Primary 2

Literacy – word walls,  reading and phonics

Phonics

Our sound this week is ai  (as in mail, train)

• Watch this ai video
• Write 5 ai words in your jotter – use a different colour when writing the ai sound – train

Reading

No reading books home this week.  Choose books to read for enjoyments at home.  Tell me in a few sentences about a book you have read.

Word Walls

Everyone should have a word wall home with them this week.  Explore the words – how many of them can you read? Choose 3 of the words, can you find them in books/magazines around the house?

Maths

Maths Worksheet – given on the 7^th

Active Learn – More games have been added continue to explore.

IDL –Healthy Eating

• Look at the Eatwell guide and talk to your child about the different foods it suggests you eat.
• Tell your child what your favourite meal would consist of and why.
• Encourage your child to independently create a healthy snack for someone to eat.

Primary 3

Literacy – word walls, reading and phonics

Phonics

Our sound this week is ey  (as in monkey, donkey)

• Watch this ey video
• Write 5 ey words in your jotter – use a different colour when writing the ey sound – monkey

Reading

No reading books home this week.  Choose books to read for enjoyment at home.  Tell me in a few sentences about a book you have read.

Word Walls

Everyone should have a word wall home with them this week.  Explore the words – how many of them can you read? Choose 3 of the words, can you find them in books/magazines around the house?

Maths

Maths Worksheet – given on the 7^th

Active Learn – More games have been added continue to explore.

IDL –Healthy Eating

• Look at the Eatwell guide and talk to your child about the different foods it suggests you eat.
• Tell your child what your favourite meal would consist of and why.
• Encourage your child to independently create a healthy snack for someone to eat.

Look at how much fun we have had over the last couple of weeks……

Sorry we were having so much fun this afternoon that we forgot to give out the homework jotters.  Just have some Halloween fun tonight 🙂

Primary 2

Literacy – Reading and story openers

Reading 

• Read your book every night
• Go on a letter hunt –  Draw a table like the one below.  How many 2, 3 and 4 letter words can you find?

Writing

During story writing we have been learning about using a variety of sentence openers.

Write some sentences choosing different openers at the beginning of each sentence.

Maths – using a number square

Number

Explore number pattern using this number square 

e.g

•   numbers that contain a 3
• tens digit that is a five
• units digit that is a 7
• what happens every time you add on 10

Continue to explore the games on active learn.

IDL

This week we will be looking at ways to stay safe on Bonfire night.

• Look at the Firework code using this website  and take the firework safety quiz.
• Write down 2 or 3 safety instructions people should follow on Bonfire night.

Primary 3

Reading 

• Read your book every night
• Create a table as shown below.  Write & draw what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Writing

During story writing we have been learning about using a variety of sentence openers.

Write some sentences choosing different openers at the beginning of each sentence.

Maths – number order and numbers between

Put the following in number order from smallest to largest;

1.  123        96          51         12        120
2.   157       25        130        77        160
3.    258        259      27       9          126
4.    3         82       75       77       98      15

Write a number between;

1.  40 – 60
2.  57 – 87
3.   46 -40
4. 307 – 330
5. 201-256
6. 100 – 110IDL

   This week we will be looking at ways to stay safe on Bonfire night.

   • Look at the Firework code using this website  and take the firework safety quiz.
   • Write down 2 or 3 safety instructions people should follow on Bonfire night.

Today we had a visit from the SSPCA.  They told us all about the fantastic work they do with animals.

Yesterday we had lots of fun in the new look Learning Zone.

Primary 2

Literacy

Spelling words  –  this     that   them  then

 Write each word 3 times- fancy writing/bubble writing

(LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK).

Reading 

• Read book every night
• Are there any words you find really tricky?  Write them down in your jotter.
• Write 3 sentences in your jotter telling me  what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Phonics

Our sound this week is ay 

• Watch this ay video
• Can you find any ay words in newspapers, magazines?  Cut them out and stick them in your jotter.

Maths

• Adding –  Revise the story of 10 – write down all adding sums that make 10.
• Active Learn – www.activelearnprimary.co.uk- Every child has been given their login details for Active Learn.  Explore this site and have a go at some of the maths games on your account.

IDL

Design an energy mascot  competition – to be completed by the 26.10.17

Primary 3

Literacy

Spelling words  –  went         from      just      help

• Write each word 3 times – fancy writing/bubble writing(LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK).

Reading 

• Read book every night
• Are there any words you find really tricky?  Write them down in your jotter.
• Write a few sentences summarising  the story.

Phonics

Our revision sound this week is oy

• Watch this oy video
• Can you find any oy words in newspapers, magazines, books?  Write down any oy words that you have found.

Maths

• Adding –  Revise the story of 20 – write down all adding sums that make 20.
• Active Learn – www.activelearnprimary.co.uk- Every child has been given their login details for Active Learn.  Explore this site and have a go at some of the maths games on your account.

IDL

Design an energy mascot  competition – to be completed by the 26.10.17

No homework jotters are required for the following homework tasks and you can choose which tasks to complete.

• Road Safety competition – due in Monday 23rd October.  Design a leaflet with information to keep us safe.

Try to  link it  to :

– speeding, driver slowing down

-crossing roads safely

– walking to and from school safely

– adults using the car park and roads safely

• Active maths – Have a go at some of the following maths games

Game 1              Game 2                   Game 3               Game 4           Game 5

• Reading for Enjoyment

– Continue to choose books and read for enjoyment.  Talk about the following questions with someone at home

1. Who are the main characters in the book?
2. Where does the story take place?
3. What parts of the book do you like/dislike? Why?

