Good morning,

Wind and rain – a horrible start to the weekend. Fingers crossed the sun returns. 🤞 We have been very busy in Primary1 this week.  We have been learning all about the sound ‘n’ and the capital letter ‘N’. We made Noah’s ark and Nessie the Loch Ness Monster.  At maths time we have been investigating odd and even using Numicon, which is now our favourite numbers resource.

In the afternoons we have been exploring the story Commotion in the Ocean and some of the sea life who live there. We decided to find out all about crabs. Did you know they like to wear Sea Anemone as pom poms on their Pincers?

Next week we will be revisiting the sounds s,a,t,p,i,n before we move on to our next set of sounds. We are also looking at the capital letter to match each sound.

During number time we will continue to look at odd and even numbers and will find out what tally marks are.

In the afternoons we will read the Story The Scarecrows Hat and will learn all about Scarecrows and helping each other.

HOMEWORK

I hope I managed to explain the new Homework to you  without confusing you further. It shouldn’t take long and the children have all week to do it. We know how busy the children can be at night with clubs etc so we try our best to keep the homework tasks short and meaningful.

1 Look at the inside page, Talk for Writing. Talk to your child about our focus for Storywriting. Next week we will be writing an Imaginative story about a trip to the woods. You do not have to write or draw anything- just talk.

2. The sound sheet can be coloured in . Use a pencil to write the sound under the picture. The words are just ideas for where the letter can be found. We are not writing or spelling these.

3. Choose 2 activities from the grid. Complete these on the same page as the sound. Descriptions for each activity are on the end page.

4. Find the sound on the Rocket Phonics Mat on thes econd page and talk about words beginning with the sound.

I hope this helps to make things clearer.

3 children have special jobs each week.

Well done this week to our amazing children-

Line Leader – Lily Anna

Class Helper – Olivia Q

Responsible Citizen – Emily.

New children will take over next week.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Cuthbertson x