on Monday and Thursday.

Maths

C – counting in 2s

L –  doubles from 1 – 9              3+3, 4+4, 5+5

I – jigsaw numbers            missing number to make 10

C – subtraction take 10 from a multiple of 10 or a 2 digit number

Our focus for other maths work this week will be be subtraction, starting  within 20, then moving on to subtraction within 100.

French – This week our French will be our daily routine of the day and date for our calendar. We will also focus on the months of the year.

Topic – This will be our last week on our Mairi Hedderwick author study. We will watch and listen to some more stories, do some further writing and look at a map of Struay to find specific points. The children showed off their landscape paintings last week at our whole school author study assembly.

This week’s star of the week is Lewis. He has been doing fantastic number work in maths. Well done Lewis.