Ask me –

1. What has happened to our caterpillars now.
2. To tell you about grasshoppers.
3. to tell you about the bug homes we made in the playground

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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

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 gr and pr

press grass gran pram prod grandpa

Our writing prompt this week was ‘My dad’

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

We are continuing our SEAL learning activities with a focus on subtraction strategies

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Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw)

At the time of writing, three of our chrysalises have hatched.

Watch one emerging on this video link..

Looking ahead to next week

‘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.

Ask me –

1. What has happened to our caterpillars.
2. To tell you what I know about the Olympics
3. To tell you about the job of a vet.

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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

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 dr and fr.

frisbee, frog, fresh, fry, friend, drip, drop, drag, dry,

We had fun with frisbees in the playground

Our writing prompt this week was ‘My friend’

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

We are continuing our SEAL learning activities but didn’t get any photos this week !

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Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw) and we have been discussing some Olympic sports and looking at how the skills of running, jumping and throwing can be combined in some sports ( ie long jump, hurdles etc)

We have been discussing the ‘My body’ Unit of the RSHP programme.

Our caterpillars have formed chrysalises.

We loved having Ada’s mummy come to talk to us about her job as a vet.

Looking ahead to next week

Loose parts STEM learning on Monday.

‘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.

Congratulations on the two new arrivals this week !

Ask me –

1. What I enjoyed in health week

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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.

Health Week

All our learning this week revolved round health week. We enjoyed, amongst other things, fruit tasting, multisports session, judo, sports day, scootathon, bug hunting in the woods, reading the story ‘Not a stick’ then taking a walk to the woods near the playpark to re-enact the story – we have been so busy !

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Looking ahead to next week

No school on Monday.

Back to normal routine of Tuesday and Wednesday PE.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Enjoy the long weekend !

Ask me –

1. What Cheryl was talking about in Assembly today.
2. How to spell the tricky words want and his.
3. To tell you about our caterpillars.

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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

Our focus this week was on sharing our talks. All pupils were well prepared and spoke confidently to the class about their favourite place – we heard about so many different interesting places; bedrooms/homes, the family room, the cinema, Mauritius, North Berwick, Nethybridge, Turkey, ballet class, Legoland, London, Cousins’ house, Dollar Burn, Blairdrummond, the beach, the park, the swimming pool, Tenerife, Deep sea world and even the Dentist. Still a few more talks to share next week. Well done everyone.

We have completed our SNSA tests.

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

We have been learning to correctly form some more capital letters.

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been using our learning about data handling and creating our own surveys

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Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw) and began to learn about shoulder and arm strength and different throwing techniques.

We are learning about Looking after living things and the lifecycle of caterpillars.

Looking ahead to next week

Health week activities, including trip to the woods on Tuesday and loose parts learning on Friday.

Children should come to school every day in sports clothes ( no football kit ) and prepared to learn indoors and out in any weather. If your child’s indoor shoes are ‘school’ shoes, it would be great if they could bring in some trainers or gym shoes next week for indoors as the hard soled school shoes are not always suitable for indoor sporting activities ( not buying anything new at this time of term obviously – just something for indoors next week would be great )

‘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.

Ask me –

1. to talk about how to look after a pet
2. to spell the words do, as and of
3. to explain how tally marks work

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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

This week we have been taking our SNSA tests. This will continue into next week as pupils undertake these one at a time

Tricky words

Our new words this week were do, as and of

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

Our writing prompt this week was “In Spring”

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been learning about data handling – creating and interpreting block graphs, pictograms and tally charts

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw) and working on our cardio fitness. We discussed keeping our heart healthy and strong.

Ali had one last singing session with us – we got to use the parachute, that was fun.

In loose parts learning this week we were given a teamwork problem solving challenge . Mrs Cross said we were awesome at it !!

Looking ahead to next week

Monday Holiday/Tuesday inservice day

Class talks ( see previous blog past)

We will continue our Scottish National Standardised Assessments ( SNSA ) in Literacy.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Make a block graph or tally chart of your own – for example you could ask your family some questions about their favourite food, or count the cars that drive past your front window. You could bring it back to school to share if you wish.

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.

As we work towards achieving the Early Level talking and listening outcomes, we would like the children to deliver a ‘talk’ to the class next week.

The title of the talk is My Favourite place. The children should come prepared to speak to the whole class about a favourite place that they have chosen. It doesn’t have to be anywhere amazing -for example it could be a holiday destination, the dentist, granny’s garden or their bedroom.

As it is a talk, they should not bring a script to read out, but can, if they wish, bring one photo or drawing to share.

As a rough guideline the talk should include the opening line ‘My favourite place is ……., followed by a couple of sentences describing the place and an explanation of why they like it”

Success Criteria for the task :-

• Organise your talk so that it makes sense
• Speak clearly so that everyone can hear
• Make eye contact as you speak

We will pick people at random to present their talks starting next Wednesday so they have a week to get ready.

Thanks for your support

School photographer re-take next Tuesday – please see email for details.

Ask me –

1. to tell you some signs of spring.
2. to spell the words you and her.
3. to tell you about short strides and long strides.

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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

This week we have been learning to identify the cr and br consonant blends

Tricky words

Our new words this week were you and her

Please find below a list for reference with block one and block two words introduced so far

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

Maths and numeracy focus

We have been learning about two, three and four digit numbers

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we started our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw) and we were investigating efficient running technique.

As part of our RSHP curriculum we have learning about pregnancy. Lottie’s mummy came to talk to us about the baby in her tummy.

We also read the story There’s a house in my mummy.

We used ink and tissue to create some spring blossom pictures. Blowing the ink was very hard work !

Looking ahead to next week

Class photos on Tuesday ( please wear school uniform clothing and we will modify our PE lesson accordingly). Loose Parts on Thursday.

We will begin our Scottish National Standardised Assessments ( SNSA ) in Literacy.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Look for any photographs of you as a tiny baby. Talk to a grown up about what you were like as a newborn baby. Do you still have any of your old baby clothes ?

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.