WRITING:

Primary 4 will focus on the tools for writing in T1&2. We are learning to correctly punctuate our sentences. All of us will use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Most of us will use exclamation and question marks. Some of us will use commas and speech marks. We will be developing our skills in writing information texts. Everyone will learn how to take notes and most of us will use paragraphs, headings and subheadings to organise their writing.

SPELLING & PHONICS:

We are learning how to correctly spell common words. We are also learning the rules for magic ‘e’ and adding ‘ing’ to a root word.

READING:

We will be focusing on enjoyment and choice. We will choose books we enjoy, explore new authors and stories, share our opinions, and talk about our favourite parts to help us become confident and enthusiastic readers. We will use different reading tools, such as pictures, phonics, context clues and discussion, to help us understand texts and learn new words.

LISTENING & TALKING:

Our focus over T1&2 will be listening for information. We will listen carefully to others and different types of texts, find important information, ask questions, and use what we learn to share ideas, complete fact files and build our understanding.

NUMERACY:

Our main focus during term one will be place value (the value of each digit represented into hundreds, tens and ones). Some of us will count to 10, 000 and beyond. Most of us will keep practising our understanding of numbers to 1000. All of us will secure our skip counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Once we have mastered our place value skills we will learn different strategies for addition and subtraction. Everyone will learn about estimation and rounding.

MATHEMATICS:

During T1 we will be learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Everyone will learn how to identify a range of 2D and 3D shapes, most of us will identify 2D properties by sides and corners, some of us will identify 3d shapes by faces, edges and vertices. All of us will describe 3D properties to help us recognise and compare shapes in the world around us.

Following this we will learn about co-ordinates and how to use maps to find places of interest.

Useful websites for practising literacy and numeracy:

·         www.sumdog.com

·         www.doorway.org.uk

·         www.topmarks.co.uk

·         www.seesaw.com

P.E: Our PE days are every Monday and Friday. We have indoor PE with Miss Stevenson every Monday. The focus in T1 will be fitness and in T2 will be basketball. Mrs Morrison will do outdoor PE every Friday and focus on different team games.

Health: We will be learning about being a Rights Respecting school and how every child has the right to be heard, be safe and play. We will also learn about the names of different emotions and ways to manage them.

Outdoor Learning: We will enjoy maths, literacy and mindfulness activities in the quad.

OUR FIRST PROJECT IS: We will explore the amazing human body and learn about its different systems, including the skeleton, muscles, digestion and circulation. We will investigate how our bodies work, how to stay healthy, and use scientific skills to ask questions, carry out investigations and share our learning through literacy and numeracy tasks.

OUR SECOND PROJECT IS: We will learn how Christmas is celebrated in different countries, explore traditions, food and customs, compare similarities and differences, and share our learning through discussions, research and creative activities.

We will also be performing the nativity for parents and carers on the 15^th of December. Time will be confirmed in T2.