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Hello everyone,

This week in spelling we are revising the 3 ‘-ing’ spelling rules that we have been learning over the past 3 weeks.

The spelling words will be in homework jotters, but just in case the full list of spelling words are here:

I would like you to pick 2 tasks from the spelling grid this week:

This week I have assigned “blookets” as homework, to practise multiplication skills.

You can choose from 3 different levels of challenge.

https://play.blooket.com/play?hwId=65b3bb803efbf73738e57043

https://play.blooket.com/play?hwId=65b3bae3e0638d2207fe3ea3

https://play.blooket.com/play?hwId=65b3bc19f60bcc690c4a367f

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Mrs Rush

Spelling

In the next few weeks in spelling we will be focusing on irregular plural forms of plurals. This week we will look at words which end in ‘f’. The rule is the ‘f’ is removed and ‘ves’ is then added to the end of the word.

e.g. leaf- leaves

There are some exceptions though, like words which end with a ‘ff’, which just have a ‘s’ added on.

e.g. cliff- cliffs

Core words:

elf-elves

leaf- leaves

knife- knives

cliff- cliffs

bluff- bluffs

sniff- sniffs

Mild words

loaf- loaves

self- selves

shelf- shelves

cuff- cuffs

Hot words

dwarf- dwarves

yourself- yourselves

roof- roofs

wife- wives

Maths and Numeracy

This week in numeracy the focus will be on money. Learners should choose five items they would like to buy. This could be anything from a pencil case to a new games console. They should choose three different retailers and show the price from them then underline which one they would buy from.

Children should be wary of hidden costs or savings associated with different buying options i.e. money off, delivery costs etc.

Learning Across the Curriculum

Choose one character from the Spiderwick Chronicles or Matilda and create a character fact file. Your fact file should include, their name, a picture of them and at least five facts.

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely break.

The children have been sharing their “Celebrations and Food” homework presentations. They have worked so hard on these and they have done so well! I will post some photos on the blog of them once everyone has had a chance to present in class. Thank you, parents and carers, for your support in this.

Last week we learned a new spelling rule for adding -ing. When the root word ends with 2 consonants you just add -ing

e.g fast– fasting, walk– walking, help– helping

This week the rule we are learning is this: when the root word has a ‘short’ vowel and only one consonant after it, you double the consonant and add -ing.

e.g put– putting,

run– running

split– splitting

Our spelling words this week are:

batting, sitting, running, humming, sunning, winning, betting, wedding, stunning, cramming, jetting, blotting, setting, rubbing, shutting, drumming, jamming, ramming, splitting, letting

Please practise them using 2 of the activities from the grid below.

Each child has been given an activity to practise copying a symmetrical image.

We have been creating beautiful and complex symmetrical images in class and really challenging ourselves.

Mrs Rush

Hello everyone,

Thank you for all the hard work you have done on your homework this term!

There is no homework assigned this week, or over the holidays, but please take the time to finish work on the “celebrations and food” presentations if you have not already done so.

Remember… you do not have to use digital technology (e.g PowerPoint) to support the presentation, but if you do decide to use this please email to admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk

All details about the content of your presentations below:

Good luck! I can’t wait to see your presentations.

Have a wonderful, restful holiday when it comes.

Mrs Rush

It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:

Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and

MULTIPLICATION and DIVISION!

Please find attached activities we focus on in school.

Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:

Here are some ideas of how to practise at home:

Making patterns:

Find some items such as stationary, pasta shapes or toys and make EQUAL GROUPS:

SHARING EQUALLY:

Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on

A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!

https://go.educationcity.com/

We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!

We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!

If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.

Always happy to help! 🙂