We learned lots of different dance moves yesterday thanks to Miss Thorpe.

The vocabulary we used –

• supporting leg
• straddle
• cobra
• pike
• scissor kick
• side stepping
• tour jete

As part of our Mental Health Awareness Week activities P4 will be visiting the Lagoons on Thursday 12th May.  It would be great if they could come prepared with waterproof clothing and footwear.

This term we will be focussing on persuasive writing. We had a discussion about which animal we felt made the best pet and put forward our argument to support our opinion. We had time to plan our argument before our discussion time.

This term we plan to run a non-profit business and used Form (on glow) to think about the businesses in New Cumnock. Last week we each drew a map of New Cumnock and recorded the businesses we knew on it. During this follow up lesson we decided if the businesses provided us with goods or services.

We have started a block of work on tennis and are developing our skill in serving and returning the ball.

Well done to this week’s VCOP Champions!

We have been learning to tell the time in 5 minute intervals. We have also been learning to convert 12 hour time in to 24 hour time and can use am or pm.

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning to take photographs and edit them. Last week we learned to trim photographs to take out parts of the photo we didn’t want.

We  learned to change the colour of the photo.

We had fun creating shadow art with our bodies.

We used the clips app to create some amazing effects with our photographs today!

We had a fabulous morning yesterday learning about the farming industry and all of the jobs that people do to support them. A huge thank you to everyone involved in organising and running the day, p4 thoroughly enjoyed it!

We had such a good day listening to two Scottish authors speak to us about their craft. We got the chance to ask questions to further our understanding. The first author we heard from was Shirley Husband. We created some McCoos based on her series of books.

The second author was Lindsay Littleson. After the meeting we designed a new character for her book ‘Secrets of the Last Merfolk’. We thought about what kind of personality they would have and created some facts about them.