The children love engaging with active literacy stations on a Wednesday. Each week the stations may change slightly.

Station 1- Teacher led- they discuss their old book  and may receive a new reading book. They then read with their group and discuss the title/characters/settings/main events.

Station 2- PSA led -they use magnetic boards to match the alphabet. They then say/make/blend/read their spelling words before creating their own sentences using their words or writing a dictated sentence.

Station 3- Partner work-The children can choose a game board to practice their common words ( my, she, come, into, some etc.) These words are used within their reading and writing everyday.

Station 4 – Independent- Handwriting & Elkonin boxes. The children use the Elkonin boxes to split their words into its different sounds. For example: play  (p) (l) (ay).

The children love the short, focused activity stations and having protected time with two adults for support.

Today some of the Primary 6’s came to help us with our profiles, helping us to write what we have been learning about this week. They then helped us to set targets for Literacy, Numeracy, Health & Wellbeing and a personal target for the term ahead. The children enjoy working together with their partner class and the Primary 6 children were very helpful and responsible!

Please continue to learn our Scots Poem – “The Auld Wifie fa bade in a Beet”  and ” Flower of Scotland” for the Burns Day celebrations.

The Aul Wifie  Fa Bade in a Beet by Charles Birnie

There wis an aul wifie

Fa bade in a beet

Her smarrich o bairns

Made the peer craitur greet.

They  widna tak milk

They widna tak breid

Sae she gied them a skelp

on their luggies instead

class-newsletter Term 3

After our visit to the library we used the laptops to access education city. We remembered lots from our lesson with P6 in term 2. We worked with a partner to log in, search the internet and then log into education city. Today we explored all the activities available to us. Once we can log on confidently we will begin to use education city as extension tasks, during our numeracy and literacy jobs and for topic. Next week we will try some typing skills, discuss internet safety and search for some information!