Primary 4 have enjoyed a busy and creative week. Here’s a peek into what we have been up to:

In Literacy, our new phoneme this week was ‘ea’ as in break and we have enjoyed using active spelling strategies to help us practice our spelling words. For our writing we paired up with P5 to create our own stories. We looked at focusing more on writing in paragraphs (beginning, middle and end), different types of ending and increasing the number of adjectives we use. Feedback was really positive and everyone enjoyed working together. Thank you P5!

For Numeracy, our focus has been on fractions. Pupils have previously used the prior knowledge and have been working on finding halves and quarters of amounts. We really enjoyed the Wheel of Fortune game and Lego building fractions to help us consolidate our learning. This week we have been looking at tenths. We are able to identify tenths and are developing our ability to represent tenths in a variety of ways including in pictures and on number lines. Our next step is focusing on finding tenths of numbers and have quickly realised our times table knowledge is really useful!

Our Egyptians topics is well underway and we have been researching famous pharaohs and creating fact files about their lives as well as finishing of our activities from previous weeks. Our outdoor learning was linked to our topic and pupils had great fun exploring building the pyramids. The groups worked well using their critical skills to build pyramids out of wooden blocks, pasta and marshmallows and even a HUMAN PYRAMID!!

Have a great weekend

Mrs B x