Literacy

We have lots of exciting literacy tasks coming up in Term 3, but one thing we are really looking to forward is our focus on Scottish poetry. Over the next few weeks, we are learning Scots Poems, learning about Robert Burns and writing our own poetry using Scots language.

How can you help your child at home?

Each child has been given a Scots Poem to learn and practising this at home will help to build confidence when speaking in Scots and talking in front of others.

Every week in class we read our books and work through a comprehension task related to our books. To help your child, reading books and asking them questions about it will help to expand their knowledge of understanding and finding information in a text.

Numeracy

We have just finished our topic on multiplication and are about to begin our new topic on division. As well as this, we are also trying to improve our knowledge of times tables. We have been practising these in lots of different ways, to ensure we find the best way for everyone to learn them.

This term, we also plan to focus on shape. This is our first non-number activity with Miss Heyes.

How can you help your child at home?

Times tables are very useful to know and make other areas of numeracy easier. As a class, we are finding our times tables challenging. From this week onwards, each child will have a specific times table to focus on for that week. Everyone was given a times table keyring that included all times tables from 2 to 12 in term 2, which can be used for verbal activities and study.

Topic

Due to our school show in term 2, we did not have a lot of time to learn about our topic Natural Disasters, so up until the February break, we are going to be learning about several different natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes.

After the break, our next topic is Japan. We are going to be learning about Japanese culture, food, the country, and its schools.

How can you help your child at home?

Recently, an earthquake in Indonesia has caused devastation to the country with a tsunami warning now issued, discussions about recent/reported natural disasters will allow them to learn more about that natural disaster whilst also sharing at home what they have learned in class.