What a great afternoon!  The whole school went to a concert in the gym hall to listen to the Greenfaulds High School Junior, Senior and Trad bands.  It was wonderful.  We really enjoyed “Happy”, “Uptown Funk” and “Skyfall”.  It was really funny when Mrs McMillan dressed up and danced on stage.

 

 

We learned about rio Olympic sports and put some into alphabetical order.  We also had a sun safety talk and they gave us a uv band which works like magic when the sun is strong.  We can be safer in the sun by wearing sunglasses, putting on suncream (at least factor 15), wearing a sunhat,  cover your shoulders and look for shade especially between 11-3pm.  Let’s hope we have more sunny days so we can enjoy playing in the sun safely.  We loved having our gym class outside in the lovely weather.

Homework from 9/5/16 until 20/5/16

Language

Phonemes

This week we will be learning the phonemes ou (shout) and ow (now)

and next week will be learning the oi (foil) and oy (joy)

Why not try to make sentences with as many words as you can?

Challenge – in your jotter, write sentences using your phoneme and spelling words.

Common words:

• Keep practising the words you have been learning to read and write sentences using them.
• Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

each        find           men           room           soon          these

bring       keep          know          there          their         every

time        took          under         school          wish          life

father   mother     Mr         Mrs        week      year

food      hand         round      tree     very     head

 

• Take the sight word challenge. How many words can you read confidently?

 

Reading

A new reading book will now usually be given each Wednesday. The days for reading are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so please make sure that pupils have their reading books in their bags so that they can complete reading activities.

• Try telling an adult the main points of the story in order.
• Challenge – draw a comic strip of the Beginning, Middle and End important points of the story.

Number

Mental maths

Continue to practise mental maths skills by using this site and use different games to develop skills

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/games/park_the_pods/big_sound/full.shtml

 

Maths – Time

This term we will be learning about different aspects of time – we are now moving on to identifying the time in hours and half hours on analogue and 12 hour digital clocks.

Time at home- Find some different places at home that show dates (e.g. TV guides, computer, mobile phone, computer etc.) and record these in your jotter by writing and drawing pictures. Challenge -why do the publications or time pieces show the date?

How long does it take? – Children think of things they do at home which they estimate will take about a second, a minute or an hour. Make up a table and record ideas under the different headings:

Second     Minute    Hour

 

Interdisciplinary Learning

There will be different ideas for each homework blog

To link in with the Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, why not…….

• Choose a sport, find out about it and write a factfile.
• Find out about a famous Olympian – write a summary about them and illustrate your work.
• If you want to work on your own Olympic topic then feel free – show us what you come up with and bring it into school.

What a beautiful sunny day.  We took our language work outside to practise our phoneme words (ou, ow) with chalk in the playground.  Hopefully it won’t be raining anytime soon so you’ll be able to see our words for a few days and we will try and add some more.  We started looking at half past times and worked hard on French colours this morning with Mrs Downs.

 

We were practising telling the time with o’clock today.  Mrs McMillan gave us challenges to set our analogue and digital clocks to a certain time and then we challenged each other.   We also worked on our seasons of an apple tree pictures.  They are looking really fabulous now!

 

We wrote fabulous imaginative stories today using sequencing words, joining words and exciting words.  Of course we had to remember full stops and capital letters too!  We started to learn to tell the time using analogue and digital clocks  and even a gigantic clock!  We are concentrating on telling o’clock times.

In gym we were measuring our jumps and throwa.  We are going to see if we can get better each week.