Primary 3

                   Hot and Cold Countries

• In Literacy, this term, we will be learning to: 
  Text:
• Use structures from poems as a basis for writing – extend, substitute, invent own lines
• Expect patterns of rhythm, rhyme and other features of sound in poems
• Understand that when the reading aloud of a poem makes sense and is effective
• Recognise the terms ‘poet’, ‘poem’, ‘verse’, ‘rhyme’ and ‘rhythm’ and use when discussing favourite poets and poems
• Understand the concept of alphabetical order
• Recognise that dictionaries and glossaries give definitions and explanations
• Locate words
• Make a class dictionary/glossary
• Distinguish between fiction and non-fiction
• Understand the term “explanation” and have experience of flow charts and cyclical diagrams that explain a process
• Produce simple flow charts or diagrams that explain a process
  Sentence:
• Investigate and recognise a range of other ways of presenting texts – speech bubbles, enlarged, italicised print, captions, headings and sub-headings
• Use verb tenses with accuracy in speaking and writing e.g. see/saw
• Use past tense consistently for narration
• Use commas to separate items in lists
  Word:
• Identify and categorise common representations of the same sound – boat, tow, no
• Use word endings – s, ed, ing
• Identify, segment, blend syllables
• Read and spell multi-syllable words 1/1
  Talking & Listening:
• Read, memorise and recite poems
• Use intonation when reading and reciting texts

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• In Numeracy, this term, we will be learning to:
      Processes:
  • Organise own work
    Mental Competences:
  • Use and begin to read vocabulary of estimation and approximation
  • Estimate a given quantity
  • Round numbers less than 100 to the nearest 10
    Number:
  • Deal with numbers halfway and between two given numbers
  • Estimate a number from its position on a number line
  • Calculate all subtraction facts to 10
  • Use and apply subtraction facts to 20
  • Subtract as the inverse of addition
    Topic:
  • Set o’clock and half past times on analogue and digital clocks
  • Set quarter past times on analogue and digital clocks
  • Recognise fractions - halves and quarters
  • Link fractions to doubles and halves of numbers
  • Link fractions to quarter past and half past on clocks
  • Solve a given problem by sorting classifying and organising information in simple ways in a list or simple table/diagram
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• In World Around Us, this term, we will be learning:
  • About some animals including how they grow, move and use their senses (I)
  • That we are responsible for looking after our world (I, P)
  • About the variety of ways in which humans create waste (I, P)
  • How the weather in other places differs from that in our own area and can affect the lives of the people e.g. homes (P)
  • That a world map and globe can be used to locate places (P)
  • To observe seasonal changes in the landscape e.g. trees or animals (COT)
  • To identify obvious differences between the past and present (COT)