Primary 2/1 with Mrs MacMillan

P2/1 Class News Term 3

Literacy

Listening and Talking – children will continue to work on their listening skills through watching and listening to a variety of texts, audio and stories. We will learn how to answer and ask relevant questions. We will also be sharing our opinions and experiences in relation to our writing, our topic and books, focusing on contributing to discussions appropriately and using positive body language.

Reading – P2 will continue to have Daily Supported Reading sessions and P1 will begin their own reading sessions. We will continue to practise common words through flashcards and games. As we read aloud we will work on improving our fluency and expression. We will develop our oral reading comprehension skills by answering questions about a text. In phonics P1 will be blending and segmenting cvc words using their knowledge of initial sounds. We will also be practising our digraphs and learning how to blend 4 letter words. P2 will continue to learn trickier vowel digraphs. We will be blending and segmenting longer words.

Writing – We will continue to use our phonics knowledge to ‘have a go’ at writing. We will focus on constructing sentences with appropriate punctuation and grammar. We will be writing character and setting descriptions using adjectives, common words and interesting vocabulary.

Numeracy

P1 will continue to learn about addition within 10, progressing on to subtraction within 10. We will use concrete materials, number lines and our knowledge of number bonds to help us. We will then progress to adding and subtracting within 20. In maths we will be learning about time. We will learn about days of the week, months of the year and how to tell the time – o’clock and half past. We will explore how to measure length, height, weight and volume using non-standardised units.

P2 will be using numbers to 30 and beyond to complete addition and subtraction calculations with a focus on finding the missing number in a number sentence. In maths we will be learning about measurement. Firstly building on prior knowledge through measuring using non-standard units before progressing on to using standard units of measurement. We will be focusing on using appropriate vocabulary to describe and compare length, height, weight and volume. We will also investigate directions, using appropriately vocabulary – full, half, quarter turn and North, East, South and West. We will have fun following and giving directions to each other and programming our Beebots!

Topic

We will continue to learn about Under The Sea – different sea creatures, continents and oceans, jobs at sea and climate change. We will also have a focus on health and well-being ensuring that we know all about the SHANARRI indicators and how we can demonstrate them in class, school and the community. In March we will move on to focus on Spring – this will give us lots of opportunities to explore outdoors and investigate the changing season and what that means for animals and plants.

PE

We will have PE on a Tuesday and a Friday. Please come to school dressed for PE and wearing no jewellery. Friday’s PE is outdoors so please remember appropriate clothing and footwear. Please also remember appropriate clothing and footwear for outdoor learning on a Tuesday.