I hope you all had a great weekend.  News and Homework as follows:

Homework

No formal spelling this week as it is a shorter working week.  The children can practise their phonics skills using these games if you wish.

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

Maths Homework this week is looking at counting in 2s and 5s.  These skills are very useful when we look at money combinations later in Primary 2.

Reading books continue.  We will continue to look at fiction books until the end of term.  This is helping us with our reading focus of looking at the beginning, middle and end of stories.  After Christmas we will look at non fiction texts.

Wordwalls will be checked on Tuesday this week.

News

We are off school on Thursday 30th December for St Andrews day.

On Friday 1st December we have our school Christmas house art day.  This is where the children work in their house teams to create a piece of large art for the school display areas.  This year our theme is Christmas carols.  Pupils should wear their house colours –

Hawks (green)

Falcons (blue)

Eagles (yellow)

Ospreys (red)

The children will be using lots of art materials including glue, paint and drawing materials.  It is a fabulous day and we can’t wait.

On Saturday 2nd December the school fair will take place in the school between 1pm and 3pm.

We are looking for more parent helpers to accompany us on our local community walk on Friday 8th December.  If you are able to join us between 9am and 10:30 on this day please pop a note in the diary.

A reminder that the short read, write count event takes place on Tuesday afternoon.

Thank you for all of your continued help and support.

Mrs Fulton/ Mrs MacKenzie