The children had a busy week again this week. Look at some of the wonderful things we’ve been doing.

In Literacy this week have learned the sounds ‘d’ and ‘e’. Here are the Jolly phonics videos to match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHGPWFmMSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMUo6dxfUek

There are lots of words you could make with these sounds. Here are some to try making at home.

You can try making the words with your letter cards and even try writing them out on your whiteboards.

We are really looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday for our literacy morning. The children can’t wait to show off all the amazing work we have been doing with our sounds.

Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school ‘Big Talk Homework Challenge’.  This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.  The topic will change depending on the focus for that term.  This term we are learning all about Toys so the talk is called ‘My Favourite Toy’.  At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk all about their favourite toy.

Some ideas to include in their talk might be:

• What is their toy called?
• Who/where/when did they get their toy?
• Why is it special to them?
• What games do they like playing with their toy?
• Draw a picture of their toy to show during their talk

The talk should be ready to be presented the week bg 21st November.  More details will be given shortly about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.  They can bring any pictures or toy in from home on that day.

We look forward to hearing all about the toys!

Today the class were given the next Numeracy Homework task.  It is called Dice Bingo.  We played a game in class so everyone knows the rules and it was great fun! Task to be completed and returned by Monday  7th November.

We had some fun Hallowe’en themed activities in class today as Mrs Cook is going to miss all the real Hallowe’en fun on Monday.  We had some lovely spooky pasta shapes and playdough, some purple, green and orange rice for making our own potions.  At our writing table we had a station for making Hallowe’en cards and at our creation station we were making paper plate pumpkins.  We also made spooky castles with the big blocks.  Some of the children tried some Art for Kids Hub tutorials on the big board and followed the instructions to make their own fabulous spooky pictures.

We had a very exciting week for the last week of term one.  Our first in person assembly in years and the Primary Ones sat beautifully and sang all the songs so well. Mrs Ferguson and I were so proud.

On Wednesday afternoon we had our harvest hush-in and can you believe they all sat in silence for 30 minutes?!

In literacy this week we have been learning the sounds ‘p’ and ‘n’. We painted beautiful pictures with peppers, picked up pennies with the tweezers and built palaces for the ‘p’ sound and we nursed the teddies, made nests out of playdough, made nice necklaces and practised writing our name for the ‘n’ sound.  We also tried out the brand new keyboards and practised typing all of our sounds.

Here are the jolly phonics songs for this week’s sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4N3f-heFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ylStRZtas

In maths we have continues to work on numbers to 20 and have really focused on 11-20 this week.

It was so lovely to meet you all properly and have a real face-to-face chat at Parents’ night on Wednesday. We hope you all have a lovely October break and we’ll see the children again on Tuesday 25th October ready to begin Term 2.

Mrs Cook and Mrs Ferguson

Making 10

The Numeracy Homework this week is all about Making 10.  You will find this in the Scrapbook, in the Book Bags. Please remember to send Book Bag in everyday.

Please complete and return by Tuesday 25th October.

Thanks again,

Mrs Ferguson

I have sent home some letter cards with the children today.  They include the sounds we have learned so far (a,t,s & i).  Please practise these sounds as often as you can.  You can remove them from the treasury tag and use them to start making words as shown in the picture.  So far you can make words like; sat, sit, at, it, its and by next week you’ll have another two letters and will be able to make LOTS of words!

We need these sound cards to be kept in the book bags, so if your child didn’t bring theirs with them today then I haven’t given them out.  Please make sure you send them with the book bag EVERY day as we need to be able to add cards to the bags a couple of times a week.

This week we have focused on the ‘s’ and ‘i’ sounds. We have practised writing them and have even started making words with the sounds. Here are the songs to practise at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwupro4AVsY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xxne8DHvwA

In maths we have continued to focus on numbers to 20.  We have been looking at the numbers before and after with the Numicon

We have also had great fun playing with the large construction and have made some super models this week.

This afternoon we worked on making our fingers strong at the ‘Funky Fingers’ Stations.  We used scissors to be hairdressers and give our kitchen roll clients a haircut.  We also used pipe cleaners (and our imagination) to create dream catchers, monsters and wands!

We have been doing lots of fun maths activities this week. We are working on numbers to 10 and 20 so we have been ordering Numicon, making numbers with the Rekenreks and we challenged ourselves to make models using only 8 bricks as we were focusing on the number 8.

If you fancy doing any maths activities at home, you could focus on counting up to 20 and trying to identify the numbers up to 20.  The following link has some great games for counting and ordering practise.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

We started learning our sounds this week and we focused on “a” and “t”.  The children learned some rhymes to go with the sounds which can be sound by clicking on these links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4t5cUeZZo