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Please find above the spelling task for this week. Discuss the ‘th’ and ‘ng’ sound, then write the correct words under the pictures. Please complete and return for Friday 16th May.

This week we have been learning the ‘ph’ digraph. We have phoned a friend, designed trophies, built elephant houses and practised our formation.

We have also continued to investigate equal sharing. We drew circles and shared out dots to help us share quantities. We also investigated halves. We worked together as a group to make halving shape posters.

Just a reminder that it is Big Talk next week. Please send your child ready with their talk to present on the following days:

Monday – Miller, Reuben, Ifeanyi and Claye

Tuesday – Elliott, Mirryn, Riia and Coila

Wednesday – Jessica, Fifer and Charlie

Thursday – Allie, Lyanna and Brie

Friday – Ethan, Rosa and Lucia

We can’t wait to hear about all their favourite animals!

Our spelling homework this week is all about making CVC words.  Use the letters to follow the maze to make the word.  Then write the word correctly on the lines.  Please complete and return by Friday 9th May.

We continued our work on measure this week. We made long creatures, used balances to compare weights, made tall and short towers and used measuring bottles to find out how many cups could be filled with water.

This week we have been learning the ‘wh’ sound.  We have been learning how to form it correctly in our writing, building things with wheels and drawing animals with whiskers.

In numeracy, we finished our money topic and began learning about fractions.  This week we started investigating equal sharing.  We have also been revisiting our numbers before and after and our formation.

We have taken the opportunity to enjoy the lovely weather by playing outside.  We have been climbing, jumping, swinging and playing football.

The next class visit from the ECC was also this week.  We had great fun showing them how we play in Primary 1.

We have also had lots of fun hula hooping in class this week.  Jessica spent a lot of time practising and was very proud when she managed to keep it up! Well done!

Literacy Homework (Week 1 of 4)

Big Talk Homework

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 the class has chosen to talk about ‘My Favourite Animal’ to link in with our  Living Things topic. At home, your child should prepare and practise their talk.

Some ideas to include in their talk might be:

• Facts about their favourite animal eg. Where it lives, what it eats, is it a mammal.
• Why it is their favourite animal
• A picture/drawing of their favourite animal

The talk should be ready to be presented the week bg Monday 12th  May. More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.

We look forward to hearing about their animal!

What a busy first week back we have had.  In literacy, we have been learning the ‘ng’ sound.  We drew pictures showing ‘I am strong’, we played ‘ng’ games on the chromebooks, we built strong army bases and strong body suits, we did our ironing and hung clothes on hangers.

This week in maths, we have been learning how to calculate change.  We played a good game on the Chromebooks called Pay For It.  I have attached the link below if you would like to play it at home.

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/payForIt/index.html

We also had our first class visit from the ECC children. We all had great fun playing together.

We played at the cage outside the games hall this week.  It was great fun.

We began to talk about measure this week and focused on long and short.  We took our learning outside and had great fun drawing, creating and making long and short objects.

We were so excited that the Easter Bunny left some treats for us to find this afternoon. We had great fun trying to find our own and worked as a team to make sure everyone found theirs.

We also made a great job of decorating our eggs for the whole school competition.  Well done to Rosa who won in our class!

Happy Holidays everyone!!