• Outdoors – Get outside and take part in some active fun – go for a walk/bike ride, play a game with your friends, go on a scavenger hunt.

• Halloween – Design your own Halloween costume, what will you dress up as this year?  With an adult at home, get cooking some tasty Halloween treats .

Most importantly have some fun over the holidays!!!!

We have been so busy over the last few weeks! Take a look at what we have been up to –

Primary 2

Literacy Focus – reading and nouns

• Watch video on nouns
• Noun hunt – Use your reading book, books at home or magazines to find as many nouns as you can. Write some of the nouns you found in your jotter.
• Reading – reading books are to be read each night and brought to school each day. With an adult at home, talk about some of the following questions;

1. Who are the main characters in the story?
2. Where is the story set?
3. Which character did you like most? Why?
4. Did you like the ending? Why/why not?

• Continue to choose books at home to read for pleasure.

Maths Focus – odd and even numbers & place value

• Go on a number hunt around your house. Draw a table like this

Record all the numbers you have found, identifying whether they are odd or even.

• Place value – Place value  – explore this  place value game.  Focus on tens and units.

IDL  – road safety & space week

• Go on a walk around the local area with an adult. Draw/write about all of the different things you see that are there to keep us safe i.e. road signs, traffic lights, zebra crossings.
• Research a planet of the solar system – make a fact book about that planet ( not to be handed in until the 10th of Oct)

Primary 3

Literacy Focus – reading and nouns

• Watch video on nouns
• Write 3 sentences in your jotter – write the noun in a different colour.
• Reading – reading books are to be read each night and brought to school each day. With an adult at home, talk about some of the following questions;

1. Who are the main characters in the story?
2. Where is the story set?
3. Which character did you like most? Why?
4. Did you like the ending? Why/why not?

• Choose one of the questions above and write the answer in a sentence in your jotter.
• Continue to choose books at home to read for pleasure.

Maths focus – odd and even numbers & place value

• Go on a number hunt around your house. Draw a table like this

Record all the numbers you have found, identifying whether they are odd or even.

• Place value – explore this  place value game.    Focus on tens and units and hundreds, tens and units.

IDL  – Road Safety & Space Week (4th -10th)

• Go on a walk around the local area with an adult. Draw/write about all of the different things you see that are there to keep us safe i.e. road signs, traffic lights, zebra crossings.
• Research a planet of the solar system – make a fact book about that planet ( not to be handed in until the 10th of Oct)

Homework will carry on over 2 weeks due to the holiday weekend

Primary 2

Maths Focus – Counting in tens, writing numbers to 10 in words, ordering numbers

• Ask children to write a sequence of about 8–10 numbers on a strip of paper. These could be numbers of any size (choose numbers appropriate to their level of understanding and then try to challenge with larger numbers). Children then cut the strip into pieces and muddle them up. Children could time how long it takes them to put the numbers back in order. Numbers could be stuck or copied into homework jotter.
• Practise counting in 10’s – chant using different voices
• Writing numbers to 10 in words.  Use this video to help you.

Literacy

• Revise sounds ee and oo – watch phonics videos 
• Can you spot either of the sounds hiding in words in your favourite book?
• Can you write out words with these sounds using a different colour for the sound?

Spelling words

put     back    of    off     but     can    get    got   up    to  

Revise the words

• Rainbow write the words using as many different colours as you can.
• Choose two of the words to write in sentences.

Reading

• Continue to choose books at home and read for enjoyment.

IDL

Autumn – Have an Autumn nature hunt.

Can you find these Autumn treasures?

1. A fallen twig with moss/ lichen on it
2. A prickly sweet chestnut shell
3. Hazlenuts
4. Star shaped leaves
5. Cones
6. Acorns
7. Conkers
8. Evergreen leaves
9. Winged Seeds
10. Different coloured Autumn leaves

Record in your homework jotter what you found by writing or drawing.

Primary 3

Maths –  ordering numbers, tens and units and writing numbers to 20 in words.

• Ask children to write a sequence of about 8–10 numbers on a strip of paper. These could be numbers of any size (choose numbers appropriate to their level of understanding and then try to challenge with larger numbers). Children then cut the strip into pieces and muddle them up. Children could time how long it takes them to put the numbers back in order. Numbers could be stuck or copied into homework jotter.
• Draw a tens and units table in your jotter and choose 8 two digit numbers to partition into tens and units

• Write numbers to 20 in words in your jotter.  Use this video to help you.

Literacy – Phonics , Spelling revision & reading for enjoyment

Sounds revision  – Sounds y (as in cry)  igh (as in sigh)

• Watch the sounds video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BCyvxdzWxE
• Can you spot each sound hiding in words in your favourite book?
• Can you write out words with these sounds using a different colour for the sound?

Spelling words

too     they    there    look    her   all   down   you    my    are   was

Revise the words

• Rainbow write the words using as many different colours as you can.
• Write a silly story, how many of the words can you use in your story. 

  Reading

  • Continue to choose books at home and read for enjoyment.

IDL

Autumn – Have an Autumn nature hunt.

Can you find these Autumn treasures?

1. A fallen twig with moss/ lichen on it
2. A prickly sweet chestnut shell
3. Hazlenuts
4. Star shaped leaves
5. Cones
6. Acorns
7. Conkers
8. Evergreen leaves
9. Winged Seeds
10. Different coloured Autumn leaves

Record in your homework jotter what you found by writing or drawing.