We have had a brilliant day at Valentin’s Farm today. We met all of the different birds and fed them. We petted a big and met Tom the horse and Vinny the calf, too. After lunch we learned about how cows are milked and we finally listened to a little story! We even practised milking a cow (not a real one!) It was a fantastic day!
We are having a couple of very busy weeks at school a trip, our parents night and an Easter service. We will therefore not have any spelling or maths homework before the Easter holidays. I will still update and send home your child’s reading book for further practice.
Primary 1
We are continuing to practise all of our letter sounds this week. Please practise using the materials given to you last week. You can also play Balloon Phonics to practise your sounds.
We are still learning all about subtraction but have also started to look at money and coins. Here are two games you can play to practise your skills:
Helicopter Rescue – Count on and Back within the 10 (1-10)
Primary 2
There will be no new spelling words this week. You can review all of our magic e words for some extra practice at home.
We are also looking at money at the moment. We are practising to make different amounts using coins. You can practise by playing Toy Shop Money Game.
There has been a slight change to our P.E. timetable. Our Monday P.E. slot has now changed to Tuesday. Our Thursday P.E. slot is still the same.
Primary 1
We have now completed learning all of the sounds of the alphabet. We are now reviewing all sounds and practising to write words and sentences. Please do the following activities at home:
2. Play a matching pairs game with our alphabet cards. You could first match all of the cards with the animal by looking at the beginning sound, e.g. elephant is matched with <e>. Then you can choose 6 to 10 pairs and play matching pairs with a partner.
We are continuing to practise taking away. You can play Robot More or Less. Choose “Less Than”, “Numbers to 10” and choose a number to take away.
Primary 2
We are looking at the last of our magic e phonemes this week: <e_e>. Our word list also includes a few commonly misspelled words to practise this week.
This week we are looking at measuring lengths of items. A good game to practise using and reading a ruler is Measuring in Cm. Level 1 measures to full cm, level 2 measures to 0.5cm.
Here is what we have been up to over the last 2 weeks:
We have been making good use of our new play area. The sand table and our painting aisle have been our favourites so far. We also love our dress up clothes!
We have been working hard in all areas of the curriculum. We have been looking at where our food comes from in topic, practised our spelling and words and honed our gymnastics skills in PE.
We have been enjoying our mental health week this week with some special gym activities, story time at the hub and a special film showing.
On Thursday we did special world book day activities in the afternoon. All the kids looked amazing in their costumes, too!
Primary 1
This week we are taking a closer look at <qu> and we are revising <x>. Please practise your words for our spell check next week.
We have started to explore the concept of subtraction this week. You can practise some subtraction by playing this subtraction to 10 game.
Primary 2
This week we are looking at another magic e phoneme: <a_e>. Please practise the following words:
P2s are currently revising 2D and 3D shapes. You could play Shifting Shapes to help with revision.
I’m so sorry for the late homework post. We have been practising our spelling words in class so this will hopefully not be too much of an issue.
Primary 1
We are revising our last group of letters this week and our word list reflects our work in class. Please practise writing and reading your words as usual.
In maths, we are looking at number facts for 10. I have given you an envelope with number and picture cards as well as an overview of games that you can play with the cards to memorise number facts for 10.
Primary 2
We are continuing to explore the ‘magic e’, this week we are looking at <o_e>. Here are our words:
In maths, we have been skip counting in 2s (to identify odd and even numbers), 3s, 4s and 5s. We are also looking at rounding numbers to the nearest 10. You could always practise this at home with your child. For rounding, we round down when a number ends in 1, 2, 3, and 4. We round up when a number ends in 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Primary 1
This week we are practising words that contain the letters y and z. We have been busy practising these sounds throughout last week and are now ready to use them in our CVC words.
In maths, we are looking at the story of 10 this week. It is very important that children know their number bonds of 10 and can recall them quickly. This will help their mental arithmetic in future years when we calculate with larger numbers. Quiz your child about the `”friendly numbers”, e.g. 6 and 4 or 2 and 8 etc.
Primary 2
This week we are looking at our first magic e phoneme. We are practising <i_e>.
Here are this week’s spelling words:
In maths, we are looking at ordering numbers to 100 from largest to smallest and vice versa. You can practise this by playing the caterpillar game.
It has been a busy few weeks in our P1/2 classroom. We have been busy learning new sounds, more difficult phonemes, lots of adding, working with numbers to 100 and learning about food and farming.
We really enjoyed performing our Scottish song and poem on our Burns day celebration. We loved the Irn Bru and shortbread, too. Thank you to everyone who came to see us.
We loved having mums, dads and family in to work with us and see all of our amazing work this week. We loved showing off our new play area, too. We continued our activities on Friday, too.
We spent Friday afternoon with our buddies and enjoyed the cold but sunny weather outside.
