We had a very creative afternoon today.   We learned more about toys from the past and how they are different and similar to our modern toys and gadgets.

We then painted some pictures of toys from the past. We had to try to use small brush strokes and be very careful in how we applied the paint. We also mixed paint to make the colours we wanted.

Our story of the week has been ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ by Judith Kerr.
We have loved reading this every day and watching an online story telling version as well as singing the tiger who came to tea song!

So this afternoon we also made tiger pictures using a variety of shapes. Our tigers look brilliant!

This afternoon we learned how to tell an o clock time on an analogue clock.  We made our own clock faces and then used them to show o’clock times given. We were really good at this.

We have been learning the ‘sh’ sound this week.  We were making sh words on our magnetic boards.

As part of our maths lesson yesterday we played ‘steal my number’  We had lots of fun working out the answers to the number questions and trying to get the most numbers by ‘stealing’ the answers from each other  

We are going to grow our own potatoes.  First we learned some facts about potatoes and then we prepared our potatoes by ‘chitting’ them. We placed them in a chitting tray and put them on the window ledge. Over the next couple of weeks the tubers should sprout and after that we can plant them.  

Sumdog and Websites

A few of the children have asked me if they can play some of the games we play in class at home. Here are the links:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/

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

Please log in and play Sumdog using your log-in details. This is a great website for literacy and mental maths games. It can be played on a phone, computer or tablet.

Literacy Homework

This weeks words are:  has  look  play  no
Can you make a sentence with your sound cards and words?

This weeks sound is sh. Can you use your sound cards to make the sh words below.

shed
shop
fish
dash
ship
mash

Please try and read as often as you can with your child. Can you find any capital letters in your book? Do you know the name of the capital letter?

Please complete the worksheet in pencil in your homework folder. Sound out the word and write your letters correctly on the line.

Maths Homework 

Please complete the maths worksheet in pencil.
Can you answer the following challenge questions?

Remember to put the big number in your pocket and add on the small number.
5 + 5 =
3 + 13 =
5 + 6 =
2 + 12 =
4 + 10 =
0 + 100 =

We had a fabulous time at snowball madness! It really was madness. 

Today was the final day for the primary 7 political parties to campaign. They visited our class and presented their policies to us and then we voted for the party we liked best!

Primary 1 Homework

Sounds

• This week we are looking at words with ‘in‘ in them. Can you make up these at words with your sound cards:

  pin	bin	sin
  fin	din	win

Words

• This weeks words are:

• now, new, one, out.

• Please complete the upper and lower case letters  worksheet in your homework folder. Write the correct sound for each capital letter.

Reading Book

• Please try and read as often as you can.

• Remember to point to each word as you read it.

• Can you find any of your words or sounds in your book?

Maths

• Please complete the numbers to 30 worksheet in you folder.

• Log-in to your Sumdog account and play some of the games on a computer, phone or tablet.