Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.
Mr Atkinson’s comment:
I have entered the class into the upcoming Maths Week Scotland Sumdog contest. Participation is optional and time will be provided in class, however, some pupils may wish to spend additional time on it at home.
Literacy and English
Darcy – Our focus this week during our cursive handwriting lesson was oe. First we discussed what words have oe in them, such as shoe and poem. Then we wrote our oe words four times. Finally, Mr Atkinson challenged us to create a sentence using some of the oe words.
Ruairidh/Lewis /Freya – Throughout the week we have been learning how to spell words with ai in them. Some of the activities involved growing ai words, searching for their definitions in dictionaries, identifying improper and proper ai words, rhyming and recognising syllables.
Charlie – After reading more chapters from our class novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine, we then created persuasive adverts for our own potions. We were encouraged to include important information such as price, use alliteration for the name and descriptive vocabulary. After designing our adverts we presented them to our friends.
Numeracy and Maths
Yousaf – Terrific Timers and Awesome Adders have been learning how to record and identify half past and o’clock in the digital format.
Maira – This week Marvellous Measurers were making links when dividing and multiplying by 4 and 5.
Chenul/Tia – Super Subtracters have been applying their knowledge of dividing and multiplying by 10 to challenging problem solving questions.
Expressive Arts
Millie and Mason – This we learned a new song and hand gestures. Some of us also participated in a challenging game whereby we had to bounce and pass the ball to a friend in timing with the beat of the song.
Outdoor Learning
Emma – Mr Atkinson shared with the class what the RSPB Wild Challenge is and what is required at the different levels (Bronze, Silver and Gold). Afterwards, we went outside to the Woodland to consider what activities we could do over the course of this year in this area. Finally, we discussed our ideas, created a list and voted which activities we wanted to try first.
Health and Wellbeing
Daniel – In our hockey lesson with Mr Atkinson, one of our activities involved competing in group dribbling races!