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 outlined several changes that are occurring in P4A in this blog. The arrangements have changed for P.E, the Thursday sessions have now moved to Friday. My NCCT is now Friday morning and Mr McMillan will continue to teach during these periods. Mr Gray will also be joining the class every Thursday for the next few weeks.
Literacy and English
Emma – The new reading skill we have been developing is understanding word choice both in short extracts and in poems. An important technique to help answer these types of questions is highlighting key words in the questions and searching for them in the texts.
Ruairidh – We have been continuing to improve our handwriting but completing joined up exercises involving “ee,” “eg” and “em.”
Ben – This week we revisited our spelling words and sounds that we learned in January. We worked in groups and with partners to do active spelling tasks, it was great!
Freya – As a class we have been attempting the Wordle challenges everyday, they can be tricky sometimes!
Numeracy and Maths
Mason – My group has been learning to multiply by 7 by using concrete materials and solving word based problems.
Steven – My group has been continuing to build our confidence with multiplying 2 digits numbers with 1 digits involving carrying.
Yousaf – Some of us have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10.
Harry – My group has been improving the accuracy of drawing the correct levels of measurement.
Health and Wellbeing
Chenul – In P.E. with Mr McMillan we have been playing tennis matches! They have been very fun and competitive.
Maira – One of the activities we took part in for Children’s Mental Health Week was a circle time activity whereby we all choose a piece of paper from the middle of the floor which had a positive word written on it. We then used this word in a sentence about ourselves.
Expressive Arts
Sarah M and Isla – During our Growth Mindset lesson we learned about the value of mistakes and how they are part of our learning journey. We then researched famous mistakes that led to success such as the creation of the Frisbee and Slinky. This inspired us to crumble or tear a piece of paper and then use the “mistake” as the focus in our artwork. You can see some examples below.
ICT
Sara – With Mr McMillan we have designed Jamboards about our favourite places to visit. This involved using the Google Jamboard programme and uploading images.
Science
Emily B – Last week we finished our Human Body topic by working in groups to create posters, fact files, pictures of our allocated bone and organ and a Google Slide presentation which we later shared with our classmates. We then created a human body skeleton by drawing around one of our friends. Afterwards, we stuck our drawings and facts around the skeleton to create a class display.
