The sun was shining so P3/4 took themselves outside to enjoy their personal reading books in the sunshine!
Tag Archives: Literacy
P3/4 – Pen Pals
P3/4 were so excited to receive replies from our Pen-Pal letters in Spain! We loved reading all about our new friends!
P3/4 – Literacy – Apostrophes
We had lots of fun playing a game learning about apostrophes for contractions. Each learner was given a card and then they had to race around the class to find their “contraction twin” – 1 card had the contraction and 1 card had the full form.
P3/4 – Pen Pals
We are reading Flat Stanley as our class novel. During the story, Stanley gets posted to his friend in California.
We have joined up with a school in Spain and are going to write to a Year 3 class as pen pals.
Everyone wrote an introductory letter about themselves to their new pen pal and created a “Flat me” to send alongside their letters.
Excitement levels were high today as we walked to the post box to post our letters. We can’t wait to receive our responses from Spain!
P3/4 – Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs
We have been learning about nouns, adjectives and verbs. Ask your child at home if they can explain what these terms mean and can they give examples.
In class, we were given 3 minutes in a team to sort the nouns, adjectives and verbs. Everyone worked hard and lots of good discussion took place.
We then used pictures as stimulus to create our own excellent sentence containing a noun, adjective and verb. Mrs Conetta was extremely impressed!
P3/4 – Book Week Scotland
P3/4 have enjoyed Book Week Scotland.
We have loved having visitors in to our classroom to read to us – thank you to P7 pupils, parents and author, Hannah Willow.
We thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘My Police on Patrol’ and meeting the kids officers with their car and police horses!
P3 pupils had a great morning with their families completing activities and receiving their Read, Write, Count bags.
P4 had fun making origami bookmarks.
The mobile library visited us this week too.
Black History Month Homework Block 2 Oct-Nov 
Numeracy 30.9.24 Yellow Spelling Homework 30.9.24 Purple Spelling Homework 30.9.24 Numeracy homework 16.9.24 Numeracy 16.9.24 Yellow Spelling 16.9.24 Purple Spelling 16.9.24 Purple Spelling 16.9.24 Yellow Spelling 16.9.24 
P3/4 – ICT
Today during ICT, we were learning about the keys on the keyboard and basic features within Word.
Ask us about the shift key, the enter/return key and space bar.
We had to find the capital letters on the keyboard to type the alphabet in lower case, then use the shift key to make the letters capital. We also changed the font, the font size and colour of our spelling words which we typed into the document.
P3/4 RAINFOREST PLANTS
P3/4 scanned QR codes to access different websites on our iPads to find out information about rainforest plants.
Things we learnt:
- “The trees in the rainforests can be called the lungs of the planet.”
- “They [the trees] take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen.”
- “Some leaves have drip tips.”
- “Plants can grow without soil.”
- “Some trees can grow to 200 feet.” – Mrs Conetta converted this to metres and told us that this would be 60 metre sticks tall!
- “There are some plants that eat flies!”
P3/4 MORNING STARTERS
Our morning starters change weekly and we have been focusing on the alphabet. Each table has a different activity and then they rotate each day so everyone gets a chance to explore each activity.
We have been ordering the alphabet in small letters, in capital letters, matching the small letter to capital letters and identifying the letters before and after.
