Literacy

We have been learning how to use adjectives to describe nouns. Adjectives can also be used to improve a sentence. 

We developed our talking skills by doing presentations to the class.  We told everyone about our special memories and decorated our memory boxes using collage materials.

Numeracy

We have been learning how to add and subtract money.  This can be very useful for our future, so that’s why we need to learn this now.  Something it can be useful for in the future is when you need to manage bank accounts and count up money.

Health and Wellbeing

We learned about road safety.  In this topic we learned many interesting facts, including the Green Cross Code:

Stop – Stop before you cross the road.

Look – Look left and right to see if there are any cars coming towards you.

Listen – Listen to see if you can hear any cars because you might not be able to see them, but if there is a car coming you will hear it.

Playing on  your phone is dangerous – When you are crossing the road it is very important that you are aware of your surroundings and if you are staring at a phone screen you will not be aware of any cars coming towards you.

Don’t wear headphones – When you are crossing the road you might not be able to see any cars, but you will hear them if they are coming.  If you wear headphones you will not hear any cars coming.

Primary 4 visited our class to tell us all about what they had been learning in Health and Wellbeing lessons.  They had made imaginative board games to teach us all about germs.

Art

We have been doing cross curricular work with Health and have been designing road safety posters.  Posters are used to spread the word about something important, so this is why posters can be very useful. To make these posters we had to use bright colours to make them eye catching as people walk past them.

Mandarin

We have been learning how to write using Chinese characters.  It is good that we are learning how to write in different languages at this age as it can be helpful for our future.  We have also been learning about the Chinese New Year traditions.

RME

We have been learning about Noah’s Ark.  It is important that we learn about things that have happened in the past so that we don’t make the same mistakes, just like in this story.  There were bad people, so God decided to punish them for their bad behaviour. God knew that Noah had done nothing wrong, so he made sure nothing bad would happen to him.  He told him to build an ark, and to keep two of each animal, so that the animals will still live on.

Modern Languages

We have been learning how to count up to 15 in French.  By doing this, if we ever go to France we will be able to show off our counting skills.

PE

We have been learning how to throw and catch, which is helping us to play many new sports.  Using this skill, we have learned the basics of Handball.

ICT

We have been learning how to make a PowerPoint to present information.

Social Studies

We have been learning about artefacts from the past.  We had to write our own riddles for our partners to guess the artefact.  We loved exploring the old wireless and discovering how people used to wash their clothes with a washboard!

Information from Anna.

Written by Darcie (P7).