Primary 2&3
Below you can see an overview of what we will be learning. You can also view photos of our learning by clicking on the yellow stars below.
Teacher’s Email: hbyrne735@stcolmans.bann.ni.sch.uk
January & February
Literacy
This term we will:
- Read and spell commonly used High Frequency Words (HFW)
- Spell CVC words e.g., hat, box, sit etc.
- Write sentences with finger spaces, full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks
- Hear, read and spell initial, final, and medial letter sounds in words
- Begin our new genre of Non-Chronological Reports
Numeracy
This term we will:
- Count in 1s,2s,5s and 10s
- Recognise, read, and write numbers within 10/20/50/100
- Make numbers using tens and units
- add and subtract
- pay exact amounts of money and give correct change
- use everyday language to describe position, direction, and movement e.g., left, right, forwards, backwards (Beebot)
- Introduce simply tallying for recording of data
- Organise and discuss the recording of data in pictograms and simple block graphs
- solve word problems based on our learning
- Problem Solve using the ‘Find all possibilities’ skill
Personal Development and Mutual Understanding (PDMU)– We will be focusing on ‘Forgiveness’.
World Around Us (WAU)/Topic– We will begin our topic ‘Amazing Africa’. We will learn where Africa is located, we will explore African culture including tribes and traditions.
Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities (TS&PC)– We will be focusing on our 'Problem Solving and Decision Making’ skills.
- We will memorise and recall experiences and stories
- We will make observations and describe things
- We will sequence and order events
- We will sort
- We will make predictions and see possibilities
- We will give reasons and opinions
- We will ask different types of questions.