Welcome back to our P4/5 blog! I can’t believe we are at the end of our first month in 2022 already!
Literacy
Pupils have been really enjoying their work on Scots vocabulary. In our reading we have been using strategies to help us identify the meaning of unknown words. We looked in detail at our Scots poem ‘Last Nicht’ and used our strategies to work out what our poem was about! We used our learning to retell the main events of the poem.
In writing we have been working extremely hard! We wrote descriptions in Scots and we even included alliteration!
A peerie puggie wis painting a Scots flag.
The crabit coo cooking cookies.
A braw broon brock wis blawing up balloons.
We have also been reading a variety of poetry styles and identifying the features of them. This week we created our own cinquain poems. These poems have a structure based around the number of syllables in the lines.
In spelling, we are focusing on silent letters. Pupils are taking part in a variety of activities to build their confidence spelling words with silent letters. We have been on phoneme hunts, timed spelling activities, fixing the errors and much more!
Numeracy
In Maths our pupils have been outside measuring heights and lengths using various measuring tools. They particularly enjoyed using a trundle wheel to measure the length of the playground. Can you believe it’s 66 metres- not quite the length of a football pitch which we discovered measures 91 metres.
In number work, pupils are building on their strategies for multiplying. We have played games and used our knowledge to solve problems. Pupils are becoming more and more confident everyday!
FRENCH
In French learners have been greeting one another and expressing how they are feeling.
Please ask your child Ca va aujourd’hui ? How are you today?And hopefully they will reply with
Through fun songs, rhymes and interactive games learners have been counting to 20 in French and are now able to recognise the French number words. This week’s challenge is to learn numbers up to 100.
PE
Pupils really enjoyed their first lesson in gymnastics. Pupils worked together to create a variety of balances.
IDL
Our first topic this term is all about Scotland and Scottish inventors. Pupils have been learning about timelines. They worked in duos to research Scottish inventions and to order them correctly using a timeline. Pupils were very impressed with all the wonderful inventions that came from Scottish inventors.
We have also looked at examples of Pop Art and created our own Scots vocabulary pop art! We researched how tartan was made and looked carefully at colours and horizontal and vertical lines to make our own!
Calendars
Pupils have also worked hard on their own calendars for 2022 to bring home. They designed a cartoon back ground to add their photo into. The finished calendars are fabulous!
Well done P4/5 for all your hard work!
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Mrs O’Neil and Mrs Howat 🙂
