Author: Mrs Meek

Primary 3/4 have been bringing our Space topic to an end and moving onto our new topic of ‘Festivals and Celebrations’. We completed some space themed activities such as designing and creating a spacesuit.

We have been learning about Remembrance Day and have written fact files about the traditions and customs. Ask me to retell some facts at home. We have also created ‘pointillism poppies’ and I look forward to sharing the final results.

During the week we had the chance to practise our spelling words using cotton buds and water. We had lots of fun watching the words disappear!

In numeracy we kept working hard to solve addition problems. We used dominos in the tuff tray to create and solve addition calculations. The cones got carried away making huge numbers with lots of decimal places!

To finish on Friday we began learning some traditional Scottish dances in preparation for our annual Christmas Party. I hope everyone had a great weekend and I look forward to another fun-filled week ahead!

Mrs Meek

Halloween Celebrations 🎃

Pupils enjoyed a day of celebrations yesterday to celebrate Halloween. We started the day by writing our own spooky stories, we then joined in with P5/6 and took part in a variety of themed…

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The children have had lots of fun celebrating Halloween this week, please take a look at our SWAY to see some of the fun!

We have also been learning how to add numbers using a written calculation. This is something children could benefit from showing you at home to practise.

We have changed our classroom around to make more space. Children were involved in making decisions about how they would like the classroom to look and where they would like to sit. We look forward to showing you all soon.

Have a lovely weekend!

Congratulations to Wallace who received a trophy from his football team and brought it in to show the class. We love hearing of the children’s wider achievements so please continue to share these with us.

This week we had our final outdoor learning session. See the pictures below in our SWAY.

We continued to practise different strategies for mental addition. This week focusing on finding ‘friendly numbers’ (multiples of 10) to help us add more than two numbers at a time.

In reading we are using the reading pups to help us better understand texts. So far we have met Predicting Pip, Vocabulary Victor and Rex Retriever. As your child what each pup does.

Reminder: Parents evening is on Wednesday this week.

Outdoor learning- final session

This week we looked at pond life. We matched insects that can be find when pond dipping. We also looked at what materials would create the best dam. We have had a great time with the ranger…

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Apple pressing, Rocket Building and Doubling

As part of our space topic we built rockets from our recycling. Some pupils chose to work together and others as individuals. We learned what materials join best together and experimented …

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Another busy week in P3/4 brings us to the end of September. Pupils have continued to enjoy outdoor learning with the Dean Park rangers. They had lots of fun designing and building their own rockets. We have been working hard in numeracy learning about doubling. In writing we were focusing on writing a diary. Ask us about our class novel ‘Cakes in Space’.

This week we have been continuing to use different addition strategies in numeracy. We have been focusing on using known facts and partitioning.

In literacy we have been learning to write diary entries and gather information about Neil Armstrong. In reading we have been using the character ‘Victor Vocabulary’ to look out for new vocabulary.

Have a lovely September weekend!

Outdoor Learning

On Wednesday we had a workshop led by rangers from Dean Castle Country Park. We were learning about items to carry in the outdoors. We saw how a den could be made from limited materials. Th…

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Pyramids- Addition within 20 – Airplane (wordwall.net)

Cubes- addition and subtraction 100 – Quiz (wordwall.net)

Cones- Inverse operation – Find the match (wordwall.net)