Thank you to all our visitors this afternoon.  We hope you enjoyed seeing the children’s work and joining in with their activities.

Primary 3 are learning about weight. To help us with our learning we would love to be able to bake something at home which requires us to use measuring scales.

We would like to show our friends and our teachers what amazing bakers we are! Please take a photo of your child using the scales and the finished product. You can upload them to this post by replying or you could print them out and send them to school with your child.

We look forward to showing off our fantastic baking skills and our terrific tasty treats!

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

As part of our European Art series, we looked at the work of the famous Italian artist Michelangelo! We learned about his work on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel and the detail that he used in his paintings, even though he painted them lying down! We had the chance to experience what it must have been like for Michelangelo today. We stuck paper underneath our desks and used pastels to recreate the dusty paint look of Michelangelo’s art. We found it hard but we tried our best and our drawings were good considering how we had created them! We enjoyed learning about Michelangelo’s life and getting to try out the techniques of a famous artist.

Today we had a visitor as part of our Europe topic. Mrs MacKechnie came to visit us to tell us all about how the Scottish Parliament works. We held our own election with party leaders and had our own debate! Here are some pictures of the afternoon:

We are all looking forward to our Open Afternoon on Friday 17th March.

Here are the details –

• one adult per child is invited

• from  2pm to 3pm in your child’s class

• please come in at the school office

• visitors will be invited to leave by the classroom door at 3pm and children will get ready for home at the usual time

• children are allowed to bring a costume to change into at lunchtime.

We look forward to sharing Fairyland activities with our visitors and showing what we have been learning about.

See you on Friday.

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

Hi everyone,

Here is your homework for the week.

Reading –

Please read and discuss your Big Cat book at home for next week.

We are going  to the library on Tuesday of this week so please make sure you have your library book with you in order to exchange it for another.

Spelling-

red – e_e

Hello everyone, Hope you had a lovely weekend. Here is this weeks homework📒.  We will also be walking to the library on Friday morning, please remember your library books.

Reading 📚 – New book to be read at home for next Monday. Book Detectives reading pages have been issued in class and are to be read for Wednesday.

Spelling  📝

Blue – tanker, anger, sunken, anchor, extinct, stinking, blanket, angler, night and narrator.

Red –anger, stink, tanker, junk, trunk, sunken, I’ll and round. (anchor and extinct if you would like a challenge)

Green – hare, care, share, scare, spare, dare, here and off.

Remember to rewrite the words using Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check. Choose 3 words to write a sentence for or challenge yourself and use the VCOP helper to write a short story, underlining or using a different colour for your spelling words. Try to include ambitious vocabulary and connectives in these. Then choose a Spell Well activity to help consolidate your words.

Maths📚 – We are continuing are focus on Money – working out change using the written method and showing the coins used. We will also be focusing on our times tables, the Jelly Tots and Haribos will be focusing on the 6,7,8 and 9 times tables and the Chewits will be revising their 2,3,4,5 and 10 times tables.

Money games – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

Times Tables – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

• Spelling – Complete Unit/List 12 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 17th March.

• Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.

• Reading New books will be given out tomorrow and should be completed for Friday 17/3/17.

Maths
Please use a variety of websites to enhance your mental agility. I am still looking for an improvement with our Big Maths Beat that Scores. Well done to those who met their target this week. This is an aspect of our learning which everyone could do with some improvement.

• 72 Learn Its
• Hit the Button
• P7 Maths Weblinks
• Mangahigh
• Sumdog
• http://skoolbo.co.uk/

Topic

• Please complete the WW2 Personal Research Task for the morning of Tuesday 14th March. Click here for the task and success criteria. Please bring any Powerpoints on a memory pen on Monday 13th or email them to my Glow account.
• Please listen and practise the WW2 Songs we learnt in class. Click here for the Blog post.
• Please learn your lines for the WW2 show on Tuesday 21st March.

Other

• Drama – Monday and Tuesday 1.15-3.15pm – Please bring a full change of P.E. kit (a full t-shirt, shorts/tracksuit bottoms and indoor trainers).
• Please bring in your costume in a bag with your name written on it. If you have any spare costume items to lend your peers, that would be very much appreciated. Click here to see what you need.
• P.E. – Thursday 2.15-3.15pm.

• Please return any forms A.S.A.P. (Parent/Pupil Response form).

• We will be watching the film version of Goodnight Mister Tom on Friday 31st March. As it is a PG, we would appreciate if you would let us know if you do not wish your child to watch the film so we can arrange an alternative activity.

The Big Pedal competition is back.

From Monday 20th March to Friday 31st March children are invited to bring their bike or scooter to school. We would ask that an adult could check that the bike or scooter is safe.  Please bring a helmet or any other safety gear. Children are encouraged to bring a lock but they must be responsible for the key.

Every day we will count how many people cycled or scooted to school, including supporters ie parents, siblings.  We will enter our figures into the Big Pedal website run by cycling charity Sustrans.  You can follow our progress, Last year we were in the top 20 of over 1000 schools which took part throughout the UK.

You can find out more information on the Sustrans website.

We hope lots of people will join in, get healthy and have fun.

As well as cycling and scooting to school, every class will get out on their bikes and scooters during the day.

Let’s hope we have lovely spring weather for our active fortnight.

Happy cycling and scooting.

Homework – book, wordwall, new sound – oo, blending booklet – ie words,maths.

Children have a new homework diary this week. Please remember that we suggest that no more than 20 minutes in spent on homework a night.  If children have a club, feel unwell or have a family celebration, feel free to leave that night’s homework to later in the week.

We hope homework time lets your child show you what they have been learning in school and that it is enjoyable for both you and them.

Parent appointment letters are out this week. Please let me know if the time doesn’t suit you. I look forward to receiving your pupil/parent response sheet before parents night.

Reminder – Fairyland Open Afternoon – Friday 17th March 2pm – 3pm. (see separate blog for details)