This term is always such a busy one. There has been lots to do and learn in the lead up to Christmas.

Literacy

In reading we continue to work hard in groups and practise our skills during Reading Together times. Accelerated Reader has been ongoing as an independent activity with most children working hard to read books and then complete a test. Our writing is developing as we have had a big focus on punctuation. I hope that everyone is able to write in sentences at home. Let’s keep working on it! Google classroom contains all of our spelling words and some activities each week.

Numeracy

This term we have completed multiplication and fractions tasks. Everyone is great at explaining about “fair shares”. We have also been learning, x2 x3 x4 x5 and x10. Extra practise is always really helpful. Sumdog is really useful for practising skills.

Health and Wellbeing

In PE we have focused on several different areas. Everyone improved their skipping skills at the beginning on term. Gymnastics with Miss Masson has been very popular with all of the class. They have make excellent progress. Finally we have been learning Scottish Country dancing with P5. Everyone has enjoyed learning new dances and we are all now party ready!

Other

Many pupils enjoyed sharing the learning with their parents this term. We all learned a lot about castles. Thank you for your support. The children loved the event.

You should also be aware of our new reporting format that started this term. Each child is focus child for one week of term. I then create a Sway for the child with information and photographs about their learning for that week.

As always, the Google Classroom contains information and activities to help support children’s learning. It also contains Sways of each of out Play projects with lots of photos to show the learning.

We are excited to finish the term with parties, Christmas crafts and carol singing.  Have restful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you for your continued support of P3/4.