Literacy

This week we have been looking at using speech marks within our writing. We looked at books to find various words for said and talked about what words had similar meanings.

We wrote personal stories about kindness and worked on our self assessment and peer assessment skills.

We continued our comprehension skills using different reading passages in our reading groups.

In Handwriting, we have been learning how r joins vowels and y.  E.g. re, ra, ri, etc.

 

Numeracy

We continued working on our division skills.  Lots of us have been using numberlines and number squares to help support our learning of dividing by 7,8 and 9. Others have been learning strategies to help divide 3 digit numbers by a 1 digit number.

 

PE

We have continued to enjoy our team building this week.  We had to direct a blindfolded friend through an obstacle course.  We worked on our communication skills and trusting our classmates.

 

Topic

We have been researching mummification and were able to find out how and why the egyptians used mummification.  We also found other countries that also used it.  We created our own mummified tomatoes (which are already starting to shrivel).

 

Drama

This week we looked at the story of Grace Darling and reinacted half of the story.  We hope to continue this next week.

 

Music

This week we have been learning how to play more difficult tunes on the glockenspiels with Charanga.

 

Other

We were very excited to share our learning with our families this week, and hope you all enjoyed finding out about our learning.

 

 

 

Maths

This week, we continued investigating 3D shape.  We are now able to talk about their properties and find examples in the real world.  We continued with our work in division.

 

Literacy

We wrote “All About Me” letters to our new teacher.  We are looking forward to meeting her on Friday next week.

 

ICT

This week, we completed our NSAs.

 

Topic

We investigated about Tutankhamun and the excavation of his tomb.  We created our own death masks in Art using paper mache, balloons and paint.

 

PE

We continued looking at team building.  We worked together in a relay race to try and be the first team to get three in a row.  We worked in pairs to try and collect hullahoops only using skipping ropes.

 

Other

We have been practising our assembly lots this week.  We really hope you are able to come on Monday at 2pm and look forward to seeing you then.

 

Numeracy/Maths

In numeracy this week we started using the strategy of arrays to help us with our division.  We started investigating 3D shapes and were able to talk about their features. On the tuff tray we were able to create our own shapes using cocktail sticks, straws, cotton buds and playdough. We worked on Algebra with Miss Allan on Tuesday.

 

Literacy

We worked on personal stories, we started writing about snowy stories.  We were able to mark our own work against the success criteria and looked at what we need to include next time.  In handwriting, we looked at the join from “o”. We practised oa, oe, oi, oo, ou and oy joins.

 

RME

We started looking at Aesops Fables.  This week we looked the Tortoise and the hare with Miss Allan.

 

ICT

We continued with our 3D printing.

We used our notes on our stories to type out our stories.

 

HWB

We read Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes and discussed the importance of apologising. Then we made posters about how to apologise.

 

Outdoor Learning

We used our plans made last week to create our own bird feeders.  Some of us changed our original designs.  All children got the option to take these home.

This week we planned bird feeders to make for the big garden bird watch next weekend.  If you have any recyclable items that the children could use we would greatly appreciate them.  We hope to make these on Thursday next week.

We were planning our bird feeders. – Lewis

 

HWB

This week we have been looking at kindness and continued to focus on kind hands.  We have been using kitbag to discuss our emotions more.

With Mrs Stevenson, we looked at the St Johns Ambulance lessons on how to help someone choking.  We used what we learnt to make informative posters.

We have been learning about how to help if someone is choking.  -Jasper

We had Mrs Stevenson in our class -Olivia H

We made posters about when someone is choking. – Winnie

We have been doing teamwork/building in PE – Rosie

 

Literacy

This week we continued writing personal stories.  We read a story about a surprise present and wrote our own stories about a time we were surprised.

We did a spelling test. – Finlay

We did our handwriting – Ada

 

Numeracy

We have been continuing to work on our division strategies using groups of, repeated subtraction and numberlines. We also investigated how to find the middle of two numbers by using number lines or addition and division.

We were learning division – Finlay

We learnt how to find the middle number in maths – Grace

 

Other

We started our masterclasses. – Lewis

We were doing our skills academy – Ada.

We learnt about the River Nile – Olivia H

We did our fun for 31 – Ella

We read our chatterbooks together – Winnie

We learnt French rooms in our house – Jacob

We were doing ink printing in art – Sienna

We did a dodgeball competition – Grace.

 

 

Literacy

In literacy this week, we started looking at personal writing and wrote descriptions about members of our families. We were challenged to include how we felt about our families too.  As part of our writing assessment, we played some board games and wrote instructions about how to play a game.

As part of our reading skills, we looked at using an index.  We enjoyed using an atlas to look at the index and also link this to our previous learning of grids and coordinates.

 

Numeracy

This week, we started looking at division strategies.  We looked at using equal groups to help us work out some division equations.

The children also looked at complex sequencing of numbers up to numbers of 10,000.

As a introduction to shape, we explored what shapes we could find around our classroom and made a graph of the results.

