All homework will be issued on the blog on Monday and should be returned on a Friday morning.
Homework- Monday 16th March
Homework – Monday 9th March
Bug Club Allocated Online
Numeracy – Money Activity
Literacy – Spelling the soft c phoneme. Select an activity of your choice.
Homework – Monday 2nd March
Bug Club Allocated online
Spelling activity from the front of your spelling jotter
Viking Homework – Find the meaning of Viking words in Jotter
Homework – Monday 24th February
Bug Club Allocated online
Spelling words – select activity from the front of the homework jotter
Numeracy – Please select any page from your mental maths booklet.
*In numeracy we are looking at subtraction. We are investigating ways of subtracting large numbers using formulas and simple strategies that do not require us to count very much. Today we realised that lots of our number stories can help us, just like this……..
10 – 7 = 3
100 – 70 = 30
1,000 – 700 = 300
10,000 – 7,000 = 3,000
We also quickly looked at subtracting 9 from numbers. We were sneaky and subtracted 10 then just added 1 more on.
Have a discussion at home about subtraction and see if you can find sneaky ways of subtracting without having to count very much.
Homework – Monday 17th February
We are continuing to work on our solo talks for homework as the children are presenting on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. There is no other literacy or numeracy homework being set, however many of the classes in the school are taking part in an Avatar Design Competition for homework this week. I will send home the competition entry in bags today and ask for it to be returned anytime between now and Friday the 28th February.
*Reminder* This week is Internet Safety Week! We have been discussing ways to stay safe online in class today, please feel free to continue these very important discussions at home tonight and this week.
Homework – Monday 3rd February
2 Week Project – Children are asked to prepare a short presentation about an aspect of Scotland for our Scottish Topic. This can be about a Scottish Animal or Animals, Famous Scottish places, Castles, Famous Scottish people, Scottish food, Scottish Traditions or an aspect of Scottish History. The presentation can be in the format of a Poster, Power point or Display board. We are looking for the children to have knowledge about the subject, good eye contact and a loud and clear voice. Presentations will take place week beginning the 17th February. Tomorrow you child will be given a sticker stating their presentation day, either the 17th, 18th or 19th February.
Homework – Monday 27th January
Bug Club Allocated Online. Please make sure you are reading the books allocated to you, please also ensure you are clicking on the bugs. This helps with reading and comprehension too.
Spelling Words – Consolidation Week. This week we are revising the past three weeks spelling words (ve, ie and g phonemes) and common words. Please revise these all this week using any of the strategies at the front of the homework jotter.
Numeracy – We have been working on division for the past few weeks. We have been making a connection between multiplication and division. Can you spend some time at home grouping items and dividing them up equally? Can you make a calculation out of what you have created? Can you see the relationship between multiplication and division? Test a homework helper with a division calculation 🙂
Homework – Monday 20th January
Bug Club Allocated Online
Mental maths page from home booklet
Spelling words and activities from front page. This week our new phoneme is the soft sounding g making the j sound. If writing, please ensure it is as neat as possible 🙂
Continue to revise My Hoggie poem
Please not that Scottish Week is now week beginning 3rd February. Class poem winners will be selected by the end of this week. Next week the 3 winners from each class will be judged throughout the school ready for our Scottish Week starting on the 3rd February. The children in our class are excellent at their poems already, very well done for all the hard work and effort put in at home to learn these difficult words. I am so impressed!
Homework – Monday 13th January
Bug Club Allocated Online
Money Maths Activity
Spelling words with the ve phoneme, select own activity from jotter
Learn our class Scottish Poem over the next two weeks – My Hoggie by Robert Burns. Class winners will be selected at the end of next week, GOOD LUCK! Scottish week at Gargieston is week beginning the 27th January.
Welcome Back!
Homework – Monday 6th January 2020
Bug Club allocated online
ie Spelling Words. Select own activity to revise the ie sounds.
Please write a short account (no more than an A4 page) of what you did during the Winter Holidays in your homework jotter. Please feel free to add a colourful picture and try to use your neatest handwriting. This can be shared with the class during a circle time on Friday.
16th December
Please continue working through your Winter Connect 4 Challenge at home with friends and family. This week in school we are very busy baking cakes and biscuits. We are designing festive and winter art pieces, making decorations, and having a cosy festive story time in the school library tomorrow. We look forward to going to Church on Wednesday as a whole school. I hope you all have a lovely holiday break and I look forward to seeing everyone back in January. Happy Holidays!
