Primary 1A with Mrs MacMillan
Term 2 – Summary of Learning
Literacy
This term in Talking and Listening the children, during Circle Time, will have the opportunity to share news with each other and continue to develop their skills through Health and Wellbeing lessons. We will be building on the great start the children made with their sounds and continue the Jolly Phonics programme. The children will be learning to blend and segment. We will be learning about various traditional tales, songs and games, to develop their reading skills such as the concepts of print, predicting, visualising and more. In Writing, the children will be learning to use their knowledge of sounds to have a go at writing CVC words. We will learn how to write our second names and use a story map approach to create simple stories with a beginning, middle and end. The children will be encouraged to write learned words on a daily basis.
Numeracy
The children will be continuing their work on number recognition from 11-20. We will be practising counting through songs, games and movement. The children will be introduced to concepts such as part part whole and simple addition and subtraction. We will be using a variety of concrete materials to support this such as ten frames, counters, cubes, counting teddies and more. We will be spending time outdoors to work on numeracy using chalk and the natural world around us. Beyond number, the focus for P1 this term will be money. Through play opportunities in our class shop and classroom learning the children will learn to recognise coins to £2, order the coins according to value and use their addition skills to make totals.
Topic
Our topic this term is ‘People Who Help Us’. We will learn about people who can help us in school and explain what kind of jobs people who help us in our community have, like police officers, doctors, firefighters and .paramedics. We will talk about who we would go to if we had a problem, knowing that we have the right to help if we need it. We will also discuss how we can help ourselves by trying to stay safe.
PE Days
PE days are Monday and Tuesday. Please remove any jewellery and remember appropriate clothing, jackets and footwear for outdoor play.
Home Learning Help/Websites
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/
