A winter plea! I know it is not always the easiest thing to do, but it would help us so much if winter accessories ( hats. gloves. scarves etc) are named or at least initialled so that we can reunite them with their owners even when those owners deny ever having had a pair of gloves with them !!

Also, please continue to send in your clean recycling. Many thanks

Our learning this week

Here are some 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

Our new sounds this week were sh and ch. We have also enjoyed using our phonics skills to read independently – a great sense of achievement. We are lucky to have volunteer support from Mrs Petit – she loves to read with us. We continue to practise correct letter formation .

Tricky words .

Learn to read and spell the words – she, we, be

Writing prompt this week was ‘at the shop’

Maths and numeracy focus

Our continued focus this week was on addition skills – aiming to use a counting on strategy where possible, Some pupils have been investigating how numbers are made of bundles of hundreds, tens and units.

Below are links to two games we have used in school which you may also wish to use at home to support this learning.

Tens and Units – Shark numbers

Robot Addition

Other areas of the curriculum

We have started to discuss what we know about Scotland. We have looked at Scotland’s position on a world map and the position of Edinburgh. We know that Scotland is famous for lots of things like castles, lochs ( with monsters) tartan and bagpipes. We have decided we would like to find out more abut famous Scottish people including Robert Burns and Charles Rennie Macintosh . We designed some watercolour paintings inspired by the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.

In PE we created more sequences of the movement patterns we have been learning and then we made sets and learned to dance the Canadian barn dance and a simplified version of the Virginia Reel. We have discovered that dancing is great Cardio exercise

Looking ahead to next week

Drop in session on Tuesday am.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

For the whole school Burns competition please learn to recite the Selkirk Grace.

This video might help you

Tell an adult what you know about Robert Burns

( one for the adults!) If at all possible – start a collection of loose change – we will soon begin some formal learning about money and recognising real coins is an important outcome. In these cashless days children may not see coins very often.