We have had a spooklacular day today! 🎃

We celebrated Halloween in school today and took part in lots of activities.

We even enjoyed a kids Halloween film on Netflix & spent the afternoon having a Halloween party in class.

We played spooky corners, pass the black cat & musical statues. We also enjoyed a snack and lots of dancing!

Check out some of our snaps  📷 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 👻

Miss McLean

Primary 4 had a brilliant time this week. We participated in making a film all about our School Street & all of the benefits it brings for staff, pupils, parents and the environment.

We really enjoyed the experience and it turns out we have a few budding stars in our class.  (no autographs please 😉)

Check out some behind the scenes snaps.

P4 had a great day celebrating ‘Go Purple Day!’ to support the Ayrshire Hospice.

We had fun taking part in a teddy bear hunt, class challenges and made a beautiful card for the hospice.

We also enjoyed a movie in class today after a wonderful term 1 full of hard work and lots of learning!

P4 really are a bunch of superstars.   🌟🌟🌟

Thanks again for all of your support at home, it really is appreciated,

Miss McLean

P4 have been doing our bit for the planet this week by making our own reusable bags out of old t-shirts.

We have been learning lots about plastic pollution and protecting our planet and the animals that live here. We figured out that as a class we could save over 1200 bags ending up in our oceans in a year by using our eco friendly bags! 🌍

Check out the progress of our bags so far!  🐋💕🌍✌️

   (We will update this post with more pictures as the rest of our bags are finished) 

Miss McLean

Happy Monday! 

Here is our third ‘NumberTalk’ strategy video.  This time the strategy ‘compensation’ is demonstrated by our fabulous Ellie & Daryl H.

Compensation – Ellie & Daryl H

Go to this Sway

You can use this strategy to help you with your addition calculations. You might want to use your Maths Scrapbook that was sent home last week to record your working.

Core

62 + 31 =

53 + 26 =

Challenge

420 + 61 =

532 + 17 =

Remember to keep practising your ‘Spelling Grid’ at home using our strategies below. We will change the words when you can read and spell the words on your grid confidently. 

Have fun!

P4 continued celebrating ‘Maths Week’ this afternoon as we created our very own ‘Mathsasso’ Picasso inspired masterpieces.

We used the digits 0-9  to create these funky looking portraits and added a pop of colour to really make them shine!

What do you think?

Check our some of the pictures taken at numeracy time this week!  📷 😎

We have been working on place value – recognising, ordering, writing and partitioning 3 and 4 digit numbers.

We have also been working on learning our doubles as we know this will help us speed up calculations.

Have a look (& happy weekend!)

Miss McLean 😊

Here we are with our second NumberTalks strategy video, this time demonstrated by our fabulous Eilidh.

NumberTalks is all about finding a strategy that works for you. We know in Primary 4 that not everyone will prefer to use the same strategy and that’s why trying out lots of different methods is so important!

Here are some addition calculations for you to try at home. You can try out the ‘Adding Up In Chunks’ strategy to complete the calculation. Some of the children might prefer double check their answers using the partitioning strategy  shown last week (it is proving to be a preferred strategy with lots of primary 4) & that is ok!

Have fun!

Core

75 + 22 =

47 + 32 =

Challenge

135 + 42 =

223 + 28 =

Have fun!

It has been yet another busy week in Primary 4 learning new tennis skills, creating line drawings, researching for our fact files, learning new Number Talks strategies and taking part in team building challenges to name a few things!

This week we will let our smiling faces do the talking. 😁

Have a look at just some of the snaps taken this week!

Your P4 has been sent home with their own ‘Spelling Grid’ today.

The grid contains 12 words that they have found tricky to spell since returning to school. Your Primary 4 has also been given a lined jotter that they may use to practise these words.

There is no expectation that your child learns all 12 words this week, we will also be working on spelling the words in class and they will be updated when your child is confident spelling them. However, encouragement and help to learn them at home would be much appreciated! ☺️

This week we have been using the  ‘word shape’ to practise our words. Ask your P4 to show you how this is done.

I have added a picture of our spelling strategies below so you can try some at home.

Number Talks

P4 have been making excellent progress with our number talks. Ask your child to complete the following calculations using one of our strategies. (Partitioning, compensation, adding up in chunks)

Check out the video of Hannah demonstrating the partitioning strategy.

Core 

31 + 23 =

Challenge 

122 + 56 =

Miss McLean ☺️💕