P4 Newsletter – Term 4.doc

We have worked hard to create a video about our Rights Respecting School Group and what we do.  We hope you enjoy it!

At the beginning of Term 1 we spent time getting to know each other better.  We took part in team building activities, getting to know you bingo and created self portraits in a Minecraft style.  To become familiar with our new classroom we did a class scavenger hunt.  We shared what our hopes were for Primary 4 and created a display with our hopes on a hot air balloon.

At the beginning of P4 we took some time to learn more about children’s rights.  From our learning we chose 4 articles to focus on as a class to ensure our class is a place we can all learn.  From this we created a class charter and we chose a Pokemon theme.  As a class we have agreed what the children will do and what the adults will do to ensure our rights are met.  We all have a responsibility to make sure our rights are met.

P4 Newsletter – Term 1

P4 Newsletter – Term 4.doc

In Term 3 P4 have been very busy.

Literacy

Hali – we have been reading ‘The Legend of Spud Murphy’

Lucy – we have been writing reports and Heathhall school and France.

Pippa – we have been writing stories.

Poppy – we created our own story books.

Rueben – we have been practising our spelling words.

Lauryn – we have visited the library.

Numeracy and Maths

Fergus – we have been learning about division.

Jaimee – we have been learning about decimals.

Armaan – we have been learning about time.

Lucy – we wrote instructions for how to make pancakes.

Hannah – we have been learning our times tables.

Oscar – we have been learning about doubles.

Libby – we learned about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Expressive Arts

Vita – we have been creating tartan.

Jaimee – we used watercolours to paint snowflakes and winter trees.

Harleigh – we did Scottish dancing.

Adriana – we learned Scots and Gaelic songs with Feis Rois.

Health and Wellbeing

Olly – we have been learning how to prevent food waste.  We made posters.

Jack – we made for pancakes on pancake day.

Aoibhe – we have been playing hockey in PE.

Pippa – we have been learning to play golf.

IDL

Harri – we have been sorting living things into categories.

Digital Technologies

Summer – we have been learning how to send emails.

Poppy – we have been using our research skills to research facts about animals.

World Book Day

Hali – we wrote about our favourite books.

Fraser  – we created origami bookmarks, character selfies and we completed an emoji book title challenge.

P4 Newsletter – Term 3

P4 Newsletter – Term 1

At the start of Primary 4 we made a collaborative poster to decorate our class.  Mrs Boyd and Mrs Little wanted to get to know us better so we made some ‘All About Me’ bunting and wrote down what we can’t imagine our lives without.  We put all these things together in a display.  We drew our own self portraits and wrote about what we are looking forward to in Primary 4.

In Literacy we started reading a class novel called ‘Storm’ and we have been developing our comprehension skills using the novel.  Mrs Little has been focussing on descriptive writing and we have written descriptions of Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’, which we have already finished reading together, and the Roly-Poly bird from the same book.  We have also been learning new spelling words and practising these in lots of different ways.

In Numeracy we focussed on place value and in Maths we have been learning about grid references and we created our own islands.

In Skills Academy Mrs Boyd has helped us learn about algorithms and in Digital Literacy we have been learning about Teams and emails.

Our IDL topic is Geography and we have learned about the continents and are going to focus more on the UK and Scotland by using atlases and maps.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been identifying emotions and developing our drama skills to act our scenarios to show different emotions.

We have been very busy!