Good evening,

I hope you have all received your child’s Learning Profile which I have sent today. Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback; I’m delighted that you enjoyed reading about your child’s learning. Please let me know if you haven’t received you child’s profile by tomorrow and I will aim to resolve this quickly.

Children have been reminded today that tomorrow is an own clothes day where they can wear red. Children have been asked to bring a £1 donation to donate to the Red Nose Day fund.

Miss Hamilton

Good evening,

We will be holding danceathons for Primary 4 and 5 tomorrow, as part of our Red Nose Day fund raising. Children may take part with a 50p donation and must dance for the allotted time of 20 minutes continuously. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow for some fund raising, fun, and exercise.

See you tomorrow!

Miss Frew, Miss Hamilton and Miss Grant

As well as raising funds with Red Nose events this week, we have also been discussing the importance of supporting our local charities. One way in which we can do this is through donating to our local charity shops. This also supports the learning from the Eco Drama that Primary 2 took part in, which encouraged us to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’. If you have an old toy which is no longer used and would like to donate, I will be collecting donations all week. Thank you to the children who have donated toys already, which I will distribute to charity shops within our community.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the bake sale today which raised funds for Red Nose Day. We raised a great amount of money and all had a great time munching the delicious cakes that Primary 6 made for us.

Tomorrow Miss Grant, Miss Frew and myself will be painting faces at lunchtime. This event is open for Primary 1-3 and children must have their permission form signed with 20p to take part. The children will have their lunch first and then go to P2H to get their face painted.

Have a lovely evening.

Miss Hamilton

The class will have the opportunity to visit our bake sale tomorrow, which will be hosted by Primary 6. We will be visiting at 11.45 and cakes will all be priced at 10p.

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

This weeks homework and news is as follows:

Homework

Spelling this week is a revision of magic e words.

Reading – core readers this week. Please read a little each night. These will be issued on Tuesday, due to No Paper Day on Monday as part of our Eco Week.

Maths this week is on fractions. I will post homework on the blog on Monday due to No Paper Day.

Other News

This week is Eco Week and the children will be taking part in lots of eco activities in class.  Monday is a paper free day in class and as such homework diaries will not be used on Monday morning to write in the homework activities. Homework will consist of our usual spelling activities and reading and maths as mentioned above. We are also be taking part in the Big Pedal. Children are invited to bring in their bikes or scooters each day. We will make time each day to go outside and get on our bikes and scooters. Please be aware that children must wear a helmet when on their bikes and scooters. If the children do not bring a bike or scooter they will be encouraged to be active outside.

We also have Red Nose Day activities this week. On Wednesday P1-3 children will get the opportunity to have their faces painted. On Friday they will also be invited to dress in red and donate to comic relief with a donation of £1.

We will be returning to the library on Tuesday morning to return our books and allow the children to choose another book. If the children could bring their books in with them tomorrow, this will ensure that they are all ready to be returned on Tuesday morning. If you are able to assist us with our library visit please let me know.

Finally, I would like to thank everyone who attended our Fairyland Open Afternoon on Friday. I hope you all had a great time and the class loved sharing their learning and activities with you.

Miss Hamilton.

Hello,

We will be continuing to work on fractions during our Maths time today and on Monday, before giving out fractions homework. Homework will be given out after Monday’s lesson.

Thanks
Miss Hamilton

Good evening,

I look forward to welcoming many of you into our classroom tomorrow to share our learning within our topic. The children may bring a costume with them tomorrow and can change into these after lunchtime. We will have various activities for the class tomorrow afternoon related to their Fairyland topic. I hope you enjoy sharing these activities with your child, and hearing the children read their own stories as well as some of their favourite fairytales.

Miss Hamilton

Good evening,

I hope you have all had a restful weekend. We had a lovely Monday today in Primary 2H filled with Maths, reading, and topic related Drama and Art. We also started out new class novel, ‘The Spy Who Loves School Dinners’, by Pamela Butchart. The children have told me that they have been sharing stories with you about our previous class novel, ‘Baby Aliens Got My Teacher’, also written by Pamela Butchart. The class are enjoying being read to every day and discussing our books, as well as our paired reading, ERIC time, and Read and Munch. It is great to see the children’s love of reading growing throughout the year!

Homework for this week will include:
-spelling sound o_e
-reading book
-maths related to fractions

We have had some interesting items brought in for Show and Tell recently. We enjoyed meeting Pancake the Pug on Friday and Sparkles the pony. We also got the hear some singing and keyboard. Here are some pictures from our Show and Tell time.

Finally a huge well done to Elena who was our first lucky visitor from P2H to visit The Appreciation Station with Mr Collins on Friday. Elena got her award for being a great friend to everyone in class and always working her hardest. We are looking forward to seeing who will be lucky enough to receive a token the next time that Mr Collins visits our class with The Appreciation Station.

Have a lovely week and I look forward to seeing many of you at our Fairyland Open Afternoon on Friday.

Miss Hamilton

Good afternoon,

I hope everyone is enjoying the choice of new spelling activities. Homework this week will include:
-reading book
-spelling sound u_e
-maths

We will be visiting the library tomorrow morning. We are leaving around 9:20 and will be back in school for around 10:20. If your child has any books which they would like to return from the library they can bring these along with them. Thank you to our parent helpers who have volunteered to join us tomorrow. Can I please ask that you come in the door with the class tomorrow morning.

