Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Friday again!

Here is an update of what we have been learning in Primary 4 this week.

Literacy

In spelling, we have been looking at magic e sounds, a-e and u-e. Pupils came up with a great word bank of examples. We have done some active spelling choosing from materials such as playdoh, lego, stencils and matchsticks. Spelling words are copied into homework jotters each week on a Monday with two tasks to be completed for the Friday. Thank you for your support with this.

As it is Remembrance Day this week, our reading activities have had this as a focus. We used our visualisation strategy to create a picture based upon the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae. Pupils did an excellent job at using their senses to help them unpick the verses in the poem.

Numeracy

For maths, our focus has been addition the last week. We have been building our skills using column addition and have used place value grids to help us learn the tricky concept of exchanging. We are working hard to develop their confidence in using this concept. We are developing our skills in remembering to stack our numbers, always start from the units column and carrying any tens at the bottom.

We have also started a new maths topic of measure. We have been using scales to measure and then order packages from the heaviest to the lightest, becoming more aware of language such as more/less than. We have also been using rulers to measure lengths of different objects around the classroom.

Other areas

We have finished our wildlife and habitats topic this week by designing a fair test experiment about what a plant needs to be healthy and grow. Pupils used their prior knowledge and prediction skills to say what would happen if we took away one thing a plant needs to grow. They had some great predictions and we will see if they come true! We found a mnemonic for remembering what a fair test is, Cows Moo Softly. Change 1 thing (Cows), Measure or observe (Moos), keep everything else the Same (Softly). We done a Kahoot! quiz for our end of topic assessment which pupils really enjoyed.

In PE, we have started a new block on gymnastics. We have learning all about different kind of rolls we can do!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson x

Happy Friday Everyone,

This week in P4S we have been busy learning how to write our addition calculations in columns.  Lining up the Hundreds, Tens and Units digits has been tricky but with practise, we are all doing really well.  Next week, we will be looking at subtraction using this method too.

We have started to learn about how to write poetry and used a technique called Alliteration this week, to write a few verses.  It was difficult in some cases to think of an adjective which started with the same letter as the names but we rose to the challenge and created some beautiful verses.

Our IDL Topic is Electricity and we have been learning about the dangers of electricity and how to make it safe to use.  We also took a look at some simple circuits and how to draw diagrams of circuits.  Next week, we will be building our own circuits.

Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Steedman