We have been enjoying our Toys topic. We have been learning about toys from the past and comparing them to toys from the present. Last week we started learning about how different toys move, and we designed our own toys in our topic groups. Yesterday we experimented with different toys and grouped them into ‘push’ and ‘pull’ toys. Then we made our own ‘push’ peg toys. Here are some pictures of us with our toys.

We had more interesting items today for the Panda group Show and Tell. The children are keen to get into the festive spirit as we have been practicing our Nativity songs for the past few weeks.

Here are some photos of the P5-7 members of the stop motion animation masterclass. We learned how to use the iMotion app to take still photos and run them together to make a short animation.  We had to be very careful to move our “characters” a tiny amount each time, keep the iPad steady and try to not get our hands in the photo! Next week we will be editing the animations and adding sound effects.

I was very impressed with the hard work and creativity shown by this group. Well done to you all on listening to the instructions on how to make your animation and then working together really well. I can’t wait to see the finished movies next week.

Miss Burnett

Good Afternoon.

All children in P2H have been given a new reading book today. I was aware that many of the children had already completed their non-fiction books, as the books are a lot shorter than their fiction reading books. We have read the new reading book together today in class, and we will be reading more and answering questions on the texts on Friday.

Thanks,
Miss Hamilton.

The lunchtime drama club will be on from 12.15 until 12.45 next week.

Thanks,
Miss Hamilton.

Today was the Giraffe group show and tell. We have been practising our questioning skills during our show and tell time. The children enjoy sharing their news and toys with the class and it is giving them plenty of practice for their upcoming Toys topic talk. Here are a few pictures from today.

Hello everyone,  here is your homework for this week – please remember to keep practising your 2,3,4,5 and 10 times tables so that you remember them.

Reading

Twirls – Will be issued to each group on Tuesday.

Crunchies – P13-19 for Wednesday and P20-end Friday. (Reading will be heard in class on these days)

Buttons – P16-21 Tuesday,  P21-26  for Wednesday and P26-end for Friday. (Reading will be heard in class on these days)

Spelling 

Blue group ‘o’

somebody, comforting, wonderful, brother, Monday, dozen, wanted and eat.

Red group ‘o’

gloves, son, front, monkey, woman, month, where and would.

Green group ‘ee’

tie, cries, pie, fried, spies, lie, from and children.

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.

This week in maths we will be looking at rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 and revising our times tables. There is a link below to some rounding games to help and remember your maths homework should be handed in on Friday, please ask if you are unsure.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2

Just a reminder for this event – Thursday 24th November at 6.30pm-7.30pm.  Please return your slip as soon as possible stating how many seats you will need.

Thank you

Mrs Hunter, Class Teacher

Homework this week:

• Spelling sound of the week is ‘ff’.

• We are reading non-fiction books this week.

• New common word walls have been given out today to the majority of our reading groups. The remaining group will receive their word walls tomorrow. If you could go over a section of the words each night and give a tick to each one that your child recognises, and I will be going over these in class also.

• Maths homework will be given on Wednesday as usual and it will be on the months of the year.

Hi Everyone,

Homework this week : Maths activity (any night)

New sounds : u and l

2 Books : Please ensure books are back  in homework bags on the Tuesday evening, ready to swap over on the Wednesday. If your child forgets to put the book in, it means that another child will go without reading for a night as we don’t have extra copies to send home.

Keep the junk coming in!  We need it for building a chair for their teddies (an activity they will be doing with their buddies on Friday).

We will be visiting the library again this Friday, at 11.15am.  Please ensure that the book your child took out last week is back in school by then so we can return it.  Not everyone has chosen to take it home so it may be in their school tray, so don’t panic if you haven’t seen it.

Is it possible for 1 extra parent or gran/grandpa to be available at 11 o’clock to join us on our trip to the library? If so, put a wee note in the diary. We would be back by 12.15 at the very latest.

Look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday for parents’ appointments.

Miss Mackay

Hi everyone, here is your homework for this week.

Reading  –

The Chocolate Factories – p16-32

The Mini Wonka Bars – p24-32

Fantastic Mr Fox – p2-13

Muggle Wump Monkeys – pages vary

Spelling –

red group – tion

stationary

dictionary

invention

collection

infection

ammunition

which

read

Green Group – tion

direction

action

fiction

infection

mention

nation

wash

or

Blue Group

less

dress

messy

impress

pressed

chess

ask

an

Maths –

Please complete the addition sheet provided.

Remember to ask if you are unsure.

Mrs McKay

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 5 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 18th November.
• 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 – All books should be complete for Friday 25/11/16.

Green group – Stormbreaker or The Hobbit.
Purple group – Thomohawk.
Blue group – Call 999
Orange group – The Hodgeheg or George’s Marvellous medicine. Yellow group –  Escape from Shangri-La or The Outlaw of Varjak Paw

Remember there is no book detective’s homework, all you need to do is read. Enjoy!

• Maths To help with our ‘Fractions, Decimals and Percentages’ please use the following links to practice our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

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

Topic

• Solo talk Tuesday 22nd November – Prepare a solo talk which will last 2-3 minutes on a topic of your choice. See the blog for more tips.

Other

• Return any letters A.S.A.P.
• We still require two adult/parent helpers on Friday 18th November from 10.00-11.00. Please write a note in your child’s diary to let me know if you can help. Thank you in advance.
• P.E Tuesday and Thursday
• Would you like to design a flyer for the Christmas Fair with the chance of winning 2 cinema vouchers? If so, please visit this link: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/bishopton/2016/11/09/design-a-flyer-for-the-christmas-flyer/

New reading book – to be changed on Wednesday

Sounds – u, l

Wordwall – please go over all dotted words

Bring a bear on Friday for our Bookbug Day

Please bring bookbags every day and reading books as we need to swap on a Wednesday.  If your child does not return their book, there may not be one to give them home.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday at parents night.

Mrs Hunter

I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  Homework and news for this week……

P2 Homework

Spelling sound this week is ff.

Reading books out on Monday will be fiction and back to non fiction next week.

Maths on Wednesday will be money related.

Wordwall practise

P3 Homework

Spelling sound this week is ur as in burglar, hamburger.

Reading book back to fiction this week with non fiction books back out next week.

Maths homework on Wednesday will be Money related.

Reading comprehension out on Tuesday for Friday hand in.

Wordwall practise

We had a great time at our Toys trip last week and enjoyed looking at the different toys, old and new.  This week we will be getting into out new cooperative learning groups and learning about old and new toys and how they operate.

Remember you have your toys talk in a couple of weeks time.  Keep practising.  You will be allocated a day to do your talk and this will be handed out very soon.  Remember if you have any worries about it please talk to me in class and we can sort these out.

We are also starting our Christmas nativity songs in class.  We will be doing our own poem and song before the nativity begins.  The poem parts will be handed out this week for Twas a night before Christmas.  Enjoy practising.

Have a great week,

Mrs Fulton