Today we used our number lines to help us to bridge across 10 when we take away.

We worked on alliteration and character descriptions as part of World Book Day. We also made puppets of the characters in the story and got to act it out.

Remember tomorrow is the Pancake Breakfast. Why not come along in the morning to enjoy a cup of tea and pancakes and be entertained by the children singing. Primary 2 and Primary  2/3 will be singing at approximately 10.20am.

We were making banana ice lollies today using Fairtrade bananas and chocolate. We put them in the freezer and we will enjoy them tomorrow.

We used our problem solving skills today to help us build our models. We had to work as a team and use our self management skills too.

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.

We played different circle games in the gym today.