Hello everyone and welcome to our Primary 4a blog for March!
Literacy
As a whole class, we have just finished ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. We are currently up to chapter 22! This novel was used to base many of our writing lessons, as well as our reading lessons. Pupils have learnt new reading strategies such as summarising and paraphrasing. This has helped pupils to pick out the main points of a text.
We are also continuously developing our sentence structure and learning how to use openers, connectives and punctuation effectively.
Pupils are progressing well through Nelson Spelling Book 4 and are learning new rules weekly.
Numeracy and Mathematics
Pupils have been refreshing their memory on time. Specifically, digital time and writing time in words. This has been challenging as it has been a long time since pupils last done time. Nevertheless, this refresher has been very beneficial.
Pupils’ maths starters have still been in French this month, utilising ‘Content and Language Integrated Learning’ (CLIL) to gain knowledge of another language. I have noticed pupils seem more confident with their French numbers and multiplication tables. Plus, pupils have enjoyed learning new French terminology more and more.
IDL topic
We have just finished our IDL topic ‘Life Beyond Land’. Our big questions were: ‘Where does weather come from?’; ‘How does pollution impact the water?’; and ‘How do different animals survive under water?’.
Pupils exhibited their learning to the pupils of 4b and shared all of their knowledge relating to these 3 bigquestions. Many pupils particularly enjoyed the pH experiments and the different layers of the ocean.
RE
Pupils were very prepared for making their sacrament of reconciliation on Monday 13th March. They have also learnt about Lent and will continue to learn about the Easter story in the coming week.
Thank you for taking the time to read our March b log! We hope you have enjoyed reading about our learning and we can’t wait to share more with you next month.
