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This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.

Team Jewel: continue the ea sound

For example: eat, meat, seat, each, peach, cheat, mean

Team Gold and Team Treasure are both working on adding ed endings (where it sounds like ed). This may be new learning for Team Gold and revision for Team Treasure.

Team Gold examples: belted, headed, ended, melted, landed, shouted, wanted

Continue to work on all tricky words, with a focus on Block 7- reading, recognising and spelling.

Team Treasure core list: lifted, planted, rented, started, melted, painted, needed, shouted, pointed, skated

Team Treasure Challenge list: listened, decided, squinted, demanded, hesitated, squeezed, contacted, included, avoided, behaved

Tricky words: continue to spend time revising words that you are having difficulty with

Here are the tricky words in case you need them:block-1-8-tricky-words-single-sheet-1Download

Literacy

• Spelling: this week we practised our spelling words in a variety of ways
• Team Jewel- working on the ea sound (eat, seat etc)
• Team Gold– continuing our work on adding ‘ing’ endings to words where you have to double the consonant at the end (e.g. fanning, binning)
• Team Treasure- plurals where you need to add ‘es’ to make the plural form (e.g. foxes, buses)
• Reading- reading aloud with fluency and expression in our reading groups; looking for words beginning with each letter of the alphabet in our books as a challenge.
• Handwriting– practising formation, focusing on the correct height of letters, starting to join script.

At home ideas:

• Write your own set of instructions using some of these openers: First, Next, Then, Finally… (It could be instructions for a recipe, how to feed a pet, how to brush your teeth- the choice is yours!)
• Choose a book (or magazine or comic) and read aloud to someone at home (parents, sibling, or even a favourite teddy or pet). Can you read fluently and add expression to your voice as you read?

Numeracy/Maths

• Continuing our work on fractions. Looking at halves and quarters and talking about how the bottom number of the fraction (the denominator) is how many equal parts that you are splitting the number or shape into.
• Continuing our focus on counting in 3s and linking this to the 3 x table.
• Continuing to work on measure: weight and capacity.

At home ideas:

• Fractions- have a look at the game below to practise your work on fractions.
• Practise your measuring skills by weighing some ingredients at home. Can you find any instruments at home that measure capacity? (Measuring jugs etc).

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/firepitFractions/index.html

Other Areas

• IDL/Topic- continuing our topic on plants and looking after our sunflowers.
• PE- sports day stations
• Days of the week in French
• Planning and organising our class assembly.

At home ideas:

• Can you remember the days of the week in French? Have a listen to this song to help you.
• Share with your family what you and your team have been learning about to share in assembly about Health.

https://video.link/w/hDExc

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.

Team Jewel: the ea sound

For example: eat, seat, heat, near, fear, ear

Team Gold: adding ing endings (where you have to make a change- doubling the consonant at the end)

For example: batting, humming, rubbing, winning, jamming, setting, plotting

Tricky words: we are working on block 7 words- country, young, example (reading/recognising and spelling)

Team Treasure: adding ‘es’ to the end of words to make the plural form

Core list: boxes, foxes, dishes, benches, brushes, dresses, beaches, churches, kisses, glasses

Challenge list: churches, circuses, torches, branches, splashes, addresses, radishes, canvases, buzzes, tomatoes

Tricky words: continue to spend time revising words that you are having difficulty with

Here are the tricky words in case you need them:

Please remember that Monday is a holiday next week! We hope that you enjoy the long weekend.

Literacy

• Spelling: this week we practised our spelling words using Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check; we also did a carousel of activities to practise our spellings: pastels, making them from wool, making our own wordsearches and tricky word highlighting.
• Team Jewel- continuing our work on ‘oy’
• Team Gold– continuing our work on adding ‘ing’ endings to words where you don’t need to make any changes to the root word.
• Team Treasure- plurals where the root word doesn’t change.
• Reading- skimming and scanning in our reading books to find words with our spelling sounds; reading for information about plants.
• Handwriting– practising formation, focusing on the correct height of letters, beginning joining.
• Writing- writing a story.

At home ideas:

• Try to add some extra words to your group’s spelling list that follow the same rule.
• Keep reading for pleasure, can you read for 20 minutes every day?

Numeracy/Maths

• Continuing our work on fractions. We revised how to find half of a shape and half of a number and moved on to looking at quarters. We talked about the meaning of the word fraction and how it’s super important to remember that it’s an EQUAL part.
• We talked about the numerator and denominator in a fraction (don’t worry about remembering these long words though!)
• Focusing on our counting in 3s and linking this to the 3 x table.
• Continuing to work on measure: weight, capacity and measuring in cm.

At home ideas:

• Fractions: draw some shapes on paper and cut them out. Can you find any shapes that you can fold into quarters? (Hint: you could try halving a shape and then halving it again)
• Listen to and join in with these counting in 3s songs

https://video.link/w/64cwc

https://video.link/w/E4cwc

Other Areas

• IDL/Topic- learning a bit more about what plants need to grow, making posters and planting our own sunflower seeds which we plan to look after really well.
• PE- sports day stations
• Starting to plan for our class assembly, which is all about our learning during Health Week.

