Big Learning!

Here is a look ahead to our Big Learning for next week!

In Numeracy we will continue to consolidate Subtraction strategies to 20/100/beyond 100 with a particular focus on partitioning the tens and ones and bridging the decade using part whole thinking. e.g. 53-27; 53-20=33, then 33-3=30, then 30-4=26

Our focus sound for spelling next week will be the long ‘a’ sound using the graphemes ai, ay, ea and eigh. Your child should have their group words copied into their Home Learning jotter which will come home today. You can practise these in any way you like, there are plenty of ideas on our Spelling Menu

We are also working on personalised common spelling word lists every day in class.

We will be completing our imaginative story ‘Dragon Girl’ in Big Writing, thinking carefully about our presentation, punctuation and adding plenty of description and detail.

As you will see from our new Learning Overview Term 3 our IDL topic will be ‘The Victorians’ with particular reference to Inverness in Victorian times. We will begin by creating a Victorian timeline next week.

We will also be starting with a general introduction to Sikhism in RME.

We will be enjoying our second four week block of Kodally each Friday morning. I’m sure your child will be able to share some of the fun songs and games we learn.

Helping at Home

I know our P3 parents are very keen to help support learning at home. We will be looking at Multiplication/Division shortly, so counting on and back in 2s, 5s, and 10s is a really good starting point. More confident children could start to work on times tables in this order: 2, 10, 5, 4, 3. Learning the facts in sequence by skip counting is the first step, with the ultimate aim of being able to recall facts out of sequence.

Our Maths focus this term will be telling the time, and so any support you can give with this at home would be great. We should already be confident with o’clock and half past on both analogue and digital clocks; our aim is to master quarter past and quarter to on both analogue and digital clocks. Children who are already confident with this will begin to work on 5 minute intervals.

Finally, Life Skills. Quite a few children in the class are still unable to independently tie their shoelaces; this is something which could definitely be supported and worked on at home.

I would appreciate your support in ensuring that reading books are brought to school every day and Home Learning jotters are returned each Thursday, ready for our new word list on Friday.