Week beginning 1.5.17

This is a very short week. The children are only in school for 2 days.

Monday – holiday

Tuesday – in-service (no pupils)

Wednesday – school open as usual

Thursday – polling day (school closed to staff and pupils)

Friday – school open as usual

 

In class we will continue working on the same topics as last week. There will be no new reading books or homework this week. The children will do some reading in school with their book buddy from P6. Our student, Miss Lyon, joins us again this week for 4 weeks.

Week beginning 24.4.17

This term the class will have science with Mrs Brechin on a Monday morning and music with Mr Smith on a Tuesday afternoon. Our regular gym slot is also on a Tuesday afternoon. This week we have an extra gym time on Wednesday morning with some students from RGU. They will be working with classes for 4 weeks. We will be walking up to Kincorth Library on Thursday morning to choose new books.

reading

Reading – The children will get 2 new books this week on Monday and Thursday. Thursday’s book will not be read in school as we are going to Kincorth Library in our reading time.

Big Maths

Maths

C – Squiggleworth 3 digit numbers

L –   5 x table

–  Multiplying whole numbers by 10

C – Multiplication 1 digit x 1 digit

H T U

3 5 7

three hundred and fifty seven

Our focus for other maths work this week is number and place value. We will also be estimating where numbers come on a number line and reading and writing number words.

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French – This week we will focus on the months of the year.

We will ask and reply to –

Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire?  When is your birthday?

 

homework

Homework – Our spelling pattern this week is ur as in turn and church. Please write each word 3 times and choose 2 words and write a sentence with each. Spelling test will be on Friday this week so homework should be completed by then. Some of the children have an extra spelling challenge again in their homework book.

You can see how your child got on with last week’s spelling at the back of the homework book.

Topic – Our topic for this term is Charlotte’s Web. We will be reading the book and doing activities related to it. Last week we listened to the first 2 chapters. The children have now met some of the main characters – a little girl called Fern and her pig called Wilbur.

Week beginning 18.4.17

Welcome back to the last term of the session. Hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday.

reading

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

 

Big Maths

Maths

C – Counting in multiples of 3

L –    5+4=9    5+6=11   6+7=13   8+7=15   8+9=17

–  Fact families – write given 1 addition fact

C – Subtraction 2 digit – 1 digit counting back from larger number

 

Our focus for other maths work this week is number and place value. We will be counting in hundreds, tens and units and thinking about ordering numbers.

 

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French – This week we will revise number, colour and days/months.

 

homework

Homework – Our spelling pattern this week is ir as in bird and first. Please write each word 3 times and choose 2 words and write a sentence with each. Spelling test will be on Friday this week so homework should be completed by then. Some of the children have an extra spelling challenge again in their homework book.

You can see how your child got on with last term’s spelling at the back of the homework book.