Literacy
Primary 4-5 have been learning about the features of a newspaper article and have written these using information from our class novel ‘Saving Finnegan’. The children named their newspapers, worked on the layout and included two articles.
Next term, the children will be working on writing for information/explanation writing.
Numeracy
The class have been working on their understanding of the four operations this term (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and we are currently finishing off multiplication. The children have been consolidating their times table facts to help them with this and this should help them with division later this week. Some children have been using concrete materials such as cotton wool balls or cubes to split or group to visualise this.
We have been playing times table games on Top Marks – if the children would like to practice at home, they can visit https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables.
Expressive Arts
This term, the class as you know were working hard to make Christmas decorations to sell at the school fayre. Primary 4-5 supported each class from Nursery to P7 to decorate their own which was around 200 decorations in total!
We have been doing a variety of Christmas craft activities in class including making props for the Carol Concert with the help of P6-7.
Topic
Many thanks for helping your children to complete their inheritance homework this week. We have been learning about the difference between traits that are inherited and things that can be influenced by environmental factors. We also spoke about dominant and recessive genes.
Just a few little reminders for the remainder of this term –
Dress as you please with a touch of Christmas every Friday
Carol concert Tuesday 14th at 2.30pm
P4-7 Christmas party Thursday 16th in the afternoon
Have a lovely Christmas and New Year when it comes, Miss Riley.
