We have enjoyed lots of Christmas fun this week! We loved taking part in a Christmas STEM challenge, the Christmas Sing-a-Long and the Pupil Council Christmas Quiz.
We have worked so hard this term and I am very proud of you all.
Have a lovely Christmas everyone and see you in January!
We have had a very festive week this week in Primary 4.
On Monday, we looked at various handwriting patterns we had previously learnt and worked on ones we felt we needed more practise on.
We made our christmas craft, which was a christmas bauble. We were inspired by the snowglobes we made at the beginning of this term so we created miniature ones for our trees at home. We hope you like them.
At our christmas party we loved playing pass the parcel, christmas corners, musical statues and musical bumps. We also performed the Scottish dance we have been learning; Strip the Willow. We loved turning of the lights at the end for an extra dance.
On Tuesday, we enjoyed watching the christmas film “The Grinch” with the whole school. We continued working on our eportfolios. In Numeracy, we played a christmas escape room where we had to use our problem solving skills to help us escape.
On Wednesday, we practised the scottish dances Strip the Willow and the Canadian Barn Dance. We practised our listening and talking skills by investigating what books other children in our class like. We then chose books from the school library for other children in our class and discussed the giving and kind nature around christmas.
We practised how to wrap presents and wrote an procedural text about how to successfully wrap a present. Hopefully they can show these steps at home and help wrap presents.
Hope you all have a lovely holidays and I will see you in the New Year. Thank you for all the kind gifts too.
Merry Christmas
Mrs Skilling
In Literacy, we have been learning to add similes and figurative language in our writing. We used a Christmas Advert as our stimulus for this. We loved watching it and discussing the themes in the advert such as friendship and kindness. We used Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine to recap verbs, punctuation and higher order thinking skills.
In Numeracy, we have been showcasing our learning on multiplication and discussing the strategies we have been learning across the term. In Maths, we have been identifying shapes with multiple lines of symmetry, next term we will create our own pictures to show multiple lines of symmetry.
In PE, we focused on teamwork, cooperation and being a good sportsperson through games like dodgeball and bench ball. We used the 5 point scale to discuss how we felt throughout the game.
In Art, we have been enhancing our motor skills and cooperation by learning about origami to create our Christmas Cards.
We had committees this week and really enjoyed taking part in the Christmas Jumper Hunt which was planned by the Enterprise committee.
We used the iPads to show a friend our ePortfolio and reflect on our work. We also chose a piece of work we are very proud of and we can’t wait to share it all with you at home!
We loved watching the P1 Nativity this morning, they did so well!
In Numeracy, we have been showing resilience and motivation by challenging ourselves to multiply larger numbers!
In Literacy, we have continued to explore themes in our class novel. We have been skimming and scanning text and using our novel to learn about speech marks.
In PE, we played mini football games using the skills we have been learning. We showed resilience and co-operation and all worked well as a team. We continued to practise shooting, too!
In Art, we took inspiration from artist Christa Rijneveld and created our own mountainous landscapes using black card and white chalk. We used lines and dots to create texture, they look amazing up on our classroom wall.
We visited the P7 Christmas Market and enjoyed buying cakes, books, festive decorations and raffle tickets.
We have made festive jokes to go out to the community! We enjoyed researching these.
Have a great weekend!
The children were so excited to start our advent calendar this week. We have been using “spin the wheel” to pick 2 children who get a chocolate daily.
In literacy, we wrote out clear instructions to play the games we created last week. We made sure to use bossy verbs and avoid “I” and “we” in our instructions. We followed the success criteria of a procedural text and marked our own work. On Wednesday, we used our writing to lead the game during our PE time. We had time to set up, explain the rules to our teammates and then carried out our games. At the end, we evaluated how well our teammates lead the session, listened to the instructions for our games and showed the skills we learnt in class.
We wrote wanted posters about a destroyed garden in our book “The boy who grew dragons”.
In Numeracy, we started looking at division. We focused on dividing using arrays and equal groups. Some of us started looking at division with remainders.
In our topic, we looked at the Tay Bridge Disaster and listened to information about what happened. We discussed the structural properties of the bridge and what could have made it stronger. The children then designed their own bridge discussing how they thought the bridge would survive the weather and the sea.
Hope you have a great rest of week, Mrs Skilling.
