This week our star of the week is Lyla G. She made a lovely landscape painting as part of our author study.

Well done Lyla.

This week Childsmile will be in school on Thursday and Friday doing the fluoride varnish.

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 wa as in was and swan. 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 halves

L – 10 x table jumbled facts         5+4=9        5+6=11

I – fact families     turn 1d add 1d numbers into multiples of 10                                                  30+40=70   40+30=70   70-40=30   70-30=40

C – subtraction   take a 1 digit number from a multiple of 10                                                       30-4=26

Our focus for other maths work this week will continue to be be addition, 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 weather, asking and answering          Quel temps fait-il?

Topic – The children have been doing more writing about Katie Morag characters and listening to more stories. We have also been finding out about the real island of Coll which Struay is based on. We have been drawing and painting landscape pictures of the Isle of Struay and will continue with them this week, and will also find out more about the author Mairi Hedderwick.

This week’s star of the week is Kole. He has been doing fantastic French conversations. Well done Kole.

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

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 soft g as in age and magic. 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 50s and 500s

L – 10 x table jumbled facts         5+4=9        5+6=11

I – jigsaw numbers     find the missing piece to the next multiple of                                                  10       e.g. 24 + __ =30

C – addition   add a 1 digit number to a 2 digit tens number                                                   30+4=34

Our focus for other maths work this week will be addition, 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 general conversation questions such as – How are you? What is your name? How old are you? Where do you live?

Topic – The children have been doing some writing about Katie Morag. We have also been looking at the map of the fictional Isle of Struay. We have started to design our own islands and will draw and label areas on our island maps and on an outline of Struay.

This week our star of the week is Jack . He has been very polite and well mannered . Well done Jack .

Welcome back to the first week of term.

Homework – Spelling and reading homework will start again this week. Spelling words will be given home on Monday and the book should be returned to school on Friday.  Our spelling pattern is soft c as in ice and dance. 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 10s

L – 10 x table jumbled facts

I – halving multiples of 10           half of 80 is 40

C – multiplication and division

Our focus for other maths work this week will be addition starting with numbers up to 20 and then moving on to numbers up to 100.

French – This week our French will be our daily routine of the day and date for our calendar. We will also focus on numbers to 20.

Topic – For the start of this term the whole school will be doing author studies, with each class choosing an author to focus on. P3 will be doing Mairi Hedderwick who wrote the Katie Morag stories.  We will read and listen to lots of her stories and do activities related to them.

This week will again be mainly Christmas activities.

Our class party is on Monday afternoon along with P3/4 Room 6.

On Friday we will be attending church for our end of term service at 10.30am.

The children can bring something in from home to do in class on Friday if they want.

School closes for the holidays on Friday at 3.00pm and we return on Monday 8th January. Hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year.

Homework – Reading homework will continue this week but there will be no spelling again this week.

Reading – The children will get 1 new book this week on Monday and books will be taken in for the holidays on Thursday.

This week’s star of the week is Pixie.  She learned her song words for the concert really well.  Well done Pixie.

This week will be mainly Christmas activities.

Our school trip to the pantomime is on Tuesday morning – remember packed lunches for when we get back to school.

The Christmas Concert is on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

Friday is Christmas jumper day. We also have achiever’s assembly, Christmas lunch and Christmas cinema afternoon.

Homework – Reading homework will continue this week but there will be no spelling again this week.

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

Maths

C – counting in 10s

L – 10 x table jumbled facts

I – halving multiples of 10

C – multiplication and division

Topic – This week our topic will again be mainly Christmas activities. We will continue to learn our songs for the concert, make some more Christmas decorations and do other Christmas maths and literacy activities.

This week we have our open afternoon on Wednesday from              3-4pm. We will be selling our Christmas craft enterprise.

The school Christmas Fayre is on Saturday.

Homework – Reading homework will continue this week but there will be no spelling. Instead the children will take home a copy of our Christmas song words to learn.

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

Maths

C – counting in 10s

L – 10 x table jumbled facts

I – halving multiples of 10

C – multiplication and division

French – This week our French will be our daily routine of the day and date for our calendar. We will also revise asking and answering questions such as

What is your name?

How are you?

How old are you?

Where do you live?

Topic – This week our topic will be mainly Christmas activities. We are busy at the moment making Christmas decorations to sell at the open afternoon and at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. We will also be learning our songs and rehearsing for the Christmas Concert.