We have been celebrating St. Andrews Day with Scottish food, and Scottish music and dancing.

Remember tomorrow, Saturday 30th November is our Christmas Fair. Hope to see you all there between 10am and noon.

Today we were in the ICT room using the computers to help us with rounding numbers to the nearest 10.

Today we were making “Reindeer Noses’ as part of our Enterprise topic. We will be selling them on Saturday at the Christmas Fair. Why not come along between 10am and 12 noon for a fun day. We might even get a special visit from Santa!

Sounds

Group 1 – ‘igh’ sound (high, thigh, light, bright etc). Practise reading the  ‘igh’ words from your sound booklet each night.

Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the 3 letter blends on the both  sides of your sound sheet. Try and time yourself to see how fast you can read the words correctly. Each night you practise see if can you get quicker?

SPELLING

Practise writing these words in your jotter in small and capital letters. Do  a whole  row of each word.

Group 1 – went, its, from.

Group 2 – is, as, mum.

Use Sumdog to practise your spelling skills too.

COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.

Group 1 – long, many, men, miss.

Group 2 – little, had, see, has     PLUS common words from the word wallets.

READING

Read your non-fiction book each night being careful to read the words on the page accurately (don’t add extra words, miss out words or read different words from the ones on the page). Talk about the information that you are reading about. Can you find any of this week’s common words or spelling words in the book?

MATHS

Use your number square to practise counting up and down in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s up to 100.

Use ‘Sumdog’ to work on your numeracy skills.

CHRISTMAS HOMEWORK GRID

Choose 1 or 2 activities to complete each week leading up to Christmas. Use your jotter to draw or write in.

In the gym hall today we were learning a dance for our Christmas party.

Today we were in the ICT suite using a game to help us learn where numbers go on an empty number line.

Today we have been busy counting up and down in 2’s, 3’s, 4’s and 5’s in our number work. We have also been finding and writing the odd and even numbers up to 30.

We all had a fun day today doing lots of exciting activities to help raise money for Children In Need. Some of us got to paint Pudsey, go on a Pudsey hunt, make and eat a Pudsey biscuit, make up a Pudsey dance and rap and use the i-pads to create a stop motion picture. It was brilliant!

go on a Pusey hunt,

Tomorrow the children will be helping Mr. McMullan to plant some trees around the school grounds. Please send your child to school with a spare set of old clothes and shoes or wellies. They can come dressed in their usual school inform and get changed in class.

Sounds

Group 1 – magic  ‘e-e’ sound (here, theme, complete, Steve etc). Practise reading the  ‘e-e’ words from your sound booklet each night.

Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the 3 letter blends on the both  sides of your sound sheet. Try and time yourself to see how fast you can read the words correctly. Each night you practise see if can you get quicker?

SPELLING

Practise writing these words in your jotter in choo-choo writing. Do 2 rows of each word.

Group 1 – add, about, air.

Group 2 – back, put, as.

Use Sumdog to practise your spelling skills too.

COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.

Group 1 – keep, know, last, life, line.

Group 2 – now, new, one, first     PLUS common words from the word wallets.

READING

Read your non-fiction book each night being careful to read the words on the page accurately (don’t add extra words, miss out words or read different words from the ones on the page). Talk about the information that you are reading about. Can you find any of this week’s common words or spelling words in the book?

MATHS

We will be working on odd and even numbers. Even numbers always have a partner. Use small objects like pennies, pasta shapes, lego pieces etc to set out the odd and even numbers like this ;

Can you count the even numbers up and down to 20? Can you do the same for the odd numbers? Can you go all the way up to 100? Can you count the odd numbers up and down to 100? Use your number square to help you.

Try counting up in 3’s, 4,s, 5,s and 10,s, How far can you go? Use your number square to help.