Monday, 9th March

Please continue to use the song below to reinforce the difference between letter names and sounds.

Alphabet Phonics Song – YouTube  – Epic phonics

“Walk the Walls” our classroom phoneme song. This will be updated as new phonemes are taught. .

sh, th, ng, ch, wh, ph, ee, oo, ck, ai, oi, oa, ea, ‘y’ (as in ay), ss, ll, ff, ow, ‘ou’, ‘oi’, ‘igh’, ‘y’ (as in fly), ‘i-e’, ‘o-e’, ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’

Peaceful Garden Quote Competition📚🦉
We’re excited to invite children, parents/carers to take part in a special competition to help shape our schools Peaceful Garden Area, a quite calm space where imaginations can grow through the love of reading.
The winning quote will be designed and proudly displayed in the peaceful garden for everyone to enjoy.
Hand your inspirational quotes into Miss Sawyers, Mr Howie or Miss Ward by the 13th of March.
We are excited to receive your entries! Good Luck!

I have suspended the book of the week for the next couple of weeks as it’s STEM fortnight and we have lots of exciting learning to cover.

aynsley.sawyers@eastayrshire.org.

 

ANOTHER EXCITING EVENT TO LOOK FORWARD TO, PLEASE SEE THE LINK BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS!

Spring Starbooks Poster

 

Kindest regards,

Aynsley

 

 

Phoneme Strips

 

 

 This week’s phoneme is the split phoneme, ‘e-e’. It is really helpful if you encourage your child to practise their words at home as well as in school.

 

Common words – home, more, open, make, made, take, gave, said, because

 
Reading Book(s) Please read your child’s reading book as often as possible. 
Maths

 

PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO COUNT IN 2s and 5s. There are a couple of children still finding this tricky. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Paint the Squares – we are working on skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

WELL DONE GIRLS, YOU REALLY DESERVED YOUR REWARD TIME!

THE CHALLENGE CONTINUES – NEXT CHAMPIONS WILL BE REWARDED AFTER STEM FORTNIGHT. PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO PRACTISE THIS AT HOME, WE DO IT DAILY IN CLASS BUT A COUPLE OF CHILDREN STILL FIND THIS TRICKY!

  • Counting backwards in 2s from 100.
  • Number bonds to 10 OR 20

Topmarks – Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We practise this every day in class so please encourage your child to do this as their homework, GOOD LUCK BOYS AND GIRLS!

Topmarks – Hit the Button – this is the site the children are familiar with. They are also aware of how to practise this without going online.

 

OUR NUMBER BOND CHAMPIONS SO FAR ARE – 

Harriet then Isobel, well done girls!

Can someone beat the highest score?