See below to find out what we will be focusing on this term.
Assembly Dress Code!
We are all looking forward to taking part in 4b’s Assembly on Friday 14th February! One of the children asked if we could wear a little bit of tartan to the assembly to add to the Scottish flavour and we all thought that was an excellent idea.
Ms Edmonstone says that, if we want to, we can wear our own clothes instead of our uniforms all day on Friday 14th and that a sprinkling of tartan would be very welcome. Please don’t worry if you don’t have anything tartan – it’s completely optional. The children will have a good time whatever they choose to wear!
Homework for Weeks Beginning 3.2.20 and 10.2.20
It’s time for Primary 4 to have a two-week homework task again! We have all been very interested in our Titanic project so our homework task is based around that. The link to our Task Grid is just below. Have fun! We are looking forward to seeing all your good ideas and interesting research!
BFGs – You can keep your new reading books for two weeks because of the holidays. Don’t be so busy enjoying yourselves that you forget to bring them back on Friday 14th February though!
Titanic Newspaper Reports
Thanks to Harry for bringing in some really interesting Titanic resources, including replicas of newspapers that reported on the sinking.  We all enjoyed seeing how news was reported about 100 years ago.  The newspapers also showed us that reporters can get it wrong sometimes.  Some of the reports said that all of Titanic’s passengers had been saved but we know that that didn’t actually happen. We felt very sorry for people who read that their loved ones were all right and then got very sad news later.
Homework For Week Beginning 20th January
Homework for Week Beginning 13th January
Is There Anything Kids Can Do To Help Animals Threatened By Climate Change?
We have been learning about endangered animals and we have found that a lot of them are under threat because of climate change. Some of us were wondering if there is anything we can do to help. Here is a link that might give us some good ideas.
Book to Movie Writing Task
While we were talking about our favourite books during Book Week Scotland, we wondered what it would be like to persuade a film studio to make a movie of one of them. We worked in teams to choose a book and create our pitches. We even decided which actors we would like to play the main roles (although sometimes those actors were us!)
Here are two of our pitches.
Homework for Week Beginning 18th November
For the next two weeks all three Primary 4 classes are being asked to complete a research task based on our class topic – Endangered Animals. Click the links below to see the task and print some pages that the children might find useful as they organise their research.
Click here for printable factfile blanks
Since the children will be busy doing all their research we are not issuing additional spelling or maths homework during this period. (The BFGs will still get a new reading book home though.) If, however, anybody would like to keep sharpening those skills, Spelling City and Sumdog are always a good option! For children who would like an extra multiplication tables challenge, why not play a few games from the Hit The Button website?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Have fun!
Book Week Scotland
To celebrate Book Week Scotland, we are inviting the children to tweet a photo (using the hashtags #extremereadingkps #bookweekscotland #bwskps) of themselves doing some Extreme Reading i.e. reading in strange and unusual places. We look forward to seeing what they come up with! This is an optional task, so please don’t worry if life gets too hectic to fit it in. Just settle down and enjoy sharing a good book instead. (We’d enjoy seeing photos of that too!)
To further encourage the enjoyment of reading,  Reading Passports are coming home today to help children take part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge. The children can share these over the next few weeks. Who knows? We may all find new books that we love!
