We have been very busy practising the nativity presentation ready to share with you next week. Thank you for sending in clothes, if you have not yet done so please can we have them on Monday morning for our dress rehearsal.

Here is a request from Primary 2

Our learning this week

Here are a few photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Literacy focus

This week we have been revising the tricky words taught so far.

These are words which cannot be sounded out using phonics and should be learned by memory as sight vocabulary. please practise both reading and writing these words

Use the sounds you know to read and build words. If you want a challenge you could try to write the word if an adult reads it to you.

Building a word. Using plastic letters or letters written on small pieces of card or paper an adult says a three letter CVC word ( consonant, vowel, consonant) and the child chooses the correct sounds to make the word.

Blending a word . Adult writes or uses letters to make a CVC word and the child should say the pure sounds of each letter then blend them together to read the word.

Our writing programme starts with telling stories through detailed drawing. We are now beginning to write some of the words and sounds we know as part of our sentence. This week our focus was I am me

Maths and numeracy focus

We continue to practise our number bonds of ten. These are the pairs of numbers which, when added together, total ten. The children should learn these as instant recall facts. We also talk about ‘switchers’ e.g. if we know that 8 + 2 =10, we can tall that 2 +8 = 10.

Please support your child at home to learn these facts. If they already know them, the challenge is to apply that understanding to tens numbers to 100 ( e.g. 8+ ? = 10, 18 + ? = 20 , 8 +? = 40 etc)

We continue to work on SEAL ( Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) Pupils are working and challenged at a level appropriate to their individual development. These are examples of some of the skills we have been practising :

Making arrays and counting in groups to find the total. Key vocabulary included the words rows, columns and groups

Other areas of the curriculum

We had a visit from the school dental service – it was fun lying on a table !

In PE we have been playing games which give us opportunities to practise the skills we have learned.

We had a visit from the school dental service – it was fun lying on a table ! nurse.

We continue to practise our nativity presentation. Please support us by having on elast push with helping your child to learn their line and be able to speak it slowly and loudly – the hall is a very big space to fill with our voices.

Looking ahead to next week

Please keep practising those lines !

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Count back from 20 -10

Write your name. Try to use correct letter formation for all the letters. Remember, only the first letter should be a capital. As a challenge, try writing your surname too.