During our Autumn topic learning next week we are hoping to do some art with leaves. Would it be possible for the children to bring in 2 leaves that they have collected from outside? Any size, shapes or colours are welcome – in fact the more variety we have the more interesting our display will become.
Thanks Mrs MacNee
As part of Health and Wellbeing, our class will soon be looking at the world of work and discussing some of the occupations we might like to do when we are older.
It would be lovely if the children could hear from you about this. If anyone is willing could you record a short video or voice clip of yourself talking about your job? Between 2 and 5 minutes would be ideal covering:
If you would like to take part in this, could you please send any videos or voice clips to eamhairi.macnee@glow.sch.uk. If anyone is wanting to take part but having technical issues, let me know and I will find an alternative way of doing it.
Thank you in advance. The children will have great fun watching you on our big board.
Mrs MacNee
Good afternoon everyone. It is almost hard to believe it is November already. Our class had a wonderful time celebrating Halloween on Friday with lots of games and activities to take part in. The children looked fantastic in their costumes!
Thank you to everyone who returned their posters to school last week. A number of the school’s efforts have been displayed in Morrison’s supermarket.
Reading homework
In change to our prior routine, reading books will be issued on a Monday. I hope this will work well for your schedules. Our reading homework for this week is:
Book Bandits – Oceans
Page Pirates – Butterflies
Word Wizards – The Fox Twins
Sound stars – please check your child’s bag for homework
If anyone has issues accessing bug club at home please let me know and I will send home paper copies of books where I can and provide your child the opportunity to complete the bugs within the books in class.
Spelling homework
This week our class is learning the sounds ow (as in snow). Below you will find a new grid from which your child can choose activities to practice this sound. I will provide the same spelling grid for the whole of this month along with the spelling words and common words for them to practice this week. Many of these activities can be done using the magnetic boards the children were given last year. If you would to provide your child with further challenge, ask them to make other words they can think of using the ow sound.
Last week, I gave some children home flashcards with phonemes we have previously learned and words that they may be having difficulty with reading or spelling. It would be beneficial to the children who have these to practise these with a grown up as often as they can.
Numeracy homework
This week, East Ayrshire schools are taking part in a Sumdog challenge. The class have their log in details in the front of their diaries. There are prizes available for winning classes. I will mention it to the children at school.
In class we are working on addition to 20. We are spending some time this week looking at the different ways we can make the 11, 12, 13 and 14 using two numbers. To support your child to develop this skill, you may wish to ask them to bring you a number of objects (small toys work well for this) and then ask them to show you different ways they can split them into two groups while maintaining the same total number (e.g. if they have a group of 10 and a group of 1 they would have 11, similarly if they have a group of 2 and a group of 9 they would still have 11). I hope that makes sense!
The children can get some more practise using top marks on the link below.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Thank you for your continued support of our class. We have achieved some great learning so far and have lots more to come.
Mrs MacNee
Good afternoon everyone, happy Monday to you all.
This week is the beginning of our Snapshot fortnight so the children will be completing their work in their new snapshot jotter which will come home to you at the end of next week.
I would like to remind everyone that in line with the current covid guidelines, we are required to keep the school well ventilated at all times. At this time of year this can mean that our class is a little cold therefore jumpers and cardigans would be very useful to save the children having to wear their jacket in the class.
Every Monday, our class has time in the outdoor classroom. As the weather begins to deteriorate, could I suggest that those that can, bring either wellies or old shoes with them on a Monday to save getting school shoes muddy.
For homework this week, the children have their poster to complete for Wednesday. Some of these have been returned already and are looking great. I have heard that some will be displayed in local supermarkets!
I have given the children their new number practice jotter home today for them to complete number one’s. Please ask the children to take their time when completing these as completing these will benefit their overall skills with a pencil. Could I please ask that these are returned to class by Friday.
Reading homework will be distributed tomorrow to be completed on bug club by Friday. Books for this week will be:
Book Bandits – The Mermaids and the Dolphin
Page Pirates – Senses
Word Wizards – Eco Apes Use Rubbish
Sound Stars – no book this week, we are going to try something new
These books have been allocated on Bug club but can I ask that the children do not complete them until after tomorrow when we will have gone over them in class.
Additionally, if any child has not completed last weeks bug club book could I ask for this to be done as soon as possible to prevent them from falling behind their group.
As always if anyone has any concerns or things they wish to discuss with myself or Mrs Smith please contact use through the school office or see us at the door at 3pm.
Thank you
Mrs MacNee
In your child’s bag tonight you will find a sheet for them to make a poster of one thing that we could change to help save the earth. This was added to homework for this week unexpectedly, however it is not due to be returned until next Wednesday 27th October. Therefore, I decided not to distribute the numeracy homework this week to allow more time for the children to work on their posters.
