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Ballykeel Primary School & Nursery Unit

Mrs Holmes Additional Support

 February - March 2024

Welcome back, I hope everyone enjoyed their half term break. This is going to be a short half term as Easter is early this year, so there's lots to do!

   In Numeracy we had previously been learning about fractions and decimals and we will now use this knowledge to help us understand percentages. Shape and space will also be a focus as we learn about 3D shapes. We will learn about their properties by looking at the number of faces, edges and vertices (corners) each shape has. We will also learn how to recognise and make different nets of these shapes. We will be revising what we know about angles and we will even have a go at measuring angles ourselves with protractors. Tables still continue to be important so it good to keep practising these, online activities (Education City, Hit the Button, etc) can really help with this.

  In Literacy, reading and our understanding of what we read, is such an important foundation of all learning so it is important to encourage your child to read every day. You can help develop their skills by listening to them read and asking them questions about the book to check their understanding. We will be continuing to work on comprehension skills and reading activities in class. We will also be looking at punctuation such as apostrophes, speech marks and commas within grammar. Within creative writing we will have the opportunity to try to write in different styles while also applying our knowledge of grammar to this writing. Spellings will continue and it is good to practise these every night.

There are more details on the main P6 class page, especially about our World Around Us topic of Light, so please have a look to find out more.

Thank you for all of your support.

Mrs Holmes

 

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