We will be so excited to share our finished stories with you at parents’ night! We had planned the middle of our stories out with a comic strip, so we could really focus on the action and this week we used this to really get into our adventure. We shared our stories with a partner and gave and received feedback. We have also designed a front cover for our final copy.
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primary 4 – multiplication and division extravaganza!
We had an afternoon of fun practical numeracy activities. We created an amazing multiplication array village. We pretended the Kapla were hot sausage rolls and the bakers had to share them evenly between plates – knowing our tables was a real help with this. We then wrote fact family number sentences and took photos to evidence this for the Bakery Boss (Mrs O) We played some great times table games using playing cards, counters, egg boxes, plastic cups, counters and fingers! Ask us to show you/tell you at home what they were all about!
primary 4 – continuing our story adventure…
This week we got into groups to share and feedback on the beginning of our second draft story starts. We really saw an improvement in the use of powerful vocabulary, simile, metaphor and adjectives. Next we worked on what happened next in comic form, focussing on following on from where we left off and getting the exciting developments clear in our mind for the writing process. We then shared the middle of our story with our literacy partner. We are now ready to dive into the action, danger and excitement!
Primary 4 – Fit Thursday
We 
had a really great Fit Thursday. We got a great step aerobics workout, followed a dance routine, played table tennis, relaxed with some yoga poses and got the heart rate up at DFC football.
Primary 4- parachute fun with Primary 1
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We shared a great PE time with P1 where we played lots of fun games together. We had to use our listening skills, our teamwork skills, our common sense and we also gave our bodies a good workout! Lifting that parachute needs strong arms!
Primary 4 – Problem solving extravaganza!
This week in Numeracy we worked with the Numicon rods in a train challenge. First of all we had to work out what the rods added up to. Then we had to build as many trains as we could that added to the same value, while only using a colour once in each train. There were many skills in use; investigating, experimenting, predicting, explaining, discussing, comparing, solving and calculating!
Primary 4 – Building a Story
This week we have been discussing what makes a really great story. We watched the BBC 500 words Live Lesson to get tips on how to develop our characters and also how to get a good ending. Should our story end with a twist, with a happy ever after or with a question over what happens next? We already know the importance of vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation to our writing so next we filled in a Think Board full of words, similes and phrases to really draw the reader in. Why describe Egypt as hot when you could use ‘scorching’ or ‘sun-baked’? Why use dark when you could use ‘gloomy’ or ‘shadowy’? Next we need to use a ‘story mountain’ to plan our adventure and take our readers along on the journey!
Primary 4 Museum of Egyptology
We are very pleased with how our Museum of Egyptology is growing. There are many artefacts to study and more exhibits will be coming soon!
Primary 4- Egyptian Adventures ahead!
We were amazed to read the news headlines on the screen telling us we were going on an Egyptian adventure!We have started to plan out a great story that may lead us into all sorts of dangers and excitement! We have used many different skills for our story building. We have needed to plan and describe our setting, our characters, the problems we may meet and how we solve them. We need to research online and through texts to get useful facts that we can weave into our story. We need to remember the importance of vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation in a great piece of writing. We look forward to sharing all this with you!
Primary 4- Egyptologists at work!
Teya and Summer shared their amazing mummy with us! They had also created a canopic jar with a heart inside! Thankfully not a real one! Thank you for sharing your home learning with us.
