Numeracy

We have been learning about angles and directions and the points of a compass.  We used new vocabulary like clockwise and anti-clockwise and used our desk pets to help us! We have been learning about data handling and can read and draw bar graphs and pictograms. The cylinders also learned to read line graphs. We did a survey to collect information about litter found in the playground, we were sad and worried to find out how much there was! We made PowerPoints to share this information with the rest of the school to tackle the problem! We are still working hard with our times tables and division and playing our maths games.

Literacy

We have enjoyed starting our class novel study, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. We have been completing different jobs at home each week such as the visualiser, questioner, clarifier, summariser and the predictor. We wrote newspaper articles about the factory opening and the lucky golden ticket winners. On Burns’ day, we retold the story of The Three Little Pigs using lots of Scots language. We learned about Venn diagrams and idioms with Miss Nisanci.

IDL

We have a new topic called Life Beyond Land. The first thing we wanted to learn about was the weather and different types of crazy weather! We have been keeping a weather diary. We also watched some videos of extreme weather conditions. We are now working in groups on a mini project to choose and research the types of weather we want to know about. We also learned about racism and human rights and learned about Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks. We made posters to share their inspiring stories. We have also been reading some of the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books that some people in the class have brought in. So far, we have read about Rosa Parks, Michelle Obama, Anne Frank and John Lennon and are looking forward to reading some more.

R.E.

We have started to prepare for our Sacraments. Canon Eddie celebrated the Rite of Enrolment with us to begin our Sacramental journey. He gave us our journals to complete at home with our families.

On Friday, we took part in St Cadoc’s Eurovision song contest! We sang A Million Dreams in French and sign language and we came third place! We have still been practising our French “ooh la la” vocab and phrases of the week.

We were very impressed with two future engineers who made robots at home and shared them with the class.  🙂

We have been very busy this month in P4b! Here are some of the things we have been up to:

Maths

We have been learning the 7 and 8 times table and are feeling more confident with these. We have been learning how to divide with remainders and using the bus stop method. The Cylinders were also practising addition and subtraction calculations with carrying and exchanging.  We all enjoyed learning 3D shapes, we even learned about a tricky shape called a dodecahedron with 12 faces!

Literacy

We have been practising lots of new spelling rules like ‘tion’ and silent letters. We wrote imaginative stories called The Woods and The Troll. When we finished describing our trolls we drew pictures based on the adjectives we had included to see if Mrs McMenamin could match them to our stories! This week we also wrote acrostic and shape poems about fireworks. In French we have been learning how to introduce ourselves and also about different nationalities We have also been learning about L’Halloween and my family.

RE

We have been learning about the Creation story and made comic strips to tell what happened. We were learning about Mary and praying the Rosary. We enjoyed hearing about the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. We also learned about the festival of Diwali and made Rangoli patterns.

We also voted for our new history topic, we chose
Ancient Greece and are looking forward to learning about mythological creatures and Greek Gods and Goddesses.

Welcome to the new Primary 4b’s Class Blog! We have had a very busy first few weeks settling into our new class and making lots of new friends! Here are some of the things we have been learning about so far:

Maths

We have been learning the 6 times table, our favourite way to practise is by playing POPCORN! We have been learning to solve division calculations using the bus stop method. We have been predicting the chance of how likely/unlikely something is to happen. We have learned about the months of the year and how to use the calendar. We have really enjoyed playing lots of fun maths games such as Killer, Splat, Around the World and Battle of the Giants! We have also completed some Maths assessments.

Literacy

Our very favourite part of Literacy is GRAMMAR! We have been learning how to use “a” and “an” correctly.  We have learned comparative and superlative adjectives. We have been practising lots of new spelling rules and scoring well in our Friday spelling tests. In writing, we have written All About Me poems. We wrote imaginative stories about a picture and then acted them out in Drama. We practised our note-taking skills and used our notes to write a newspaper article about the Queen. We have also been practising our French introductions and our “ooh la la vocab”!

RE

We wrote back to school prayers to ask God to guide us through Primary 4 and our Sacraments. We have been practising our Act of Contrition prayer. We have learned about the Creation Story and made comic strips about it. We learned about Laudato Si and have been making posters to show others how to protect our planet. We also celebrated St Cadoc’s Day with a TALENT SHOW! Congratulations to Holly McL who represented our class! 🙂

Science

We voted for our class topic and we chose SPACE! We have learned how small Planet Earth is compared to other planets and stars and we were amazed by the mind-blowing video about this! We have learned the names of the planets in our solar system and have been working in groups to research one planet and create a poster about it.

Health

In PE we have been taking part in the Olympics team challenge! We have been working on good sportsmanship to our own teammates and to other teams. We have been doing the Daily Mile and have taken part in lots of races like running, spider crawl and hurdles. We also tried javelin and discus throwing and have played some fun, friendly games like Chaos Tig and Buddy Up! In Outdoor Learning we made obstacle courses, it was very fun!

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