Block One (August – December)

Hello!
Welcome to P3/4’s class page with Mrs Davidson. We are so glad to be back and have a busy year ahead of us.

Literacy

This block we will be covering:

• Recognising and spelling 100 high frequency common words.
• We will be revising and consolidating our alternative vowel sounds.
• Structuring and up-levelling sentences – full stops, commas in a list, question marks, exclamation marks and beginning to use speech marks and paragraphs.
• Comprehension – answering literal questions and basic inferential questions. We will be using information in the text to illustrate and predict.
  We will be using group readers, class novels and passages of text to develop our comprehension skills.
• We will be focusing on the Illustrator and Predictor roles in our Literacy Circles.
• Finding and using information – locating key words in text, reading for information, features of non-fiction texts and fact or opinion.

Numeracy

This Block in Numeracy we are learning:

• Daily focus on number– counting in 10s, 5s, 2s, 3s and 4s, revision of place value and moving onto partitioning, doubling and skip counting.
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication/Skip counting
• Estimation and Rounding
• Money – looking at decimals to support this.
• 2D/3D shape
• Information Handling

We will practice counting in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s daily through mental maths games, activities and songs.

Homework
Homework will be sent home every Friday and should be completed by the following Wednesday.
Homework for P3/4 consists of a reading book and a reading record for you to sign. Those who are on ORT (Oxford Reading Tree) books will also be given a word wall along with their book to practice at home. The word wall has instructions given on how you can use it.
Please can you ensure that your child brings their homework folder to school every day as we will need access to their reading book during class time to practise.

 

Topic

P3/4 are doing The Rainforest as our topic this block.
We will be covering:

• The structure of rainforests
• Where in the world are they?
• Rainforest Weather
• Animals in the rainforest and their habitats
• Plant-life in the rainforest
• Why the rainforest is important – impact on climate
• Comparing with Scotland
• Jobs that link with rainforest

Health and Wellbeing
This block we will be covering these topics from the RSHP website (First Level).

• Similarity, diversity and respect
• Safe and happy online

You can access the resources that will be used at the following link.

First Level – RSHP

We will also be covering:

• Growth mindset and resilience.
• Positive relationships

PE

Our PE day is on a Friday, please can you ensure your child wears their PE kit to school on this day. This block we will be covering:

• Team games
• Hockey skills
• Gymnastics