EWHCF Class of 2022

Primary 4a worked up a sweat in PE today showing off their possession skills in football. After developing control and movement skills over the last few weeks, the pupils brought it all together today to bring victory to their teammates.

It was lovely to see so many of the boys and girls cheering on their teammates and being a good sport!

Another busy week in P4B. We celebrated National Poetry Day by reading “Rangtan in my Bedroom” and spotting all of the rhyming words. The poem linked in with the Our World topic and the children were learning about deforestation. Our reading comprehension was based on the poem “Cats Can” and the children then created their own “Dogs Can” words.

 

There has been some great active learning in maths involving estimating weight and using BeadStrings to reinforce number bonds and times tables.

Today, some of the children helped create a Climate Zone Map of the world which we will use as a backdrop for all of the lovely zentangle and mindful art work we have been creating this term.

This term our topic is ‘Our World’ as suggested by the pupils. We have been finding out lots of information about climate zones around the world and this week have been investigating how living things can be affected if the climate changes. We have produced some super art work using paint to show the difference in the physical features of each environment.

Well done to all of the boys and girls in P4a for their efforts in creating a maths hat. We had great fun parading through the school to show off our creations.

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.

 

The children all arrived on Tuesday refreshed after the holiday weekend and ready to learn.

We have been doing lots of Active Maths learning about dividing with and without remainders. This has involved a floor covered with hundreds, tens and units blocks and collaborative learning opportunities as the children worked together to solve problems. We have also been revising Place Value and Time.

Our Big Writing task this week was to write a letter and the children chose to write to Mr Weir to thank him for all of his hard work in the aftermath of the storm. Mr Weir was absolutely delighted to read the children’s work and see how much they appreciate all that he does for the school.

For the last few weeks we have been looking at Antarctica as part of the Our World topic and this week we were able to use the Virtual Reality Headsets so that the children could see what it is actually like to be in the middle of Antarctica. They spotted whales, seals and penguins, people in kayaks, ice breaking boats, base stations and scientists carrying out research. It was a definite learning highlight this week and when we were talking about what they experienced, the children showed a much greater depth of knowledge about the landscape and life in Antarctica.

Having visited a cold climate, we are now moving on to look at hot climates and will focus on life in the desert – if you ask the children they will tell you that we are talking about Hot Deserts because there are deserts in cold places too!

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.

It has been another busy week in Primary 3. We have been working hard in a range of curricular areas and have enjoyed celebrating Robert Burns day on the 25th January.

We looked at a PowerPoint on his life and have completed some Scots writing. (Ewan)

We looked at different Scots poems and had to work together to translate them from Scots into English. My favourite one was about mince and tatties. (John)

We made poems in English and then translated them into Scots using a dictionary to help us with our Scots vocabulary. (Hannah)

We read a chapter of George’s Marvellous Medicine and then we read Geordie’s Mingin Medicine looking at the difference between the stories. They were both very good but the Scots one was funnier. (Dilraj)

We also worked in pairs to complete a ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ style quiz where we had to look for clues in the sentence to discover what the Scots word meant. (Eva D)

Some new Scots words we have added to our vocabulary include; bairn, dreich, crabbit, bonnie and auld.

In between all our fabulous work on Scots poems, we have also taken some time to find and use information to create a new text.

In Literacy, we have been exploring non-fiction texts about the artic fox and other animals. We made posters showing how they survive during the winter. (Fraser)

The artic fox adapts to the seasons by changing colour, it blends into its background so that predators cannot eat it. (Olivia)

Lots of animals get ready for winter in different ways, the frog goes into a state of diapause which means its heart rate drops and it doesn’t move. (Finlay)

Some animals also hibernate, this is when they sleep all through the winter. (Rosie)

This week we have started our Science topic on the Earth, sun and moon. (Ewan)

In ICT, we used PowerPoint to make a presentation including words relating to day and night. (Ryan)

We sorted pictures of day and night and tried to place in the correct column. (Emilia)

We had some tricky pictures to sort. These were sunsets, solar eclipse and pictures of the Earth from space. (Alistair, Kaiden and Millie)

On Friday, as part of our Golden Time, both Primary 3 classes were working together playing different teams. Whilst working up a sweat, we had to work together in groups whilst developing our ball skills. It was great way to end another busy week!