All of a sudden it feels as if the end of term is fast approaching. Just as we would if we were all in class together, we will be taking a little time over the next couple of weeks to look back over our time in Primary 3, and also to look forward to our new school year. It might not be our usual end of term, but I do feel it is important to celebrate the children’s successes and achievements.
Here is our outline timetable for this week.
There is a ‘reflection’ activity for the children to complete each day. They just need to take care to only work on their own slide on Thursday’s ‘Memory Book’ as this is a shared document. Likewise, I have set some children a ‘Top Secret Task’ on a shared document and would appreciate some adult support with the completion of this. There are detailed instructions attached to the activity.
Please note the timing of group Meets has changed to 11.00am this week. I have already posted a short playscript for ‘The Gingerbread Man’ which I thought we could have some fun with at our Google Meets this week. The children have each been allocated two parts to practise, but can read from the scripts on the day. Costumes are entirely optional – this is just for fun!
I have also included a Visualising task for reading on Wednesday.
We will be having a bit of a refresher on Multiplication/Division and Times Tables this week. I have provided a host of ideas and links to online games to practise.
I have also posted some fun ‘Mystery Maths’ activities which I think the children will enjoy. They require the children to use a whole range of Numeracy and Maths applications, at an appropriate level, in order to solve a mystery. Unfortunately I have no way of detaching the answers from the end of the documents, so if you are following the instructions on screen you might want to watch out that there is no sneaky peeking going on!
There will be no more spelling words issued after this week. In class we would normally take some time to review the spelling patterns, so feel free to go back over the previous weeks and pull out some words at random to check for retention.
Please just do what you can, there is absolutely no pressure to complete every activity. By this point in a regular school year we would normally be dealing with some very tired children; there would be a lot of outdoor, fun activities and social time together. So, while I will keep posting activities, please do not be surprised if your child appears to be ‘running out of steam’ – I am quite frankly amazed and delighted that they have sustained their level of engagement for as long as they have. Thank you again for your continued support from home, it is much appreciated.
Primary 3 2019/2020 