Dear Parents/Carers,
We hope that you had a good week.
Important Information
Learning Stories have been sent home today. Please look through the evidence of your child’s learning this term (worksheets) and read the teacher comment sheet. There is space at the bottom of this page for you to write a short comment and sign to acknowledge that you have received this. Please return the Learning Stories with the report inside as soon as possible.
Next week P2 are organising a collection for the Edinburgh Foodbank. If you are able to, please send in a packet of instant noodles before Friday 8th December.
We have loose parts on Friday 8th December. As the weather turns colder, please ensure that your child brings enough layers that day and wears suitable footwear.
Our P2 Carol Singing will take place on Wednesday 13th December at 9.00am and 2.30pm. It would be great to see you there!
Here is a summary of our learning:
Literacy
We wrote letters to each year group asking them to donate a particular item for the foodbank collection.
In handwriting we have been learning to form a and d in cursive script.
In phonics our focus has been on final consonant blends: rk, nd, st, mp, lt, sk. Examples of words with these sounds are lark, hand, must, lamp, felt and mask.
In spelling we have been recapping the Block 4 words as a whole class. We then worked on the particular block we are focussing on (block 1, 2, 3 or 4).
Ideas for learning at home:
Please continue to practise the spelling block your child is working on. Some of us did a ‘Scribble Spelling’ activity this week which we enjoyed. This photo explains how you could do it at home too.
Here is a link with the lists of tricky words.
Block 1 – 8 Tricky Words single sheet (wordpress.com)
To practise phonics it is a good idea to ask your child to read nonsense words containing the sounds covered so far. This means that they cannot guess the word, they must instead use their knowledge of letter sounds. Try to write down some nonsense words and hide them around the living room or lay them on the stairs. Can your child read them accurately using their decoding skills?
Examples of words to write: gark, pand, fust, somp, lolt, nisk.
Please go over your child’s reading book with them at home. This will help to build their fluency. You could ask these questions to check for understanding.
- Can you retell the story in your own words?
- Could the story have a different ending? What could it be?
- What makes this story different to other books you have read?
- What kind of person do you think the main character is?
Here is the link to the website we use for handwriting. You can watch the animations at home and ask your child to practise the formation.
Continuous Cursive letter choice 3 beginners (teachhandwriting.co.uk)
Numeracy and Maths
We are continuing to work on reading both digital and analogue clocks focussing on o’clock and half past. Some of us are extending our learning to quarter to / past.
In our number work we have been working on sharing out objects into equal groups. Some of us are linking this to counting in groups e.g. counting in 2s or 3s.
Ideas for learning at home:
Try to find real life examples where your child can work on sharing out objects. For example, can they share out items to each plate at the dinner table? You can also use toys, for example, laying out soft toys and using building bricks to be pretend food. Can they share out items equally?
Reading clocks is proving challenging so please practise as much as possible at home. Here is a fun game you can try at home.
Other areas of the curriculum
We started to learn some of the Christmas carols for our performance on the 13th December.
We made a kindness advent calendar. We each have a bauble and on our selected day, we will have an act of kindness to carry out.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs McFarlane
Buckstone Primary School 