P4 – 18^th January  2018

It has been a wintery start to the year!

Today P4 presented Kabbalat Shabbat and we chose Mary’s Meals as our charity to give our tzdakah.

In Language we have been learning about similarities and differences and we have chosen books from the library to read for enjoyment.

P4 have been practising multiplication and division and we know how important it is to practice our times tables.

We are taking part in the Israel70 project which is a celebration of Israel’s 70 birthday. 25 Jewish primary and secondary schools and 10 Israeli museums are involved. We have to choose an object from the special catalogue, get inspired, research and create something artistic like art paintings, videos, sculptures and plays. These will be displayed in London and Israel and we can visit the exhibitions free of charge with a special ticket.

P4 have not chosen our artefact…but we will very soon!

It has mostly been indoor playtimes and lunchtimes so far in 2018 but we have been out and made snowmen and an igloo, we had great fun!

Bye Jonah and Mishal

This week in primary 4 we have been …

On Thursday we continued to work on our finding information skills in literacy we did this by completing some key comprehension work and we had to identify the question types. We all had different  things to do in different groups. The Gangster granny group had a poem to read and others read a story. After that we did spelling task in our jotters.

On Tuesday we had P.E. We did gymnastics. We were doing forward and backwards rolls.

Some people showed examples of rolls. We got into groups of fours. Then we played tag.

On Wednesday we went to the science lab. We were  learning about joints in the human body. We looked at model skeletons to identify the three types of joints and then recorded this in our jotters.

On Thursday in PE we played rebound games. We played bingo and domes and dishes then we  played Tennis.

Written by Sheer and Imaan

This week the Chief Rabbi visited the school for the official opening. He arrived very early in the morning.  He arrived for 7:30 with his security people. The Chief Rabbi then took prayers with about 20 other men from the two shuls Giffnock and Newton Mearns . All the men did prayers then there was a breakfast and the Chief Rabbi gave a little speech.

At 9 all the children came into the hall all the and did prayers together and the Chief Rabbi  made another speech.

After that we all made are way to our classrooms.  The Chief Rabbi then attended then schools official opening ceremony. The choir also sang at the ceremony.

P4 and P5 were very lucky that the Chief Rabbi came to watch some of our Kodesh lesson with Mrs Rosenberg. Then just before lunch the Chief Rabbi  and Rabbi Rubin in front of the whole school went outside put up the front door mezuzah .

We have also been busy in class this week. We have been continuing our work on ‘Thinking Reader Strategies’ and working on identifying different question types. We have also been learning how to show direct speech in our writing and how to write paragraphs. In art today we have been continuing with our grid drawings and it is starting to pay off as some of our drawings are becoming very detailed and accurate.

By Meir and Aydin

In Primary 4 this week we have been learning about…

We have been learning about the plants located in the rainforest. The Pitcher plant is colourful so that it attracts frogs and insects but it is poisonous and kills them. There is a tree called the rubber tree that provides us with rubber. We also learned about cacoa and coffee bush that give us chocolate and coffee! We learned about this from a powerpoint then we had write down and label diagrams about them.

On Thursday we completed morning calculations! Mrs Grubb gave us algebraic equations to solve! To start with we were confused but once we got the hang of it we managed to answer them all.

In maths the Brains have been learning how to add and subtract big numbers. We used the place value materials to make the numbers and physically exchange and carry hundreds, tens and units and then recorded this in our jotters.

In PE we have been learning about football. We were learning about possession and how to keep it close to our feet. We also had to try and make passes through a narrow space and count how many we managed without hitting a cone.

We had an exciting Friday this week. This morning we had a pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. It was very exciting and the giant was very realistic.

After break we all went into our new committees –Eco, Rights Respecting, Digital Leaders, Road Safety, Health and PE, Mitzvah and Literacy. Each group was a mix of P1-P7 and we all met for the first time to share our ideas about events in the school that we would like to hold. Apparently some of the groups have a few surprises up their sleeves! We can’t wait to find out what those are!

In Primary 4 this week we have been learning ..

