Another busy week here in Primary 4! Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to:

In Literacy, we have been revising the phonemes ss, ff and ll. We have used some active strategies to help us learn our words along with using synonyms and antonyms to help us come up with new words to help our vocabulary skills. We have also been using our comprehension skills to find the answers in the text and play story sentence bingo! For writing, we used powerful verbs and a range of openers to write a recount of an event such as Halloween, Bonfire night, birthday or a holiday. It was great to read what pupils have been up to.

In Numeracy, we have continued to develop our addition and subtraction skills. We have focused on the language used in word problems to help us work out what kind of sum we should be doing. Next week, we will focus on exchanging before moving on to some data handling.

Our new focus for Health and Wellbeing is food and our health. We were able to identify the 5 different food groups using the Eatwell Guide and explored what each of the groups did. For example, we found out carbohydrates give us energy.

In other areas, we started our new topic, Electricity. We discussed what electricity is and which kinds of power different appliances use such as battery or mains. We had a look at a range of items to see which ones used battery power, mains electricity or the power of your imagination. We had great fun using what we had learned to fill in the sheet from the Olly the Owl from Powerwise. We hope to send home a project (which will also be worked upon in class) all about Benjamin Franklin. Materials will be provided to help pupils complete this project and your support at home would be much appreciated.

Thank you again for your support from home, enjoy the weekend when it comes!

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson x