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:
Pupils in P4A have been issued some lines to learn over the next couple of weeks for a Christmas themed poetry recording. The children are very excited to share this with all the parents and guardians via Google Classroom before the holidays. In addition, the pupils are going to start making props next week for their poems and we would appreciate if any materials, eg. cardboard boxes could be brought into school.
Next Friday is the Christmas Jumper Day and the present room!
Literacy and English
Ruairidh – This week we finished our letter series of lessons by writing a letter to a pen pal about an alien crash landing in our school!
Emily B – In our letters we were challenged to use a range of adjectives and WOW words to create an engaging description of our alien.
Sarah M – We also used question marks in our letters as if we were writing to a real pen pal whom we had not seen in a long time.
Zak – Another feature we included in our letters was the recipients address.
Daniel – This week we have been learning how to spell words with “ey” in them. We were also taught how to join these letters together in our handwriting lesson and Mr Atkinson challenged us to use “ey” words in our pen pal letters.
Charlie – In our Grammar lesson this week we learned that speech marks are used when characters say something. We have also been correcting sentences by including speech marks.
Numeracy and Maths
Emily M – One of the mental maths strategies we have been learning is how to use two numbers to reach 100.
Chenul – To help us with some of the more challenging fraction questions we have been learning the 6, 7, 8 and 9 time tables.
Sarah M and Hayyan – Some groups have been learning how to carry and exchange with three digit numbers. We have also been applying our understanding to solve word questions involving addition and subtraction.
Health and Wellbeing
Mason – With Mr McMillan we have been continuing to develop our rallying skills in tennis. This week we had to create a rally in a group of four. This was challenging as we had to carefully position ourselves and hit the ball to someone on the other side.
Darcy – A couple of P6 pupils visited our class and gave us a quiz on road safety. Afterwards, we created a poster and took part in a couple of activities about how to be safe near roads.
