This week we’ve been very busy creating Christmas products and selling them to make money! Before this, we learned what ‘Enterprise’ is, we got into groups and made business names, logos and slogans. For example,

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Team Tinsel – It’s Tinsel Time!

MAEJT – MAEJT is maejtical!

Christmas Spirit – Crafts so good, Santa would be jealous!

Team Christmas – Click & Collect Christmas!

We had a £50 budget to start with and we bought items from Mrs Hobson’s ‘shop, made products such as cards and decorations and sold them to Mr Chrystal and Mrs Orr. We had to persuade them that our products were worth the money!

“My team won as we made the biggest profit!” Jovie

“I loved getting to make all the crafts and getting to sell them, as I have a creative side!” Isla

“I think it was hard creating products but we managed to do it!” Maryam

This week in Maths, we learned all about the calendar and also about Advent in RME. These  link because it is coming up to Christmas and we have lots  of Advent Calendars in our homes. We were also learning about what other countries and cultures do to celebrate Advent.

In Mexico they have a 9 day festival called Las Pasadas, which is when they reenact the nativity and also hit pinatas , children share the treats and sing songs. In Denmark, on 1st December they light a special candle to countdown to Christmas.

Today in Maths, we had  stations . We played an ipad game, made a poster about the months of the year and we also added important dates to a December calendar to help us learn how to use a calendar.

“I liked the IPad station, it was fun!” Elay

“I loved the calendar sheet and I liked the questions.” Ryan

This week our highlight was a special Taekwondo PE session! We had a nice instructor from a local club. We did a warm up first then learned some moves. In pairs, we had to put on a special arm pad, run up to our partner and kick it 1,2,3,4 then 5 times in a row! Some people even wore their own martial arts kit, for the session!

“I felt good learning some taekwondo!” Olivia W

“I really enjoyed doing something we don’t usually do and now I know another type of martial arts!” Ruaridh

Our highlight of the week were the two open afternoons! Lots of parents came in, as we designed rainforest dioramas. We used shoeboxes, tissue paper for the background, pipe cleaners to make things stand up also to represent vines and pictures of rainforest animals. We also labelled  the four layers of the rainforest, these are: emergent, canopy, understorey and forest floor. We will finish them today, have a look at our amazing work so far!

“I loved making the dioramas of the rainforest because there were lots of animals, vines and water to add!” Isla

“I loved it when we were making our dioramas. I like that mine has a little monkey swinging from a vine.” Ryan

This week,  in Maths, we learned more about tessellation. This involves creating patterns with 2d shapes which have no gaps.  There were 3 stations for this lesson, 1 was using an ipad to make a pattern or a picture using tessellation. Another station was using paint to print a tessellation and the last one, was laying out 2d shapes in pairs.

” I noticed that triangles, diamonds and hexagons tessellate with rhombus shapes.” Carson

“I liked the printing station because we got to use paint and shapes to make tessellation.” Harry

“I really enjoyed using the Ipads since we got to make a lot of tessellation and create our own pictures.” Ruaridh

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This week our highlight was doing P.E. on the new Street Court! First we played Cat & Mouse to warm up. We used hoops to change up the game and this meant we could use them as safety zones and have a 10 second rest. After this Penelope taught us a fun game called ‘Hot Pumpkin’ using chest passes. Lastly, we played a real match of basketball and it was really fun!

“I liked when we played the basketball match.” Rahaf

“I didn’t know I could actually score a basket but I did!” James

P.S. Our class feel very special this week as Miss Abdullah has joined us and will be working with us for the next 6 weeks!

Last week was extraordinary because our school held a Sponsored Colour Run! You have 15 minutes to run around the school and different colours are thrown at you, as you can see from our funny photos! This was all in order to raise money for our school and buy more iPads, which we love to use!

“I felt happy and it was worth it!” Harry

“I enjoyed running around the school, especially at  the water station where they sprayed water at you!” Hugo

This week we created text maps by drawing pictures and adding some words to  retell the story. We focused on a diary entry from George. We learned this is called writing from the character’s perspective. Text maps can help us with our writing because we are also writing a diary and we could magpie interesting vocabulary.

“I felt happy and amazing doing this activity!” Kate

“This lesson helped me a lot with my writing, as I found it useful.” Jura

“I found this fun and amazing!” Elay

This we week we sketched and painted a scene from George’s Marvellous Medicine.  We used watercolours to do this and were inspired by the illustrator, Quentin Blake. Next week, we will add detail with fine liner.

“I loved doing the painting and everyone was really creative!” Isla

“I though the hardest part was painting the head but I now I’m happy with it!” Elay

“I liked creating the smoke clouds and everybody’s look really magical!” Oscar

“Welcome to our very first P4a blog! Read on to find out about our first two weeks of P4a. We hope you enjoy it!” Ruaridh

“The book that we have started reading is George’s Marvellous Medicine. There is a little boy called George who has a Granny that is very mean and does not like him at all!” Jura

“Granny came into our class and was very crazy! We asked her questions like, why do you eat slugs?” Harry

“I loved having Granny in the classroom because she was very crazy and funny!” Isla

Check out some pics below.

“In Maths, with Miss Bishop we all had stations to go to and we swapped around. One had green beads and this helped us learn more about hundred, tens, units. I enjoyed it so much!” Ryan

“I liked doing Maths because I love it a little bit!” Rahaf

“Following on from our George’s Marvellous Medicine topic, we made our own marvellous medicine like Rick Mayal the actor (we watched a clip of chapter 2). I really liked it but my group’s medicine smelt very bad!” Oscar

“I liked creating the potions because if felt fun and magical!” Hugo

“I invented an ingredient called Christopher’s crazy carrots!” Christopher

“Mine was called Olivia’s optimistic ointment!” Olivia Y

“I really enjoyed the second week of P4a!” Penelope

“I really enjoyed creating portraits and chose to put mine on the gallery wall!” Kate

Tune in next week for more highlights!