St Martin's Primary School

Homework this week: 

Reading – your new reading books will be given out on Wednesday.

Spelling: more common words but no sentences this week

Social Studies – your mission is to collect facts about your home town.

Your individual booklet is due in 14th June.

Homework this week:

Reading: New books will be given out on wednesday…… what will your new title be?

Spelling:   Identify the sound pattern in your list,

Look, Cover, Write Check and write a sentence including one of your words

Maths:      Addition/Subtraction sheet with a twist – find out what is hiding in the answers.

Primary 1 and 2 enjoyed a visit from Mr McPherson the East Lothian Biodiversity Officer today.

We learned about different food chains and how they work.

We are now going to investigate different animals in East Lothian.

Please have a look at this website

snh.gov.uk/big5

Hope you are having a good couple of days holiday

Miss Docherty and I enjoyed our abseil down the Forth Rail Bridge yesterday.  I’ll bring in my certificate to show you all.

Here’s your homework for this week:

For the remainder of this term new reading books will be given out on a Wednesday.

Finger Spaces- your title this week is ‘Tom Thumb’ and sounds are ‘a,e,i,o u

Capital letters – ‘The Greedy Green Gremlin’ and yes you guessed it your sound is ‘ee’

Full Stops – ‘Scruffy Ted’  lots of sounds for you this week – ve,ng,nk,tt,ll,ff ck

Question Marks – ‘Jade’s Party’ and your sounds are ay, a-e a

Maths: number sequence worksheet

There will no spelling this week as it is a short working week.

Fiona O’Donnell MP joined children from St Martin’s RC Primary School at their Water Aid Showcase last week, to learn more about the project the whole school has been working on.

Ms O’Donnell was shown the wonderful work that the school and the nursery have been doing on the activities around the world undertaken by the international development charity Water Aid.

Each class in the school has been learning about a specific country and the work that Water Aid does there.  The MP was taken to each classroom where the children told her what they had learned about countries such as Nigeria, India, Ghana and Malawi.

The school also held a Macmillan Coffee morning in the dining hall, with Fairtrade tea and coffee sourced by P2 pupils.  There was also some art work on sale in each of the classrooms and all of the money collected will be donated to Water Aid.

Speaking after her visit, Fiona O’Donnell MP said:

“I want to thank all the pupils and staff at St Martin’s for inviting me to come and see their Water Aid showcase.  It was clear they had put a huge amount of effort into the project and had been very creative in the way they displayed what they had learnt about Water Aid’s work. But it was also obvious that they had taken on board the important message about the vital need to increase access to clean water and sanitation in many parts of the world.

“Time and time again, schools in East Lothian are leading the way when it comes to education about development issues and taking practical action to help people in need in other countries.  Giving children and young people the opportunity to learn about these issues and the problems their peers in developing nations experience, is really valuable and gives them much to think about.”

Congratulations to all pupils who took part in the Readathon 2013 this year. You have raised a whopping £335.00.

The money raised will help:

CLIC Sargent: CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, providing care and support for them and their families from diagnosis, during treatment and beyond.

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity: This charity was set up by Roald Dahl’s widow in 1990. It specialises in helping children with serious neurological or blood conditions, providing children’s nurses, equipment, carers and toys, working with hospitals and care organisations or directly with patients.

The boys and girls are looking forward to their Minibeast Hunt on tuesday – please remember to dress appropriately and take a small snack that fits into your jacket pocket.

Homework: 

Reading : Capital letters will read Sanjay stays in bed and focus on the sound ‘ay’

Question Marks will read The jar of oil -  ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sound the same

Finger Spaces have ‘Off Sick’ and will focus on a,e,i,o,u

Full Stops will read The dressing up box and they have 6 sounds to work on – ck,nk,ng,pp,tt,ll

Accelerator Readers – are you ready for your quiz?

Spelling:  what’s your pattern this week? Remember to LOOK,WRITE COVER CHECK then choose 5 words and write a sensible sentence for each

Maths:  number pattern worksheet

Topic: to help us gather information about playground games your task is to complete a chart with information gathered from members of your family about games that they played when they were at school.   We will make a bar chart to display this information – This is due on 24th May

Have a good week Everyone!!

Come and see some of the wonderful work that the School and the Nursery have been up to. They are all been learning about a specific country and that countries involvment with Water Aid.

You will be whisked away on a journey through countries such as Nigeria, India, Ghana and Malawi. You will be given a passport on entry to the school. You can drop in anytime between 9:00 and 10:30am with a little pit stop at our Macmillan Coffee morning in the dining hall. All of our tea and coffee as been sourced by P2 and is Fairtrade.

There will also be some art work for sale in each of the classrooms and all money collected will be donated to Water Aid.

Come along and enjoy the fun.

Primary 2 are really looking forward to visiting the Coop on wednesday to experience some fairtrade shopping.

We will also be working really hard this week on our Pakistan showcase.

Homework this week:

Reading:

Capital Letters, the title of your book this week is ‘Tab’s Kitten’.  You have lots of new sounds to work on

ff, tt, ng, nk tch

Full Stops, the title of your book is  ’In the sun’.  You have lots of new sounds to work on ff, nn,sh,ll,ck

Finger Spaces, your title is ‘The duck chick’.  You sounds are all the vowels a,e,i,o u

Question Marks, your title is ‘Our House’ and your sound is ou

Spelling: each group have common words to learn this week,  no sentences.

Maths: subtraction worksheet

Homework 

Reading -here’s the titles for this week:

Question Marks: King of the Birds, the focus sound is ‘ir’

Finger spaces: Blackbirds, the focus sound is also ‘ir’  

Capital Letters: The Dressing up box – lots of sounds ck, nk, ng, pp, tt, ll

Full Stops: Tab the Cat – lots of sounds too ve, ng, nk, tt, ll, ff, ck

Maths: subtraction sheet

Spelling:  what’s the pattern in your words this week?  

Look, Cover, Write and Check , choose a word and then write a sensible sentence in your best handwriting.