YEAR 1 InitiaLit LESSONS (ACARA) TERM 1 TERM 2 TERM 3 TERM 4
P6b—Term 2
Transcript of P6b—Term 2
Use the choices below to decide what home learning tasks
you would like your child to take part in. It is up to families
as to how many activities they complete. Please date if com-
pleted.
Literacy Numeracy Health & Wellbeing IDL and RME
Reading
Log in to Read Theory
and complete 3-5 tasks
each week.
Spelling
Practise your spelling
words using a variety of
active and written
methods, as provided in
homework jotter cover.
Writing—Poetry
Create your own Winter
poem—it could be an
acrostic, or as a recipe.
You can choose your
style and remember it
doesn’t have to rhyme.
Write it on a word docu-
Times Tables
Practise all known times tables.
Extension—know the linked
dividers eg 24 divided by 3 = 8,
3 x 8 =24. Hit the Button is a
great quickfire online maths
site on Topmarks, or get
someone to test you weekly.
Free Choice
Choose an activity you
want to do:
It could be anything ypou
want. Take a photo of the
finished article and up-
load to teams.
Jacobites
Create a quiz about the
Jacobite. Make up 10
questions to ask the
others in your class.
remember to supply the
answers as well. Up-
load the questions and
answers to teams.
Sumdog Challenges
Sumdog will be posted
fortnightly—choose your
level, MILD, SPICY or HOT.
Numeracy and Maths
This term we will be look-
ing at the 24 hour clock.
A worksheet will be
uploaded on Teams later
on this term. PLEASE
UPLOAD YOUR
ANSWERS TO TEAMS.
HWB—Building
Resilience
This term’s theme is
Keep Connected. Read
over the Parent sheet
together and then
complete your ‘back up’
team in your jotter.
Forces
Make a paper aeroplanes
Test it and see how far it
flies, take a photograph,
record the distance and
then upload results to
Teams
Christmas/Winter
From the beginning of Decem-
ber, create your own Christmas
or Winter decoration for the
classroom. It could be for the
tree, windows or walls. The
internet has some brilliant and
simple ideas.
RME— Festivals of Light
Light is often used for
celebrations in different faiths.
Tell an adult about how light is
used in Hanukkah and Diwali.
Remember to mention
significant people. Can you
think of other festivals of light?
• What was the best thing that happened at school today?
• Tell me something that made you laugh today?
• Tell me a new word that you heard today.
• If I called your teacher tonight, what would they tell me about you?
• How did you help somebody today?
• Tell me about three different times you used your pencil today.
• What was the most popular game at break today?
Useful apps and websites:
Top marks (free to use online!)
Crick web—various literacy and
Numeracy sites.
Sumdog—password and login from Teacher
P6b—Term 2
Gilmerton Primary School
Primary 6b Newsletter
Literacy
Reading
We will be developing our skimming and scanning skills to make predictions about various texts, marking texts to find required information and to use notes to develop thinking on a topic. The children will read a variety of genre including poetry and short stories and create a short presentation to their group/class about a piece of writing they enjoyed.
Writing
We will be continuing to develop our writing skills, focusing on using direct and indirect speech, including more connectives and learning about prepositions. We will look at the features of newspapers and create our own front page article, providing a logical sequence of events.
Listening & Talking
We will be listening to specific instructions to answer questions and annotate drawings, responding to a variety of questions (literal, inferential, prediction, analytical and evaluative) and talking confidently about a text we enjoyed.
Spanish Learning to talk about where we come from and asking others where they come from Saying and spelling simple words using the Spanish alphabet
Numeracy & Mathematics
Numeracy
We will add and subtract, multiply and divide up to 9999 using column methods, look at frac-tions—add, subtract, equivalent and fractions of a quantity, and also be introduced to percentages.
Outer Maths
We will look at the 12 and 24 hour clock, co-ordinates and place value with money.
IDL – Jacobites
Learning about significant events which happened dur-ing Jacobite rebellion and how they shaped Scottish Society.
To Investigate difference between Primary and Second-ary sources of evidence
Forces
To carry out some simple experiment to look at different forces around us.
Health & Wellbeing
P.E.
Athletics and Games outside, develop basic skills for tennis
HWB
Building Resilience—Keep Connected
We will be looking at the importance of relationships to our health and wellbeing, that belonging to a group can help to build friendships and that relationships are a two way thing. We will talk about our “back up” team—who that may involve and why.
Expressive Arts
Art— create a Winterscape, make a Christmas decoration
Music— listen and respond to different Jacobite songs
Drama— explore the conventions of hot-seating, role play, freeze frame and mime.
ICT/Technologies
• Complete tasks through the Teams programme. Learn to upload photos and word documents.
• Use a variety of programmes to display & share learning
RME
• Investigate festivals of light within different religions, including Hinduism and Judaism.
• Research Christmas traditions around the world.
What’s on / Events
Monday 9— Monday16 November—Parent Consultations (online) Monday 16—Friday 20 November— Scottish Book Week and Anti-Bullying week Monday 14—Friday 18 December—Virtual Pantomime (timings tbc) Monday 21 December— Class Christmas celebration Tuesday 22 December—End of term—12 noon. HAVE A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY! Tuesday 5 January 2021—In-service (Staff only) Wednesday 6 January 2021—Children return to school
Reminders:
Mon –
Tue – PE (Mr Smith)
Wed –
Thur – PE (Mrs Hutchinson)
Fri –