Welcome back!
It sounds like everyone has had a relaxing and very exciting holiday. It was lovely to see everyone again yesterday and to hear all of the news.
Literacy
This week, Primary 1s are learning the <qu> phonic and Primary 2s are looking a bit more closely at <wh>, practising harder words than last year.
Please check your word jotters and do one or more activities from your activity list to practise your spelling words for our spell check next week. If you want, you can highlight your spelling sound in your word list to practise spotting the grapheme you are learning.
Maths
We are continuing to practise subtraction. Fact fluency is very helpful in subtraction (and addition) so I have given you a Roll and Race game to play at home this week.
Instructions – Each player needs a different colour of counters to mark their equations. You also need a die. Players take turns to roll the die and solve the first equation that corresponds to the number they have rolled (starting from the bottom). If they give the correct answer, they can put a counter on the equation marking it as theirs. If the answer is incorrect, they miss the turn. The game continues until a player solves the last equation in a column, making them the winner of the game.
In the example below, yellow is the winner of the game:
