We have has a fantastico few weeks in P4b which was rounded off by a very exciting ‘Mother Tongue Languages Week’ where we were learning some Italian!
‘We’ve been learning the song ‘Il crocodillo come fa’ in Italian! It is about a crocodile.”- Sophie
” We made labels with the Italian flag. The labels were for rooms around the school.”- Zariya
” I thought Mother Tongue day was fun because you got to look at other languages which you might not know and you can share the with other people.”- Harper
Numeracy
“We have been working on formal division and we use the Heinemann 4 textbook.”- Euan
” We used a calculator to check the division and put the sums in the right category.”- Myla
“We have been learning the 9 times table. I can divide by 9 too.”- Orla
” When something isn’t divided equally there is going to be a remainder.”- Clyde
” We have been doing upstairs downstairs calculations.” -Jamie
“We have been learning to round to the nearest 10. The tens don’t change but the units do.”- Sophie
“Yesterday we did problem solving. There were 4 kids and they all wanted to move into different rooms. We had to try to move them without 2 people in the same place.”- Amelia
Literacy
“In spelling the blue group and pink group have been using 2 words to make one word.”- Aarohi
“They are compound words.”- Sophia
“We are reading Granny Nothing. My favourite character is Ewen. “- Fin
“We have been looking back and forward in the text to find the meaning of words.”- Harris
” In Writing we got to choose what we wanted to write. It was an imaginative story. “- Gaby
“You can look a picture and describe what is going on.”- Fin
“It doesn’t matter if it is perfection just let your imagination go wild.”- Retal
“Don’t let it go too wild though or you will forget your punctuation.”- Kyler
“I wrote a story about a mushroom.”- Jennah
Space
“The ISS goes 16 orbits around the Earth in 1 day.”- Abubakar
“We have been preparing for our Space presentation about an astronaut we are really interested in.”- Katie
“We have been learning about the names of planets and about the dwarf planets like Pluto.”- Ben
” We learned about how astronauts sleep, eat and about the ISS and the robot called Curiosity which went to Mars.”- Japleen
Other
“On Tuesday we made intros for our films. Mine is about superheroes.”- Alia
” With Mr McMillan for ICT we have been making trailers for movies. Next week we are going to make the movie.”- Kyler
” We built a snowbear from snow and p6 stole our snow. We worked together as a team.”- Calvin
“I made a Sway about famous people and shared it with the class.”- Rudi
” I have enjoyed learning about division.”- Eva
“I have made my own spiders and a bag for them so they looked like chips. I made a pot you can put stuff into and it is all made from paper.”- Josh
” On Wednesday I made cupcakes and we got 6 each to take home and my sister ate most of them!”- Stella
