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Hello everyone!

Thank you for your efforts in homework last week. Homework will continue to be issued on Mondays and is expected back on Thursdays.

This week our spelling pattern is -ice. Your child should have copied these down in their homework jotters, but here they are:

ice

dice

lice

mice

nice

price

rice

slice

twice

dice

spice

Please practice them using activities from the grid below. Pick 2 activities.

Your maths homework is a addition task. You can choose between the mild or spicy option. The sums are written out in formal column addition form (chimney sums) but you can work out the answer by using partitioning, picture jottings, or an empty numberline sketch. We have practised all these methods in class. If you choose to use a chimney sum please remember to show your working!

Mild:

Spicy:

Thank you,

Mrs Rush

Spelling- qu

This week’s spelling pattern is the ‘qu’ sound. The words are listed below. To practice the words children should write read the word out loud, break it down to its sounds, cover it over and then try to write the word. Tick it if it is correct, try again if not.

Core Words

quit, quiz, queen, quick, quote, squeal

Mild Words

quench, quality, quiet, squeak

Hot words

squeeze, question, quarter, quiver

You can also try to split the words into its sounds. You can show a single letter making a sound with a dot and a double letter making a sound with a line under both letters.

quiz- qu i z

Maths and Numeracy

Look at the maths trails primary five made last week in class. Create your own maths trail in your home, garden or local environment.

Learning Across the Curriculum

In class this week we have been looking at the poetry of Grace Nichols. The focus has been on onomatopoeia and metaphors. Come up with some metaphors to describe things in your home or local area.

i.e. Arthur’s Seat is a sleeping giant in the middle of the city.

Hello Primary 4,

Your homework this week is to practise your spelling words and complete 3 mental agility activities (see Ms Brunner’s blog post on the P4 page).

You have copied your spelling words into your homework books already. Please select 3 spelling activities from the grid below and complete in your homework jotter:

Your spelling words focus on the ‘ay’ sound, as in play.

The focus words are:

•day

•may

•say

•pay

•bay

•lay

•ray

•way

•hay

•jay

•May

We thought of lots more ‘ay’ words in class too.

Please return homework jotters on Thursday 5th October.

We will change our book box books on Mondays, so please bring your books in then.

Mrs Rush

Hi and welcome to the second section of our MENTAL AGILITY rainbow this term!

Until Christmas our school will focus on ADDITION and SUBTRACTION! Please find attached activities children work on in class. We would really appreciate your support in practising them at home too!

Most importantly learners have many opportunities to experience number in lots of contexts and with all their senses. Here are some examples:

Rolling a die, identifying the number and carrying out actions that many times such as jumping or clapping.

Concrete materials are vital at this stage! Looking, touching, moving and counting objects is super practice!

It is very important to match numbers and items and count forwards and backwards starting from different numbers, not always from 1.

Looking at 2 collections and counting to see how many there are altogether.

Lots of songs and games are a fun way to gain confidence!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-counting-songs/zn67kmn

Hello everyone,

It was so nice to have most of the class back in this morning. I am so proud of those who took time to complete the home learning tasks. Well done to everyone’s hard work!

Hopefully in the coming week, we will see everyone back into class and we can continue to learn together. Weekly home learning will also be sent home on Monday to be returned on Thursday. It would be much appreciated if parents and carers could support your child/children with this. Many thanks!

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Mrs Ho