This Thursday afternoon (22.12.16) is the P1, P1/2 and P2 party.  Your child can wear party clothes and they may come to school dressed in their party clothes in the morning.

Please send in some goodies for us all to share.  Choose ONE of the following items to bring in.

2 litre bottle of juice

multi pack of crisps (6 or 12)

funsize pack of chocolate treats

packet of shop bought cakes.

Please remember this Friday is an early close at 2.30pm.

Thank you

Mrs. Lang

We were learning more about the Jewish celebration on Hanukkah today.  We found out they celebrate by doing a lot of things that are similar to our celebration of Christmas like giving presents, eating special foods, decorating the house, having parties and playing games.  We started making a dreidel which is a game played during Hanukkah.  When they are finished we can play the game with our friends.

Primary 2 did a brilliant job with their dancing and singing of ‘Disco Star’.   Hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did performing it!

Today we were learning to find all the possible ways to make the same amount of money.  It was a tricky problem to solve but we all worked together and found the solution.

Over the next two weeks please revise all the sounds and spelling we have been learning this term.  Can you see spot them in Christmas stories?  Can you write some Christmas sentences or make up a Christmas adventure using some of your words?

Keep practicing your reading and read some Christmas stories of your own with an adult.

Can you make a Christmas shape picture using squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, pentagons and hexagons?  Look at all the decorations at home and outside.  Can you name some 3-D shapes?  Can you find something in the shops that cost 2p, 5p 10p, 20p or 50p?  Can you choose the right coin that would pay for it?

A reminder that this Wednesday (14th) is the Christmas lunch and all orders should have been returned by last Friday (9th) otherwise you may not get your first choice.

This Friday (16th) is also our Nativity.  Morning performance is at 9.30am and the afternoon is at 1.30pm.  I’m sure you will all enjoy a wonderful show that will get you in the Christmas spirit!

Today we were in the I.C.T suite using the computers to help us match and order the value of different coins.

We have been busy writing our Santa letters.  We had to remember our capitals and full stops.

In the afternoon we made menorahs to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights.

We had great fun today in the Learning Zone.  We played in Percy’s hut and some of us wrote letters.  Then we posted them in the Post Office.

We also made Christmas dinner in the house and built a stable for Rudolph to live in when he is not guiding Santa’s sleigh.  We read Christmas stories and made up stories about animals who live in the cold Arctic.

Literacy

We are learning about when to use capitals and full stops to punctuate sentences.

Try these games;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/firstlevel/literacy_and_english/using_punctuation/play/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/firstlevel/literacy_and_english/making_sentences/play/

Sounds

This week’s sound is magic ‘o-e’ (home, stole). Practise reading your sound list out loud every night recording your best time. Can you beat your best time every night?

Write a sentence with some of the words. Remember capitals at the beginning, people’s names and the word ‘I’.

Spelling

This week’s words are – down, look, too.

Practise each word in capitals and small letters (3 times each).

Reading

Practise your reading every night talking about the characters and events that are happening. How many sentences are on each page? Count them. Which page has the most sentences?

Maths

We will be looking at coins and money. Go to the shop and buy something costing 2p, 5p and 10p. Can you give the correct amount?

Try these games;

http://www.funtosave.org/Teachers/minigame.aspx?gameName=MiniGame_Matching game;

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/working_with_coins/eng/Introduction/InteractiveWhiteboardActivity.htm

Could the red reading group bring in their homework jotters this Friday (9th December) to be looked at.

Remember your costume for the Nativity has to be brought in by this Friday too!

We were making 2-D shape pictures on the computer today.  We made squares, rectangles, triangles, pentagons and we even learned about a new shape called the hexagon.  Can you tell someone all about the sides, corners and whether the sides are straight or curved?