Learning in Mr McGahan's class








Things to remember in Mr McGahan's Class
Don't forget swimming classes over for the term
Remember to bring your PE bag with all your equipment on Wednesday and Thurday.
Place it beside your school bag on Tuesday night! Be prepared.
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Traditional music on Tuesday
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Orchestra on Thursday
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P.E on Wednesday and Thursday
Learning in Term 2
Literacy
Compare and contrast settings, how to target audiences, writing chapters and letters, rhyme and patterns in poetry, investigate structure and style of range of writing, using paragraphs in writing, complete comprehensions, sequence events, character descriptions, adjectives ( comparative and superlative), commas, connectives, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, revision of punctuation marks, proverbs, prepositions, plural endings.
Genre- explore the main features of Narratives. Children will write an narrative account based on the Titanic.
Reading - selection of fiction and non-fiction books.
Handwriting- build up speed, fluenvce anf legibility through practice.
Linguistic Phonics- focus and investiagate the following sounds f, k, le, ch, wh, or, m, s, n, r,ar, sh, g, j
Numeracy
Time - 5mins and 1 mins time using past and to, am and pm, calendars P6 24 hour clock and reading timetables.
Data Handling - reading, interpretating and drawing tally charts, pictograms, carroll and venn diagrams and bar graphs.P6 Above plus pie charts and databases.
Length and Perimeter - using and understanding mm,cm,m,km.
Co-ordinates- plotting and reading co-ordinates.
Area - finding area of shapes using full and half squares.
Weight - understand realtionship between g and kg. Estimate and weigh objects.
2D and 3D shape- properties of shapes.P6 Nets of shapes
Number - revision of addition, subtracting, division and multiplication. P6 Negative numbers
World Around Us
Water Water Everywhere! Explore what water is, where it comes from and its various uses!
The Arts
Art- Water themed artwork. Develop understanding of line, tone, colour, shape, form, texture and pattern. Use a range of materials creativiely and imaginatively. Review and modify work. Experiment with clay.
PE
Gymnastics- develop co-ordination, body movements. travelling on the floor and on apparatus. Develop an awarenss of safety. experimenting with body control. Seqence work. Work with others and perform work to peers.
Games - Warming up and cooling down. Throwing and catching games to develop these skills. Development of fundamental movement skills.
Music
Learning how to play instruments from the Orchestra e.g. violin, viola, cello and double bass. Carry out activities from Music Express programme.
P.D.M.U.
Healthy Habits- children will discuss the effects of alcohol and classify, compare and evaluate information. They will know that medicines need to be used with care and demonstrate strategies to resist experimenting with dan
Working in Harmony - Demonstrate good listening skills and provide clear messages when we talk to each other. Develop a deeper knowledge of their rights. Appreciate more fully the similarities between people everywhere. Understand and become more familiar with the ages in which they receive rights. Gain an awareness of actions which can be taken if rights are ignored.
Religion
Explore Grow in Love programme. Assembly in February based on theme of Listening.
What your child will be learning in Term 1
Literacy
Investigate how characters and settings are built up. Write character sketches. Revise adjectives, adverbs, nouns,verbs, collective nouns, plurals, similes, suffixes, prefixes and compound words. Investigate rhyme patterns and figurative language in poetry. Investigate persuasive writing - identify and become familiar with key features of a persuasive writing. Write persuasive pieces including an advertisement and an argument for protecting rainforests.
Handwriting: to practice to ensure consistency in size and proportions of letters.
Linguistic Phonics:
P5 or,er,en,on, f, if, fe (irregular plurals), silent letters, air/are, short e sound.
P6 hard and soft g, silent letters, ie and ei, ay, ey, ai, a eigh, aigh, ei, prefixes, ch.
Numeracy
*Carry out activities to develop understanding in the following topics:
P5 - Read, write and order numbers to 10, 000. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. Learn times tables (2-12). Round to nearest 10, 100, 1000. Doubling. Fractions of a number, equivalent fracions and introduction to decimals. Length ( mm, cm, m, km, miles) and introduction to co-ordinates.
P6 - Read, write and order numbers to 1,000,000. Add, subtract, multiply and divide. Learn times tables (2-12) Round to the nearest 10, 100, 1000. Doubling. Fractions of a number, equivalent fractions and introduction to decimals. Length (mm, cm, m, km and miles) and introduction to co-ordinates. Investigate directions with BlackCat Logo.
W.A.U.
World Impact! The Rainforest and other regions around the world.
Creative/ Expressive Arts
Experiment with pencil and clay, modelling, impressing and engraving to make drawings. Look at faces and discuss the different types of emotion. Explore these emotions using a range of pastels. Focus on the artist Henri Rosseau.
Music- Learning how to play instruments from the Orchestra e.g. violin, viola, cello and double bass. Carry out activities from Music Express programme.
Gaelic Football/ Games/ Swimming.
Websites
St. Mary's Primary School, 22 West Street, Stewartstown, Co Tyrone, BT1 5HT Telephone:028 877 383 88 Email: mhamill472@c2kni.net