Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Hello Primary 4,

We have had a busy, Easter-filled day in Primary 4 this week! We have used construction materials to make Easter baskets, boiled and painted eggs and even rolled them down the hill in the playground! We made Easter Crispie Treats that looked delicious! Hope they tasted as good as they looked! 🙂

Have an egg-cellent Easter holiday everyone!

Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson

Happy Friday night everyone!  What fantastic weather we have had this week!!

P4 have been busy again this week.  We have continued to work on our Ancient Egyptian Art and it is almost finished.  The death masks are very colourful using the collage paper.  Painting skills are definitely improving and you will see this soon when the work comes home!!!

Spelling words were ‘ie’ sounding ‘i’ or ‘j’ and the kids had very active learning stations.  We used stampers, magnetic letters, scrabble tiles and Play doh to learn our spelling words.

P.E has been Creative Dance again this week and the children chose to look at ‘The Firebird’ as it related to work previously covered during ‘Making Thinking Visible’ tasks.  They are super fun and you can see by the photographs they are trying very hard and concentrating on the task.

They had to play in the secret garden and throw the golden apples to each other.  They did very well!!!

We started to research Ancient Egyptian Gods.  We had some personalisation and choice within this task.  We used the internet and books to find out facts and we are creating our own Leaflets.  You might hear about ‘Digging a Little Deeper’ with research.

We had some fun in writing last week as we had to write persuasive letters.  I decided we should write letters to Mrs Campbell requesting a school trip but this was a school trip with a difference – it was to Egypt!!! The kids wrote fabulous persuasive letters arguing their case to go to Egypt to learn more about the Ancient Culture – they were extremely persuasive but sadly Mrs Campbell says there’s not enough money in our school budget!!! Maybe the Parent Council can raise some funds!

The class have had a wee change recently to their reading books as they have been reading Play Scripts.  They thoroughly enjoy them and they have been lots of fun!!  We did some more acting this week as we found old school assembly scripts about Ancient Egypt so there’s more acting to come in P4!!!!

Maths has been slightly different too as we have been looking at rounding numbers up to 4 digits to the nearest 10 or 100 or 1000.  This is a work in progress but a great start made by all!! We have also been chatting about fractions specifically looking at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8s.

Have a smashing weekend everyone and enjoy this nice weather!

Take care, Mrs Fx