If you haven’t returned homework jotters back please do so this week.
General homework for 1st March 2021
Literacy – Look in your child’s homework jotter for their spelling homework this week. There is a task for their tricky words and for our sounds pattern this week – we continue to look at ‘magic e’ and look at the ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ sounds to go with ‘o magic e’. Maths – The Time Homework on Education City has several games to choose from to explore Time, choose no more than two to have a go at. Do let me know if you have any issues logging in. Reading – Reading books will go home this week on Thursday to return next week on Monday. Reading books will not go out where a book has not been returned.
Welcome back all to our Week in Review format! We have had a busy week back and it has been lovely to see everyone and to see so many smiling faces!
This week in Literacy, we continued with our magic e pattern looking at the ‘i magic e’ pattern after revising the ‘-y’ and ‘igh’ sounds. We worked well to use ‘i_e‘ sound patterns in games and written work and we revised some more of our tricky words too.
We made some book covers as part of the Authors and Myths work on Wednesday and we also shared favourite authors or legends in class. Thank you for some fantastic contributions!
We have continued with Number of the Day work in class and are starting to look at Time. So far this week we have been looking at reading the time by looking at o’clock and half past on analogue clocks and matching these to their digital times.
Space is our new topic and we started by looking at the Sun as the star of our solar system. We were thinking about how important the Sun is to us on Earth. We created our own astronaut characters and space rockets as we think about where in space we might really like to go. We loved looking at this size comparison of different things in the universe!
Upcoming and reminders:
Homework
Homework resumes as normal next week. Please do ensure you have returned your homework jotter and pack. Spelling and Maths homework goes out on a Monday and returns for Thursday. Reading books will continue to go out on a Thursday to be returned for Monday.
Indoor Shoes
Please do check that your child has suitable and comfortable indoor shoes, especially if they are taking home shoes that are now too small.
Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education programme
Please find below the home learning information sheet about the Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education programme Primary 2 will be starting shortly.
We will be focusing on relationships we make and develop, looking at our families, and how all our families are different, what makes us unique, making and having friends and what makes people alike and what makes us different (diversity). Several aspects are also covered by, or otherwise overlap with, our Building Resilience programme work.
Here are just a few of the wonderful new books that we are adding to our class libraries. There is a mixture of fiction and non -fiction titles for all the classes, Early Years to Primary 7.
They celebrate the achievements of people from across the world and across time zones. They encourage our young people to have high aspirations and a growth mindset. They reflect the diversity and rich cultural capital of our school community and our school Vision, Values and Aims.
Look out for more information and ideas from our school Equalities Group as well as updates of our Equalities Policies and a chance to contribute to this important part of the life and work of the school.
Although it is Miss Finlayson’s Wellbeing assembly today I couldn’t resist posting a little celebration assembly for our stars of the week. https://youtu.be/-v079py0I6M
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