Primary 3/4 were all really happy to be back at school after our October break…

Our brains were all recharged and ready to learn lots of new things.

Literacy

This week for literacy we were looking at inference and summarising. We continued to read our book and implemented our new knowledge into our given tasks. We produced some really good work this week.

Our handwriting is coming on in leaps and bounds.

We have been continuing to read our books during ERIC time to improve our fluency in reading. Miss Caughie is really enjoying listening to us all.

Our writing assessment this week involved us all using our knowledge that we have learned throughout the term about descriptive writing. Since it is coming up to Hallowe’en, we had to describe one of the witches from Hocus Pocus. We all had really good descriptive phrases to write.

Numeracy

This week in numeracy we have been looking at addition. We have been working in our groups doing different activities such as: worksheets, ICT and games.

We are also so lucky to have been given class chromebooks. The boys and girls have been doing really well at adapting to the new software and worked really well following instructions to get logged on to them so that they could use them for maths games.

Art

We designed our own pumpkins this week to decorate our classroom and create a spooky atmosphere.

 

 

 

Primary 3 /4 are so ready for their October week because they have been working super hard.

Literacy

This week we worked on more reading strategies for our book “That rabbit belongs to Emily Brown.” We looked at visualisation and metalinguistics. We used our dictionary skills to work out the meaning of words that we didn’t know. We also did some spelling tasks this week for our ‘ow’ sound which were making our own word search, diacritical marking and highlighting our phoneme story.  This week for our writing we wrote a descriptive piece about a hidden world full of dragons which had a focus on the five senses (touch, taste, smell, hear and see)

We have been continuing our ERIC reading time and handwriting everyday which has been a huge success for our fluency and accuracy.

Numeracy

We are coming to the end of our Place Value topic and have lots of consolidation this week to make sure we have secured our knowledge.

Ivy McGhee says that “it was so much fun.”

Topic

We were so extremely lucky this week to have had Mia Page’s mum and dad in to allow us to experience the life of a viking. We really enjoyed telling them what we had learned and also learned some things that we didn’t know.

“I really enjoyed looking at all of the weapons.” – Riley Main

“I liked the viking armour.” – Adam

“I learned about the pots that they used for candles.” – Logan Rockall

PE

We had a lot of fun playing passing games in basketball.

Harvest Hush In

We did so well as a class to complete the harvest hush in…

Our jobs that we had to keep us busy were:

-Harvest colouring

-Reading

-Creating our own story / comic book.

We had sea turtles on in the background which keeps us super focused!

Parents evening was really successful and we are all happy with our progress throughout the term. We hope everybody has a very well deserved break.

 

 

We can’t believe that we are into October already and the holidays are just a week away…

Primary 3/4 have been busy again this week with lots of good work being produced.

Literacy

Primary 3 /4 have started doing handwriting everyday which we are doing really well with.

This week we started a new phoneme, which was ‘ow’. We all recognised this sound and came up with some good words. We also worked really well as a class to use our spelling strategies to help us spell these words.

We also started some new books this week in order to improve our fluency in reading. Along with this we have a new class novel called ” That rabbit belongs to Emily Brown” which will allow us to focus on reading and comprehension strategies. Our first task for this book was looking at prior knowledge. We all got involved in the discussion and came up with some really good ideas.

Our focus for writing is still descriptive writing. This week we took our learning outside and completed a job in pairs based on the five senses. Our ideas were fabulous!

“I really liked taking our learning outside today. I learned things I didn’t know.” – Cole Morrison

Across the Curriculum 

For our topic this week we looked at viking runes and we had a go at writing our names. We all really enjoyed this and our names turned out super. They will go up alongside our longships and shieds.

“It was very nice to do because we were writing like vikings.” –  Callum Stakim

Numeracy

This weeks focus in numeracy was number patterns and sequences. We all really enjoy our rotations and are always enthusiastic because we love learning in different ways.

PE

Our team building skills are improving every week. We are starting to use our knowledge and listening skills to be safe in the hall.

Outdoor Learning

We loved being in our houses and heading out to do some learning in the community all thanks to Mrs McCaig for organising our John Muir day.

“It was really fun because  it was good to learn while exercising.”