I hope you have all received your invitation to our Fairyland Open Afternoon, which will be taking place on the Friday 17th March from 2pm-3pm. We are inviting one adult per child to come along and allow the children to share their learning from their topic with you.

Have a lovely week.
Miss Hamilton.

Primary 2H had a great day reading and also sharing books with their Primary one buddies. We really enjoyed hearing the teachers and children who read to us at assembly today. All of the costumes were great and well done to everyone for raising so much money, between their donations and sponsorship money.

Good evening

The children have received a new spelling grid today for their Wednesday spelling homework. There are a variety of new activities on the grid to enjoy. Our new sound this wee is i_e and we have used the following website in class within our spelling work: http://www.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/ie/ie.htm

Maths homework will be given tomorrow and will be on rounding to the nearest ten. Many of the children are keen to completed maths homework on Wednesday night and returned on the following day. However, it is absolutely fine for maths homework to also be returned on Friday mornings.

On Tuesday 7th of March we will be visiting the library to let the children choose a book. We are looking for two more parent helpers to join us on this visit. I will be checking the children’s diaries as usual tomorrow and Thursday. If you can help out could you please pop a wee note in you child’s diary and I will respond.

Finally, I am looking forward to seeing all of the children’s costumes on World Book Day after discussing Thursday with them today. Children can also wear pyjamas and onesies instead of a costume.

Thank you for your support of our teaching and learning in P2H.
Have a lovely evening!

Miss Hamilton

Primary 2H enjoyed their visit from Bag Girl yesterday during the Recycling Heros workshop. Bag Girl spoke to the children about recycling and the children enjoyed doing all of the activities.

Good evening

As no maths homework given this week, I have included links to useful games which will reinforce the areas which we are currently focusing on in class.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/firstlevel/mathematics/number_sequences/play/

http://www.ictgames.com/targettakeaway.html

http://www.ictgames.com/dragonmap.html

http://www.ictgames.com/rabbit2.html

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

http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/number/oddandeven/

http://v7.k12.com/sample_lessons/activities/images/swfs/building_expressions_final.swf

Miss Hamilton

Hello

In class we have been learning about magic e in our spelling work. We have been using this website today in class to help us learn our new spelling sound ‘i_e’, and to reinforce this weeks sound ‘a_e’.

This is the link for i_e.
http://www.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/ie/ie.htm

This is the link for a_e.
http://www.galacticphonics.com/longvowels/a-e/a-e.htm

We have also been revising common words since term two. This link will provide practise in spelling high frequency words.
http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaursEggs/index.html

Miss Hamilton

We all enjoyed our visit from storyteller Susan Wilson today. We heard different fairytales, which were set all around the world. We also got to speak to Susan’s special friend Onion when he popped out of the treasure chest. The children have been enjoying their Fairyland topic and are looking forward to the activities in the next few weeks.

Good evening

I hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend. There will be no spelling or maths homework this week. The children have been given a new reading book today. We read our books together in class this morning, and we will be hearing reading again tomorrow.

Miss Hamilton.

Good evening

Homework this week includes:
– spelling common words
– a fiction reading book
– practising chosen Scots poems
– maths homework on Wednesday based on subtracting from thirteen

Miss Hamilton

Good evening!

Homework in P2H this week will include:
-Spelling revision of the sounds ‘ff’, ‘ll’, ‘ss/zz’
The children have stuck a new insert into their front cover of ther spelling jotter. Homework on a Wednesday will now involve the children picking an activity from the grid at the back of their jotter. The children will tick the activity when they have completed it. Homework on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday will remain the same as the previous term.

-A non-fiction reading book
This will be our last non-fiction book of the term. We will complete a check-up at the end of the week which will include finding information using the index and contents pages, and also noting down page numbers when facts have been located.

-Children who have a common word wall in their book bags can practice their words throughout the week.

-The class will take home three Roberts Burns poems tomorrow and can choose one poem to learn by Monday the 23rd of January.

Could anyone who has not returned their gym bag bring it tomorrow please, as we will be starting our block of gymnastics in the morning.

We have had an exciting day of new group names and new seats! We also have new show and tell days and these are as follows:
Monday- The Seven Dwarfs
Tuesday- Jack and the Beanstalk
Wednesday- Pinocchio
Thursday- Peter Pan
Friday- Gingerbread Man

Anyone from The Seven Dwarfs group who did not show or tell today may bring something tomorrow.

Finally I would like to thank you for your ongoing support at home and wish you a great week ahead.
Have a lovely evening,
Miss Hamilton

I hope you all have had a relaxing Christmas break. We had a great day today in Primary 2H and we are looking forward to all of the learning that we will be doing during this term.

Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Hamilton

We had a great day today in Primary 2H. P6G came to our class in the morning to read Christmas stories that they had written and illustrated to us, and we also make our junk model robots in our topic groups. Then in the afternoon we had our Christmas party and a special visit from Santa! Here are some pictures from today.

P2H were given their Read, Write, Count Bags at the end of the day today. The following letter explains a little more about these bags, and the children will take a copy of this letter home in their school bag tomorrow.

Thanks,
Miss Hamilton

There will be no set homework this week in Primary two. Here are some links to games which we have been using in class.

http://www.ictgames.com/payForIt/index.html
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/finance-education/personal/students/04-07_counting-on-money/int_practical-activity.php
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/capital-letter-2.html