Welcome back after the September weekend, I hope you have had an enjoyable holiday!
In language, the Unit Study for Primary 4 for the last term has been ‘Hodgeheg’ by Dick King-Smith. The children are developing and consolidating their understanding of the roles of the predictor and clarifier within Reciprocal Reading. Going forward the children will begin to develop their skills in summarising and will identify the characteristics of the main characters by observing and discussing the language used by the authors. Our grammar focus this term has been identifying pronouns, adjectives and similes through our novel studies and a range of texts. In writing, we have had a major focus on the use of connectives to join short sentences together. The children are enjoying the challenge of using more sophisticated connective others than ‘and’ in their written work. Please continue to encourage your child to use connectives to write extended sentences in their homework tasks. Next term, our focus will move to verbs and adverbs. As always neat presentation of written work is encouraged for all tasks. Soon the children will begin to learn the joins to begin joined script.
In maths, we continue to learn the 2,3,4, 5 and 10 times tables. Please continue to encourage your child to practise not only the multiplication fact but the number bond facts to 20. This will aid quick random, mental recall. The children have explored angles and can successful identify right angles. They have also been successful in using grid reference to plot and read maps. The children have been introduced to developing mental strategies for adding and written column addition. They are encouraged to remember to carry the carrying figure on the line. Soon the children will explore 2D and 3D shapes and will learn a variety of new shapes (e.g. hemisphere, prism) and their properties such as vertices, edges and faces.
Our Interdisciplinary focus this term has been our novel study, ‘Hodgeheg’. The children enjoyed reading this novel and learning about the importance of road safety. Their learning on being safe on the roads tied in nicely with the September Health and Well-being focus ‘Safe’ from the SHANARI wheel.
In partnership with our Parish, we have begun preparing for First Holy Communion. Thank you for joining us on the Feast of Our Lady's birthday. Thank you also for supporting the Rosary homework task. I look forward to meeting you at our Mary's Meals Mass in St. Patrick's Church.
Please ensure your child has a full PE kit and all jewellery removed before coming to school.
PE days are as follows:
P4 - Tuesday and Friday
Thank you for support with your child's homework. Please continue to ensure homework is returned to school on Thursdays.
