COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.
Group 1 – where, which, who, will, wish.
Group 2 – fast, father, fell, find, five PLUS common words from the word wallets.
SPELLING
Practise writing these words in your jotter in rainbow writing. Do each word three times.
Group 1 -some, come, were.
Group 2 – too, down, look.
Use Sumdog to practise your spelling skills too.
Sounds
Group 1 – “ou” sound (pound, cloud, outside, count etc). Practise reading the “ou”words from your sound booklet each night.
Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the ‘ng’ sound words from your sound booklet every night ( ring, bang, long, sung etc).
READING
We will be talking about summarising the story and saying what happened at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE and END of the story. Ask your child to tell you about the MAIN thing that happened at the beginning, middle or end to check they have understood what they have read.
HANDWRITING
Practise writing these subtraction words words in small and capital letters – subtract, take away, minus, less than.
Remember to start at the correct place and make the capitals and tall letters touch the top line in your jotter.
Make tall letters and capitals twice as big as the small letters.
Sit your letter on or below the line.
MATHS
Continue to make up some oral mental calculations using these subtraction words – TAKE AWAY, SUBTRACT, LESS THAN, MINUS etc, for example;
What is 2 less than 19? What is 18 minus 6? Subtract 5 from 19, 15 take away 3? If you want write the sum in your jotter too.
FAIRTRADE
This is Fairtrade Fortnight and we are running a competition to come up with words associated with Fairtrade.
Your child will come home with a competition form which needs their name and class on it. Please return when completed or no later than Friday 6th March.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
This Friday is Pancake Breakfast day. You are invited along to have a cup of tea and a pancake and to be entertained with the children singing. Primary 2 will be singing at 10.20 am approximately. Donations are welcome.
