Thank you to the super effort being put in with homework – the children are becoming really confident with their common words as a direct result of the time being spent going over them at home.

Literacy

We are continuing to learn about Upper-case letters (capital letters). Please  play this game again at home this week for extra practice:

http://www.abcya.com/uppercase_lowercase_letter_matching.htm

• Please take the time to read your child’s reading book as often as you can.                                                                                          Can you spot the upper-case letters in your reading book? What are their names and what sound do they make?

• This weeks words are: one new out now                              Please continue to revise all words on the Common Words sheet.  Concentrate on the words your child still finds tricky.

• Complete one page of the homework booklet.

• With your sound cards can you make the words:

  fat	red
  rent	gran
  lamp	nest

• Extra challenge:                                                                                           Can you make up a long sentence with your words and sound cards? e.g. She got in the car with the cat.

Maths

We have been learning how to add numbers within the Story of 7.  Try these at home:

• 3 + 4 =

• 2 + 5 =

• 4 + 3 =

• 5 + 2 =

• 6 + 1 =

Play this game at home to practice your number bonds to 5 or log into your Sumdog account at home:

• http://www.snappymaths.com/addition/addw5/interactive/addw5totc.htm

• https://www.sumdog.com/

Nursery Rhyme of the week

Literacy

We are learning about Upper-case letters (capital letters). Please  play this game at home to practice:

http://www.abcya.com/uppercase_lowercase_letter_matching.htm

This weeks words are:  first little had see

• Some children are still working on the first set of words.  Please practice a row of words each night until your child can read them confidently.
• Complete 1 page of the homework booklet.
• If possible, read your child’s reading book every night. Encourage your child to point to each word as they read it and sound out words they are unsure of.  Look at the pictures for clues and talk about the punctuation.

• With your sound cards can you make the words:

  jam	run
  vet	nip
  wet	ten

• Extra challenge:                                                                                           Can you make up a sentence with your words and sound cards? e.g. I went in the car.

Maths

• Play this game at home to practice your number bonds to 5

• http://www.snappymaths.com/addition/addw5/interactive/addw5totc.htm

Nursery Rhyme of the week

Primary 1 have been busy bees this week – working very hard on all of our tasks. We loved our new book Wee Granny’s Magic Bag & have been sharing why our grannies and grandpas are so special to us.

Our reading this week has been fantastic – so please remember to bring reading books every day! We are really improving with fluency and by practising our common words we are becoming more confident.

We enjoyed the Learning Zone with Mr Green this morning. Some of us built new cars to drive & take to the garage.

Later we loved a run around in the gym playing Planes & Helicopters & then Follow the Leader. We played one of our favourite games ‘Corners’ to finish off. Our cheeks were rosy after all that exercise!

Have a great weekend!

We’ve had a really good day – working so hard.  We talked about Rex the Retriever and how he can find information. We found information in our book The Magic Porridge Pot and wrote about the beginning and the end of the story.