All children can be collected at 12 o’clock on Friday 2nd December to visit the Christmas Fair. If you are unable to collect at this time then collection is at the normal school finish time.
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P4 Newsletter- Christmas Fair and Matilda the Movie (date change 8th December) .
Christmas Fair
Please remember that it is the Christmas Fair on Friday.
There will be no swimming on Friday 2nd of December to give us time to organise our stall.
Primary 4 are selling calendars and we look forward to seeing you there at the fair to buy them.
If anyone has any donations for the tombola, raffle, chocolate tombola or anything else we’d be happy to receive them!
Children can be collected at class at 12:00, however, the others must stay with me to help on the stall until 12:25 unless they are collected. If you wish your child to be collected my another parent can you send me a note to that effect in advance.
Don’t forget your pennies- Mrs Cooney needs a new headphone story centre for the classroom! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Swimming will resume as normal for the two weeks after this on the 9th and 16th of December.
Thursday 8th December- Matilda Movie Afternoon
We have been studying the novel Matilda in class and we are planning to watch the movie on Thursday 8th in the afternoon. We will be looking at the similarities and differences of plot and characterisation. I have said that the children can bring in a snack, savoury, sweet or fruit to share with the class, if you allow. This is instead of doing a similar thing in the last week, though we may still watch a movie, there will be no snacks.
Please remember! No fizzy juice and that we are a NUT FREE school- please ensure that all snacks are nut free. Malteasers and Haribo are always safe if you are in doubt!
Thanks,
Mrs Cooney
P4 Homework 29/11/16
Phew! We found the spelling jotters, admittedly in a strange place, but we did find them!
29/11/16
Spelling– Week 2) u-e and y (i)
Gorillas (y) sound like in day or pay
See jotters for instructions.
Pandas (u-e) sound
(magic e makes the vowel sound like it’s name e.g blu blue tub tube)
Word Detective and Skimming and Scanning
Children should read a book, newspaper or magazine and spend about 20 mins looking for as many words as they can with the spelling pattern above. A minimum of 5 words should be found. Write them in your jotters.
Wolves (u-e) sound
(magic e makes the vowel sound like it’s name e.g blu blue tub tube)
Word Detective and Skimming and Scanning
Children should read a book, newspaper or magazine and spend about 20 mins looking for as many words as they can with the spelling pattern above. A minimum of 5 words should be found. Write them in your jotters.
No spell well activity or sentences required this week .
Reading
Pink – Pocket Money – See bookmark
Orange – The Red Planet- See bookmark
Yellow- The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl- P1-18 – no written task.
Blue – Meeting Cezanne by Michael Morpugo p 7-11 or 9-13 ( the children know which is which) no written task
Green – Here Comes Trouble- p22-28 for Wednesday 30th and p28-36 for Thursday 1st
*NEW* Numeracy- Keep going with your Learnits and I have begun a challenge this week on Sumdog. The children are very keen to participate in this but please remind them that it is for fun and not to feel bad if they aren’t able to spend as much time as others on the computer.
Learnits- The Rules…
The children are asked the question on the learnits card on several occasions and if they answer correctly, within about two seconds, they can have a tick. Once they have ten ticks they can throw the learnit away. Once the envelope is empty they can have some new learnits. You can keep the envelope at home until it needs refilled.
Don’t feel you have to do all of them at once. A few at a time is sufficient.
P5 Homework for week starting 28/11/16
Spelling Homework
Task 1: Write words out 3 times in neat columns using Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check.
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Task 2: This week we will be learning how to use a dictionary. This week’s homework task is to give you extra practice. You may borrow a school dictionary for this activity if you need to.
Using a dictionary, find each of your spelling words, then write the word, then the word that comes immediately after it in the dictionary.
Numeracy Homework
Addition worksheet to complete.
P6 Homework 28.11.16
Monday 28th November
Please READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK words twice.
Complete 1 activity in jotter.
Complete sheet Blue – sheet 7
Red – sheet 9b and 9d
For Monday 5th December
P2 Homework W/B 28.11.16
Homework this week:
Spelling – New sheet. Ignore the first list. Go onto List 14 a-e. We call this ‘Magic e’. The ‘e’ at the end of the word turns the short vowel sound into a long vowel sound.
Reading – please send in book bags daily. Time for reading this week will be a bit more limited as we have full nativity rehearsals and the school fair to prepare for. However, please continue to check the post-it markers for updates.
Topic – We have started a topic on electricity. Last week, we talked about power/energy and looked around for items that were powered by electricity. This week , we’ll find out more about being safe around electricity.
Events this week –
PE – please have kits in daily as normal hall timetables are suspended just now. We will have PE this week at some point and also Scottish Country Dancing practice. Last week, P1 and P2 joined together to be introduced to country dancing with a visiting teaching student who happened to be a pipe player!
Friday – School Christmas Fair– from 12 noon onwards – info to follow about pick up arrangements for your child. If any parents can help at our toy stall, please let me know ASAP.
Friday -SSPCA visit to address the school at assembly.
Friday – Library
Thanks,
Miss Brunt
Parent helpers P1 and P2 for Christmas Fair
Primary 1 and 2 are responsible for the second-hand toy stall at the Christmas Fair on Friday 2nd December. We urgently need some parents to come in and help with sorting and pricing the toys for the stall.
If any parents are available to come in on Thursday afternoon, anytime from 12:45pm, please let Mrs Cumming or Miss Brunt know.
Homework 22/11/16
Most of the children will have their words on paper this week for spelling as the jotters (all but 3) have gone walkabout. The children are certain they put them in the correct tray and I am now searching all the other trays to see if we can find them.
22/11/16
Spelling– Week 1) u-e and y (i)
Gorillas (y) sound like in day or pay
Pandas (u-e) sound
(magic e makes the vowel sound like it’s name e.g blu blue tub tube)
Wolves (u-e) sound
(magic e makes the vowel sound like it’s name e.g blu blue tub tube)
All Groups:
Words in jotters:
Complete one Spell Well activity- if these are lost please send in a note or a message with your child for a new one.
Reading
Pink – Far Out day Out- See bookmark
Orange – Spiders- See bookmark
Yellow- Meeting Cezanne by Michael Morpugo- P44-end – no written task.
Blue – The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.- 42-end- no written task
Green – The Lie Detector- see bookmark to be completed by Wed 23rd and new book given on Wed 23rd
*NEW* Numeracy- Keep going with your Learnits and I have begun a challenge this week on Sumdog. The children are very keen to participate in this but please remind them that it is for fun and not to feel bad if they aren’t able to spend as much time as others on the computer.
The Rules
The children are asked the question on the learnits card on several occasions and if they answer correctly, within about two seconds, they can have a tick. Once they have ten ticks they can throw the learnit away. Once the envelope is empty they can have some new learnits. You can keep the envelope at home until it needs refilled.
Don’t feel you have to do all of them at once. A few at a time is sufficient.