Welcome back after the summer break. Homework will be set once a week and completed either in the jotter, on a worksheet or practically. Jotters should be returned to school at various points throughout the year for the teacher to see and you will be advised when that will be nearer the time. Please ensure homework jotters are looked after as they are a record of your child’s learning. Here is the homework for this week.

Reading

Practice the book your child comes home with each night if possible.  Spend time discussing the pictures before reading together.  Ask questions eg. What is happening?  How do you know? How is the character feeling?  Why?  What do you think will happen next?  etc.  The adult can read the text first with your child following, then try and read together and finally ask your child to read on their own giving support and guidance if needed.

Please ensure your child brings their book to school every day and keep it in the poly pocket provided.

Competition

The school has acquired a bee hive to help the environment and the children have been asked to think up a name for the queen bee.  They have also to draw a picture of their bee and write its name beside it.  Your child should write their name and class on the entry form.  If possible could the entries be returned to school by Wednesday of this week (31st August) so the entries can be judged and a winner chosen.

What a great afternoon!  The whole school went to a concert in the gym hall to listen to the Greenfaulds High School Junior, Senior and Trad bands.  It was wonderful.  We really enjoyed “Happy”, “Uptown Funk” and “Skyfall”.  It was really funny when Mrs McMillan dressed up and danced on stage.

 

 

We learned about rio Olympic sports and put some into alphabetical order.  We also had a sun safety talk and they gave us a uv band which works like magic when the sun is strong.  We can be safer in the sun by wearing sunglasses, putting on suncream (at least factor 15), wearing a sunhat,  cover your shoulders and look for shade especially between 11-3pm.  Let’s hope we have more sunny days so we can enjoy playing in the sun safely.  We loved having our gym class outside in the lovely weather.

Homework from 9/5/16 until 20/5/16

Language

Phonemes

This week we will be learning the phonemes ou (shout) and ow (now)

and next week will be learning the oi (foil) and oy (joy)

Why not try to make sentences with as many words as you can?

Challenge – in your jotter, write sentences using your phoneme and spelling words.

Common words:

• Keep practising the words you have been learning to read and write sentences using them.
• Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

each        find           men           room           soon          these

bring       keep          know          there          their         every

time        took          under         school          wish          life

father   mother     Mr         Mrs        week      year

food      hand         round      tree     very     head

 

• Take the sight word challenge. How many words can you read confidently?

 

Reading

A new reading book will now usually be given each Wednesday. The days for reading are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so please make sure that pupils have their reading books in their bags so that they can complete reading activities.

• Try telling an adult the main points of the story in order.
• Challenge – draw a comic strip of the Beginning, Middle and End important points of the story.

Number

Mental maths

Continue to practise mental maths skills by using this site and use different games to develop skills

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/games/park_the_pods/big_sound/full.shtml

 

Maths – Time

This term we will be learning about different aspects of time – we are now moving on to identifying the time in hours and half hours on analogue and 12 hour digital clocks.

Time at home- Find some different places at home that show dates (e.g. TV guides, computer, mobile phone, computer etc.) and record these in your jotter by writing and drawing pictures. Challenge -why do the publications or time pieces show the date?

How long does it take? – Children think of things they do at home which they estimate will take about a second, a minute or an hour. Make up a table and record ideas under the different headings:

Second     Minute    Hour

 

Interdisciplinary Learning

There will be different ideas for each homework blog

To link in with the Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, why not…….

• Choose a sport, find out about it and write a factfile.
• Find out about a famous Olympian – write a summary about them and illustrate your work.
• If you want to work on your own Olympic topic then feel free – show us what you come up with and bring it into school.

What a beautiful sunny day.  We took our language work outside to practise our phoneme words (ou, ow) with chalk in the playground.  Hopefully it won’t be raining anytime soon so you’ll be able to see our words for a few days and we will try and add some more.  We started looking at half past times and worked hard on French colours this morning with Mrs Downs.

 

We were practising telling the time with o’clock today.  Mrs McMillan gave us challenges to set our analogue and digital clocks to a certain time and then we challenged each other.   We also worked on our seasons of an apple tree pictures.  They are looking really fabulous now!

 

We wrote fabulous imaginative stories today using sequencing words, joining words and exciting words.  Of course we had to remember full stops and capital letters too!  We started to learn to tell the time using analogue and digital clocks  and even a gigantic clock!  We are concentrating on telling o’clock times.

In gym we were measuring our jumps and throwa.  We are going to see if we can get better each week.

 

We designed our own pirate hats this morning to wear to our special pirate lunch.   We were working out the area of shapes using squares.  We had to measure and compare the area of different shapes and then we had to draw out shapes with a given area.  It was a bit of a challenge but we did our best!

 

In the morning we did our reading work. We were learning how to describe characters out of our books. We needed to write about the character we picked- like the colour of the hair and trousers. After that we had break then we did our Maths work. We were learning to half a number and to do mental maths, so that we can get better.

In P.E. we were practising jumping, jogging and sitting down throwing. Jumping got better because we put more swing into our jumps.

This information was given by Miley, Jessica T and Taylor D. Thank you for helping with today’s blog.

These photos show which “land of learning” we journeyed to today when we thought about our mental maths tasks.

This morning we listened to a poem called The Spangled Pandemonium.  We used our imaginations to draw what we thought it would look like.  After that, we wrote a description of our creature.  We had great fun and included lots of details.

For maths we were practising the order of the days of the week and the months of the year.  It’s still a bit tricky for some of us so we need lots of practice!

In the afternoon we worked on our seasons apple tree pictures and went to gym to practise throwing and jumping.  What a day!