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Primary School - March Monthly Newsletter

READING

Text Genre: Magical Creatures

Text: The Bog Baby

Vocabulary:

Talk about new words and connect them to what we know.
Talk about word meanings and new words to those already known

Inference:

Use clues from the text to identify the meaning of words.
Infer using pictures and words in the text

Predict:

Make simple predictions based on the text and on their own life experience

Sequence:

Discuss how steps are linked and sequenced.

Sequence ideas for it to make sense

Explain:

Express views about events or characters
Explain my understanding of what happened in the text.
Explain my ideas about a character.

Retrieve:

Identify the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.
Identify characters, events and information
Answer questions about what has just happened in a text

WRITING

Talk4Writing: Innovation - make a new story about a magical creature

Shared Writing:

Combine words and phrases using 'and'
Use verbs in writing instructions
Use correct punctuation to write the sequence of instructions
Use (. ? !) to punctuate a sentence correctly

Planning and Organising Ideas:

Plan and make a new magical creature (Say out loud what they are going to write about).

Independent Writing:

Write a new story independently

Grammar and Punctuation

Add -ed and -ing to the end of verbs where no spelling change is needed.
Use capital letters for days of the week and names of places.
Use (. ? !) to punctuate a sentence correctly
add -s and - es to nouns or verbs

Mass and capacity

Introduction to mass and capacity
Measuring mass and capacity using non standard units of measurement

Time

To identify time before and after
To name the days of the week
To identify months of the year
To identify parts of a clock
To read and write time by o clock
To read and write half past time

Chemistry:

Unit: Everyday Materials

To describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials
To distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made

Biology:

Unit: Looking at Animals

To identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

Working Scientifically:

Identifying and classifying
Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions
Identifying and observing
Explain to others what I have found

Arabic A

"حرف الطاء

أشكال الحروف أول ووسط وآخر الكلمة .

أن يكمل الحرف الناقص بأسماء الصور والكلمات .

أن يظهر الطالب قدرته على كتابة ما يملى عليه من كلمات .

أن يعدد الطالب أسماء الحيوانات التي يحتوي اسمها على الحروف (ط ).

أن يحدد الشخصيات والزمان والمكان في القصة .

أن يصف الأماكن والأشخاص .

اختبار اللغة العربية والمهارات.

مسابقات اللغة العربية في أسبوع اللغة العربية والمزيد من الحماس."

Arabic B

In the month of March, students will be able:

To recognise the forms of letter Taa' at the (beginning, middle and end of the word).
To recognise letter Taa' with short and long sounds.
To answer the questions of the reading story.
To recognise the forms of letter Thaa' at the (beginning, middle and end of the word).
To recognise letter Thaa' with short and long sounds.