We did some super measuring and estimating this week using lots of different materials.

Our favourite job this week was planting our very own beanstalks, which ties in with our fairytale topic.

We are starting to round up our narrative writing and have started to plan for our assessment. We had so really good ideas and it is clear that we have been taking things on board.

“We learned lots of division this week and we were drawing circles on and dots to share them equally. We also looked at fact families.  ” – Logan

“Since we have been looking at castles, we recreated the Hogwarts castle as part of our art lesson this week.” – Callum

Primary 3/4 really look forward to our reading champions group on a Wednesday. It is clear we are able to use our knowledge of different comprehension strategies outwith the class.

It has been a super short and quick week for us…

We really enjoyed doing some valentines crafts.

All of us also worked really hard on division by grouping. Using the counters really helped us.

Miss Caughie was super impressed with our ideas this week as we are getting better at using what we have learned to improve our writing.

This week we used an animation tool on the Chromebooks to bring our drawings to life.  This was our first time experimenting with this and we can’t wait to do it again. Our characters were amazing. What do you think?

We have finally finished our castle in the open area. We made some furniture for it.  We also made crowns and shields.

In maths we started a new measure topic. We made some posters to show what we already know. We also did a class challenge which involved us getting in a line from tallest to smallest. Using cubes, we started to estimate the length of objects in our classroom. Paige even managed to guess that her pencil was 7 cubes long.

We did some super work on alliterations for Literacy. Our rotations were games on the chromebooks, worksheets in the clearboards and building alliteration walls. We were all really on task.

It was a real delight getting to watch the Scots Verse winners. We loved listening to the poems performed fabulously.

Our focus for HWB this week was working as a team and the benefits from this. After reading a book and discussing issues, we worked as a team to get the hula hoop from one end of the chain to the other without breaking it.

It has been a longggg January filled with lots of learning and we are so looking forward to a long weekend next week.

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It has been super exciting in our class this week as we have started painting boxes so we can build our castle for out in the open area.  We were learning all about castles and identifying different parts of them.  We also discussed a coat of arms and we even designed our own one.

“This week in maths we were looking at multiplication. We were making groups of.” – Ayla

P3/4 enjoyed sorting skittles to gather and present data as one of our maths rotations along with other fun activities.

As we are now professionals at the Canadian Barn Dance and the Gay Gordons, we decided to move on to a new one which is the Virginia Reel. It is a challenging one but we are giving it our best shot.

We have also started using some new strategies in our class in order to help regulate our emotions. These are called wiggling toes and fingers and square breathing.

We can’t believe that we are in to term 3 already.

Primary 3/4 have worked really hard this week after a very well deserved break.

We are all very enthusiastic about or Scotland topic this month and can’t wait to build our castles.

Here are some pictures from our learning this week…

This month our school has a focus on all things Scottish. Each stage will have a specific topic and poem to learn.

This year the poem selected for P3 is Mince and Tatties by JK Annand and the P4 poem is The Snawman by JK Annand. (see both below)

A copy of the poem will also be sent home to allow everyone to practise as much as they can.

We are all so ready for a break in P3/4. We have all worked incredibly hard this term and a well deserved holiday is just around the corner for us…

This week we have loved taking part in Christmas activities. We got to design a special box to put our gifts from Miss Caughie and Mrs McCaig. We absolutely loved watching the dress rehearsal and the final performance of the Nativity and some of us were even in it which made it that bit more special.

Our highlight of the week was our Christmas party. We danced all afternoon to some Christmas music and took part in lots of games which really made us work up quite a thirst.

Here are some pictures from our party…

IMG_5203It has been a very hectic week in Primary 3/4. We spent a lot of time getting prepared for our Christmas fayre which we all put so much work into. All of our items that we made turned out amazing and we’re not surprised that they sold very quickly.

We have also been practising some social dancing for our Christmas party next week.  Our favourite is the Canadian Barn dance…