Literacy
- Spelling: this week we practised our spelling words using Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check; rewrote them in our neatest cursive writing and completed some worksheet tasks
- Team Jewel- revising ar and or; introducing the sound ‘ir’
- Team Gold– working on adding ‘ing’ endings to words where you don’t need to make any changes to the root word
- Team Treasure- ‘al’ words where it makes the ‘ol’ sound
- Reading- using our skim/scan skills to look for words in our reading books; reading for information about Scottish wildlife
- Handwriting– practising formation, focusing on the correct height of letters
- Writing- beginning to look at using awesome openers to start our sentences.
At home ideas:
- Paint your spelling words on a big sheet of paper or ‘paint’ them with water outside.
- Skim and scan a book/magazine/comic from home to pick out as many words as you can with 3, 4, 5 and 6 letters in them. Record them in lists.
Numeracy/Maths
- Working on adding ten to any number (within range of 0-100, 0-1000 and beyond for some). If we found this easy, using this skill to add 9 or add 11
- Practising our speedy times tables
- Looking at position and movement- using grid references (and angles for some).
At home ideas:
- Find numbers all around you and see if you can add ten to them. Can you use this skill to add 9 or add 11?
- Continue to work on your times tables- there’s a link to a game below:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Other Areas
- Science- beginning a mini project about how plants grow
- French- continuing to practise our colours
- RME– we read a story about Ramadan
- PE- we had input from Active Schools this week and played some fun games (in the rain!)
At home ideas:
- Help around your home by asking if there are plants that you can help to look after.
- Listen to the song we heard in class about how plants grow
- Make a colourful poster to show the colours in French (the link below may help you)
Have a great long weekend everyone, remember that we’re not back in school until Wednesday. Mrs Tweedie is teaching on Wednesday next week.
Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham
Buckstone Primary School 