What a brilliant start so far to the term.

In literacy, we have been looking at imaginative stories. We used pictures of forests and creatures to inspire us. On Wednesday we edited our work and some of us wrote new drafts. We analysed common mistakes focussing on conjunctions, the differences between their, there and they’re and how our descending letters should look in our writing.

We introduced our new spelling words. As a few children found it tricky glueing in their words weekly I have sent home a termly list of words. Please work on each week as we go along. If your child loses it, please let me know and I will send another copy home. In handwriting, we looked at the letter “a” to ascenders, eg al.

In numeracy, we have started looking at times tables and strategies to help us.

In IDL, we started our topic about life along the river Tay. We discussed what we would like to learn and what we already know. We watched a video about the source of the river and what animals live there. During this we improved our note taking skills. To link with this we also learnt about the water cycle and how rivers start.

In music, we started our glockenspiel course and started looking at how to read timings of notes on sheet music.

In PE, we looked at the underhand pass and practice by ourselves and with partners with different objects and balls. We also used these skills to play a game of dodgeball.

We had our first skills academy. The children all seemed so pleased with their first lesson. They have two more this week and one next week.

Thank you P4 for a great first week back, looking forward to next week.

Mrs Skilling