This week was the turn of the second half of our class to showcase their gastronomy learning. Unfortunately our invited guests, the director and head chef of G41 in Shawlands had to cancel at the last minute due to weather…..but the guests who filled in for them were delighted at the cancellation! I am sure you’ll agree the food looks incredible and according to the guest, tasted wonderful too.

We had visitors from Calderwood Lodge Primary on Wesdnesdayvmorning who told us a bit about Judaism and the celebration on Hanukkah.

One of the things we focused on this week in literacy was identifying parts of a sentence. We used some cards to make silly sentences then identified the subject and predicate in each of them. Working together like this was a lot more fun and interesting than simply writing things out in our jotters!

This week we had a chance to check how important it is to wash our hands properly.  After rubbing some Bug Lotion on our hands, we have checked how germs would spread- our hands glowed under the UV light. We then split into two groups to test what is more effective: washing hands with soap and water or hand sanitising. The results were clear… Wash your hands with soap and water whenever possible.

Today the school is closing earlier than planned.

We will be sad to leave our class, school and friends.

We didn’t want the school to close.

We hope it opens again soon so we can see our friends again soon.

To do our class work, we will be using  Google Classroom at home. We will be doing some activities as well to help our learning. At home we will have lots of family time. Our teacher has given us home learning packs to help us at home.

We are very sad but we wish everybody a good time at home and hope to see everyone soon!

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Over the past week primary 4.20 have been learning all about The Vikings. They completed lots of work around where the vikings came from, where they invaded and how they got there.

This led to really interesting discussions and all the class really wanted to design their own longboat.

The class all worked in groups to create longboats, shields and even armour!

The class have have also been working on their own Chinese scroll paintings. This was linked to our learning around Chinese New Year.

Within numeracy we have been revising time. The class played a fun time game where they had to work as a team to match the clocks to the correct time. This worked really well and everyone had lots of fun learning!

Primary 4.20 had a fantastic time this week performing their assembly and hosting their open morning for the adults.

It was a great morning with the children showcasing all they had been learning about Chinese New Year. The stations included expressive arts with the children teaching the adults how to make paper dragons and lanterns. A technologies station featuring all the PowerPoints the children had made. A station linked to health and well-being focused on Chinese tea tasting. Another station featuring posters the children had made and lastly a station on mandarin writing which links to our one plus two programme.

The showcase was all child planned and led by the pupils. It was fantastic to see so many adults attending and lots of learning and parental engagement was involved

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A huge thanks to everyone who attended it was a great day and big achievement for primary 4.20!

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year for our upcoming assembly.

The pupils have been busy learning about the traditions during this time of year and the different stories and legends.

We have started practising our parts for the assembly and learning all our new songs.

We made Chinese lanterns and learnt about the Chinese lantern festival that happens over the Chinese New Year.

The first blog post of the new year and another busy week in 4.20!

This week we have been building our own bridges using lots of technological skills and teamwork. The class have planned out their bridges and brought in lots of materials to help build their bridges. The results are fantastic!

In our science lessons we are focusing on electricity. This week we learned about electrical circuits and made our own. We used battery power and metal conductors to help to turn on the light bulb. It was a great success and every group managed to get the light bulb to work!

We have been engaging in lots of active learning this week.

The class acted out lots of different scenes from the Christmas Story as part of our drama lessons.

The class have been learning lots about symmetry and this week we went for a symmetry hunt around the school and in the class. They found lots of great examples of everyday symmetry!

Primary 4 also used their art skills to create lovely holiday cards! The results were really great.

Its been such a busy and great term. I hope everybody has a fantastic  winter break and a happy new year and can’t wait to see everyone in the new year 😊

Another busy week in primary 4.

The pupils have all been working hard creating powerpoints on all their knowledge of the River Clyde which they will show each other next week. We learned lots of new ICT skills and really enjoyed making the powerpoints.

4.20 have also been busy creating diary entries as if they were a sailor on the Tall Ship.

We wrote out our diary entries then stained it with tea to make the paper look old. They look great and the writing was very good!

Primary 4 have had a great week with lots of active learning.

The class learned all about how the lungs work and made their own working lung models!

We’ve also been busy making Christmas crafts for the Christmas Fayre.

we made no sew snowmen and decorated them our own way!