{"id":7222,"date":"2020-10-27T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2020-10-27T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T19:28:59","slug":"primary-3-term-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/mountcarmelps2017\/2020\/10\/27\/primary-3-term-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 3 – Term 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Primary 3 Blog Update \u2013 Term 2<\/p>\n

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I hope you all had a lovely October week.\u00a0 Pupils have been working hard in term 1 and these are our learning intentions for term 2.<\/p>\n

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Literacy<\/u><\/p>\n

Reading<\/p>\n

In term 1 we completed our book study \u2018The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark\u2019 by Jill Tomlinson.\u00a0 We enjoyed learning about Plop and how he overcame his fear of the Dark.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We are also working on developing our tone and reading with expression.<\/p>\n

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Writing<\/p>\n

In term 1 we have focussed on writing from personal experience. We have been linking our sentences to make sure our stories make sense.\u00a0 In term 2 we will continue to develop this further and now expand our writing by writing imaginative stories.\u00a0 We will make sure our stories include the 5ws (who, where, when, what and why).\u00a0 We will continue to work on the formation of our letters making sure our handwriting is well formed and attractive.\u00a0 Thinking about our ascenders and descenders.\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Spelling<\/p>\n

Each week we work in our spelling groups and have a<\/p>\n

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different joined phoneme focus.\u00a0 We use say, make\/break, blend, read and write to aid our understanding of how words are made.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em>\u00a0 will be fantastic in helping us with our new Science\u00a0 topic.<\/p>\n

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Numeracy <\/u><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 We have also been looking at odd and even numbers.\u00a0 \u00a0We have been partitioning numbers into ten and units.\u00a0 We will now start to look at addition and subtraction strategies.\u00a0 We will be learning different Number Talk strategies.\u00a0\u00a0 In beyond number we will continue to work on 2D and 3D shapes with Mrs McIntyre.<\/p>\n

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Health and Wellbeing <\/u><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 We have also been discussing diff<\/p>\n

erent emotions and recognising that every emotion is ok<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 We talk about if we feel comfortable (yellow) or uncomfortable (blue).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We are now moving onto learning about Self Control.<\/p>\n

P.E. <\/u><\/p>\n

In P.E. we will continue to go outside every Tuesday and Thursday and play games and we will work on our Ball Skills.\u00a0 Please make sure\u00a0 your child has appropriate clothes for going outdoors.\u00a0 Especially in the cold\/wet weather.<\/p>\n

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R.E. <\/u><\/p>\n

In R.E. we have been practising our prayers and are currently practising our Hail Mary and moving onto the Act of Sorrow.\u00a0 We have spoken about different Bible Stories such as the Story of Creation and Noah\u2019s Ark.\u00a0 We will move onto learn about different Saints such as Saint Andrew and then move onto learn about Advent in preparation for Christmas.<\/p>\n

Topic<\/u><\/p>\n

Our topic this term will be Science based Living Things \u2013 Classifying Vertebrates.\u00a0 We will be learning about Living and Non Living things.\u00a0 We will be looking at animals that have vertebrates (backbones)\u00a0 and animals that are invertebrates (no back bone).\u00a0 In doing this we will also look at food chains and how animals depend on one another.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your continued support,<\/p>\n

Mrs Strachan<\/p>\n

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