Due to a number of show practises this past week, the children will keep their present reading book for a few more days. The children could try dramatising the story by using dolls/figures or the family to act out the story. They can be encouraged to add good expression.

Our spelling this week is –

Group 1 – up, mud, cup, cut, jug, tug

Group 2 – blue, glue, clue, true, fuel, statue

Group 3 – would, could, should, wouldn’t, couldn’t, shouldn,t

In Numeracy, the children can practise their number bonds through games like Ping Pong. Playing with a partner, one person says a number, the other has to say the number which would add to make the total.

e.g For the story of 6

Player 1 Player 2

Ping Pong

1 5

3 3

4 2

Ping Pong

We have been reading The Owl who was afraid of the dark and talking about other animals which come out at night. Your child could choose a nocturnal animal and find out one interesting fact about it to share with the others. They could write the fact down and illustrate it or practise saying it aloud.

The children have received a note reminding them of their outfit. P2 will be in the ‘locals group.’ They should bring everyday clothes, waterproof jacket, wellies (other boots are fine) and a hat in a clearly marked bag with their name on it by Thursday, 5th December.

Thank you for your support.

Our week has been so busy so far, we have not had time to tell you about all the great things we are doing yet.

We have exciting new reading books, which we have had good discussions about predicting what the book is about. Some children have some non-fiction books and they have been thinking about the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

We are practising writing a sentence correctly remembering to use a capital letter and full-stop. We are trying to add more detail to our sentences to make them more interesting. We have been playing games to think about adjectives e.g. The Minister’s Cat – The minister’s cat is an angry cat, The minister’s cat is a black cat, The minister’s cat is a clever cat…..

Some of us are adding some connectives (and, but, because, so) to our sentences e.g. ‘We were going to go out to play. It began to rain.’ becomes ‘We were going to go out to play but it began to rain.’

In Numeracy, we are working on our addition building up our number bonds within 5, 10 or 20. We are learning our doubles and finding out how they help us answer our ‘near double’ sums. Some children are practising putting ‘a number in their head’ so they can add on without starting from 1 each time.

This week we will have lots of singing practice for our show. We look forward to performing this to you in a couple of weeks. You could help your child learn their words by following the links I added to the blog last week. We are also making our tickets and posters for our show.

We have been thinking about Day and Night, looking at different things that happen during these times. We are reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’, and have talked about other animals which are nocturnal.

In PE, we are continuing to learn our social dancing with our Crown Jig and The Flying Scotsman. The children will also get a chance to make up their own dance with a partner. They could play some jig music at home and think about some moves they could do. If they make patterns of 8 to the beat – e.g. 8 claps, 8 skips etc.

As the children did not receive new reading books this week, it is an great chance for the children to begin to look for books which they might want to read for the 4 – 2- 2 Book Challenge, the ICT players set them today.

The children need to read 4 books of their choice and be able to discuss the book. After reading each book, they will receive a stamp on their card. Once they have got 4 stamps, they can take their card to ICT stadium and exchange their completed card for tickets to any football match at the Caley Stadium.

We will be giving the children a copy of the card in school, but you may want to go into Inverness Library, where the children can pick up a card for themselves.

Happy reading!

We have The Book People Book Fair in school this week- pamphlets coming home today.

We would really appreciate some help at Parents’ Evenings to manage sales on the night, even just for an hour.

If you are able to help please email Ms MacDoanld indicating which evening you can manage and the times you are available. Many thanks.

miriam.macdonald@highland.gov.uk 

My apologies for not putting the homework on the blog last week.

This week, the children will receive their new reading books on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Some have received a new list of sight vocabulary words in their homework jotters too. If they can practise these words until they have instant recall.

The children have received their new spelling lists:-

Group 1 – lip, log, let, leg, slip, flat

Group 2 – boat, coat, coal, foal, float, groan

Group 3 – jaw, draw, hawk, crawl, awful, saw

In Numeracy, we are looking at addition within 5, 10 and beyond. Use any opportunities at home to encourage your child to add two or more numbers together:- 3 knives and 3 forks. How many altogether?

We have looked at the commutative rule which shows that 3 + 4 = 7 so 4 + 3 = 7. We are also practising quicker recall of our doubles, from

1 + 1 =2 up to 10 + 10 = 20

As usual, our PE will be on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so I would appreciate all children having their PE kit each day. We will continue practising our throwing and catching skills, and also begin learning some social dancing. Using music for a Scottish jig, the children can practise keeping the beat by clapping, tapping their feet or moving in time to the music.

You will maybe have heard the exciting news, that all the classes from P2 to P4 are putting on our annual show, so over the next few weeks we will be busy learning lots of lyrics for songs etc. Look out for more information and possible requests for props and costumes later.

Primary 1 are organising some activities for us for Children in Need day on Friday. Keep checking the main blog for more details.

Second week of term already!

Another busy week in front of us. This week, in Numeracy, we will be looking at addition. We will be learning different strategies to help us make quicker calculations. We are thinking about the commutative rules for addition

i.e. 2 + 3 =5 so 3 + 2 = 5

We will be learning quick recall of our doubles and looking at knowing how our doubles help us do other sums too.

i.e. 2 + 2 = 4 so 2 + 3 = 5.

In Literacy, the children will receive their new reading book on Monday or Tuesday. As it is Bonfire Night, this week we will be looking at words which could describe the bonfire and fireworks which we will see. This will also inspire our Art work this week, in which we will create some great firework displays.

After our visit to Inverness Library last week, we have a lovely collection of books to add to our class library. We are using these books as part of our reading challenge, and we are beginning to have an ERIC (Everyone Reading In Class) time, in which the children are encouraged to read books independently. These books can be a reading book or library book, alternatively the children can bring a book from home to read at this time. If your child would like to bring in their own book, could you write their name inside please.

In handwriting, we have been practising our lower case letters, thinking about the correct formation and size of each letter, and this week will begin to work on the correct formation of capital letters.

This week, we will have PE on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If your child has not brought their PE kit back to school yet, could they bring it in tomorrow please.

Our new topic this term will be Science based and we will begin by looking at Day and Night. We will think about the movement of the Earth in relation to the Sun, to find out why we have Day and Night. As a class, we will be reading the novel The Owl who was afraid of the Dark, which will encourage us to look at different ways dark is good.

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We had such a busy end of term, some photos did not get added to the blog.

Smile please!!  Mr Roden came in to tell us about his job as a dentist.

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Once upon a time…  Emily Dodd, the famous children’s author came in to tell us her job and about her new book ‘Crime Squirrel Investigators – The Naughty Nut Thief’

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