Class Update

We’ve had another very busy week filled with lots of exciting Christmas activities and learning.

Here is what we have been up to in our last week before the Christmas holidays:

The highlight of our week was of course our Christmas party on Tuesday afternoon. We played lots of party games, did some fantastic Ceilidh dancing and had lots of fun:

We had a fun Christmas Bingo afternoon with the whole school on Thursday afternoon. Our buddies helped us to find the big numbers on our bingo cards and we had a few good Christmas dancing sessions in between rounds.

We did also do some work in our class week. We continued learning about 2D and 3D shapes in maths this week. We practised writing sentences and wrote our Christmas cards which we made using paint for snow and chalk for our trees. We had lots of fun with our Christmas themed play activities this week.

This morning we enjoyed Christmas activities organised by our P6/7 buddies. We had a great time with them.

Finally I would like to say a big thank you for your generous Christmas presents, I feel very spoiled. I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Class Update

We have had a really busy week with practising for our nativity. Thank you for practising the lines at home, everyone is doing a fantastic job!

We had a great time at the pantomime on Thursday afternoon. We loved the singing and dancing and really enjoyed the ice cream, too.

Despite all the practices and Christmas fun, we still had time to enjoy our learning activities and play. Primary 1s have now started to add within 5 using pictures, concrete materials and our fingers. Primary 2s have almost completed their subtraction topic. We have learned two new sounds this week, f and o, and will consolidate these further next week. We have also managed to do some reading and will be completing books next week in time for Christmas.

No Homework

Please note that I will issue no further homework in the run up to Christmas.
Instead, could you please practise nativity lines with your child? We will still continue to do our reading and comprehension practice until closer to the holidays but there will be no more spelling or maths homework.

Primary 1s will continue to learn new sounds; this week we will look at f and o. It would be helpful if you could continue to reinforce sounds and letters at home. You could challenge your child to find objects around the house that start with the sound, or ask them to identify the beginning sound of words. You can also play ‘I spy’ or challenge your child to write the corresponding letter when giving them a sound.

I hope you have a lovely and magical time this December.

Homework for Monday 2nd December

Primary 1

Literacy

We learned the sounds <g> and <l> last week. I have added these letters to our homework folders. Please practise all of your sounds. You can put the sounds out, point to a letter and say the sound or your helper can say a sound and you need to find the letter. Can you find things around the house starting with your new sounds g and l?

Please practise your word list words. Practise to reading and writing them using your magnetic letters. I have also added some common words, some of which have got tricky parts that we can’t sound out. Please practise reading these, too.

Maths

We are exploring shape, colour and number patterns during our play activities just now. To practise more at home, you could play Shape Patterns. Start with Level 1 and make it harder if you think you can manage it.

Primary 2

Literacy

This week we are looking at 2 phonemes: <ll> and <ff>.

Please choose an activity from your Bingo sheet to practise your spelling words. I have also passed home our spell check jotters so that your mums and dads can have a look at all your wonderful work. Please return the jotter by Friday.

Numeracy

We are continuing to work on our subtraction strategies, going all the way to 20 this week. You can practise this by playing Minus Mission. You need to be quick in this game!

 

 

 

Class Update

This week we celebrated Book Week Scotland with lots of activities around reading and books.

On Monday we spent some time with our friends from P5/6 who read story books to us. We had a great time and really enjoyed hearing a story read to us by someone other than Mrs Kane! We also started to illustrate our own book, watched an authors live interview and did a book swap!

Our activities this week supported our learning in maths (addition and subtraction) and literacy (writing and sequencing instructions). We also followed instructions by using cubes to build pictures and practised fine motor skills. Everyone enjoyed our free choice writing activities as always.

The weather was awful on Friday so we had to stay inside and do our buddy activities in the classroom. We still had a great time!

 

Homework for Monday 25th November

Primary 1

Literacy

Please use the word list in your blue jotter to practise reading the words. Use your magnetic letters to lay out the words, then practise writing them. Remember to say the word, break it down into sounds, write it, check the sounds and pull the sounds together to read it.

Maths

We are starting to look at addition this week. For extra practice, you could play Addition to 10. This is a great game because you can use the pictures to help you add the numbers together. 

You could also ask a helper to give you a simple addition sum within 10 and use coins, pasta shapes, buttons etc to lay out the numbers and count them together.

Primary 2

Literacy

Our phoneme this week is <ss>. Practise the words below with one of the activities on your Bingo sheet. 

Maths

We are continuing to practise subtracting within 20. We have been looking at bridging 10 and some of us have been finding this quite tricky. You could practise at home: ask a helper to give you a take-away sum that bridges 10, e.g. 13 – 6. Use counters or similar objects to lay out a 10 and a 3, then brush away the 3 and count back from there … 3, 4, 5, 6. Count how many counters you have left over. 

We are also learning about the language of subtraction (and revising addition). You can play Helicopter Rescue to practise. Choose “Count on and back”, “Across the 10s” and “1-20”.

Class Update

We have had a very exciting week with celebrating Remembrance Day and Pudsey Day.

We did lots of poppy activities on Monday and learned all about why we were a poppy on Remembrance Day.

On Pudsey Day we did activities with the P6/7s. Our buddies helped us to practise skills like cutting, glueing, colouring, painting, turn taking and listening to instructions. We all had a great time!

In PE we continued working on our throwing and catching skills this week. We also practised dribbling and bouncing a ball. We learned to work with a partner and to play cooperatively.

In maths, P1s were learning how to compare numbers to 10. We looked at different words to compare numbers like less and more than, fewer than, smaller and bigger than etc. At the end of the week we looked at colour and shape patterns. Primary 2s learned how to subtract bridging 10. We learned some tricks to make subtraction a bit easier and will keep practising these.

In Literacy we are now looking at writing instructions. Primary 1s started by sequencing instruction pictures. Primary 2s learned about time connectives and used these to write a simple set of instructions.

We practised our literacy and maths skills in different activities throughout the week.

We have created some lovely art over the last few weeks including fireworks pictures when we learned about Diwali with Mrs Cunningham and pumpkin pictures for Halloween. We did marble painting to make the background. We have also made some lovely Christmas ornaments.

Homework for Monday 18th November

Primary 1

We are starting to practise reading and writing words for our spell checks which we will be doing every Monday. Please check the list in the word lists jotters. Practise reading each word. Then lay out the word with the magnetic letters and write it on the line. Try writing a sentence, too.
Please return homework packs on Mondays so that I can update the word lists and magnetic letters.

Primary 2 

This week we are looking at <y> at the end of a word. Please practise your words with one of the activities on your Bingo sheet. Remember to bring your Bingo sheet to school when you have done all of the activities.

 

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