79 Buckstone Loan East, Edinburgh, EH10 6UY. 0131-445 4545
We have started to learn about directions and have been using the beebot app/website to help us practice giving directions and instructions.
The pupils asked if they could play the game at home so I have linked the website version here.
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins.
MNU 0-09a
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A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins.
MNU 0-09a
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We had assembly with Mrs Conlin. She was talking to us about good manners, respecting the toilets, and being kind to our friends
A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins.
MNU 0-09a
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A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
Please ensure all reading books are returned on Monday morning so that they can be allocated to a different group/class.
We have been working on individual numeracy targets this week, including ordering numbers to 20 or 100
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Core numeracy skills this week included
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A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
As part of our learning this week we have a shoe shop role play area. If anyone has any outgrown footwear such as shoes/slippers/football boots/ballet shoes/wellies which you no longer need, we would love to supplement our shoe shop stock !
Thank you
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
We had another Friday ‘dictation/spelling’ written activity. Each week the children will be asked to spell two or three words using the sounds we know, and also to accurately write two of our tricky words. Please keep practising this skill at home.
We have been working on data handling this week, learning how to create and interpret pictograms and block charts and how to use tally marks.
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Core numeracy skills this week included
Our challenge numeracy skills were.
A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
We had another Friday ‘dictation/spelling’ written activity. Each week the children will be asked to spell two or three words using the sounds we know, and also to accurately write two of our tricky words. Please keep practising this skill at home.
We have been working on individual numeracy targets this week, including finding the number between two given numbers, adding using the ‘counting on’ strategy, making equal groups, recognising numerals and naming the number after a given number.
You may wish to let your child play this BLAST OFF game at home. Choose a level for identifying numbers or counting on.
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Core numeracy skills this week included
Our challenge numeracy skills were.
A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
The children have been developing a wide range of skills through independent learning opportunities in class and outdoors..
This week we have introduced the letter sounds q, x and z as well as revising some of our ‘tricky’ words
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
We had another Friday ‘dictation/spelling’ written activity. Each week the children will be asked to spell two or three words using the sounds we know, and also to accurately write two of our tricky words. Please keep practising this skill at home.
We have been working on individual numeracy targets this week, including adding using the ‘counting on’ strategy, making equal groups, recognising numerals and naming the number after a given number.
You may wish to let your child play this game at home. Choose a level. Try to use a ‘counting on’ strategy, as opposed to ‘counting all’
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Core numeracy skills this week included
Our challenge numeracy skills were.
We have Loose parts learning on Wednesday afternoon.
We learned how some families celebrate Chinese New year
We found out why we celebrate Burn’s night.
We learned about zebras – key vocabulary included mammal and herbivore
In PE we have learned some more Scottish Country dance steps and we can dance the whole of the ‘Circassian circle’
Many of our learners recognise the letters/sounds when they see them written down, but find it much harder to recall and write the letter shape for the sound they hear. e.g they can tell me that mop is m – o – p but cannot then write it down – instead saying ‘what does m look like again ?‘ Please help to consolidate your child’s ability to recall the grapheme needed for the sound they can hear.
A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
The children have been developing a wide range of skills through independent learning opportunities in class and outdoors..
This week we have introduced the letter sounds v and y as well as revising our ‘tricky’ words he and was
We continue to use core reading book resources in school as we begin to develop developing the children’s reading comprehension skills, exploring the cognitive strategies of activating, inferring, monitoring/clarifying, questioning, searching/selecting, summarizing, and visualising.
We had another Friday ‘dictation/spelling’ written activity. Each week the children will be asked to spell two or three words using the sounds we know, and also to accurately write two of our tricky words. Please keep practising this skill at home.
Our focus this week was on ‘number before’ – quickly identifying the number before a given number.
Please practise this at home. The given number can be any number in a range within which your child is comfortable.
Core numeracy skills this week included
Our challenge numeracy skills were.
We have Loose parts learning on Tuesday afternoon.
We will be learning about Chinese New Year.
Please return Learning Story folders as soon as possible after reading our termly overview and targets.
We learned about volcanoes. Key vocabulary was erupt, extinct, lava, magma. rock, molten. Arthur’s seat.
We learned about some important items invented by Scottish people. These included, amongst many, the telephone, television, penicillin, colour photographs, fridges, toasters, pneumatic tyres, contact lenses and the realisation of usefulness of fingerprints.
We discussed how sound is made by vibrations, and we learned how Alexander Graham Bell used his interest in how sounds are made to help him invent the first telephone. We looked at the vibrations of a violin string.
We identified where Scotland is on a map of the world and also looked on a map of Scotland to find the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness.
We have been learning about some famous Scottish Artists including Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Steven Brown and John Byrne. We have enjoyed creating our own artworks inspired by these artists.
In PE we have learned some more Scottish Country dance steps and we are almost able to dance the ‘Flying Scotsman’ in sets .
Mrs Ross came to talk to us about ways people can be the same or different.
Something to focus on……
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A reminder to please name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.
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