Literacy and English – Primary 4b 23/24

World Book Day!

We have had a wonderful few days celebrating world book day!

We enjoyed creating a human library with exciting reads from home and our class library.

We have taken part in a book quiz too!

Finally, we completed our celebrations with a visit from Maisie Chan, the author of Danny Chang does not do maths and many other exciting novels! Today she taught us a lot about Chinese zodiac , we even had a go at creating our own magical creature and she read to us from her new book Tigar Warrior: Attack of the Dragon King.

DLL: Fact and Opinion

Through DLL we have been developing the skill of identifying fact and opinions in text. We have also been using challenge cards to use the skills we have learned.

Reading: Fact or Opinion

We have been learning about fact and opinion.

We listened to video a video clip and created a list together of all the facts and all the opinions in the clip.

We read different sentences on the board then ran to the fact or opinion sign.

“We had to read the sentences about Christmas then decide if they were facts or opinions and stick them in the right side”. Farah-Rose

We done an exit in 3 to get out at playtime! Reading a passage about Christmas we had to write down;

1. A fact

2. An opinion

3. Our own opinion

Advent

We had a special visitor in P3b today.
He left a special letter and decorations for the class.
We decided to write a thank you letter for our Elf.
We created a bar graph to display our class votes for our Elf’s name. The class voted for… Buddy!
We analysed our data by answering questions such as “What is the difference between the most votes and least?”

As it’s the first of December we are getting ready for Christmas by using the Mini Vinnie’s Advent Calender to do something kind every day.

Jeremy Worried About the Wind

Inspired by the book Jeremy Worried About the Wind we made worry monsters and the boys and girls have loved posting their worries. They said it helps them forget about them and relax!

We have also been learning about alliterations and trying to create our own!

Library Visit

The boys and girls enjoyed a visit to the library this afternoon. They enjoyed selecting a book to read and share next week during Scottish Book Week!

George’s Marvellous Medicine

Primary 3 are enjoying listening to George’s Marvellous Medicine by Rohal Dahal. Today the boys and girls explored the character description of Grandma. They reread an extract form chapter 1: Grandma in their groups. Then highlighted all the adjectives in the passage, pink. All the connectives yellow. And all the punctuation green. The boys and girls discovered speech marks and are excited to learn how to use speech marks tomorrow.

The boys and girls used what they had learned to write fabulous sentences including interesting adjectives to describe Grandma.