Primary 3 Parent Bulletin - Term 4
Our PE days are Tuesday and Friday. Please ensure your child comes dressed in appropriate PE kit on both days and brings warm clothes for outdoor PE.
Table of Contents
Literacy
Reading
Comprehension activities, Library (Fiction and non-fiction), Reading books-improving strategies of predication, clarification and questioning as well as fluency, accuracy, expression and understanding.
Literacy Box
Encourage enjoyment of reading at home, reading regularly if possible. Visit the local library.
Spelling
Weekly spelling patterns and Tricky
Words.
Support your child with their weekly spelling challenge.
Writing
Grammar-Focus using the correct punctuation, interesting openers to start sentences, joining sentences with suitable connectives, using adjectives to add colour and using the correct tense.
Dictionary activities.
Writing tasks within our Talk4Writing/Seasonal and IDL topics with the main emphasis on Non Fiction Writing.
Encourage your child to write stories/poems at home.
Listening and Talking
Picture News Current Affairs/Newsround
Listening and Talking activities-Listen Think & Do.
Individual talks
Reciprocal Reading
Numeracy and Maths
Problem Solving, Number Talks (cont.), Addition/Subtraction of HTU with carrying, Multiplication and Division, 2D and 3D shape, Information Handling, Fractions, Chance and Uncertainty, Angles, Equations
Support your child with their weekly maths homework. Find 2D and 3D shapes at home/in the garden/in your street. Create a survey/make a graph of different birds in your garden/coloured cars passing your house/favourite music/favourite TV programmes etc. Find right angles in your kitchen. Practise fractions and times tables when dividing your pizza, a cake etc.
P.E.
The Daily Mile
Virtual Games
Gymnastics
Athletics
Keep active by enjoying a walk with family members and friends.
P.E. lessons are on a Tuesday and Friday afternoon. Daily Mile is covered on these days and also on a Monday. Please encourage your child to wear trainers and joggers on these days if possible.
Health and Wellbeing
Roots of Empathy
PATHs
RSHP
Discuss how we communicate with one another, the importance of sleep and keeping safe.
I.D.L. Topic
Continue Campbeltown through the Ages
Houses & Transport-a comparative study
Share any knowledge you have with your child. Find out about something you are interested in and make a booklet to show others. You could draw pictures, take photographs and then describe what you have found out. Ask older family members about their experiences growing up.
e.g. What toys did they play with? What hobbies did they have? What was school like? What was transport like in the past? Can they describe their home?
Religious and Moral Education
Churches in the Community
Modern Languages
French – Food/Introducing members of your family, talking about your pet, saying what job you have in the class, the alphabet.
Watch French YouTube videos and sing along.
Science/ Technology
Topical Science/Vibrations and Sound
Building windmills
Ask your child to tell you or show you some of the experiments from school.
Expressive Arts
Art – Solving Design Problems
Music – Responding to music
Encourage your child to express themselves through painting, drawing and making music.