 

French

We listened to the story ” Goldilocks and the Three Bears” in French.  Using what we have learnt so far we were able to pick out and translate certain words.  We also looked at the similarity between some French words and English and used this to help us translate the text.

 

PE

This week we continued looking at Scottish Dancing.  The children enjoyed sharing the dances they had learnt before the holidays.

 

HWB

As part of our whole school focus we have been looking at kindness.  We had some great discussions in class this week about how we can be kind to others.  The children were able to write acrostic poems on kindness.  We talked about personal space and kind hands.  The children were able to reflect on times of kindness and also where they feel their personal space was not being respected.  They agreed as a class that asking permission first was very important to make sure we are not making anyone uncomfortable.

 

ICT

The children have been working very hard on their eportfolios this week, we look forward to you being to view these on Monday.

 

I would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who contributed to my Christmas present.  It was so very kind.  I am not aware of who all took part so all the children have a thank you card in their bag today.  Thank you so much, Mrs Skilling.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely and relaxing holiday.

To share what we did on our holidays we drew and wrote about where we went, what we ate, who we saw, etc.  It was so lovely to hear all the children’s stories about what they got up to and their favourite part of the holidays.

On Friday, we created stories about what we didn’t do on our holidays.  Some children wrote about going on holidays, meeting celebrities, and going on funfair rides.  It was lots of fun and we remembered to use our dictionaries and VCOP wall to support our writing.

In maths, we showed Mrs Skilling what we had learnt in time by reading various times on a clock.  We looked at the two different ways to say some times, like quarter past or 45 mins to and talked about why (in this circumstance) we would usually say quarter past.  We also completed questions on shape and fractions on Sumdog to help Mrs Skilling see what our next steps are.

We heard and picked from 6 Scots Poems and are looking forward to getting these home on Monday.  Two children will be picked to read these at the Burns Together Time on the 29th January.

In Art, we picked from 4 designs to create our own calendars for the year.  Using patterns and felt tip pens we created an abstract picture with the sand, sea, hills and sun.

Lastly, we enjoyed researching a topic of our choice, making a poster and presenting our facts to the class.  We had a huge range of topics from; Bears, Greek Myths, Flags, the Milky Way, Rocks, WW2, Vampire Flying Frogs, Sewing and so many more.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and it was so nice to see you all again this week.

Mrs Skilling

Literacy

We wrote imaginative stories.  We edited our own writing using our new placemats to guide us.  These are for the first level tools for writing and narrative writing. Some of us worked on adding more difficult conjunctions to our writing.

Since we were off last Friday, we chose to do a spelling test with 20 words.  We all did really well.

 

Numeracy and Maths

We used chickpeas to work within a budget. Every chickpea was worth £50 and we had 40 to use within our month.  We spent them on essentials food, shelter, heating and then extra things like cinema trips, manicures and holidays.  It was interesting to see who the big spenders and who the savers were.

We continued working on our multiplication strategies and money calculations.

 

Art

We looked at painting reflections and drew objects that were gradually getting further away.

 

French

We looked at classroom items.  We had to look at the pictures and write what they were in French.  We then wandered round the classroom and pointed out different items in French.

 

PE

We looked at fitness and continued doing circuits.  This time we did different exercises such as skipping, a ladder run and a plank.

 

Music

We continued learning our songs with our glockenspiels.

 

ICT

We competed in the Sumdog competition.  We also created targets for literacy, maths and HWB.  This involved saving our own word document and typing our targets in the appropriate box.  We hope to upload these to our eportfolios next week.

 

Other

We drew a bag filled with items all about ourselves and shared our bags with Miss Fell.

We designed how we would like our tables to be set out within the classroom.

 

 

 

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy this week, we worked with Miss Donaldson to work on our times tables.  Some of us worked looking at the 3 times tables.  Others started looking at multiplying 2- or 3-digit numbers by a single number.  We enjoyed playing times table bingo.

With Miss Donaldson, we explored numbers in the past.  We also started looking at change we would get from either 20p, £1, £2, £5 or £10.  Some of us found this challenging and will continue to work on this next week.

Literacy

We read a story about wolf spiders and investigated the structure of the text.  Then, we wrote descriptive pieces of writing on an animal of our choosing.  We then looked at peer assessing our friends work based on the success criteria using pink and green pencils.

In handwriting we started looking at joining an “i” to various ascenders (b, h, l, t, k and f).

PE

In PE we continued looking at our fitness and participated in a shuttle run challenge.  We marked down whether we were able to run to a cone and back 6 times between a set time scale.  We started at 2mins and worked our way down to 20 secs.  When back in class we compared the results on excel and investigated pie charts showing how many students managed.  We saw clearly that all the class were able to complete the task in 1 min and over, around half could manage in 30 secs and very few managed in 20secs.

 

Art 

We made pictures of poppies looking at different lines and patterns.  We also looked at the difference between light and dark colours.

Music

As part of our lesson using charanga, we started using glockenspiels to play along with “Three little birds.” We really enjoyed playing along with the music.