About rugby in PE we were playing touch rugby and we learned that we had be quick thinking about where to pass the ball you can only pass backwards and not forwards.

In Kodesh we made challah with Mrs Rosenberg and Mrs Bodenheim. We had to split the dough into 4 then make them into a sausage shapes and then weave them together and then made them into a circle shape then they were baked in the dinner hall. We ate it when we got home and it was yummy!

In social studies we started our Rainforest topic we learned where all the rainforests are located and they are all near equator. The biggest rainforest is the Amazon.

We continued with our class charter and finished our display. We have all pledged what we will do to make sure that everyone in the class will have their rights. We are all excited to show our parents this at the curriculum afternoon.

 This week was maths week and we worked with Primary 5 to do measuring in the playground. We measured the length and breadth of the playground and various different pieces of equipment. We then recorded our findings and compared our answers we noted that some were very different and others were similar – we learned that we should look carefully and double check our measurements.

We all agreed on a class reward system where we can earn dojo tokens and spend them on things in the class. We have all worked really hard to earn dojos and are well on our way to saving up enough tokens to spend them on what we want.

 In literacy we have been continuing our study of Matilda. This week we were focussing on comprehension and finding information we worked as a group to read together and then find the best answer.

In Primary 4 this week…

We have continued studying Matilda and we were focussed on a comprehension task and how to find information in a text. We found this a little tricky and had to go over how to find information in the text and how to write the best answer.

In maths we have been working on our Problem Solving skills by completing our number countdown challenge. Some of us managed to get the target others have been getting closer. We are continuing to improve our mathematical skills.

We were also completing some on our own reading and comprehension tasks to see how well we could interpret the texts on our own.

With Miss Nisbet we wrote a limerick (a funny poem) about Matilda.

We had our first music lesson with Mrs Duggie. We were learning about how to show so, la and mi with our hands and where to place the notes on the stave.

In Primary 4 this week we have been learning about

In language we have been learning about characterisation and the five points of it appearance, speech, manner, interactions and actions. To learn about characterisation we studied Matilda, Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey from Matilda and looked at the ways they were described and portrayed and we also used these to give our personal opinions on the characters.

We also had our meet the teacher this week and were excited by the amount of parents that came to visit our class. During the meet the teacher we got to complete some fun activities on Matilda and we all enjoyed making up new ways to get back at Mr and Mrs Wormwood, we also loved making up a new character for the book and writing a poem or song.

We have been continuing our work on SHANARRI and we can all now state what each letter stands for and state a way that these indicators are achieved in school.

We have been enjoying countdown challenges from Mrs Grubb in Maths and Language where we are getting to practise our arithmetic and spelling in a fun way.

In Ivrit we have been learning the Hebrew words for all of our family members. Mr Guetta has started teaching us a song to help us remember.

In Kodesh we have been learning about the 4 festivals that we will be celebrating. Rosh Hashanah, Succot, Yom Kippur and Simchat Torah.

In PE we were working on different types of movement for fitness with Miss Nisbet.

We started our PE lessons with Mr Fry and we were all very impressed with the size of our new gym hall. In PE we were learning new ball and racket skills.

We had some very important visitors join us from our partner school in Israel they came to chat us about our new school and how impressed they were.

We got a new Torah and had an assembly with Rabbi Ruben and some other special visitors who had helped raised money for the Torah.

We have started a new class novel Matilda by Roald Dahl. On Tuesday with Miss Nisbet we wrote a diary entry as Matilda. We had to use the word ‘I’, thought of good openers, used our ‘WOW’ words to make the entry interesting.

With Mrs Grubb we have been reading more Matilda and completing character studies and discussing how we would describe the characters and justifying our answers using examples from the text.

We are still working to get our classroom the way we want it. First we started to make our class charter which will show what rights we have and how we will make sure that we get these and help others to achieve them. We also made our ‘helping hands’ so that we can start being responsible and having different jobs in the class.

We think we are all settling in to Primary 4 well and are enjoying being part of the upper school.