Well we have made it to the last week of term! I have really enjoyed watching all of the progress the children have made across this term. Despite a few bumps in our road, the whole class have things to be proud of moving into the holidays.

Homework this week will be only reading and Sum Dog. As I type this at lunchtime, I am having technical issues with bug club and cannot allocate the children their books. When this is resolved, the books for this week will be:

Book Bandits – Super Gloop

Page Pirates – Slick Tricks

Word Wizards – Splash

Sound Stars – At the Fun Fair

If anyone is having issues with accessing bug club at home please let me know so that I can allow them the opportunity to complete it in school.

On Friday we will be having an Easter fun day. The children are allowed to come to school wearing their own clothes, maybe in spring colours if they can. Our class will finish at 2.25pm on Friday afternoon.

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter time with your families and look forward to seeing everyone again when we return on Tuesday 19th April.

Mrs MacNee

What a happy day we have had today. With many of us having succumbed to various illnesses recently it was lovely to see most of the class back and ready to learn. We were so busy today that we didn’t get outside to enjoy the weather but buy the look of the forecast we can save that for tomorrow.

Our new sound this week is o-e (rope). We have learned the sound today and will work on our common words tomorrow. I have attached words for practise and as always, I would encourage you to support your child to build other words with the same sound. This week I would like all of the class to work on the same sound at home.

In addition to the usual grid, I am posting a link to a game that may support the children with learning this split phoneme.

spelling grid

https://games.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/o-e/interactive/oespell/oespellt.htm

Our reading books for this week are:

Book Bandits – Amazing Trees

Page Pirates – Ballet

Word Wizards – Shaun the Sheep, You are my Mum!

Sound Stars – What is in my net?

Numeracy homework will be distributed tomorrow.

We are currently looking at dinosaurs as our topic. I know a lot of the class are very excited about this and some may wish to bring things in to show the class. I am happy for them to do this and will do my best to make time for them to show things on the day they bring it in. Unfortunately we don’t have anywhere in class to make a display of their items so I will encourage them to take them back home with them.

Mrs MacNee

For our phonics this week we are consolidating the last three sounds igh, y, and i-e. The children should use their lists from the last three weeks for practise and can be challenged to think of other words or find other words perhaps in a book or magazine.

Reading this week will be as follows:

Book bandits – Sea Snaps

Page Pirates – Jay and Sniffer, The Bike Race

Word Wizards – Senses

Sound Stars – Top Cat

Numeracy – we are taking part in the Sum Dog East Ayrshire competition this week. The more questions the children answer the higher our score will be. Everyone should have their log in details in their diary.

Mrs MacNee

From today until next Thursday there is a Sum Dog competition running between the East Ayrshire schools. This is to be the numeracy homework for next week but I thought some people might like to get started just now. Everyone should have their log-in details in the front of their diary.

Mrs MacNee

Thank you for all your help. We had a great afternoon making our models.

Could you please remember wellies for tomorrow please? I have plenty of waterproofs here we can use if it is raining.

Thank you. Mrs Smith

Our new sound this week is our first split phoneme i-e as in fine. We will be focussing a lot in class on the difference the e makes to the word. Some of the class have found this challenging today and may require a little extra support both here and at home. I have attached the words and a spelling grid. If your child is looking for a challenge, they can try to make word with this phoneme that are not on the lists. The sound stars will continue to work through the words they had from last week to allow these to embed fully.

spelling grid

Reading books for this week are

Book Bandits – Silly Jack and the Beanstalk

Page Pirates – Oceans

Word Wizards – Draw with Penny

Sound Stars – Animal Homes

Numeracy homework will be posted following tomorrows lesson.

Mrs MacNee

Just a last minute reminder about World Book Day tomorrow. All of the children are invited to wear either pyjamas or to dress up as a character from a book. They will take part in their sponsored read (sponsor forms have been sent home) and have other activities to do in class. The book fair also arrives at school tomorrow and our class is scheduled to visit it on Tuesday morning. All sponsor money and book payments will be completed via parent pay.

In class we have been learning about knights and castles. The class have decided they would like to make their own castles and armour. To help us do this could we ask you to bring in some clean junk from home? It would be ideal if this could be brought in on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week ready for us to spend Wednesday afternoon getting creative.

Mrs MacNee