I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year!
Below you will find an overview of the plan for each curriculum area throughout term 3.
Literacy
The pupils will continue to complete spelling activities every day. They will receive their spelling phonemes (sounds) and their words on a Monday. We review this in class and go over definitions. Each day we will complete an activity to consolidate the taught sounds. Homework is also giving out on a Monday, this should be completed and returned to school on a Friday. Common words will be practiced at school, but should also be reviewed at home.
Sounds/ words will be uploaded on Blog weekly.
Pupils will get 1/2 books a week. They will take this book home on a Monday and it should come back inside their bookbag everyday! The pupils will be heard reading in their reading groups/ individually on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. In addition to reading in class, pupils will be completing Reflective Reading comprehension that will focus on skills like inference, summarising, understanding, grammar and reflection.
In writing we are focusing on writing poetry and informative writing, while also working on our targets and general grammar. Our focus for grammar this term is using more ambitious vocabulary and expanding sentences so they are more advanced. In addition to consistent practise of basic sentence structure.
Numeracy and Maths
Topic maths is a continuation of time, estimation and rounding. Moving on to chance and uncertainty, fractions, decimals and percentages and expressions and equations.
We will be looking at time values – seconds, minutes, hours, sequencing months and linking to the appropriate season and telling the time for hours, half hours, 5 minute intervals and minute intervals on analogue and digital clocks. We will estimate quantities and position of numbers and also round to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand.
CLIC- CLIC targets will be uploaded on the blog weekly. In CLIC we do BEAT THAT! and Learn its every Friday to assess the pupils progress.
Topics
We have just started our Scotland topic, where we will be looking at features of Scotland’s landscape, artefacts found in Scotland that tell us about Scotland’s history, Scottish food and additionally other Scottish traditions.
We are also learning some Scottish poetry, songs and dances.
Health and Wellbeing
We will be using the Bounce Back resilience program. In term 3 we focus on Mental & Emotional wellbeing- Unit 3 Courage, Unit 4 Looking on the bright side Unit 5 Emotion and in Term 4 –Unit 7 Humour & Unit 9 STAR.
In PE will be starting by focusing on Scottish Country dancing. So far we have learned the Canadian Barn dance and the Virginia Reel. Our gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. The children can come to school on a Monday wearing clothes suitable for gym and do not need to change into shorts/leggings/joggers.
Our next outdoor learning session with Mr Miller is on 22nd Febuary.
Science
Our science this term will focus on Forces, Electricity and Waves.
French
French will be delivered by Mrs Forbes every Wednesday.
Expressive Arts
Dance- Alongside learning Scottish country dancing in PE, we will be creating our own dances to traditional Scottish music and modern Scottish music.
Art- We will be focusing on pencil drawing, particularly focusing on drawing portraits. We will look at a range of portrait artists. We will discuss, compare and recreate their work.
Music- We will working on singing and following rhythms through clapping and making music without traditional instruments. We have began by learning the Jeely Piece Song and Mairi’s Wedding.
ICT/Digital Literacys
We are going to be using Education City and Sumdog to expand our knowledge of these sites and make use of the resources on there.
The pupils will also be given task through Google Classroom, where they will be expected to create documents/ slides to support their learning.
We use IPads regularly in class and are learning to use Safari/Google to access online sites like dictionary.com etc to support our learning.
We are learning how to use the internet safely and how not to trust everything we find/see as this could be false information. We will be talking about our digital footprint.
We are also working on learning to use the Keyboard on our Chromebooks, aiming to begin to touch type.
Thank you for all your support so far. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Miss MacAskill
