Dear Parents/ Carers, 

We hope you had a nice week. 

Here is a summary of our learning: 

Maths  

We have continued to learn about money: We are learning to identify and use all coins and notes to £20 and explore different ways of making the same total. We have noticed that lots of children are still not sure of how to write the £ sign. We have also been working on how to write different totals, for example with 75p the pence sign goes at the end but with £18 the pound sign goes at the beginning. 

At First Level your child should be able to recognise and use all coins and notes to £20.  

Try one of these activities at home. It is best if real coins can be used for these activities. 

• Present a simple shopping list, e.g. milk 86p, paper 75p, sticky tape £1.20. Ask your child to select the coins they could use to pay for each item.  

• 3 Coins Challenge 

Ask your child what values (up to 50p) that they can make using exactly 3 coins. 

Literacy 

We are learning to read and spell words with –ed. This week we will be finding out about words in which the ed letters make the sound ‘t’. For example wished.   

We have also been learning that if the root word has only one consonant after the short vowel then we need to add another consonant before adding -ed. For example flip becomes flipped. We must add an extra consonant or magic e will be able to work its magic and change the sound of the vowel!! 

In writing we have continued to work on descriptions and using adjectives. We have described an underwater scene. 

We continued to listen to the oral presentations. The children are doing a fantastic job at presenting and listening to others! 

Ideas to do at home: 

Ask your child to describe something and work on using interesting adjectives. 

Ask your child to change these words to the past tense by adding ‘ed’.  

• wish  
• poach 
• zip  
• kick 

Other areas 

In PE we are focusing on games and athletics skills. 

We enjoyed making Father’s Day cards. 

We had a great session of Loose Parts. 

Have a wonderful weekend. 

Mrs McFarlane 

Dear Parents/ Carers,

We hope you had a nice week.

Important Information

On Wednesday you received your child’s report and the learning story folder. Please return the Parents’ comment sheet (you should keep your child’s report) and the learning story folder as soon as possible. Thank you.

We have a session of Loose Parts on Friday 16th June.

Thank you for your support in helping your child to prepare for their talk. We have started to present these in class. We are doing just a few each day and it will take us a few weeks to get through them all.

This is a summary of our learning:

Maths

We have started to learn about money: We are learning to identify and use all coins and notes to £20 and explore different ways of making the same total. Some children are finding hard to understand the concept of value: two 1p coins is the same as one 2p coin. Please practice this at home if possible.

At First Level your child should be able to recognise and use all coins and notes to £20.

Ideas to try at home:

Give your child the opportunity to handle different coins and notes at home and ask them to add up different collections of coins and notes.

Your child should be able to make the same total in different ways, using different coins, recognising that finding the fewest number of coins is usually the best way to pay.

Money is a practical skill used in everyday life so the best way to support your child is to involve them as much as you can when dealing with money.

– Allow your child to pay for goods in shops.

– Talk to your child about where your money comes from.

– Teach your child how to budget spending.

If you don’t have coins at home, you could try this online game, however using concrete real material would be helpful to your child

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Literacy

We are learning to read and spell words with –ed. This week we will be finding out about words in which the e in ed is silent. It just sounds like d!

Example:

hug

– If this happened in the past, then we need Old Uncle Ed.

– hug becomes hugged.

– Count the number of sounds: h – u – g – d (4 sounds)

– Even though the last sound sounds like ‘d’ it is written as ‘ed’.

In writing we have continued to work on descriptions and using adjectives. We have described Hansel and Gretel’s house.

We have started to listen to the oral presentations. All children are doing a fantastic job at presenting and listening to others.

Ideas to do at home

Ask your child to describe something and work on using interesting adjectives.

Look for verbs that have the sound d at the end ( when using the past tense).

Other areas

On Wednesday we attended the P7 show. It was brilliant and the children had a great time.

In PE we are focusing on games and athletics skills.

Our butterflies finally come out of their chrysalis and we released them outside! It has been amazing to be able to observe the life cycle the butterfly at school.

Here are some photos from our learning through play this week.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs McFarlane