This week we are looking at the sounds <or> and <ur>.
Here are our spelling words:
Please choose one or more spelling activities from the menu below to practise your words:
Please also check Boost Learning for this week’s reading practice.
P1 Literacy Home Practice
This week we are learning two new sounds: <e> and <u>.
You can do the following activities with your child at home if you wish:
- Spot letters Ee and Uu on signs and advertisements on your next drive or shopping trip.
- Draw big “bubble letters” of E, e, and U, u and ask your child to trace them with different patterns.
- Think of things that begin with e or u and draw them. You can make a poster if you want.
- Practice letter formation of e and u.
You can also play this game to improve phonetic awareness. Choose the initial sounds for an easier game, the last sound for a medium challenge and the middle sound for a harder challenge.
Please also check Boost Learning for this week’s reading books.
Outdoor Education on Wednesday 19th November
We will be doing some gardening in our school garden and some work in our outdoor classroom on Wednesday 19th November.
Could you please provide your child with a bag with old clothes or outdoor clothes and appropriate footwear? We will be spending time in our pitch and the garden itself – the ground is likely to be muddy and wet.
Thank you!
Class Update
It has been an exciting week for us! Our classroom has been painted and we moved back into it this morning, just in time for Pudsey day.
We spent most of the week in the play area, a little treat for us. Here is what we have been up to:
We are learning about people who help us with Miss Smith. We have been learning all about what police officers do and how we can contact emergency Services.
In maths, we have been looking at comparing weight, using vocabulary like lighter / heavier and lightest / heaviest. We used cubes to measure how many cubes different toys weigh.
We had our first achievement assembly this week and celebrated everything that we have achieved in school and at home. Well done to everyone!
We had a great time doing some Pudsey activities today. We decorated our own Pudsey, did a Pudsey workout and listened to a Pudsey story. The best Pudsey even won a prize and we had the runner-up for the lower classes in our class – well done Mia!
We have been learning all about hedgehogs this week. Next week, we are planning to go into the garden to do some planting and we would like to build a hedgehog hibernation box with help from Maidsafe, too. The children have been fantastic at learning hedgehog facts and we painted, drew and made our own hedgehogs, too. We really improved our cutting skills as making our hedgehogs was quite a challenging job.
Primary 1s created their first description story last week and continued practising their writing this week. Primary 2s are also working on writing descriptions. When we were not working hard on writing and maths, we developed our skills doing different activities around the play area.
P2 Literacy Home Practice
This week we are looking at the /ar/ sound. Here are our spelling words for this week:
Please choose one or more of our spelling activities from the spelling menu below.
Please continue to practise the words in your word tubs. Please return the word tubs on Wednesdays for a refresh.
P1 Literacy Home Activities
This week we are continuing to review our sounds so far with a focus on letter formation.
Please practise writing our letters using the tracing sheet and whiteboard pen. As an extra challenge, you could ask your child to write a letter on a white or lined sheet of paper, e.g. “Can you write the letter /m/?” This will practise letter recognition and letter formation.
Please continue to practise our I can Blend words in your child’s word tub. Please return tubs on a Wednesday to receive the new weekly words.
Classroom Renovation and PE changes
This week we will be working in our play area full time as our classroom walls are getting painted.
The classroom is all ready for this much needed refreshment and we will be able to return to it next week.
There has also been a change in our PE timetable. Children currently have Miss Smith as their teacher on a Tuesday whilst I work with small groups to support learning as well as taking on additional duties around the school. This is only temporary. However, Miss Smith will now do PE with the children on a Tuesday morning.
Our PE days are therefore on Mondays and Tuesdays for the time being. As we approach Christmas, children will also practise social dancing with P3/4 at the end of the week but they will not need to get changed into their PE clothes for this.
I will keep you updated on our classroom renovation and our progress this week. I’m aware that I have not given an update about last week and will do so as soon as I can.
Have a lovely week!
P2 Home Practice
We are continuing to practise our common exception words from last week as I find that some of us are still struggling to read and write these.
Please continue to work on these words, choosing at least one of the activities below. You can also continue playing the games I gave you last week.
P1 Literacy Home Practice
This week we are continuing to look at our /k/ phoneme, exploring <ck> in particular. We will also review all sounds we have learned so far.
Please continue to use the game cards I have passed home last week to practise all of the sounds we have learned so far at home.
I have also given your child a “I spy” sheet to find things with <ck>. Can your child highlight or colour the <ck> grapheme in each word and then count how many of each item they can find? Write the number of items in the box next to the word and picture. This is also a great opportunity to develop pencil grip and fine motor skills by asking your child to colour the items neatly. This activity does not have to be completed but is available for you to work on if you wish to.
Halloween week update
This week we were having lots of Halloween fun but we have also been working hard.
Primary 1s practised their /k/ sounds and Primary 2s wrote lots of tricky words. We have also practised sentence writing, even Primary 1s! We looked at numbers to 20 and sequenced them, as well as adding numbers within 10. P2s looked at tens and ones in numbers. In art we used sponges to make scary monsters.
We have had lots of fun in our play area this week with some additional Halloween costumes for our dress up corner. We did lots of Halloween themed learning activities too!
This week we did one of our PE lesson outside and we had a choice of activities which we really enjoyed.
On Friday, we started the day with a costume parade. We then did Halloween stations with our buddies. We did some work in our class after break and then we had an amazing Halloween party in the afternoon. It was great fun!
