The highlight of our week was a visit from baby Finn. Thank you Alexis ( and her mum) for teaching us all about how to look after a baby.

Ask me –

1. To tell you about trumpets.
2. To write the spelling words listed below
3. About baby Finn

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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

bl is for blow

tr is for trumpet

For spelling revision, please have a look at our spelling city homework page for games and activities to support learning.

Here are some spelling words to try at home using this week’s focus blends of bl and tr

black, blob, bling, track, trim, tree, trumpet

Our writing prompt this week was ‘At the beach’ – we are looking forward to our outing on the 19th.

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- you her she we be all are they come some said one were there into here do as of

Maths and numeracy focus

Position and movement. Key vocabulary included forward, back, left, right, turn, above, below, infront, behind, between.

P7 brought their ipads and taught us how to use the Beebot app. Then we applied our new-found skills to the programmable beebots in the classroom.

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Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics, and also played games designed to help develop our core strength.

On Monday we released our butterflies. The video link below wasn’t working last week ( my apologies) but it should be ok now.

Watch one emerging on this video link..

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts on Thursday.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Play this game. Choose addition or subtraction and then set your level of challenge – there are lots of options to try !

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.