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It has been Profile Jotter week this week! We have been working diligently to put our work into these jotters and look forward to eventually showing these off to you.

In Numeracy, we continue to work on numbers before, after and between as well as working on our Number of the Day. We looked at ‘missing’ numbers in addition sums too. The children enjoyed this number bonds game to help us with number facts and fluency: https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/ten/

We are continuing to work with Read Write Inc., reviewing our sounds, working to read and write using our sounds and to read our tricky words too. We were using our reading skills to read the words in this game and decide if they were real or fake words.

During Milk and Snack time, we looked at volcanoes in a short clip video and the class were keen we shared this video on the blog.

We also looked at this video about the Giant’s Causeway and how it was made by volcanoes. We listened to the legend of Finn McCool and his encounter with Benandonner which led to the creation of the Giant’s Causeway. The children particularly enjoyed this animated short about the story! We wrote a personal response to share our thoughts on this story about the Giant’s Causeway.

We had a look over some Spanish greetings this week, with children sharing what they knew or remembered and we practised some of these in class. Here you can hear some of our work!

We have been out this Friday, looking for signs of autumn using most of our senses, please look forward to seeing those photos next week!

Finally, to our Star of the Week!

Congratulations to our

Mariam

for being a Responsible Citizen and always working to be respectful, being kind and using her good manners!

We start homework this week! We have a Building Resilience homework assigned this week which can come in for the 8th of October, the Literacy and Maths homework should be completed for this Thursday, the 30th of September.

General homework for 27th September 2021

Reading –  Reading books will go out on Thursday, please ensure you return your reading books on Monday 4th October.

Literacy – Look in your child’s orange homework jotter. This week your child has been asked to ‘Be the Teacher‘ with their sounds with you. Take a couple of minutes each night to test each other on the consonants in the Speed Sounds Chart on the first page. Encourage your child to say the sounds and ‘be the teacher’ with you. Take turns in pointing to the different letters and using their sound. This video can help you with the sounds.

Maths – Please try to log in to Education City. There will be a Homework for you. Have a go at no more than two activities from the assigned homework.
The log in information for both Education City and Active Learn should be on the inside cover of your child’s orange homework jotter.

A guide to logging in to both sites should be in your child’s homework pack. If you have any issues logging in please let Mrs Aylward know. An electronic version of the guides can be found here:

Health and Wellbeing – Building Resilience.

We are all likely to experience ups and downs in life. We can’t always predict what
life throws at us. However there are things that can help us to deal with challenges
and setbacks, and even learn and grow as a result.

In this unit, we are covering:
– Everyone goes through ups and downs in their life
– Resilient people cope better with difficulties
– I can learn to be more resilient

We start the Be Resilient unit this term. Please complete the Home Task to be handed in by the 8th of October.

Home Task First Level (P2–P4)
Think about someone that inspires you – perhaps a parent, your class teacher,
grandma or a neighbour (or a character from a book or film, or someone famous).
Find out about a time they found challenging and what they did to overcome it.
What things did they do to help them cope? Create a poster with the ideas you come
up with.

Here are the electronic files for this Home Task, one is a leaflet overview for parents and the other file is the Home Task as described above.