We played a roll and draw game to help us learn our French words for the body parts. We worked in pairs. We had to roll a number on a dice and then draw that body part onto our face. The winner was the first person to draw a complete face.

Well done to these children for demonstrating great VCOP skills in their writing. We were writing about our memories of 2021.

We have started our unit of Hockey in P.E.

We have been developing our dribbling, passing, returning and shooting skills.

We had a think about why the thistle is the emblem of Scotland.

We then used our creativity and problem solving skills to design and create 3D thistles.

There were lots of different designs and techniques used.

We used finger lights to scan for our ‘wa’ spelling words before we completed our spelling activity.

We were also developing our reading comprehensions skills and understanding of adjectives.

We have been busy this week learning about bones.

First we used the Internet to identify and label some of the main bones in our body.

We then learned about the different jobs/functions of the bones.

We created posters to show the functions of the bones.

We used the success criteria to assess our posters using the TAG technique –

• T – Tell something you like about the work
• A – Ask a question about it
• G – Give a suggestion about how it can be improved

We used our technical skills to make a 3D model of a bone showing the –

• compact bone
• spongy bone
• bone marrow

This week we have been learning the names of the head, eyes, hair, nose, mouth, teeth, eyebrows and ears in French.

We had a good blether today about our rights and article 7.

Over the last 2 days we have been working on a mini project based on the book The Barnabus Project.

We looked at the front cover and made predictions.

We made folders to keep our work in. We tried to make them look like the case files from the book.

We listened to the story and then wrote a summary.

The weather was perfect for making ice sculptures of perfect pets.

Here is an amazing ice sculpture of Barnabus the mouse elephant!

We then created our own Barnabus Project pets out of super clay. Can you guess which two animals they are a mix of?

Later we wrote about our characters.

We acted out some scenarios from the book and then developed our mime skills. We used our bodies and faces to convey feelings and emotions.

P4 have been learning to use markup.  Here are some of their edited Christmas photos. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.