Hello everyone,
Thank you for completing more wonderful homework last week. It was lovely to see the children’s Scottish Book Week homework.
This week our spelling pattern is -dge. There are lots of words with this pattern! Your children should have copied these down, but just in case, here they are:
edge, dredge, hedge, badge, ledge, sledge, wedge, lodge, bridge, ridge, fridge, fudge, dodge, smudge, budge, nudge.
There were a few questions from the children about the meanings of some of these words. Please can adults assist them to look up the definition in the dictionary or online at home, if needed 🙂
Please choose 2 spelling activities from the grid below:
In maths we have been developing our “fact fluency” which refers to someone’s ability to recall addition/subtraction/division/multiplication facts quickly and accurately.
We have been practising the following game in class and I would like children to practise at home too:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
We have been selecting “level 2” – “addition” – then “three one-digit numbers”.
We are aiming to solve these as fast as possible, ideally in between 3 and 7 seconds per question. When adding 3 numbers together the children have been looking for patterns and ways to solve the answers quickly e.g looking for ways to make 10, doubles facts etc. It is sometimes harder than it looks, especially when it is in a short space of time!
We have also been practising reading and solving word problems in maths. Sometimes the calculation is easy, but we need to work out what the question is asking us.
Finally, this term’s “big homework” is to create and practise a presentation about “celebrations and food”. This is due the week after the Christmas holidays. I do not expect children to be working over the holidays (and I won’t be either!) so they have the 5 weeks between now and the end of term to prepare for this.
Please find more details below:
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Mrs Rush
Royal Mile Primary School 