Sorry for any confusion
Mrs MacNee
Welcome back everyone. Hopefully you have been able to enjoy some time together over the October holidays. I have heard today about all the adventures the class have been having over the holidays. We decided at pyjama day sounded just as much fun as a trip to a safari park!
For homework this week, as usual the class have a book to complete on bug club.
Book bandits – I Like to Collect
Page Pirates – Bug Boy Beetle Cookies
Word Wizards – See Like Me
Sound Stars – Tin Man Tim
The children all have a sheet in their bags tonight on which they have written their spelling words for this week. On the back of this sheet they are to practise their spelling words in whatever way they would like (e.g. rainbow writing, bubble writing). When we spoke about it in class today they had a lot of ideas so I am looking forward to seeing what they produce.
Numeracy homework will come home tomorrow in a jotter. For the next few weeks I would like the class to focus on their number formation. Everyone in the class has room to improve with this skill and it will help our work going forward if we tackle this now. This week they will simply have to write the number one.
As always, if there are any issues or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me either via the yellow diaries or by seeing me at the school door. Alternatively you can call the school office who will pass along any information.
Thank you
Mrs MacNee
Our homework this will be slightly different than on previous weeks. The children will have an I spy sheet where they are took look around their home, or wherever suits, to find things containing the phonemes that we have worked on since the start of term. Please encourage them to use their knowledge of their phonics to spell the words that they write.
For numeracy this week I would like the children to search around their home for places that they find numbers. I have given them a sheet to fill in and have asked for 5 different things, although I am sure many of the children will find a great deal more than this!
We will go over our new reading books in class tomorrow ready for the children to complete thereafter. Books for this week will be:
Book Bandits – My Holiday
Page Pirates – Zip and Zap and the Thing
Word Wizards – The Quiz went Fizz
Sound Stars – Tin Man Tim
Also, just a wee reminder that we are off school next week with the children returning on Tuesday 19th October.
Mrs MacNee
Good afternoon everyone, hopefully you have had an enjoyable weekend.
Phonics homework this week will follow a similar theme to before where the children can choose activities from the attached list. In class this week we are going over what we have done so far in primary 2 so there are a number of different phonemes being used in their words. If you are looking to extend their learning any, I would suggest asking them to write words they can think of using the sounds oy, qu, ck, sh, ch, ng, th, wh, ph, oa, ai, ee, oo or even spotting them in their environment. Please do not feel you need to send this work in to me. If your child would like to show what they have been doing I will happily look over it with them but until I issue homework jotters there is no requirement for this.
Reading homework has been allocated on Bug Club. This will not be gone over in class until tomorrow (Tuesday) so if I could ask that the children do not complete it until then. There have been a few changes within the reading groups with some children showing that they were ready to move up levels. 3 children have changed reading group – if this affects your child I have written it in their yellow diary today.
This weeks books are:
Book Bandits – Zip and Zap at the Zoo
Page Pirates – Draw with Penny
Word Wizards – King Pip and the Wish
Sound Stars – Cookies
I have also allocated children books that they have not had the opportunity to access yet for them to read at their leisure. This may be useful to form part of a nightly reading routine.
Numeracy homework will be distributed tomorrow and will take the form of a worksheet that your child can complete and return to me on Friday this week.
As always, if you have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me via the yellow diaries or by seeing me at the door at 3pm.
Mrs MacNee
Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a restful September weekend. Our class was back and busy as always today, I don’t think we stopped all day so you may have some tired children tonight.
Homework this week will be a little different to allow our class the opportunity to reorganise our reading groups. In class we have been working on writing sentences which fits in with the whole school focus on writing. Today we were concentrating on writing sentences that make sense and that is the homework they will have for this week. On Bug Club, I have assigned all of the class a game called Making Sentences. I have also assigned the Book Bandits a game called Putting Sentences Together.
If anyone has any issue accessing Bug Club at home please let me know and I will support your child with this in school.
Mrs MacNee
Good afternoon everyone.
I hope you had a nice weekend. With the September weekend coming up we are only in class for four days this week and four days next week.
Our homework for this week will be spelling and reading. I will begin to distribute numeracy homework after the holiday weekend.
In our literacy this week we are revising four phonemes – wh, ph, ee and oo. Below you will find the homework words and the homework grid. Could the class please complete 2 or 3 activities from the grid to aid them with their revision.
Reading books are currently distributed in class on a Tuesday. Books for this week will be:
Book Bandits: Senses
Page Pirates: Rat and Cat, Let’s Jump
Word Wizards: Timmy wants to win
Sound Stars: Hop, Swim and Run
As always if anyone wishes to contact me regarding anything please do sot through your the class diaries which will be in bags most nights, seeing me at the door at 3pm or by contacting the school office.
Thanks
Mrs MacNee
