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:
Thank you to all the pupils and parents/guardians for the kind words upon my return to class this week. I am really looking forward to sharing the pupil’s hard work and achievements so far in P4 on Parents Night next Wednesday and Thursday.
Literacy and English
Millie – We have started our letter writing series! Over the next few weeks we will be learning how to structure and write informal and formal letters. This week we wrote a letter about Bonfire Night to a relative.
Darcy – In our letters we had to use a range of descriptive vocabulary how the fireworks looked. Some of us even used similes.
Tia – Another important feature we had to include was an address!
Freya and Hadia – The class has started to learn about a reading skill called “inferencing.” This requires you to use the hints and clues the writer mentions in the text and combine it with your own knowledge to make a sensible answer.
Numeracy and Maths
Emily – We have been revising and developing our halving and doubling Mental Maths strategies.
Rohan – Some of us finished our multiplication and division topic and are about to start addition and subtraction.
Yousaf – My group has been learning about AM and PM and how to record and order schedules.
Ruairidh – We have started learning about grid references! It has been so much fun identifying, plotting and recording coordinates.
Outdoor Learning
Mason – We have been learning about the trees that surround the school as part of our RSPB Wild Challenge award. First we discussed the different types of trees and then we went on a leaf hunt to see whether we could match the fallen leaves with nearby trees.
Health and Wellbeing
Sarah M – In P.E. with Mr McMillan we started developing our dribbling skills and attacking tactics by playing games such as Captain of the Court.
Chenul – We were also challenged to see how many keepie-uppies we could do.
