The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

P4F have certainly started spreading their Christmas cheer over the last couple of days, but here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to this week.

In Literacy, instead of a reading book this week we have been looking at ‘reading’ a film clip, For The Birds. We practiced the comprehension strategies we have been working on and had some fab results! The pupils really enjoyed watching the clip and offered some insightful thoughts on how they thought the little birds were treating Big Bird. We have also started writing an explanation text with Mrs Ferguson, linked to our IDL topic electricity. We looked at how energy is made using different sources including coal and water.

In Maths, we finished our work on addition and subtraction and completed our assessment. Pupils tried really hard, so well done! We’re moving onto data handling today and hope to include some outdoor learning in the lessons (fingers crossed it stays dry!). We have also been working on our measure skills using scales to work out the weight of different items and using rulers to calculate the length of items.

In other areas,  we had great fun building simple circuits as part of our IDL topic. We used battery power to help light the lamps. Pupils had great fun of trying to include switches in their circuits. We created a key to help us identify the symbols and used this to help us draw diagrams of the circuits created. To challenge them, we asked pupils to add in another lamp to see what would happen which created some interesting discussion! Today, we are going to look at circuits that won’t and why and pupils themselves are going to become the circuit.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson