Primary 3 were delighted to be awarded the ‘Class of the Week’ trophy at assembly last week. We have been working on moving quietly around the school and even managed to creep up on Ms MacDonald without her noticing us on a couple of occasions! Keep up the great work P3!
Time to look ahead to next week’s Big Learning in Primary 3!
In Numeracy we will continue to look at Numeral Identification, Number Sequences and Ordering; writing numbers in words, recalling the number before, after and between given numbers in the range 0-1000 or beyond, putting given numbers into ascending and descending order and partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.
We have also made a start on our Maths topic by looking at 2D shape; identifying a variety of different shapes and their properties. Children could look for shapes in the environment as they are out and about.
In Literacy we will continue to work on our Common Words and revision of the sounds/spelling for ph/ee and ow/ou. We will also be identifying and discussing the key characters in our reading books. Our topic for Big Writing this week will be a personal piece on ‘My Favourite Person’ – it would be lovely if the children could bring in a photo or picture of the person they are going to write about to include in their writing jotter.
We are ready to start our Science led topic on ‘Water’ this week and the class will play an active role in planning what we are going to learn and how we are going to achieve this.
We will be reviewing our greetings in French, and practising counting to 10 and beyond.
More throwing and catching in PE; thinking about aim, height and direction when using underarm throws. We hope to be outside on a Wednesday as long as the weather lasts; it might be a good idea if the children bring in a pair of leggings or tracksuit bottoms to wear on cooler days.
Reading activity days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, although, whenever possible, less confident readers will be given daily opportunity to read.
Change over days will be different for each reading team to allow a thorough introduction of the new book.
Illustrators (currently reading ‘The New House’) – Monday
Authors (currently reading ‘Underground Adventure’) – Tuesday
Publishers (currently reading ‘Roman Adventure’) – Tuesday
Editors (currently reading ‘The Boss Dog of Blossom Street’) – Thursday
Proof readers (currently reading ‘The Goalie’s Secret’) – Every second Thursday
It’s really helpful if children bring their reading book to school every day as we may need to swap books between children if there are not enough copies to go round.
As of tomorrow each child will also have a card marker on which they will record their reading for the week.
The children have chosen some revision spelling words this week using the sounds sh/ch or ue/ea. Some children have copied their own words in, which is great! If they are practising at home I do not need joined up writing yet (we are working on this in class), but I would like correct letter formation and a flick on every letter. It would be great if this could be reinforced at home.
I hope you have managed to locate our termly Learning Overview on the appropriate page of our blog. It will give you a good idea of the Big Learning experiences we have planned for the term ahead.
Time to look ahead to next week’s Big Learning in Primary 3!
In Numeracy we are looking at Number Sequences and Ordering; reciting number sequences forwards and backwards in 1s, 10s and 100s up to 100 or 1000, skip counting forwards and back in multiples of 2, 3, 4 and 5 to 100 and recalling the number before and after a given number in the range 0-100 or 0-1000 for some. This is something which children can readily practise orally at home. We will also be looking at Numeral Identification; naming and representing numbers to at least 1,000 using numerals.
In Literacy we will continue to work on our Common Words; reviewing any errors from our initial assessments and setting targets for moving forwards. We will be focusing on reading aloud with fluency and expression – identifying the spoken words within speech marks. We have set individual targets for writing and your child should be able to share these with you at home; most children need to work on consistently marking sentences with a capital letter and full stop. We are also tightening up on letter formation before looking at beginning to join our handwriting.
We have started to think about having a ‘Growth Mindset‘ – having an ‘I can’t do it YET…’ attitude rather than ‘I can’t…’. By the end of next week your child should be able to tell you what the ‘Learning Pit‘ is, and some ways to get out of it.
Let’s get busy with our learning!
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Do you love to run and play fun active games?
P 1- 3 Running club starts back on Thursday 29th August 12-12.30.
Remember your Trainers, Water bottle and Packed Lunch and meet at the all weather area at 12 noon.
This club will run as long as the weather is dry.
Home Learning
At the end of the school day time spent with family and friends is invaluable. There will be no formal written homework issued each week, however I will keep you up to date with what we are learning in school via our ‘Big Learning’ posts, along with ideas on how you can support your child in their learning at home. Periodically the children may be asked to prepare a talk or complete a specific Home Learning task.
Spelling
We are spending the first few weeks revising and consolidating the Common Word Lists. Most children will come home with an individualised revision list stuck into their Home Learning jotters tomorrow and these are the words they should work on at home over the next couple of weeks. There are some good ideas in the Spelling Menu. Children who can confidently spell the words up to and including the Diamond list will be issued with an alternative spelling list next Monday.
Please feel free to use the ‘Home Learning’ jotter to record any written practice of spelling etc. if you wish. I will use it to share the Common Words/Spelling/High Frequency Reading Words (for some children only) we are working on in class. Home Learning jotters should be returned to school each Thursday. I will highlight each word when it can be confidently read/written/spelled and new words will subsequently be added in.
Reading
Reading books will be issued at some point this week. As the children have come from three different classes it has been necessary to rejig the reading groups; I will try my very best to ensure that children are not issued with books they have read previously. One of the groups is quite large and your child may not have a book to take home every night. Please don’t worry, we will be doing plenty of reading in class! I will make sure that different children take a turn at sharing each week and that the less confident readers get a book home for additional practice.
It’s been a very busy first week back for Primary 3!
First of all we had to get to know everyone in our new table group…
…and create a display for outside our classroom.
We worked with our shoulder partners on thinking about what our Rights Respecting Classroom would look like, sound like and feel like.
We had to choose our new class reader…
…and have some fun outdoors!
We thought about what we are really good at and how we can support our classmates this year.
Oh, and we managed to squeeze in some Spelling, Mental Maths and Handwriting practice too!
I think we might be feeling just a little tired and in need of a long lie tomorrow (Miss Gray certainly is)!
Have a good weekend!
I hope you all had a fabulous summer holiday, and are ready for lots of learning and FUN this year in Primary 3!
Keep checking our class blog for regular news, and updates on our learning.
Primary 3 2019/2020 