Please READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK all words.
Please choose 2 activities from the sheet and complete them in your jotter.
For Monday 18th January
Please READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK all words.
Please choose 2 activities from the sheet and complete them in your jotter.
For Monday 18th January
This week, the whole school is having a focus on finance. Following the success of our ‘Christmas Bank’ in December, where children had their own bank account and had to pay for activities, I will once again give each child £1 in plastic money to spend in the class shop and to pay for special activities. Children may also earn money for doing special jobs in class. Other activities this week include:
Growth Mindset and Learning Powers
We have been ‘learning about learning’ and have been discussing ways to improve our learning capacity by changing the way we think about learning.
We have been using ” Instead of saying (something negative)…..try saying.(something positive)” See the picture below of our wall display.
We have also been discussing ‘Learning Powers’ ; each one has a cartoon character to illustrate it and the children have made a little story to accompany each one. The ‘Learning Powers’ are:
Learning powers will make children more resilient, less worried about making mistakes and more able to become independent learners.
Homework this week:
Spelling – the focus sound is ‘ay’. As we are learning cursive writing now, I am sending home a cursive writing sheet with some ‘ay’ words on to practise. This may be challenging but am encouraging the children to think positively….
Reading homework as normal – check green homework bags (Mon or Tues)
Numeracy – A money problem sheet to complete
– A Sumdog challenge ‘P2 Money to 20p’ (this task is optional)
Events this week:
Tuesday – African Drumming session 1
Thursday and Friday – PE
Thank you,
Miss Brunt
Reading
All groups have reading homework and a task to complete for Wednesday 13th/Thursday 14th January.
Maths
Focus on Finance. Pupils have a worksheet on budgeting to complete for Friday 15th January.Worksheet was issued on Friday 8th January.Pupils have been reminded that their work should be presented neatly and they should use a ruler if they need to draw lines.
French
Learn new vocabulary for weather for Thursday 14th January.Pupils should have taken home their French vocabulary jotter to help with this task but must remember to return it to school.
Happy new year! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
As this is a short week, reading homework will not begin again until Monday.
Thursday 7th
New writing sheets have been added into the writing jotters today. Please encourage your child to sound out these words and write them down neatly into their jotters. Jotters will be collected on Monday.
Thanks
Miss Conway
A very Happy New Year to you all!
As this week is short, we will resume our normal homework routine next week. However, I would like the children to learn the calendar months in order so if they could practise reciting this, that would be very helpful.
Over the next few weeks, we will focus on money ( Finance Week starts on 11.1.16); we will have a ‘Scottish Week’ ( 25.1.16) and a focus on ‘Chinese New Year’ (8.2.16).
Please also note:
Thanks,
Miss Brunt
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Mrs Diane Donnelly
Head Teacher