Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and managed to squeeze in some time to relax 🙂

There is no official reading or maths homework this week. However, the children could be working on their phonemes that we have been learning in class.

Red Team 
‘ay’ phoneme –  day, tray, play, stay, prayer, way
Common words – away, always, today

Purple Team
‘ai’ phoneme – pain, chair, flair, paint, stain, chain, made
common words – said, big, could

Yellow Team
‘j’ + ‘v’ – jump, just, jacket, jam, vest, visit, travel
common words – have, to, into

Happy Monday, 2 weeks to go!

Just reading and maths home work this week.

Reading
Strawberries – No Ball Games!
Pineapples – Where is Joe?
Grapes – Funny Ears

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Maths

Children should continue with the 1d+1d booklet that they have at home.

Happy Monday!

This week the children in Room 3 and Room 4 are going to be designing and creating paper mache Island models. If you have any spare newspaper lying around the house, we would greatly appreciate if it could be sent into class. The more, the better 🙂

Thanks
Miss Laidlaw :)-

December already, wow!

Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading

Strawberries – Fizzkid Liz (Mon) No Ball Games!(Wed)

Lemons – What is He?

Pineapples – What’s it made of?

Grapes – Be Quiet!

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Spelling
Red Team
A common words assessment has been completed and sent home in your child’s bag. Children should consolidate words that they found tricky.

(Children should continue to work on these common words this week. If you feel they are secure with these words, they should practise the common words in their reading books)

Purple Team
A common words assessment has been completed and sent home in your child’s bag. Children should consolidate words that they found tricky.

Yellow Team

‘h’ and ‘v’ – hint, hurt, hand, help, vest, visit, travel
Common words – was, went, his

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress.

Maths
The children have been given a new mental maths booklet to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week. (As the booklet is copied back to back, the children can hand in their completed sheet every second Friday) The children should be on sheet 3 this week.

Additionally, we have been learning about money in class.

Circles
Children should be able to recognise and describe the different coins. They should be able to order the coins by value and suggest which coins to use to make totals up to 10p. We will also be looking at equivalence (10p or 5p and 5p or 5p, 2p, 2p and 1p)

Squares and Triangles
Children should be able to recognise and describe the different coins. They should be able to order the coins by value and suggest which coins to use to make set totals. We will also be look at equivalence (10p or 5p and 5p). This week we will begin to look at adding items to the value of 20p and beyond as well as calculating change from 20p.

Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading
Strawberries – A Hot Surprise (Mon) The Giant and The Frippit (Wed)
Lemons – What is He?
Pineapples – I take care of my dog
Grapes – Curly to The Rescue

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Spelling
Red Team – Consolidation Week

A common words assessment has been completed and sent home in your child’s bag. Children should consolidate and work on the highlighted words that they found tricky.
(There are a couple of children who managed full marks – these children should focus on the tricky words/common words in their reading book)

Purple Team
This phoneme was particularly tricky so the group are going to work on this phoneme again next week. If you feel that your child is secure with these particular words, they could be challenged to think of some other ‘ck’ words.

‘ck’ phoneme – lick, stick, pocket, flick, black, clock
Common words – make, like, made

Yellow Team
‘b’ and ‘u’ – grab, belt, pump, rust, duck, upset, black
Common words – be, but, you

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress

Maths
The children have been given a new mental maths booklet to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week. (As the booklet is copied back to back, the children can hand in their completed sheet every second Friday) The children should be on sheet 3 this week.

Additionally, we have been learning about money in class.

Circles
Children should be able to recognise and describe the different coins. They should be able to order the coins by value and suggest which coins to use to make totals up to 10p. We will also be looking at equivalence (10p or 5p and 5p or 5p, 2p, 2p and 1p)

Squares and Triangles
Children should be able to recognise and describe the different coins. They should be able to order the coins by value and suggest which coins to use to make set totals. We will also be look at equivalence (10p or 5p and 5p). This week we will begin to look at adding items to the value of 20p and beyond as well as calculating change from 20p.

I can’t believe it’s that time of year already! Our Christmas shows are quickly catching up with us.

It would be very much appreciated if you could look out a Christmas jumper or t-shirt and any festive headwear (eg Santa hats, elf ears, reindeer antlers, tinsel) you have as part of our Christmas show costumes. If you do not have a jumper, a red or green t shirt will do just fine.

