This term our focus for homework will be times tables. Pupils have been given an Ultimate Times Table Challenge to complete for homework this week. This will allow pupils to practise times tables that they have already been learning.

By the end of Primary 4 pupils should know the 1 to 10 times tables and be able to recall multiplication facts with speed and accuracy. This knowledge will help to support them in other aspects of maths. Lots of practise committing times tables to memory will be our focus this session.

Homework should be returned by Tuesday 23rd September.

This week we went for our first class walk to the river. We had lots of fun throwing stones in the water and spotted lots of interesting things including butterflies, brambles, the leaves starting to change colour and a birds egg.

In literacy we have been continuing to work on using punctuation in our writing. Alfie produced some super writing this week using a range of punctuation marks.

Demi was a great word detective and managed to find a word with our focus phoneme ‘oe’ in her reading book.

In numeracy we have been reinforcing partitioning and Number Talk strategies. We have also been learning to read and write numbers in words.

We have been learning about different types of energy in Science and have been creating ‘All About Me’ digital collages in Technology.

It has been a busy week of learning in Primary 4!

This week we have been working on Number Talk strategies, times tables and place value in numeracy. In literacy we have been working on improving our writing by using punctuation.

We have been learning about French greetings and continuing to practise numbers to 20. Madison has been working hard at home to learn the numbers to 100 in French!

In art we have been learning to draw self portraits.

We have started to learn about Planet Earth as part of our Science topic for this term. We talked about what we already know about Planet Earth and what we want to know.

Have a look at some of our super class work that is up on display in the school.

Primary 4 have had a great first full week in class and have settled well into their new routines.

This week we have been working hard practising times tables and partitioning 3 digit numbers in numeracy. We started our new book study ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl in literacy and have been working on the reading strategies ‘prior knowledge’ and ‘main ideas’. We also worked together to create our ‘Class Charter’ for this session.

We have been discussing our school value ‘Respect’ and the ways in which we show respect in school. We made a poster to go on display in the main corridor.

Our PE days in P4 will be a Monday and Wednesday.

Please make sure your child has indoor gym shoes and shorts/leggings (labelled) in order to take part in P.E.  These can be kept in school in a labelled bag. All jewellery (including earrings) must be removed before taking part in lessons.

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