The children enjoyed their visit to Tesco Extra where they got a chance to go on a Scottish food hunt as part of our learning about locally produced foods. We also enjoyed a healthy snack too.

Sounds – ‘oa’ (boat, loaf, road)

Spelling – that, see, he.

Common Words – many, men, miss, more, mother, Mr, Mrs, never.

Handwriting – uU, yY, xX, zZ.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

The children enjoyed the parents coming into our class on Friday to join in with our learning.

In the afternoon we celebrated Burns Day with Scottish dancing, songs and poems. We also enjoyed eating shortbread and Irn  Bru.

A reminder that Primary 2 will be going on a visit to Tesco Extra tomorrow to find out about locally produced Scottish foods. We will be walking there and back so the children should come to school dressed appropriately for the cold weather. The forecast is for snow showers so hats, scarves and gloves will keep Jack Frost at bay! There is a note about the trip n your child’s bag.

Anyone who has not completed the personal data form giving up to date contact information and consent for any out of school visits must complete this form and return it tomorrow morning or your child will not be able to go on the visit.

Today we were doing Scottish dancing in celebration of Burns Day on Friday.

Sounds – ‘o-e’ (home, stole, rope etc)

Spelling – you, will, with.

Common Words – keep, know, last, life, line, long.

Handwriting – tT, vV, wW.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

This Friday is Burns Day. We have been learning some Scottish songs, dances and reading some Scottish stories and poems. We will celebrate it with an afternoon of Scottish activities. The children could come to school wearing something tartan if they have it (shirt, tie, school pinafore, hat, kilt, hat etc).

We are also looking forward to seeing you all at our open morning this Friday 25th January, where you can come along and see the children working in class and join n with some of our learning.

We were in the ICT room today practising our Sumdog number skills today. You can now access Sumdog to help with spelling and reading skills also. Anyone who has lost their log in details has been issued with a new copy. Take care of it – you will need it every time you use it.

Creating junk models.

Exploring capacity in the water trough.

Role play n the garage.

Creating imaginary stories.

Creating block models.

Reading in the story hut.

Your child will bring home a new homework jotter today. Inside the front cover is a new homework grid for the whole of this term. Choose a few activities to do regularly each night and use the jotter to write any answers down. Give your work a date and title and return your jotter EVERY MONDAY to be marked.

Here are the sounds, spelling, common words and handwriting we are working on this week.

Sound – ‘igh’ (night, fright, high etc).

Spelling – are, my, her.

Common Words – grow, hand, head, home, how, jump.

Handwriting – L l, I i, J j

(please ensure the letters are formed correctly and are in the correct position on the line as well as the correct size).

A reminder that tomorrow Thursday 20th December is the Primary 1 and 2 Christmas Party.

The children should come to school dressed in their party clothes and bring one of the following items to share with the class;

2 litre bottle of juice

OR a multi pack of crisps

OR a bag of wrapped fun size chocolate sweets

OR a pack of individual shop bought cakes.

A reminder also that school finishes at 2.30pm on Friday 21st December.