Connect 4 December Homework Challenge
Using the homework grid, try to complete 4 challenges in a row! This is to be completed over the next 2 weeks. Please feel free to do more than 4 in a row. Enjoy! And I hope you and your family have fun doing Christmas activities 🙂
Salt dough tree decorations recipe – Mix 1 cup of plain flour, 1 cup of salt and half a cup of water. Roll out and shape the dough in to festive decorations or use a cookie cutter. Make a hole in the top for the ribbon. Leave somewhere warm for a day to harden or bake in the oven at a low temperature of 100 degrees for 2 to 3 hours. Once cooled and hard, paint and add glitter. Thread your ribbon through the hole and hang on your tree or wrap to give as a gift.
Bug club allocated online
Bug Club allocated online
Spelling activity from front cover using this weeks wa words and common words
We have been looking at our times tables over the past couple of weeks and will continue to do so in to January. Have a discussion at home about what times tables you have been learning in class, are there any patterns in the table? Can we think of ways to remember some of the answers? Can you spot your times table on a number square? Have a game of stand up sit down with family members and friends 🙂
Monday 25th November
Bug club allocated online
Spelling ea words and common words – select own activity from front cover
Select own mental maths page from home booklet
Monday 11th November – Homework
Numeracy – Information Handling Activity.
Literacy – tch sounding words and common words. See sheet at the front of the homework jotter to select an activity of your choice.
Bug Club allocated online.
Monday 4th November – Homework
If it is at all possible could children please bring in pine cones for our Autumn table? Thank you as always for your continued support.
Bug club allocated online
Fireworks Night descriptive sentences or short poem to match the given picture. Please feel free to colour and decorate this activity sheet.
Numeracy – Bonfire Night Code Breaking activity sheet
Numeracy – Share number bonds to 10 and the connection to number bonds to 20 with a homework helper. Can you challenge somebody at home to see who gets to the answer quickest?
Number bond examples:
2 + 8 = 10
12 + 8 = 20
4 + 6 = 10
4 + 16 = 20
Monday 28th October – Homework
Bug club allocated online.
Spelling Activity that has been issued.
Work on the following calculations:
- 24 + 67 =
- 65 + 26 =
- 135 + 153 =
- 253 + 344 =
(Use the partitioning, empty number line and rounding strategies we have been working on in class.)
Tuesday 22nd October – Homework
Bug club allocated online.
Select any page from your home mental maths booklet to work through, can you test somebody at home on their mental maths? Can you use the ideas from your selected page to make up some of your own mental maths questions for a friend or family member?
Monday 7th October – Homework
Bug Club allocated online.
Common word week. Please see the front of the homework jotter for ideas for learning and revising our common words for this week.
Children have been learning about partitioning numbers and adding them together. Today we looked at partitioning and subtracting. We also looked at trying to workout our calculations using ‘The Empty Number Line’ strategy. Here are 2 examples, try to work these out on the squared paper provided using the partitioning and empty number line methods we have been doing in class. Create some more challenging ones for revision. Feel free to make these calculations as bright and colourful as you would like.
52 + 37 =
Partition
Add the tens
Add the units
Add the two answers
98 – 52 =
Partition
Subtract the tens
Subtract the units
Add the two answers together
Monday 30th September – Homework
Bug club allocated online.
Mental maths page from mental maths home booklet. Children can select their own mental maths page to work on throughout the week.
We are working on ou, igh and y sounds this week for our spelling. These words will be completed in class as we are still working on our solo talks at home at the beginning of this week.
Revise solo presentations.
Weeks Commencing 16th and 23rd September (2 WEEK PROJECT)
*Bug club allocated online
The children will be asked to present a solo talk taking place the week commencing 30th September. They will be given a date of either 30th September or 1st/2nd October. This information will be communicated to you on Friday 27th September.
In order to prepare for this we are asking the children to do a mini project at home over the next 2 weeks.
Research an inspirational person who you look up to!
This can be a family member, famous person or someone else you know.
Prepare a solo talk using the following
- Display
- Photos
- PowerPoint
- Props (if you wish)
Be as creative as you wish.
Things to consider……
- Knowledge of the person
- Eye contact
- Clear, loud voice
- Able to answer questions
- Confidence when speaking
Week Commencing 9th September
- Creating ‘oi’ words
- Bug Club – online tasks
- Numeracy – 3D objects at home: Children should identify at least 5 every day objects at home, recording these in their jotter and relating them to their shape name.
