Big Learning!

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

In Numeracy children working on Subtraction to 100 will have a final week to consolidate strategies. Those children who have been working beyond 100 will be looking at interpretation of written addition and subtraction problems with more than one step, showing that they can apply the most appropriate known strategy.

Our focus sound for spelling next week will be the long ‘e’ sound using ee and ea. Your child should have their group words copied into their Home Learning jotter which will come home today. Only half of the class said they had practised their spelling words  at home last week; this was very evident when we complete our weekly spelling assessment. I would really appreciate your support at home with this. The children can practise their words in any way they like, there are plenty of ideas on our Spelling Menu

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

Our Literacy focus as we read and write next week will be the use of the apostrophe in contractions.

We will be heading out and about on Tuesday when we will be making a return visit to the Library in the morning to swap our books.

Our Victorian topic has got off to a great start. We will be looking at old maps of the Crown area on Monday afternoon (many thanks to James’ mum for providing some links for this) and then taking a walk around the Crown area on Tuesday afternoon (weather permitting) to identify buildings from the Victorian era.

We had great fun painting our colour wheels last week; thinking about mixing the primary colours to create secondary and tertiary colours. This week we will be looking at creating different tints by adding white, shades by adding black and tones by adding grey. We do take off our sweatshirts and try to take care, but an old painting shirt for school might be a good idea as we will be using paint quite a bit this term.

Following on from our introduction to Sikhism we will be looking at the key beliefs of the Sikh faith. Your child should already be able to tell you who founded the Sikh religion, where and when.

Our focus for PE this term is gymnastics. We will be practising moving around the floor in different ways and using our core strength to hold a variety of balances. Every child should have a gym kit in school comprising shorts or leggings, a t-shirt and suitable footwear.

We will continue to practise naming our colours in French.

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.