In the most recent city wide competition P4 came SECOND! We were only 18 points behind the winners. We were top class on one of the days! Well done to all who played at home and school – a real team effort!
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P4- Sumdog Fever!
This week we have been in a Sumdog challenge with another 165 classes from P3-S1 throughout Dundee. As of today we were 3rd top in the whole of the city! Paige reached the dizzy heights of 9th top scorer in the whole of Dundee with Summer, Liam S and Andrasta also entering the top 30. We’ve really enjoyed using our numeracy skills in this competitive way!
P4 reflections on learning
We use our feedback wall to share our thoughts and feelings on our learning. We discuss what we have learned, what we were successful in, what we found challenging and where we want our learning to take us next. This encourages us to reflect on our development and progress and helps us keep our targets in mind. Here in P4 we value mistakes as valuable steps in learning and this means we can be open and honest with each other. We are also learning to peer assess positively, critiquing our friends in a supportive and challenging way.
P4 – talking and listening
The children have created a plan of a St Ninian’s of the future with as much detail as possible. Now its time to share our designs with the rest of the class in a short talk. To be successful they have to
– speak clearly and so others can hear
– keep the listener interested with tone of voice, use of words and resources
– listen well to others questions and answer them appropriately
The children will be offered feedback from the teacher and a peer. They will also assess their own performance. Here are a few photos of children who have already performed their talk.
P4 Disco Fun
We had great fun dancing the afternoon away at our Autumn Party.
P4 Active Spelling
This week some of us took our group literacy outside to enjoy the beautiful autumn weather. Being outside in the fresh air, applying our skills in a different way and using natural resources all help improve our learning experience. We all felt energised, engaged and relaxed. We used chalk, water, leaves, sticks and seed cases to build our spelling words rather than writing them with pencil and paper. We then spelled our words out loud alongside some exercises to get the brain and body working in perfect harmony!
P4-Function Machines and Algebra
This week in maths some of us have been working on the following skills
– Use symbols or words ‘equal to’, ‘not equal to’, ‘less than’, ‘greater than’, correctly to describe & show number relationships
– Within numbers to 100, complete number statements using the symbols for less than, greater than and equals
– Within numbers to 100, create number statements using the symbols for less than, greater than or equals
– Within numbers to 100, use Numicon and/or my knowledge of Fact families to find the missing numbers in given statements when pictures or symbols are used to replace a number.
As usual, we are active in our learning and we played a great game where we had to run to corners with the greater than or less than symbol when we had worked out the answer. We ran to the middle if the equation balanced. For extra challenge there was some mental calculating involved in some of the equations before we could decide.
There are also some good online games to help reinforce our learning.
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/greater_less_than/eng/Introduction/default.htm
http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/3439
Some of us worked with function machines. A Function Machine is a diagram that represents a machine that takes an input, applies a rule and delivers the answer as an output.
The task is either to determine the input, the output or whatever operations take place inside the machine. We will all be using function machines as another way of applying our numeracy learning.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=inversemachinev3
http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4437
P4- Acrostic Amazon!
This week our literacy focus has been creating an acrostic poem with the word RAINFOREST. First we had a class discussion about relevant and interesting topic related words that could start each line of the poem. We filled a whole board with WOW words and then we wrote a poem together so we could see an example of how the words could be used. Our poetry was fantastic and really demonstrated our knowledge of the Amazon in a new and creative way.
P4 – Music movement and maths!
p4- Pod in the Autumn sunshine
We took advantage of a beautiful sunny day to have some pod time. We had an obstacle course, an amazing car, a musical performance and a kitchen among other creative set ups. You can see some of our fun in the photos.
