Apologies for the lack of blog the last couple of weeks. We have been so busy with our learning we haven’t quite managed to fit it in.
We have been busy learning all about fractions in lots of different ways. Our confidence levels have soared working out a fraction of a shape, fractions of an amount and even looking at equivalent fractions. It is a concept we will continue to look in throughout the year to ensure we don’t forget any of our learning.
In Primary 4B we have been really busy since the start of the new school year getting to know our new teachers (Mrs Dougall and Mrs Nisbett) and getting used to our new classroom.
We have read the books of Dr Seuss. We started off by reading “Oh! The Places You’ll Go” and we made our own balloons depicting what we would all like to achieve this year. We then read “The Lorax” and talked in class about the environmental impact of The Once-ler cutting down all of the trees, we looked at the use of colour in the book and the difference that the pollution made to the illustrations and we carried out a character analysis of The Lorax himself and decided whether we would like the Lorax to be our friend
“I would like to be his friend because he is funny and fluffy” – Ethan
“No! He is always grumpy” – Teo
Our whole classroom is Dr Seuss Themed and the children created beautiful Truffula Trees to decorate our Library Corner where the Dr Seuss books have been extremely popular.
We have been learning about punctuation and using our Kung Fu Skills!
In maths we have been concentrating on times tables, place value and rounding. The children have enjoyed working with the Hot Dots and the Stile Boards as well as creating Tangram pictures.
The children have worked very hard to create their class charter and they focused on some key words including trustworthy, caring, helpful, but most of all Kind.
I am very much looking forward to the coming year in Primary 4B!
“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your Mountain is waiting. So… get on your way!”
Welcome to our Primary 4 class blog! We are very excited to share our learning journey with you. So far, we have had a really exciting time in P4, learning lots of new routines and becoming familiar with our classrooms. We sing lots of fun songs to help us with our routines. We currently have a morning song, lining up song and tidy up song. We are hoping to learn many more.
As a class, we have set up our room to ensure there is lots of space to move around, play games and work in groups. Our group names were decided by a vote and we have the ladybirds, bees, ants and butterflies. All of the groups have been working super hard to learn the new routines of the class and collect group pebbles. The pebbles result in a treat during Golden Time for the group who has the most.
We have a Star of the Day bag which is where our class teddy Ralph lives. He watches over the class each day and helps Mrs Denholm to make a decision about who has worked the hardest, listened carefully and shared some super thoughts. It is often quite a hard decision to make as so many of us are being superstars in our learning.
We have class jobs to help keep our classroom tidy and organised.
We have been reading lots of stories and our class novel at the moment is Creature Teacher by Sam Watkins. It has been a very exciting story to read and we have had lots of interesting discussions based on this.
“It is the best story in town.” Zainab
“It is full of good wow words.” Jamie
“It is so funny. My favourite part was when the creature was blowing raspberries.” Emma
“My favourite part was when Mrs Blunt got covered in paint.” Muhammad
This week we have been doing BIG Writing and our focus was on using adjectives to describe a monster. We had lots of fun sharing our ideas and even brought them to life by drawing them, carefully looking back at what we had written as a reference. The finished pieces were fantastic and Mrs Denholm was very pleased with our effort.
In Maths, we have been exploring number through a variety of games and resources. We have also used this week to revise some concepts that may have been forgotten a little over the holidays.
Primary 1 amazed their teachers today when they brought toy boxes into school that they had made.
The toy boxes were fantastic – filled with bright colours and made with lots of different patterns and designs.
Well done to all of the pupils for their efforts in this design task.
Primary 1 had lots of fun sharing their soft toy with their classmates. The pupils were able to share why the teddy was special to them and some of the places they had visited with them. We had a yummy teddy’s bear picnic and even learned the words to the song too!
We had a lovely day on Thursday hearing all about old toys our mummies, daddies and even grandparents played with when they were little. Everyone gave a super speech all about their photograph, toy or memory. Well done P1c!
Eilidh and Hannah were delighted to share news from their recent trip to Zante. We loved hearing all about the wedding on the beach and the yummy ice lollies they got to have on a boat.
Primary 1c have been learning how to measure in non standard and standard units. We made good use of the sunshine and went outside in the playground to measure lots of different pieces of equipment as well as each other.
Kaiden measuring Ross using hand spans.
The boys estimating and measuring
Eilidh measuring Leo using her feet.
Charlotte measuring a very relaxed Ellie.
Today Primary 1c had great fun making fruit salads with the help of Mrs Valente. We were very safe and took our time to chop and cut bananas, strawberries and apples. We added in some yummy orange juice at the end. It was great fun!
We had lots of fun at our Woodland Area this week. Miss Adair and Miss Lawrence’s class joined together to explore and try lots of activities.
We tried working as a team 
to balance on a log for thirty seconds.
It was very tricky!
Eilidh was very successful finding lots of wiggly worms.
Kaiden decided to do a spot of sunbathing.
Fraser and Elise had great fun rolling tyres down the hill.
Ailsa and Charlotte made up a fantastic dance together.
Humza got to see the giant digger working on the school grounds.
We are looking forward to next week’s trip to the Woodland.
