Welcome to Area 6 with Primary 4B and Miss Bell

TERM  3

Literacy

We are working on  information reports, instructions and explanations.  As part of this, we are developing reading for information skills, note-taking and writing in different forms to convey information.  Our class novel is “Light on Dumyat” by Rennie McOwen, which is set in Scotland.  Because our IDL topic this term is The British Isles, we are also enjoying various legends and myths from each of the 4 countries.

 

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy we are learning different mental and written methods of subtraction.  We shall also begin times tables practice.  In Maths, much of the learning is linked to our IDL: compass points, grid references and co-ordinates, angles and turns, mapwork.  We are also exploring data handling.

 

Health and Wellbeing

Mrs Gilfillan is working with the class on Friday afternoons.  In Term 3 the focus is on how to keep safe in emergency situations.  After Scottish Country Dance at the beginning of the term, the class is now enjoying Fitness sessions in PE.  In addition to this, Active Schools visit once a week to develop team work and give the children an opportunity to experience different sports.

 

 

 

Primary 4s have settled into Area 6 and are  ready to learn many new things this year.  In Literacy this term we are learning how to write recounts.  We are very lucky to have Mrs Bain visit our class on Thursday afternoons to teach us skills that we can use in our recount writing.

 

In Numeracy we are working on place value: reading, writing, ordering and rounding big numbers.  We are also learning about months of the year and how to write the date in different ways.

Area 6 is enjoying learning about Flight.  We are making our own models of flying things and investigating what makes them fly.  Sometimes we have to think again about our design, improve it and try again.  We are also interested in the history of flight and finding out about famous inventions and flyers.

In Health and Wellbeing we are practising lots of football skills.  We will be playing mini-games so that we have opportunities to be part of small teams and co-operate with others.

One of the other things we are doing In Primary 4 is learning to play the recorder.  We are having fun learning to read music and play the notes in different tunes.