Your child will be coming home soon, with a short Scottish poem to learn as part of Onthank Primary Burn’s Competition this year. If you could help your child learn this off by heart, they will present it to the class as part of their Literacy Curriculum. “I can communicate clearly when engaging with others within my place of learning, using selected resources.” The children will perform their chosen poem to their class at the beginning of February.

Every Thursday from January 19th next week, all Primary 2 pupils will be taking their learning outdoors!

No matter the weather!

Please can you send your child to school with appropriate clothing and footwear depending on the weather. A waterproof coat will be needed too. A change of shoes or wellies if it is especially wet would also be helpful.

School jumpers must be worn

However, joggies, leggings or any comfortable, suitable bottoms would be acceptable. If you have any difficulties proving wellies, then the school do have a limited amount in a variety of sizes. If you could please let your child’s teacher know, then we will try to find a suitable pair of wellies for them to use during the day.

Please could you rehearse songs 1,2,3,4,5 and 7 with your child at home. We can’t wait to welcome you in to Onthank to see our Nativity.

Nativity Songs

If you could continue to complete Bug Club reading with your child, we do not have any new phonemes this week.

Thank you for all your help and support at this busy time of year.

Now we are in the midst of Christmas chaos we would like to scale back slightly what we are asking you to complete at home. Our phoneme for the week is ‘ow’ as in owl. We will hand out the phoneme cards and tricky word sheets this week.

Words to practice are:

owl, cow, howl, brown, frown and crown

Our Common Words this week are:

how, now, down and your

We will still update Bug Club with books to read and Maths games to play.

This week we would also like you to: Make somebody laugh or smile.

Phoneme for the week is – ‘ff’ as in earmuff.

RED/ BLUE words:

offer

muffin

puffin

officer

toffee

daffodil

GREEN / YELLOW words:

huff

cuff

off

stuff

puff

fluff

Please watch this clip on You Tube for some additional ‘ff’ words – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XiB9JKFMc

Common words this week are ‘going‘ and ‘old‘ – please see if your child can find these words in a story book or their Bug Club book online.

As usual there will be Bug Club books to read online and Maths games to practice.

We would really appreciate your support in continuing to learn our Nativity Songs, this week number 5 ‘Shepherds on a hillside’. I apologise for the confusing with the link last week, Mr McIlwraith assures me the correct link is now up on last weeks homework post. Please let the school office know if this is not working as this is the only link I have and would need to find an alternative to this problem.

Evening P2 parents, it has come to my attention that the music link for the nativity isn’t working, sorry. I’m hoping to get a new link up on Wednesday, with a little help from a technology elf. Thank you for your patience.

Tech 🦕

Phoneme for the week is : ‘ll‘

RED/ BLUE words are:

shell

small

spill

frill

gallop

pillow

GREEN / YELLOW words are:

fill

hill

bell

well

fell

sill

New strips of Common Words will be sent home this week these will include:

well, tell, will, call and small

Remember to do your reading using BUG CLUB and you will also find a Maths Game there too.

We are also hoping you are able to play and then practice SONG 4 from our Nativity? We are getting into the swing of our practices, we don’t want to spoil any surprises, but would really appreciate your help with your child learning the words for our Nativity songs. This link should take you to all the songs, but if you please concentrate on ‘04 – Weary Travellers’ this week we would appreciate your help.

P2 Nativity Tracks

Homework for this week will concentrate on the double ‘ss’ phoneme.

First watch this short phonics clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2LRiGZG3w

With your child’s big phoneme squares could you please practice the words:

RED/BLUE

press

class

chess

dress

glass

impress

GREEN/ YELLOW

moss

miss

hiss

pass

bass

chess

The Common word for this week is ‘I’m’, so please keep trying to read and write all the stage 2 Common words alongside ‘I’m’.

As always the children’s Bug Club accounts have been replenished with new books and a Maths Game to practice.

Please remember that Friday is Children in Need where children can wear spots and bright colours if they would like to.

This week is a consolidation week where we can practice the ‘ea’, ‘ay’ and ‘y’ phonemes. All children will have been given all up to date phonemes and should go back on the BLOG to revise words from the lists given previously.

All children will now also have a strip or two of Common words. We would like you to work with your child so they are able to read and write these words. We are also giving out all the Primary 1 Common Words to consolidate their learning, as some words have been forgotten and need revising.

As always there will be BUG CLUB books to read and answer the wee Bug questions on and Maths games that are related to pupil’s learning in school.

Thank you for your help and support.