Class: Primary 3 Terms 3 Curricular Area: Literacy

Class: Primary 3 Terms 3 Curricular Area: Literacy

• Write for a variety of purposes including providing an explanation and a set of instructions.

• Showing understanding
• Summarising
• Describing what has been seen and done
• Listing and ordering

• Share any lists or sets of instructions already written. If notes on how to do something are to be made for someone else, write them together, numbering the stages, keeping it simple.
• Talk through and carry out, if possible, the ordering of simple tasks eg how to make a piece of toast.

• Select ideas and relevant information to form a new piece of writing.

• Investigating information given
• Assessing relevance
• Choosing
• Sorting and planning
• Inventing own piece of writing

• Write facts about a topic.

• Investigating and focussing on relevance
• Recording and reporting written findings

• Visit the library and borrow books which interest your child, use trusted websites, ask your child to give you give facts which would impress you.

• Understand and identify the features of a non fiction text
• Discuss differences between fiction and non fiction

• Sharing thoughts and ideas
• Giving examples

• When reading at home discuss features of the text being read
• Discuss similarities and differences between texts read

• Select relevant pieces of information relating to a given topic
• Make notes on a topic - using headings, bullet points, diagrams and lists.

• Identifying relevant pieces of information
• Summarising
• Join ideas/make links and comparisons

• When children have non fiction texts as homework, ask them to tell you 4 facts they have learned, this will encourage them to think about what they have read and explain facts in their own words

• Identify and use connectives, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
• I can use a dictionary with some confidence

• Identifying and giving examples

• Ask your child to point out connectives, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in their reading
• Encourage the use of adjectives and adverbs when doing homework tasks
• Encourage the use of a dictionary

• Listen to information, select appropriate information and make notes

• Listening
• Summarising
• Join ideas/make links and comparisons

• If watching a factual programme ask your child to summarise what the programme was about or to draw something they learned.

Class: Primary 3 Term 3 Curricular Area: Numeracy

• Addition with carrying – Focus on recording sums correctly
• Subtraction with exchange - Focus on recording sums correctly

• Recording sums correctly to show understanding of place value
• Using material to demonstrate understanding of concepts

• Encourage correct layout when recording sums, one number per box and when adding or subtracting ensure tens are in one column and units in another

• Number to 1000

• Using material to demonstrate understanding of concepts
• Ordering and comparing numbers

• Ask a variety of questions – which number is larger, what’s the number after or before?, count in 10s to 200, count in 100s.

• Mental agility - continue to improve speed of recall when working with tables and number bonds and apply knowledge to other aspects of maths and wider curriculum.

• Memorising
• Linking addition and subtraction, multiplication and division
• Explaining how answers are achieved
• Applying understanding to other aspects of numeracy and wider curriculum.

• Play any games in the car which encourage any recall skills, time them, can they get a better time?
• Share any mental addition with your child showing how important it is to add, subtract, multiply and divide in everyday life, shopping is the ideal opportunity to do this.

• Read information from diagrams and tables, use this information to describe what they show
• Draw simple diagrams, tables and charts to record progress of circuit training in the gym.

• Estimating and drawing conclusions
• Sharing thoughts
• Creating and sorting information
• predicting

• Share any appropriate tables, diagrams and simple graphs, talk about what is the most common result and why might that be? Make prediction ad conclusions. Showing your child examples in everyday life will help them understand why it is important to be able to use tables, diagrams and graphs to gather, compare, share and conclude information.

Class: Primary 3 Terms 3 Curricular Area: Health and Wellbeing

• identify food that comes from Scotland and from abroad

• looking and solving
• reading and matching
• giving examples
• reporting

• Look at labelling on the foods in shops and at home, where are our foods grown? What is seasonal for us? Where do our strawberries come from during the winter months?
• Look at the map where are our foods coming from? Why? Discuss how weather influences what is grown.

• Give examples of food and drinks adverts.

• Investigating and Sorting
• sharing

• Discuss whether all adverts are good, what do manufacturers do to encourage you to buy their products? Which adverts do they like and why?

• Know why exercise is important for my wellbeing.

• Explaining
• Showing and comparing
• Estimating and predicting
• Planning next steps

• Continue to encourage exercise at home. Ask what they did at PE? What did they like? What did they find challenging? why?

• Know how important warm ups and cool downs are after exercise

• Realising
• Predicting
• Giving examples

• Ask your child about warm ups and cool downs, why are they important. Can they show you? Can they invent a new one?

• Develop skills and techniques so to improve my level of performance and fitness.

• Estimating and predicting
• Preserving
• Assessing

• Discuss how are they getting on with their fitness book whilst doing their circuits, are they improving? Can they share how their body changes whilst doing exercises?

• Gymnastics – develop floorwork and skills on equipment

• Develop idea of shape, balance, direction in flight and control of bodies during movements in gymnastics

• Encourage your child to discuss or show you some of the routines they have been learning in gymnastics

Class: Primary 3 Terms 3 Other Curricular Areas

If you have any special skills that you feel you may beable to share within Golden Time or class time, that can link to our topic, please share, we would love to have parents sharing their expertise and being actively involved in the learning in Primary 3.