Primary 3A with Mrs Aitken & Mrs Yuill 

Summary of Learning

Literacy

This term, we will be exploring the writing genre of character and setting, where students will learn to create vivid descriptions of characters and bring settings to life through rich detail. Helping the children to develop their ability to engage readers with imaginative and descriptive writing. We have been learning cursive joins for each lower-case letter. Once we have completed this we will be joining the letters together. We are continuing to read 3 times a week within our groups looking at common words and comprehension skills. We will also be working on some spelling patterns in class this term. Our class novel is ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine.’ .

Numeracy & Maths

This term, students will continue their work on adding, subtracting, and multiplication of the, 2-, 5- and 10-times tables. Furthermore, they are exploring fractions, learning how to share a single item equally and represent fractions numerically. We will continue to look at the concept of time; covering, reading and setting analogue and digital times to o’clock, half past and quarter past times. We will discuss other forms of measuring time, such as days, months and seasons. We will also be exploring ‘Money’, practising how to pay for items and work out our change, along with investigating how different combinations of coins and notes can be used to pay for goods or be given in change.

PE Days

Our P.E days are a Tuesday (on the outdoor pitch) and a Thursday (in the Gym Hall). Please dress your child for P.E on these days (and for the weather) and ensure they are not wearing any jewellery.

Home Learning Help/Websites

We are setting a Sumdog challenge each week to help consolidate the learning we do in class. You can access this via the website www.sumdog.com. If you need any log in information, please get in touch.