We have been learning about our feelings and how they can change depending on what happens around us.  Can you guess our feelings by looking at the expressions on our faces?  We are feeling angry, sad, happy, disappointed and surprised.

Sounds

Revise oy, oi and ss sounds. Use each word in a sentence. Try these games;

http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/double-consonants-ff-ss.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/flash/game.shtml

Computer Skills

Practise typing on the computer to familiarise yourself with the position of the keys. Use the shift key for capitals and the return and delete key. You can type a sentence from your reading book or make up your own. Print your work out and stick it in your jotter.

Design the honey label competition

A competition will be running to design the packaging for a honey jar. You need to;

• make your label eye catching and clear.
• design a logo for our honey.

include a name for our honey farm, name for our honey and the date it was made.

There will be a winner from each house, plus an overall winner, which will be used for our actual honey jars in the summer.

The four winners will get 1,000, 750, 500 and 250 respectively. The overall winner will get 2000 house points.

The children’s entries need to have their name, class and house on it.

They can use the template provided or design their own – their choice.

We had a visit yesterday from Google Expedition to show us all about space and our solar system.  We even got to see what it might have been like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

We were using the computers to help us with our bridging and subtraction sums.

Sounds

This week’s sound is ‘ss’ (mess, less etc). Try these activities;

• draw ‘ss’ pictures and write the word below it.

• Read the list of ‘ss’ words each night to become fluent.

• Try these games;

  http://www.galacticphonics.com/digraphs/ss/interactive/ssspell/ssspell.htm

  http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/double-consonants-ff-ss.html

Spelling

This week’s spelling words are; here, saw, very.

Try these activities –

• try writing each word on a partner’s back.

• write the words in the air.

• Write the words in waterfall writing eg h

  he

  her

  here

Reading

Practice your book every night. Ask and answer questions about the story to help understanding.

Sight Vocabulary

Practise reading these words every night to increase speed and fluency in reading;

after, again, always, another, ask, away, because, best, blue, book, bring, call, cold, day, don’t, each, eat, every.

Handwriting

Practice writing the following letters in small and then capital letters. Remember to start at the correct place to form the letters properly.

l, i, t, j, u, y, f, s.

L, I, T, J, U, Y, F, S.

Maths

We will be learning about the ‘minute’ and how there are 60 seconds in a minute. Time yourself doing different activities for 1 minute and count how many you get eg hopping, drawing tally marks, writing numbers etc. Record your activity and number completed in your jotter. Can you beat your score the next time you try?

In number work we will be finding the missing number in a sum by counting on, or carrying out the opposite process. For example 3 + □ = 9 can be found by ‘counting on’ or doing 9 – 3 = □. Try lots of examples like this in your jotter with numbers up to 10 and if confident try up to 20.

We were in the I.C.T suite today to help us learn about time and numbers.  In the afternoon we dramatised the story of Peter and the King.

We played games today to help us with our time and number work.

Welcome back after the Easter break!  I hope you all had a great holiday and are ready to start the new term refreshed.

We have been busy in The Learning Zone today.  

Well done to our winners of the Design A Red Nose Competition and the Junior Road Safety competition.

Have a very Happy Easter!

Well done to all the children in Primary 2 for the wonderful bonnets they produced and thank you to all the parents for their help in making them.  The Easter bonnet parade was a huge success and we even had a visit from the Easter Bunny himself!

Well done to our winner for his Mario themed bonnet.