I hope you all had a lovely October holiday.  Homework and news as follows:

Homework

Spelling – This week we will be looking at short vowel sounds.  We will go over the vowels and practise some words that have the short vowel sound (words that use the letter sound rather than letter name)  For example cat, let, bit, lot, cut.  The words will be quite straightforward this week but the children should also be able to name the vowels by the end of the week.

Reading – reading books will be issued on Monday.  Please read a little each night.  Shortly we will be looking at beginning, middle and end of a story so this can be included in your chats about the book.   i.e. What happened at the start?

New wordwalls have been issued this week.  Please practise the highlighted words but you can do more if you would like.  I will be looking at these at the end of next week.

Maths – This week the children will have pattern homework.  This is looking at colours, shapes and basic number pattern.  We have covered this in class.  This will be issued on Monday and collected in on Friday so can be completed on night that is suitable for you.

News

This week the children will have new seats in class.  We use lots of different groups for learning so that pupils socialise and work with lots of different children in the class.

We will also be starting our new Stickman topic this week.  We will be completing lots of literacy work around this story and also looking at other Julia Donaldson stories.  The children can bring in any books they own written by this author.  Please remember to write your name on the inside cover so that we can return these books to the correct owners.

Have a great week.

Mrs Fulton/ Mrs MacKenzie