January 2025

Primary 4 literacy

 In this half- term the children will be developing their comprehension skills and looking for key words in the questions and ensuring that the evidence is found in the passage/story.  Through our grammar lessons, the children will be developing their knowledge of verbs and making nouns plural eg box-boxes ; church -churches. They will learn some 'plural rules' for adding e/es.  They will also be identifying examples of homophones eg hair/hare; wear/were ; here/hear. 

Keep working hard at AR - all of the children are working towards their next 'star target' on the display board in the class. Please encourage your child to read often at home too.

We are focusing on good handwriting and your support at home would be greatly appreciated - please encourage correct letter formation and good sizing of letters in the spelling booklets and written homework too. 

Please take some time revising over the spelling patterns covered throughout this half-term as these will be tested in a 'big test' in February. 

Primary 5

Please keep up the hard work with the reading and spellings - the extra support which your child receives at home does not go unnoticed! 

This half term we will be learning more about adverbs and forming verbs in the past , present and future tenses. We will be consolidating our previous knowledge about plural rules from P4 and recognise words which do not follow the 'rules' such as child - children ; person - people. 

In comprehension, we will continue to be looking at the questions for key details and using the passage to highlight key information. We will be developing our use of full sentences too in comprehension and reading activities.

Reading should be listened to every night and please encourage your child to read their AR book - the children are all very excited about moving around the star board.  

Thank you for your continued support with written homework, spellings and reading-it is very much appreciated.

Please refer to the main P4 and P5 class pages for more information relating to your child.

Mrs Young