Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning!

We’ve had another busy week in P4 and everyone has been working hard. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to in class:

In Literacy we introduced our new spelling rule this week with ‘g’ making the ‘j’ sound. Many of us were able to give great examples of words that follow this rule. Your continued support with spelling homework would be most appreciated. In reading, we have been focussing on developing our inference skills through a range of tasks, from picture and challenge cards to inferring what may be happening in our class novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Nearly everyone was able to successfully infer what characters may have been feeling or doing. We also produced some great posters trying to persuade people to reduce their food waste for Food Waste Day. We had some catchy slogans and interesting facts about food waste as well as different ways people can reduce their impact on the planet. Fingers crossed our campaign helps!

In Maths we have been exploring fractions and their place on a number line. We started off being able to count in halves and find the missing numbers on number lines and then progressing to finding out how to display fractions on a number line. We found that we count the number of equal pieces the number is split into tells us what fraction we are counting in. The pupils were excellent at using their new skills to answer the true or false quiz!

In other areas we have been beginning to unpick our new topic of Ancient Egypt. We discovered Egypt is on the continent of Africa and were able to plot significant parts of the country on a map including the Pyramids and the River Nile. We also found out that the River Nile was a valuable resource for the Egyptians. We have also used our ICT skills to type up our persuasive letters from before the Easter holidays. We learned how to change the font and size of our writing as well as being able to save the document on our One Drives.

Thank you for all your hard work and have a fantastic long weekend!

See you Tuesday

Mrs Barclay x

Happy Friday Everyone,

This week in P4S we have been busy as we start to learn more about our topic (Ancient Egypt).  We have been looking at a map of Egypt and finding where it is in the world. Egypt has a very long river running through it which we learned was a valuable resource for the Ancient Egyptians.  We have also been learning about Pharaohs and the story of Moses as a baby, a story which links very well to our topic.

In Numeracy, we have been using coins and note values to calculate the change we would be given in a shop if we were to buy certain items.  We have also been identifying values of groups of coins and working out how many coins should be used to pay for certain items.

In Literacy, we read another chapter of our Class Novel then used our Summarising Skills to highlight the important facts from the chapter.   In addition to this, we have been learning how to write Non-Chronological reports about subjects we already know about.  It isn’t easy but with lots of practise we will improve our skills week on week.

There is a long weekend ahead and we wish you all the very best for a lovely weekend,

from,

Miss Steedman and Mrs Connelly