In Literacy, we read Chapter 3 and 4 of Bill’s New Frock. We took notes on the chapters which helped us to write a summary. We also skimmed and scanned the text to find key information to help us answer inferential questions. We are continuing to work on answering these in full sentences.
In Numeracy, we have been practising our times tables, multiply 2 digits by 1 digit and 3 digit by 1 digit numbers. We have also been playing around the world – our favourite times table game!
In Maths, we learned about tesselation and looked at various examples of tesselation in our environment.
In Health and Wellbeing, we learned how to help someone when they are choking.
In PE, we continued to practise controlling the ball, dribbling, passing and this week we learned how to shoot at a target.
In Art, we looked at silhouettes and scale. This helped us create our Winter Wonderland artwork for the display in the school hall. They look fantastic!
In ICT, we have been using tinkercad to design a decoration and print these using the 3D printer. We have also been accessing our Glow ePortfolios and discussing our work with a partner. We added some new games to our launch pad and have been continuing to play Cookin Castle which links to our food and health learning this term.
We had committees this week and really enjoyed these!
Have a great weekend everyone! Miss Irvine 🙂
This week, primary 4 enjoyed making rainbow fruit skewers. We learnt how to prepare different fruits and then arrange them on skewers in rainbow colours. Some children have told me they made them at home too, this is so lovely to hear.
On Tuesday, we wrote the recipes with Miss Alexander. We looked at what was important to include in a procedural text.
In numeracy, we continued on our multiplication skills and some of us looked at multiplying by 2 or 3 digits.
In PE, we focussed on dribbling in basketball/netball and then looked at scoring in the hoop.
With Miss Allan, we looked at making a 3d printed a decoration. Most children have finished theirs.
Hope you have a good rest of week and look forward to seeing some parents on Thursday night.
Mrs Skilling
In PE, we have been continuing to practice dribble and passing a ball using our foot-eye coordination. This week, we extended our learning by shooting at a small target.
In Literacy, we have been drawing inferences such as inferring characters feelings, thoughts and motives. We have been identifying main ideas of text and summarising these.
In Numeracy, we have been multiplying using a range of strategies. We are ready to challenge ourselves more in this area of our learning.
In Art, we have been learning to mix paints to create illusions. We are creating artwork for our ‘Winter Wonderland’ display.
In Health and Wellbeing, we have been identifying food groups and discussing how much of each food group we should be eating. We identified foods high in fat, salt and sugar and discussed how many times a week we should be eating these to ensure we have a healthy and varied diet.
In French, we have been learning about fruits. We learned to say these to our partner. Next week, we will write these by creating a poster for a fruit smoothie for a French café.
We all had our committees this week and enjoyed sharing this with our peers when we returned to class.
Have a great weekend, well done for all your hard work this week 🙂
This week, P4 enjoyed making their own snowglobes to go with their stories. They used the comments from their writing to help them write an edited piece of work.
We read the story “The Great BMX Race” and identified key features of the story. We were then able to write our own story about a sport of our choice and something going wrong.
We continued work with our class novel and wrote character profiles for some main characters.
In numeracy, we identified strategies to help us with the 3, 6 and 9 times tables and looked at the links between the three.
In IDL, we started looking at different styles of houses around Newport and the River Tay.
In Outdoor Learning, we used surveyors wheels to help us measure spaces outside and used these to help us draw a map and key features using squared paper.
In PE, we played various games with the ball skills we have learnt so far.
We continued working on our eportfolios.
Hope you have a great rest of week. Mrs Skilling.
We have had a very busy week so far. In literacy, we have been creating acrostic poems about cold weather. We also wrote a story about being trapped in a snowglobe. We continued working with paragraphs and editing our writing work.
In Numeracy, we looked at estimation and rounding and compared the difference between an estimate and an exact answer. We looked at using a numberline, groups of, arrays and repeated addition to help us work out a multiplication equation.
In Music, we looked at more complex music and played along with our glockenspiels. We also created our own melodies along with a tune.
In Science, we continued looking at food chains and created our own food chains on string. We also looked at habitats of animals and were able to explain how different animals adapted to different environments.
In ICT, we started work on our eportfolios and some of us uploaded our first piece of work.
Hope you all have a great rest of week.
Mrs Skilling
