Welcome to our new blog!

We hope you have all enjoyed the holidays and are ready for a busy term two.  As a class, we will be updating our blog regulary instead of a newsletter.  This will let us share our learning with parents, friends and family.

Our class topic this term is ‘The Fun Fair’.  We have discussed our ideas and decided on key areas we would like to learn.  There will be a main focus on science and technology, and plenty of opportunitites to use our creative skills to design stalls and rides.  We will soon be visiting Satrosphere to investigate forces and link this to our learning within the Fun Fair topic.  Please start collecting junk materials to be used in class as part our topic and bring them in.

In maths this term we have been learning about compass directions and revisiting 3D shape.  We will now be focussing on learning our times tables until the holidays.  Please revise this at home and remember you can use websites such at ‘sumdog’ and ‘hit the button’ to help.

Sumdog – www.sumdog.com

Hit the Button – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We will be developing our story writing skills in literacy this term. Last week we wrote Little Red Riding Hood stories with alternative story plots.  Over the next weeks we will be looking at how we can make our writing more engaging by using interesting openers, exciting vocabulary and structuring our stories with a clear beginning, middle and ending.  We will continue to use our synonym tree from last term to help us with lots of exciting words to make our writing more interesting.

In gym we have been extending our netball skills and learning the basic rules of the game.  This term we are focussing on fitness.  This will involve working on our stamina, speed and strength through a variety of activities.  Pupils will be learning the importance of positive encouragement towards others and setting personal targets for improving their own level of fitness.

Pupils from primary four encouraging each other during a fitness lesson this week.