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P4W have been busy!

P4W have started their final term before our summer holidays with a bang! We visited Stirling Castle to round off our previous Context for Learning on Castles, we had a great day! Check out some of our pictures below:

 

This term, our new Context for Learning is the Human Body! We had to work together as team to put together different clues to figure out what it could be. We then completed our plan and thought about what things we would like to learn.  We decided we want to find out why we have a funny bone, how we laugh, how we breathe and lots more!

 

 

So far, we have had a look inside our bodies at all of our internal organs. Look at some of our pictures below when we pretended to be surgeons and put our classmates back together!:

In Numeracy this term, we’ll be focusing on measuring, angles, position and movement and our multiplication tables. In Literacy, we will be looking at different punctuation in our sentences and improving our WOW words in our imaginative stories. We’ll also be using our Context for Learning to write reports and instructions on how to keep ourselves fit and healthy. We will also be taking part in different STEM activities to do with the Human Body and learning some more French before the end of the school year.

As 2018 is the year of the World Cup, P4W have also decided to have a mini-Context for Learning about Russia 2018. We will have a country who are taking part in the World Cup this year to research and will take it in turns to report on the different games that have taken place. We’re sad that Scotland didn’t qualify this year!

Prada-ful P4W!

P4W rounded off their recent Context for Learning on Italy by learning about Italian fashion designers and creating our own designs! Miss Wozniak also bought us some Italian food to taste!

We found out about some famous Italian designers including Prada, Gucci and Versace. We then worked in a group to create an item of clothing using recyclable materials and some special sparkly items!

Millie’s group designed a dress.
Team Sheep!

We had a variety of dresses, tops, football strips, belts, handbags, shoes and even a hoodie!

Team MMC!
Presenting their design to the class.
Boyd, Megan & Neve designed and created a handbag using cardboard boxes and string.
Team HappyFace!
Max & Darren created a football strip along with a Karate Belt.
Darren & Max..
Cole & Lewis worked hard to create a boot out of cardboard boxes.
It was made to measure Cole’s foot!
Kieran & Liam made a shoe out of cardboard and paint.
Jack worked hard to create a cosy hoodie out of a bin bag!
Amber’s team even had a song to go with their dress!
Amber, Danielle, Lexi &; Evan

Once we presented our designs to our classmates, it was time to taste some Italian food! Miss Wozniak also brought in some of her favourite Italian foods from home including espresso coffee, amaretto biscuits, some different shapes of pasta and biscotti.

We tried lots of different foods. We had some ciabatta bread, breadsticks, two different types of salami, cheese (including mozzarella!) tomatoes and olives. Olives were not a popular choice!

P4W’s Italian feast!

Amber & Danielle loved tasting the different Italian cheeses.
Boyd LOVED salami. It was gone in a flash!!
Cole braved tasting the olives…. but wasn’t a fan!
Darren & Max enjoyed the Parma Ham!
Niamh C & Louisa enjoyed tasting new foods.
Millie liked the bread the best!
Miss Wozniak’s fancy Amaretti biscuits.

We loved learning all about Italy. Our favourite parts of this Context were learning some Italian words, learning about the Leaning Tower of Pisa and creating lots of fantastic artwork with Mr Gough and Miss Wozniak.

We can’t wait to find out what our new Context for Learning will be!

‘Blown Away’ with Autumn Poetry!

P4W have been working really hard this week, creating their own Autumn poems using our senses.

On Tuesday, we went for a walk around the school playground and worked with a small group to collect words that described things that we could see, hear, smell and touch. We also collected some items including different coloured leaves and pine cones which we decided could contribute to our display.

Tiana and Lewis used their sense of touch to help them collect words.
Jack and Darren found some fantastic coloured leaves to help them with their poems.
We worked in small groups and used our senses to collect words to help us with our plan.
We walked through the leaves that were piled up in the playground and listened carefully for the noise they made.

On Wednesday, we shared the words that we collected and discussed different Autumn poems that Miss Wozniak found. We also looked at the features of poetry and found that not all poems have to rhyme.

