This week our writing focussed on structure and layout. We chose to write about a wild animal that we are interested in. We then chose to lay our writing out in poster form. We structured our writing under 4 subheadings:
Habitat
Diet
Physical Appearance
Interesting Facts
As part of our Big Talk homework, we researched our wild animals at home using our subheadings to help us. We then discussed our animals at home with our friends and family. In class, we discussed specialist vocabulary that we might want to use in our posters.
Here are some examples of our finished posters:
Beth’s poster on the OrangutanConnor’s poster on the KoalaRenaska’s poster on the Hazel DormouseAbbie’s poster on the MeerkatBeth’s poster on the Blue Tongued Skink
This week during Literacy we were learning to identify a fact and an opinion.
We now know that a fact is something that can be proven to be true and is backed up by evidence.
We now know that an opinion is something that can’t be proven to be true and some people can agree or disagree with it. This means it is subjective!
We took part in carousel activities to learn and practise how to identify a fact and opinion and justified our answers to our partners.
After that, we made our own Google Form Quizzes with several statements which were either fact or opinion. We shared our quizzes on our Google Classroom and our classmates were able to complete them .
our science topic has been the Solar System this term. So far we have created posters, newspaper reports, leaflets and power points during our writing. We were learning to create informative texts.
We used our newspaper reports about the first ever moon landing and we changed them into a script for a news report. You can see some examples on our school Twitter. We also have been working on taking notes from a text. We watched informative videos on the planets and took notes then created a mind map poster.
We have also made power points to share information about all of the 8 planets in our solar system.
During art, we created papier-mache planets using different sized balloons to try and make scaled down replicas. We have not yet finished but we are well on our way to a classroom sized solar system.
Jessica and Beth S making JupiterLaurie and Callum making Venus
Today we went to the polling station in our school and voted for who we wanted to be our representative for the Pupil Council, Eco Committee and the Rights Respecting Group.
Our Candidates for the elections were:
Jessica
Renaska
Laurie
Tyler
Beth M
Olivia
Callum
In the voting room there were two election booths and a voting card with each of the candidates for us to vote. When we had voted we put our votes into the ballot box.
We can’t wait to find out who will win each of the elections!
In circle time P4 have talked about bullying behaviour and the effect it has on people. They talked about the way different people would feel – the person who displayed the bullying behaviour, the person who was the target of the bullying behaviour, the teachers , other children , the parents etc. They hope to use this information and create some literacy work from it.
Primary 4 took advantage of the dry weather to go into the playground to look for signs of Autumn. They were going to create a setting in their writing and needed to use all of their senses to write their plan. While they were there they worked together to gather leaves of different colour, shape, size and texture to use in their art work later on in the day.
We worked collaboratively to research a variety of Paralympic events. We made posters which included a title, facts and interesting graphics. When we had finished, we shared our learning with the rest of the class by presenting our posters to them.
When P4 were doing bounce back they looked at social justice. They learned that social justice was about being fair and caring for all people in the world. They discussed the different groups who try to make sure that things are fair for all people. Save the Children was mentioned as well as many other charities.
In writing the children wrote thank you letters to Mrs. Strang for the work that she does for Save the Children and making things fair for children across many countries.
P4 looked at some art work that represented social justice and had an interesting discussion about how they managed this. They then used the visual elements of line, shape, colour and pattern to create their own piece of art work showing the image of a handshake.
Pr. 3 took part in an assembly about Numeracy and Maths. We spoke about the different ways in which we used our maths skills. Through our Social Studies topic on the Rainforest we measured the length of a typical rainforest tree, we made symmetrical butterflies and we located rainforest animals in the playground using map grid references. We were GGGRRREAT and the assembly was enjoyed by all.
