Primary 3 Term 1 Learning Targets

Literacy

This term the children in P3 will continue to work on Active literacy spelling. This includes phonemes and tricky words.

Each week the children will continue to receive a new reading book that will be read at home. The children will do a variety of comprehension strategies with the book, this will include Find It, Prove It, Talk About It. They will work with a partner to answer a variety of questions to challenge their understanding of the text.

For grammar the children will be working on using capital letters and full stops in all of their work. They will also be learning about nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives and verbs.

Our writing focus this term will be imaginative and instructional writing.

Numeracy

The children are focusing on place value of numbers and are using a variety to concrete materials to make different number. This will lead to addition and subtraction.

We will be using number talks to support our mental maths strategies.

Towards the end of the term we will look at money and we will look at coins and notes. We will also be using money to add and subtract.

Health and Wellbeing

Primary 3 have been taking part in the Massage in Schools programme and will continue this throughout the term.

We will also be looking at Medicine and how it can help us.

In P.E. we have been learning to work as part of a team in a variety of different games.

Children will be learning about large ball skills, including different passes and games that can be played with a large ball.

As Christmas draws near we will learn some new dances for our Christmas parties.

Science

We are looking at science this term. This will include Magnets and Our Senses.

The children are taking part in different experiments during both of these topics. They are also making a magnetic game they will share with Primary 2 to share their learning.

For Our Senses, we will explore each sense and find out why they are so important and what makes them all unique.