HWB

As part of our health and wellbeing, we looked at the importance of a big or little deal.  We also looked at the importance of appreciating the people in our lives and wrote positive things about our classmates.

Other

We investigated Rememberence day and made posters about what we had learnt.

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy, we have been looking at times tables and learning to use the strategies “groups of” and repeated addition. Some of the us struggled with “groups of” so used stickers or drawings to help us with our learning.  During these lessons, we showed resilience and perseverance to show we conceptually understood how to solve these equations.

In Maths we started looking at Money and money equations and we finished looking at data handling and working with units of 5 for our pictographs.

 

Literacy

We planned our spooky stories using our story mountain plan.  We read the story “The Heaviest Pumpkin” to help look at the structure of writing and the various elements the writer included.  We talked about time related openers and the importance of nouns, verbs and adverbs in our writing.  On Tuesday, we wrote our story.  All of us were able to include some full stops, capital letters and adjectives in our writing.  Most of us also managed to either write with paragraphs or include them in their editing.  Some were also able to add some interesting adverbs to their writing.

We marked our classmates work with “pink for think” and “green for got it”, looking carefully at what they had included against our success criteria.  On Wednesday, the children then edited their work with the corrections suggested.

 

We started our novel “Kaspar Prince of Cats” by Michael Morpurgo and answered comprehension questions about it.  We are learning to take different roles in groups.

In handwriting we started looking at joining an “e” to various ascenders (b, h, l, t, k and f).

PE

In PE we continued looking at our fitness and went to different stations in PE.  We compared results over the last 3 lessons and looked for where we may have made improvements in our fitness.  We talked about how we could continue improving our fitness and we made tables to track our fitness at home.

 

Art 

We made pictures of a forest at sunset in art.  We focused on showing near and far, using various shades of grey/black as it got closer to the picture.  We talked about the importance of details as it got closer to the artist and that further away it wouldn’t need as much detail.

 

Music

As part of our lesson using charanga, we were learning “3 little birds”.  We were able to find the pulse of the music and copy dance moves.  We then looked at sections of the song to learn how to sing it.  We then tried to perform the music without any back vocals.

ICT

We continued to work on our eportfolios.  These are like the folders that go out at the end of term so parents can access them then.  Before that, please be aware that anything uploaded may be incomplete and unfinished.

We carried out research using google to find out more facts about magnets.

 

IDL – Forces

In Science we have been learning about magnets.  We learnt about north and south poles. Including that the north and south poles will connect but the north and north poles repel each other.

We used notes we had gathered to make posters with facts about magnets.

We were using cereals with magnets to see if it was magnetic, we found that when in water it did have iron that was attracted to the magnet.  During this, we talked about our hypothesis.  We found the best cereal to show this was “Shreddies”.

Other

We met Miss Fell who will be joining us as a teacher in two weeks for 4 weeks. We planted our plant from eco committee green flag.

Numeracy and Maths

This week, we looked at rounding and estimating. Some children looked at rounding to the nearest 10 or 100, whilst others rounded to the nearest 1000. During estimating, we used rounding to help us work out a rough answer to sums.

In maths, we looked at Carol and Venn diagrams.  We discussed how we would sort information in a Carol diagram.  We created our own Venn diagrams sorting numbers into different groups.  With Miss Allan, we looked at Roman Numerals.

Literacy

In writing, we looked at a descriptive story about road trains.  We analysed how the story was set out and how they described each part of the train.  We then discussed our own houses and how we could do a step by step description of each room.  On Wednesday, using notes Mrs Skilling left in our jotters we edited our work.  On top of this, we looked at paragraphs and added paragraphs to our stories.

We investigated adverbs and verbs.  We looked at what verbs match certain adverbs and wrote descriptive sentences using them.

In handwriting we started looking at joining an a to various ascenders (b, h, l, t, k and f).

PE

This week, we pushed ourselves during circuits to try and raise our fitness levels.  We made tables to track the amount of times we could do each exercise within a minute. We will compare times with next week to see if our fitness has improved.

HWB

We talked and discussed the importance of fitness inside and outside of school.  We shared ideas about what we can do to help keep us fit and healthy.  The children were introduced to Kitbag with Miss Donaldson this week and continued this with Mrs Skilling.  We enjoyed talking about our feelings and showed respect when listening to others.

Art & Music

We created a card for Jim the Janitor retiring and made our own song to sing for him leaving to the tune “Bob the Builder” called “Jim the Janny.”

RME

With Miss Allan, we looked at mosques and learnt about what it looked like on the inside and outside.

ICT

We used Scratch programming for the first time in P4 with Miss Allan.

IDL – Forces

This week, we started exploring magnets and forces.  We watched a video about how magnets work and worked at 6 different stations to explore magnetism.

Other

As a whole school we have introduced “Fun for 31.” This is in relation to article 31, a child’s right to play.  The children really enjoyed these 31 minutes on Thursday to explore and play.

In celebration of our green eco flag, we participated in a scavenger hunt to find something in nature that matched each letter of the alphabet.