Here are some of our fantastic creations:

Leaves, leaves in the breeze,
They woosh and wiggle in the trees.
When Autumn blows, they move around,
Until they hear a crunching sound.
Woosh, all the leaves are gone,
Until next Autumn,
It feels so long.
By Sarah M

Leaves in the trees,
Falling by the breeze.
The leaves dance in the breeze,
As they fall to the ground.
It smells like chocolate and Halloween treats.
It feels like peaceful raindrops and Bonfire Night.
By Liam N

Autumn, Autumn, I smell you,
You smell like little leaves.
Autumn, Autumn, I hear you,
You sound like leaves swaying in the breeze.
Autumn, Autumn, I see you,
You look like leaves on the ground.
Autumn, Autumn, I taste you,
You taste like Belgian Buns.
Autumn, Autumn, I feel you,
You feel like crunching leaves.
By Niamh C

As an extra challenge, we also created some fantastic acrostic poems too:

All the leaves
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nder trees
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urn red and orange
U
nusual black dots
M
oving in the sky 
N
ature is the best
By Millie W

Autumn is cold
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sually red and orange
T
weet, tweet, the birds are disappearing
U
sually rustling in the wind
M
agically changing colour
N
o birds to be seen
By Jack S

Always the red and brown leaves 
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nusually, some pink and purple fall
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inkling in the grass
U
pside down and the right way around
M
ystically up and down 
N
othing can stop them dancing
By Michael R

Neve & Kieran report for P4W

Our Context for Learning in P4W is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We have met lots of characters and wrote some descriptions about them using adjectives and similies – Augustus Gloop is the fattest and greediest person in the world. Charlie  Bucket is very poor, Veruca Salt is very spoiled and Mike Teevee likes to watch TV.

We did some drama in class. We had to act out a part that we liked in front of the class and everyone else had to guess which part of the book it was from.  The popular scene was when all the old people were lying in bed!

Kieran and his group acting out a scene from our class novel.
Danielle and her group worked together to act out a scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

We have learned some French like how  to say  hello, goodbye and my name. We have also learned how  to count to 20 in French. We went on a number hunt outside to match numbers up with the French words.

We took turns to find the matching French word to our number.
We also went outside for a French number hunt.

By Neve and Kieran

Prada-ful P4!

As part of their Italian Context for Learning, P4W looked at lot of different Italian fashion houses and brands. We decided to create our own fashion houses, design a piece of clothing and think about what materials we could use to make our designs come to life. We used lots of different things including black bin bags, ribbon, paper cups, cardboard boxes, pipe cleaners and lots and lots and lots of sticky gems! Don’t they look fantastic?!

Freya, Cassidy and Kacey designed a new style of high heel.
Freya, Cassidy and Kacey designed a new style of high heel.

 

Designing a new brand of trainers.
Caleb and Mitchell designed a new brand of trainers.
Hannah and Megan designed a dress.
Hannah and Megan designed a dress.
Starting to make our designs come to life.
Starting to make our designs come to life.
We used paint to decorate our trainers, and used pipe cleaners to act as laces!
We used paint to decorate our trainers, and used pipe cleaners to act as laces!
Ellie made sure nothing went to waste - using feathers to make earrings!
Ellie made sure nothing went to waste – using feathers to make earrings!
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Made to measure! Esther and Matthew measured Esther's feet to make sure they would fit!
Made to measure! Esther and Matthew measured Esther’s feet to make sure they would fit!
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the  class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.
Once our designs were complete, we presented them to the class and told everyone how much they would have to pay if they would like a to buy our designs.

All About Italy!

Primary 4 have recently been learning about Italy as part of our Context for Learning.

As part of our homework, we were asked to create an information poster or PowerPoint on Italy with lots of interesting facts about the country. We then presented our work to our classmates, who took the challenge of being the teacher and gave us feedback!sam_0930 sam_0931 sam_0932 sam_0933 sam_0934 sam_0935 sam_0936 sam_0937 sam_0938 sam_0939 sam_0940 sam_0941 sam_0942