I hope you all had a great weekend.\u00a0 News and Homework as follows:<\/p>\n
Homework<\/strong><\/p>\n No formal spelling this week as it is a shorter working week.\u00a0 The children can practise their phonics skills using these games if you wish.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ictgames.com\/literacy.html<\/a><\/p>\n Maths Homework this week is looking at counting in 2s and 5s.\u00a0 These skills are very useful when we look at money combinations later in Primary 2.<\/p>\n Reading books continue.\u00a0 We will continue to look at fiction books until the end of term.\u00a0 This is helping us with our reading focus of looking at the beginning, middle and end of stories.\u00a0 After Christmas we will look at non fiction texts.<\/p>\n Wordwalls will be checked on Tuesday this week.<\/p>\n News<\/strong><\/p>\n We are off school on Thursday 30th December for St Andrews day.<\/p>\n On Friday 1st December we have our school Christmas house art day.\u00a0 This is where the children work in their house teams to create a piece of large art for the school display areas.\u00a0 This year our theme is Christmas carols.\u00a0 Pupils should wear their house colours –<\/p>\n Hawks (green)<\/p>\n Falcons (blue)<\/p>\n Eagles (yellow)<\/p>\n Ospreys (red)<\/p>\n The children will be using lots of art materials including glue, paint and drawing materials.\u00a0 It is a fabulous day and we can’t wait.<\/p>\n On Saturday 2nd December the school fair will take place in the school between 1pm and 3pm.<\/p>\n We are looking for more parent helpers to accompany us on our local community walk on Friday 8th December.\u00a0 If you are able to join us between 9am and 10:30 on this day please pop a note in the diary.<\/p>\n A reminder that the short read, write count event takes place on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n Thank you for all of your continued help and support.<\/p>\n Mrs Fulton\/ Mrs MacKenzie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope you all had a great weekend.\u00a0 News and Homework as follows: Homework No formal spelling this week as it is a shorter working week.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 These skills are … Continue reading P2R wk beg 26.11.17<\/span>