12.1.22- Catch Up | Primary 4/5 2021/22

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I hope you all had a lovely and relaxing time during the holidays.

P4/5 are back to school with a bang and are working incredibly hard!

FESTIVE FUN

Before the holidays the pupils enjoyed lots of festive fun, including their party, Christmas dinner and a pantomime! Unfortunately I was isolating and missed out on all the fun! Luckily Mrs Howat was there to make sure everybody had a great time.

CHRISTMAS THEMED MEASURING

On the lead up to Christmas what better way to learn to measure than to be up to your eyes in tinsel. Learners measured carefully to make their own snowmen rulers, compared lengths of Christmas tinsel, lights and beads, measured Christmas ornaments and decorations in metres and centimetres and created their very own Christmas trees by measuring lengths accurately. Here they are in action…

PASSION PROJECTS
A huge well done to all of our learners who presented their final project posters to the rest of the class. A lot of hard work and dedication went in to the research, planning and presentation of all the facts learned about their chosen personal topics.

LITERACY

This week we have been exploring the phonemes ‘gn’ and ‘a_e’. Pupils are becoming super confident using their Active Literacy spelling strategies for their phoneme words and common words.

As part of our New Year activities, the pupils created NY party poppers. On the streamers, pupils chose three things that they would like to improve on in 2022. P4/5 thought very carefully and came up with lots of super resolutions, such as working on recalling their 3 and 4 multiplication table and working on using their reading strategies.

We used our new year resolutions to write a letter to a friend. In our letter we recapped our 2021 and picked out highlights of our year as well as our hopes for 2022. We have explored the use of paragraphs too and we tried to use them in our writing.

We have been working hard in our reading, identifying different question types. We have explored literal (find it) questions and inferential (prove it) questions. We used our story ‘The Tin Forest’ to create questions for our classmates to answer.

To complete our work on ‘The Tin Forest’, we created story maps. In our story maps we have to pick out the main events and summarise the story.

Story Maps

If our story maps were successful we would be able to retell the story in our own words to our partners.

NUMERACY

For a fun revision lesson on our addition and subtraction strategies we played Number Hunt. We had to become detectives and find our numbers hidden around the classroom.

We also continued to explore our strategies for multiplication through Number Talks.

We built on this learning and took our numeracy outdoors!

We also had fun applying our knowledge of multiplication facts in some dice games.

We built upon our tennis skills from before the Christmas holidays. We really worked hard on our control and played lots of target games.

STEM

To complete our STEM topic, we explored electrical circuits. We identified what an open and closed circuit was and investigated circuits using bulbs, spinners and switches.

We combined our knowledge to complete a challenge. We had to help out a poor clown who’s nose wouldn’t light up and his bow tie wouldn’t spin! Thank fully, our budding electricians sorted this all out!