At the moment, pupils are eating their snack after play time in the classroom. In previous years, pupils would eat their snack outside during morning break-time. This keeps our classrooms tidy. Break-time lasts 15 minutes and we want most of this time to be playing, rather than eating.
To help your child prepare for this return, please can you make sure your child has one item for snack that they would be able to carry outside with them. This should ideally be one an item of fruit and something they can eat quickly. Thank you! 😊
In Profile Jotter week we have continued to work with 2D shapes and 3D objects, writing their names and using their properties(the linked game requires flash) such as ‘sides‘, ‘edges‘ and the tricky ‘vertices‘ for 3D objects in particular. We talked about the shapes we could see and gave clues to each other to try and find the shape we were thinking of and we made some models using different 3D objects!
We have been working to write our ideas down more this week and reviewed ‘Class Two at the Zoo‘, ‘Who’s Our New Teacher?‘ and ‘Aaaarrgghh Spider!‘. We also thought about ‘Should school uniforms be banned?‘ as a question for our Big Writing. We had a range of thoughts and ideas on this. Some children thought that we should ban school uniforms and other children disagreed and we discussed why each side thought that way.
We continued with Our Community work, finding location on a map of our playground and thinking about the jobs people have. In P.E. we continue to work on ball skills and are beginning to think more about attacking and defending roles in team games.
Have a lovely weekend everyone! We look forward to seeing you on Monday!
This week your child will come home with a plastic folder containing their homework. You will find a literacy jotter in a poly-pocket with your child’s log-in information on the inside of the jotter. Your child’s spelling tasks should be written in the jotters, please do not use more than 2 pages when doing this work. Please keep the jotter and the poly-pocket together to aid us in transferring the jotter from the folder when the spelling work is due back in by Thursday.
Reading books will start to go home this week on Thursday to be returned by Monday. This should help to reinforce reading already done in school that week. We will be unable to issue your child another reading book if these do not return and this could cause a delay in other children being able to access these as there will be a quarantine period on their return.
On weeks before a holiday, reading books will not go home that week (such as next week) but there may be other online books assigned. As ever please do check the blog to be kept up-to-date.
Care of items sent home
Due to current circumstances, always wash your hands before opening any jotters or books at home. Please also put your books or jotters away as soon as possible when you have finished working with them.
If you lose the plastic folder or homework materials sent home, please do be aware there is a replacement cost involved which the office will inform you of should this circumstance arise.
General homework for 5th October 2020
Literacy – There is a task for your child’s tricky words (either a practise or sentence writing task) and a task for writing and finding ooand ewwords. Maths – There is a homework for Direction on Education City to practise direction and movement. Reading – check your child’s reading jotter for any comments and add your own comments about their reading with their current book.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to send a note or an email. Have a lovely evening!
We continued with our shape work in Maths Week, working to spot as many 3D objects as we could outside in the playground and inside our classroom. We realised that we were finding more cuboids and cylinders than other 3D objects we were on the look out for.
As part of our Maths work, we have started to focus on the properties of 2D shapes and we will move on to look at some of the properties of 3D objects as we become more confident in identifying and naming these. We continue to work on writing the names of our 2D shapes.
We enjoyed playing shape games on Topmarks as some of our maths activities this week, working to identify how to sort these 2D shapes by the given properties: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/carroll-diagrams/2d-shapes You might also enjoy trying out these shape puzzles!
In Literacy we were working on our ‘igh‘ and ‘-y‘ sounds as found in words like high, night, sky or fly. We also had a go at some games to practise reading and matching igh and –y words with their pictures on Galactic Phonics. We have also started to review our tricky and common words and how we use so many of these in our sentences. We also had a good think about the story of ‘Aaaarrgghh Spider!‘ and shared what we thought could happen next (and why we thought this) as well as share our thoughts about the book as a whole!
Working to use tricky words in sentences
Some neatly written sentences with tricky words
What we think happens next in the story is…
…and why we think this is what is going to happen!
More ideas about what could happen next
What we think of the story…
…and why!
We continued having a look at maps and directions this week as part of our ‘Our Community‘ topic and we were working to give each other directions involving words like ‘left‘, ‘right‘, ‘straight‘ or ‘forward.’ We are continuing to think about left and right when giving directions to others to get them to different places. We shared this directions work and our shape work from this week with the school at Assembly!
In our Art this week, we experimented with printing with a range of 3D objects after working on a ‘wash‘ technique which we will continue to work with. In P.E. we worked on ‘attacking’ and ‘defending’ through some games this week. With Mr Reid we continued to practise our tennis skills.
throwing and catching
balancing the tennis ball
bouncing the ball on the racket
thowing, clapping, catching
walking and balancing our tennis ball
Lastly, homework packs will go out next week so please do look to the blog on Monday with regards to new procedures and changes in how we pass over homework that we will need to ask you to follow.
In the meantime, thank you all for your hard work. Have a lovely weekend!
Scottish Child Payment is a new benefit being introduced by the Scottish Government to tackle child poverty. It is for low income families already in receipt of qualifying benefits. To start with, Scottish Child Payment will be available to families with children under six years of age only. We remain committed to rolling out this benefit to families with children under 16 years of age by the end of 2022.
Scottish Child Payment will open for applications in November 2020, with first payments being made from the end of February 2021. Low-income families with a child under six will be able to apply for £10 per child, per week – equivalent to £520 per year. There are no limits on the number of eligible children supported by Scottish Child Payment.
Social Security Scotland recognises that people communicate and engage in lots of different ways.
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