On the show days, boys can wear their Christmas jumpers with their school trousers and girls can wear with their skirts or you could send in black leggings.

Please label all your child’s clothes and accessories and put them in a carrier bag with their name clearly written on it. This can stay in school throughout the show week. You can send these in at your earliest convenience.

Thanks
Miss Laidlaw 🙂

Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading

Strawberries – How turtle got his shell (Mon) A Hot Surprise   (Wed)

Lemons – Chinese New Year

Pineapples – Mrs Mogs Cats

Grapes – I can’t open it

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words. 

Spelling

Red Team
‘oa’ phoneme – oats, float, croak, soak, oak, coat
Common words – him, all, came

 Purple Team
ck phoneme – lick, stick, pocket, flick, black, clock
Common words – make, like, made

Yellow Team
‘b’ and ‘u’ – cub, beg, grab, belt, mug, tug, pump, rust,
Common words – be, but, you

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress

Maths

The children have been given a new mental maths booklet this week to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week. (As the booklet is copied back to back, the children can hand in their completed sheet every second Friday)

Additionally, we have been revising jigsaw numbers within 10 in class. You could go over this with your child at home. We are also working on reading and writing numbers 0-100, as well as comparing and ordering these numbers.

 Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading

Strawberries – Animal Feet(Mon) How to Make a Bird Feeder (Wed)
Lemons – This is Me
Pineapples – Vroom!
Grapes – Rush Hour

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

 Spelling

Red Team
‘oy’ Phoneme – boy, toy, soy, coy, oyster
Common Words – our, down, off

Purple Team
‘oo’ Phoneme – cool, pool, stool, snooker, boots, foolish
Common Words – play, no, look

Yellow Team
‘f’ and ‘o’ – fin, elf, lift, film, fact, top, cost, rock, spot, drop
Common Words – if, for, on

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress

Maths

This week the children have been given a place value/partitioning worksheet to complete at home and hand in on Friday.

Additionally, we have been revising jigsaw numbers within 10 in class. You could go over this with your child at home. We are also working on reading and writing numbers 0-100, as well as comparing and ordering these numbers.

Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading

Strawberries – How Does Water Change?(Mon) Camping (Wed)
Lemons – Eek look at this!
Pineapples – Josie’s New Coat
Grapes – Where’s Our Car?

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Spelling

The children will be spending the beginning of the term revising phonemes and common words learned in Primary 1 to ensure retention and that they are secure to move on.

Red Team
‘ai’ Phoneme – pain, chair, flair, paint, stain, chain, maid
Common Words – said, big, could

Purple Team
‘ee’ Phoneme – eel, steel, wheel, feel, peer, keen, cheek
Common Words – had, see, has

Yellow Team
‘g’ and ‘l’ phoneme – gas, pig, gap, get, grin, led, lap, lips, slim, clap
Common words – go, got get

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress

Maths

The children have been given a mental maths booklet to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week.

Additionally, we have been revising jigsaw numbers within 10 in class. You could go over this with your child at home. We are also working on reading and writing numbers 0-100. Following this we will progress to ordering numbers in ascending and descending order.

Listed below is the reading, spelling and maths focus for each group.

Reading
Strawberries – The Wind and The Sun (Mon) Too Much Talk (Wed)
Lemons – The New Hat
Pineapples – Bully Bear
Grapes – Super Shopping

Read over the text to develop confidence and fluency with decoding and tracking words.

Spelling

Red Team
‘ck’  Phoneme – lick, stick, pocket, black, sock, tick, pick
Common Words – make, like, made

Purple Team
‘ph’ Phoneme – Phil, elephant, dolphin, phonics
Common Words –one, first, little, new

Yellow Team
‘c’ and ‘k’ phonemes – cat, can, act, tick, pick, skip, pink
Common words – can, we, into

Your child has been provided with a spelling activities sheet. Each night, they should complete a spelling activity. This can be a combination of written and active tasks throughout the week, to ensure your child has a firm grasp of the weekly phoneme words and common words.

A spelling test and dictation will be done at the end of the week in class to ensure the children are secure before they progress

Maths
The children have been given a mental maths booklet to encourage fast recall of addition number facts. This can be worked on in the upcoming weeks, one page per week.

Additionally, we have been revising jigsaw numbers within 10 in class. You could go over this with your child at home. We are also working on reading and writing numbers 0-100. Following this we will progress to ordering numbers in ascending and descending order.