Hi P2/1

Just a reminder to keep practising your Scottish poem over the weekend. You should be ready to recite your poem next week as we will be listening to everyone on either Monday or Tuesday. This is so that we can announce our class winner on Wednesday.

I look forward to hearing you all!

Miss Cruickshank

Yesterday we started our Healthy Living Masterclass. We will be looking at healthy eating, active play and relaxation.

Here are some pictures from our fruit kebab task.

This term we have been learning to join some of our letters.  This is tricky, but we are making a huge effort, and making good progress.

So far we have learned to join at, all and th.  We are really encouraging the children to use these joins in all pieces of writing.

The star writing pile is getting bigger and bigger 🌟😀👏🏼 and we are trying so hard to get extra points for effort and neatness.

Mrs S

The children really impressed me with their mathematical knowledge and ability to share strategies to help each other to solve a variety of sums.

Keep up the good work everyone, I am so proud of you all. Why not test someone at home to see if they are as good as you at adding on 10.  Have Fun!

Mrs S 😀

I understand the effect that a range of substances including tobacco and alcohol can have on the body. HWB 2-38a

I know that popular culture, the media and peer groups as well as my own attitudes and values can influence how I feel about substance use and recognise the impact this may have on my actions. HWB 2-39a

I know that alcohol and drugs can affect people’s ability to make decisions. HWB 2-40a

I can identify the different kinds of risks associated with the use and misuse of a range of substances. HWB 2-41a

I know of actions I can take to help someone in an emergency. HWB 2-42a

I can:

• Explain some of the effects that substances have on the body.
• Explain how the media influences our drug taking culture.
• Can justify their own feelings towards drug taking.
• Speculate on the possible outcomes of specific actions
• Construct a list of consequences caused by alcohol and drug taking.
• Present their conclusions associated with the use and misuse of substances.
• Explaining the emergency situation to the operator and follow instructions given.
• Adapting and applying first aid skills to different emergency situations.
• Match people who can help to a particular emergency and justify why they have selected that person / service.
• Plan and produce a piece of work which demonstrates what I have learned to their peer group e.g. a drama  performance or song.
• Critiquing and criticising a piece of work which demonstrates what  have learned.

Using the website links listed below, your task is to create an a radio show to inform your classmates of the dangers of substance misuse. You must include an advert, a jingle and an interview to tell of:

• The effects and health risks related to tobacco and alcohol misuse
• The impact of external influences/pressures and how these can affect personal decisions, actions and outcomes
• The impact and risks of misusing drugs and alcohol and how it can affect your ability to make good           decisions
• The negative social side effects of substance misuse on individuals, their families and friends
• How to deal with emergencies using the operator, emergency services and first aid

Click to access PrimaryResourcePack.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/z8b97ty/resources/1

http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/alcohol#

http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/tobacco

http://www.talktofrank.com/emergency-help

http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/media/143553/alcohol%20and%20the%20body%20infographic%202.pdf

http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/

You will have 4 weeks to plan and prepare your presentation and will present to the rest of the class on the 5th week.

Please could everyone try to bring in a kitchen roll tube as soon as possible? We need one for every child! Not toilet roll tubes-too small!

Thanks

Mrs Hunter

We had great fun trying to recreate the work of Scottish artist Steve Brown.

We are going to the library tomorrow afternoon. Could parent helpers come to school for 2pm please?

Thank you

Mrs Hunter

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We had fun – and got fit – at our Scottish dancing today.

Videos to follow !!!!!!

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

Hi everyone, I hope you had a lovely weekend.  Here is your homework for the week.

Reading – New Big Cat reading books have been issued.  Please read your book for next Monday.  We will be reading in class most days. Comprehension tasks will be completed on these books each week.  Other challenging texts will be read in class alongside the Big Cat books and will be used for Book Detective tasks.

Spelling –

red group – ore

seashore

pore

score

adore

ignored

chore

many

if

green group – ore

ore

more

wore

store

snore

before

goes

write

blue group – igh

light

night

sight

fright

tonight

might

every

old

Maths – subtraction activity.  Please let me know if you have any problems with this.

Remember to learn your Scottish poem as well this week.  Let me know if you require a copy of your chosen poem.

Mrs McKay

Hello everyone, Hope you had a lovely weekend. Here is this weeks homework📒.

Reading 📚 – New reading books have been issued this week. Each child has their own book (non-fiction and fiction) and they have been asked to read the book for next Monday at home. They will read in class with their reading partner everyday and I will also here groups of children reading parts of their books. Within class we will be using novels to complete our  book detectives work and also some comprehension questions, our novels will be kept in class as our library books.

Spelling  📝

Blue – mimic, laptop, magpie, quench, jumped, thunderstorm, swimming, rescue, must and right.

Red – mimic, laptop, magpie, jumped, rescue, disagree, new and after. (swimming and quench if you would like a challenge)

Green – join, spoil, point, noise, coin, voice, put and could.

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📚 – In maths this week we will be focusing on subtraction and will be introducing compensation. The Jellytots have HTU homework with exchange, Haribos and Chewits have TU with exchange. Haribos – If you feel you would like to try the HTU work and have completed the TU worksheet, let me know in class and I will provide the worksheet. Please continue to focus on your times tables so that we know these by heart. Jellytots – 4 and 8 times table. Haribo – 4 and 8 times table. Chewits – 3 and 4 times table.

Times table games –                             http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables   http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm                                                                                                    http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

This term the children have a list of maths activities to select from each week. As well as completing these activities the children should be completing at least 5 minutes mental maths work each night.

This will cover recalling number bonds, addition and subtraction calculations, doubles, rounding and times tables. Below is a list of some activities to help with this and some useful websites.

Noughts and Crosses – This game can be used with all strategies and the children are familiar with this game from class.

Bingo.

Quick fire questions.

How many in a minute?

Snap cards.

Memory matching cards.

Find the mistake.

Number Tennis.

These activities have been explained to the children and have been used in class.

Useful websites

Woodlands Junior Maths Zone

Hit the Button

Loop Cards

Sum dog

Good Morning,

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

Please note the change in PE day for the next few weeks.

Language

• Spelling – Complete Unit/List 8 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 20th January.
• 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

  Purple – Black Death
  Yellow – Waiting for Anya/ The card turner
  Orange – The giraffe and the pelly and me/ Artemis Fowl
  Blue – The ultimate trainers 
  Green – The hunger games/Down the rabbit hole
  All new books should be completed for Friday 27/1/17.

• You will be retaking the P7 Spelling Test next Wednesday 18th January, to see if your spelling skills have improved since August. There are 50 words which consist of spelling rules and patterns you have learned and use since Primary 1 (see the post from last week for examples).

Maths
Answer the following Algebra questions in your homework jotter. This is due for Friday 20/1/17.

1.   4f = 16

2. 60d = 360
3. 11g = 110
4. 9g = 45
5. 12a = 36
6. 5s + 3 = 23
7. 10w + 15 = 65
8. 3y + 24 = 30
9. 8h + 16 = 56
10. 6t – 40 = 14

Other

• Thank you for confirming your Burns Poem. You will recite your poems to our class and one other on the Monday 23^rd January.
• PE will be on MONDAY and THURSDAY for the next few weeks as we practice our Scottish Dancing with Primary 7M.