At home ideas:

• Have a look at plants around your house, garden or in your neighbourhood. Do you know the names of any of them? What are the similarities and differences between the different plants that you see?
• Set up your own sports day stations for family and friends to enjoy. Be creative with the equipment that you have in your house!

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.

Team Jewel: continue to work on the oy sound

For example: boy, toy, joy, enjoy, ahoy

Team Gold: adding ing endings (where you don’t need to change the root word)

For example: reading, speaking, cleaning, eating, fighting, lighting, sighting

Tricky words: earth, through, always

Team Treasure: plurals- adding s to the end of words to make the plural form

Core list: chains, clocks, smells, hooks, goats, coins, nights, pounds, springs, insects

Challenge list: rainbows, crackers, footballs, scooters, raincoats, toilets, lightbulbs, workouts, weddings, grasshoppers

Tricky words: spend time revising words that you are having difficulty with

Here are the tricky words in case you need them:

Literacy

• Spelling: this week we practised our spelling words using Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check; we also did a carousel of activities: paint, chalk, fancy writing and making our sounds from straws.
• Team Jewel- revising ir and moving on to ou and oy.
• Team Gold– continuing our work on adding ‘ing’ endings to words where you don’t need to make any changes to the root word.
• Team Treasure- ‘ea’ words that make either the ‘e’ or ‘ee’ sound.
• Reading- reading for information about Eid; using our skim and scan skills to find tricky words in our own reading books.
• Handwriting– practising formation, focusing on the correct height of letters.
• Writing- we wrote an imaginative story as our writing assessment piece.

At home ideas:

• Skim and scan a book/magazine/comic from home to pick out as many of your tricky words as you can find.
• Read for enjoyment a book/comic of your choice. Can you read on your own every day for 15 minutes or more?

Numeracy/Maths

• Beginning our work on fractions. We talked about how to find half of a shape and half of a number. Some of us used counters to help us with this, others used our 2 x table knowledge. We talked about how the two halves have to be EQUAL.
• Practising our speedy times tables
• Continuing to work on measure using trundle wheels, metre sticks and rulers.

At home ideas:

• Fractions: draw some shapes on paper and cut them out. Can you practise halving them by folding them? Which shapes can you half exactly? Are there shapes that can be halved in lots of different ways? Are there any shapes that you can’t half?
• Keep working on your counting up skills: 2s, 5s and 10s (and 3s and 4s if you feel ready). Don’t start at zero every time, for example, “count up in 2s from 22 to 40.”

Other Areas

• Health Week- we found out about the correct names for our external body parts; we looked at healthy eating and designed healthy eating posters including ideas from the Eat Well plate; we took part in some mindfulness activities- colouring, Cosmic Kids and meditation.
• PE- we worked on making up our own dance routines and we also had a class Sports Day, which was super fun!
• RME– we learned about traditions involved in the Muslim Festival of Eid al-Fitr.

At home ideas:

• Talk to an adult at home about the healthy foods that you enjoy eating. Can you have a go at adding some extra healthy foods to your diet or trying something new?
• Show off your dance routines to your family.
• Talk about the similarities between Eid al-Fitr and other celebrations that you and your family enjoy together.

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This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.

Team Jewel: revising ir and moving on to ou and oy.

For example: fir, firm, girl; out, shout, pound; boy, toy

Team Gold: adding ing endings (where you don’t need to change the root word)

For example: waiting, sailing, playing, staying, feeling, sticking, shocking

Tricky words: small, follow, picture

Team Treasure: words with the ea spelling that makes an ‘e’ sound and a variety of words that use the ea spelling (challenge list)

Core list: head, read, bread, deaf, thread, weather, feather, heather, leather, earth

Challenge list: overhead, breakfast, heave, dreaming, threading, leave, meat, screamed, reached, weak

Tricky words: very, every

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

This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday.

Team Jewel: revising ar and or words.

For example: car, bar, harm, hard; for, form, torn, corn, lord.

Team Gold: adding ing endings

for example: ending, mending, spending, bending, lasting, gasping, standing

Tricky words: your, called, sentence

Team Treasure: words with the al spelling that make an ol sound

Core list: salt, halt, bald, scald, alter, wall, calling, small, stall, football

Challenge list: halted, balding, scalded, altered, exalting, nightfall, bookstall, overall, volleyball, waterfall

Tricky words: also, always

Welcome back P2/3 Golden Treasures, we hope you had a great Easter holiday! This is what we have been learning this week

• Literacy:
• Writing about a magic egg: whatever you wished for could come true. Using at least three connectives (for example, because, but, and, then)
• Dictation: mild, spicy or hot choice using our tricky words
• Reading: making predictions about what would happen in our group reading books.

Numeracy/Maths:

Timed times tables sheets

Working on symmetry

Working on our number skills- ordering, smallest and biggest number, number of the day- number before and after, adding and subtracting 10.

Other Areas

Learning about magnetism- making instructions for a game involving magnets

In PE we played games in teams as if it was sports day.

French- learning about the colours

Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

MrsTweedie and Mrs Graham

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