Primary 3 Blog Update – Term 2

 

I hope you all had a lovely October week.  Pupils have been working hard in term 1 and these are our learning intentions for term 2.

Literacy

Reading

In term 1 we completed our book study ‘The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson.  We enjoyed learning about Plop and how he overcame his fear of the Dark.  We are now working in our reading groups and reading a mixture of fiction and non-fiction texts (also some plays). We have been looking at the key features of fiction and non-fiction texts such as contents and index pages.    Pupils will continue working on Bug Club books with a focus on making predictions of what we think will happen in the text or what we think the story will be about from looking at the front cover.  We are also working on developing our tone and reading with expression.

Writing

In term 1 we have focussed on writing from personal experience. We have been linking our sentences to make sure our stories make sense.  In term 2 we will continue to develop this further and now expand our writing by writing imaginative stories.  We will make sure our stories include the 5ws (who, where, when, what and why).  We will continue to work on the formation of our letters making sure our handwriting is well formed and attractive.  Thinking about our ascenders and descenders.   We will continue to reinforce capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops and starting to build on our knowledge of punctuation such as: commas, question marks and exclamation marks.

 

Spelling

Each week we work in our spelling groups and have a

different joined phoneme focus.  We use say, make/break, blend, read and write to aid our understanding of how words are made.  We are also continuing to build on our knowledge of common words and using our personal dictionary/word book to add words that we need in our writing.

We are all looking forward to receiving our two new storybooks as part of the Scottish Read, Write and Count! The book Wow! Animals: A Book of Extraordinary Animal Facts  will be fantastic in helping us with our new Science  topic.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been practising our numbers to 100. We have been practising skip counting in 2, 5 and 10s and starting to link this to our timestables.  We have also been looking at odd and even numbers.   We have been partitioning numbers into ten and units.  We will now start to look at addition and subtraction strategies.  We will be learning different Number Talk strategies.   In beyond number we will continue to work on 2D and 3D shapes with Mrs McIntyre.

Health and Wellbeing

As part of our PATHS lessons, we have been selecting a Pupil of the Day and writing a compliments list to explain why they are a special member of our class.  We have also been discussing diff

erent emotions and recognising that every emotion is ok.   We talk about if we feel comfortable (yellow) or uncomfortable (blue).  When discussing an emotion for example Scared or Safe we discuss times we have felt this emotion and what they look/feel like. We also try to recognise what signs our face show to indicate these emotions and how we could identify how others are feeling.  We are now moving onto learning about Self Control.

P.E.

In P.E. we will continue to go outside every Tuesday and Thursday and play games and we will work on our Ball Skills.  Please make sure  your child has appropriate clothes for going outdoors.  Especially in the cold/wet weather.

R.E.

In R.E. we have been practising our prayers and are currently practising our Hail Mary and moving onto the Act of Sorrow.  We have spoken about different Bible Stories such as the Story of Creation and Noah’s Ark.  We will move onto learn about different Saints such as Saint Andrew and then move onto learn about Advent in preparation for Christmas.

Topic

Our topic this term will be Science based Living Things – Classifying Vertebrates.  We will be learning about Living and Non Living things.  We will be looking at animals that have vertebrates (backbones)  and animals that are invertebrates (no back bone).  In doing this we will also look at food chains and how animals depend on one another.

We are looking forward to working hard and another busy term 2 ahead. We are very excited for our next fun Fridays for Halloween and Children in Need.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Strachan