Category Archives: All Classes

Monday 31st October

Please READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK words.

Complete one activity from sheet in your jotter.

Complete sheet – BLUE – short vowel sounds

RED – 5b and 5c

For Monday 7th November

Sounds: This week we are starting the 4th set of sounds which include digraphs (two letters together making one sound). It is important that the children understand that they do not need to sound out both the letters. For example, on Monday we are learning ‘ai’ as in ‘rain’ so the children don’t need to sound the ‘a’ and the ‘i’ individually. We will learn that ‘when two vowels go walking the first does the talking’; so ‘ai’ will actually say the name of ‘a’ being A. This can be trickier for the children and may take longer to learn so please don’t worry.

We are moving on from the days of the week to ‘seasons and the months in each season’.

Topic: We are finishing off our dinosaur topic this week. As part of the topic we are doing some African drumming and using other percussion instruments.

Events: For the next five weeks small groups of five children from P1 will go with some children from St. Margaret’s P1/2 on an Outdoor Education excursion which is led by Sean Fallon (Outdoor Education Leader). We will be doing forest skills. Letters will be sent home on a weekly basis to the children involved. I apologise for the short notice this week but if your child has a letter please could it returned by Wednesday morning at the latest.

We will be talking about Guy Fawkes and firework safety and doing some related art work on Thursday.

P1 and P2 went to Dynamic Earth last week to discover more about our planet; in particular, dinosaurs.

The following pictures are not of great quality but do show some of the experiences the children had.

A real ice berg!

What was the Ice Age like?

Brrrr…it’s cold in ‘ere!

The afternoon workshop…a story about an allosaurus, a stegosaurus and a triceratops. Children got to see and hold replica dinosaur horns…and even fossilised dinosaur poop!

Artefacts being handed around…

The bit everyone asks for …lunchtime! Nom nom nom…

Unfortunately no pictures were taken of the time machine, the volcanic eruption simulator, the submarine, the 4D movie experience with an actual snow flurry or the rainforest downpour. However, a great day was had by all.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Homework this week:

Spelling – List 9 ‘ff’  (unless you have been advised separately)

Reading – Everyone will get a Halloween poem and some jokes to read and enjoy on Monday. From Tuesday onwards, we’ll get back into our reading routine (which was off track last week, partly because of our school trip and extra activities surrounding this).

Numeracy – If you can access Sumdog at home, I’ve put on an activity called “Our First Challenge”. 75 points to collect, revising basic numerical skills. If you cannot access this at home, do not worry as children can access this in school in one of our ICT sessions.

Maths – Telling the time – as the clocks have changed, we’ll look at o’clock this week.

Topic – We’ll finish off the topic on Dinosaurs by creating some dinosaur ‘Top Trump’ cards. We’ll also start to learn about fireworks safety and bonfire night.

PE – Can children have PE kit in with them at all times as we may have to reschedule Tuesday’s time due to lack of hall availability. Thursday PE as normal.

Thank you,

Miss Brunt

Reading-

All pupils have reading homework for next week and have been reminded to keep their reading log up to date.

Maths-

All pupils have a maths worksheet to complete for next Friday 4/11/16.

Practise x7 x8 tables.

Sounds: This week we are not learning any new sounds but focussing on revising the ones we have learnt and using these to make short words. The children have been given a new set of sounds which have the last six sounds that we have learnt. They also have a list of words to learn to read and to make using their sounds. The list of words can be cut up. These short words can all be sounded out to help the children learn to read them.

Reading: Please help your child to read their new book. They will keep the book for a week but will be doing other activities connected to the book. Some of these will be sent home for homework.

Please supply an envelope for your child to keep all their key words and sentence strips from their reading books.

Other information:

A reminder that we have the trip to Dynamic Earth on Wednesday. Please return the slip about packed lunches particularly if you wish to have a free school packed lunch. Of course you are welcome to supply your child’s own packed lunch if you wish to.

The Parent Council Halloween disco is on Thursday evening, information has been sent home in their reading bags.