Numeracy and Maths

Using partitioning we were able to add two-digit numbers together.  By breaking the numbers into tens and ones it made it easier to add them together. We looked at double numbers and discussed how we could use them to help us complete other calculations in our head like 60 + 63 =.

 

Literacy

In our writing this week, we watched the video “Adrift” and created our own stories about an animal island.  Our focus was on creating characters and describing the setting whilst following our story mountain plan.

To help with our describing skills we looked at different adjectives to write about a variety of made up planets.

On Wednesday, we had a fantastic trip to the library.  Thank you to all our helpers.  The children loved listening to extracts from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Charlie and the Glass Elevator” and creating their very own door hangers.

In handwriting, we practised our joined letters using the starting vowels “i” and “u”.

 

Music

While listening to “3 Little Birds” by Bob Marley & The Wailers, we used a variety of clapping, snapping, stamping and tapping to follow the beat.  We listened to Fleetwood Mac’s song “Albatross” and drew a picture of how it made us feel. We looked at what parts of the brain we use when listening to music and creating beats.

 

PE

We have continued looking at ball skills.  We practised our throwing and played a game of basketball in PE. With our partners we showed and recorded all the variety of passes we have learned.  On Wednesday, we played hospital tig and Jungles on fire before our walk to the library.

 

 

HWB

We enjoyed reading the story “Oops” and discussed how we can create wonderful pictures from mistakes.

We looked at the challenges in computer games such as Minecraft and linked them to challenges we have in our learning. We created Acrostic Poems based on Failing and Mistakes and typed them on the computer.  We hope to read a selection at our together time assembly.

 

Loose parts play

On Thursday, during loose parts play, we worked with P2 to complete an addition race.  Each loose part was worth a set amount and we had to make sure our team had the right total at the end of everyone’s turn.  This took lots of problem solving and working together as a team.

 

Drama

In Drama, we worked in pairs, one person had to act out something like “washing a dog” or “brushing our teeth” without talking.  Our partner then had to guess what we were acting.

 

ICT

This week we looked at the right to have shelter, food and water with Miss Skinner.  We added another slide to our Powerpoint, wrote notes about what we learned and added pictures to the slide.

 

Art

In Art, we looked at Mondrian’s art.  We created Squares and rectangles and painted them the primary colours; Blue, Yellow and Red.  We also used the colours Black and white for the lines and spaces in-between.

 

Committees

During the enterprise committee we collected apples to sell at the School Fair.

In Eco Committee we were writing ideas to show how we could celebrate the green eco flag.  We talked about why we joined the Eco Committee, protecting wildlife and not littering.

Health and Wellbeing Committee, we played hospital tig, toilet tig and dragon tig.

In the Rights Respecting Committee, we were planning how we could follow the rights in school and in the community.

Numeracy and Maths

In maths, we were looking at sequences moving in 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s.  We started our math workbooks and used the knowledge of place value to help work out the patterns and continue them.  Using our data handling skills, we interpreted data from pictographs and created our own using data given.  Using 100 number square splat, we explored adding two 2-digit numbers together.  We were able to count in tens and ones to help us work out the answer.

 

Literacy

During a class discussion, we talked about characters and why it is important to describe them in our stories. Then we wrote descriptions about the characters Rock, Paper and Scissors from the video “Broken”. For an extra challenge, some children also described the settings that each character lived.

We practised our spelling words and took our first spelling test. Some children really enjoyed creating a rap or song with their spelling words this week.

 

Music

We have been practising the “I Have a Go” and “Neuron” Songs for our sharing assembly. With a focus on beat this week, we managed to keep a beat going with the song “Keep the Kettle Boiling.”  Using body percussion, we were able to clap, stamp and click along to “Can’t stop the feeling” by Justin Timberlake.

 

PE

We were practising ball skills. Using an underhand, overhand, chest and bounce pass we were able to pass the ball to our partner.  We enjoyed playing a new game called “Spud.”  We played a game of basketball. 

“My favourite thing this week was PE because it was fun to learn some new ball skills. It was really fun to play basketball,” Ada.

“We had to do the underhand, overhead and chest pass. We also worked on our dribbling skills. It was very fun!” Finlay.

 

HWB

We made a learning pit and discussed how it feels to learn and attempt something for the first time.  We looked at famous failures and mistakes that worked.  We looked at kindness and wrote notes to three of our classmates. We made posters using positive affirmations.

 

Loose parts play

We teamed up in groups with the primary 2s and made a futuristic vehicle. We lead their learning and tried to help support their ideas. 

“My favourite subject this week was the loose-parts-play. I liked it because we had to communicate and teach the younger children. I also enjoyed it because we got to use our imagination,” Lewis.

 

Drama

Using our novel, we acted out George and his dad going to buy ingredients for the medicine from the shops.  We worked in groups of 3 or 4 and acted out the characters George, Mr Kranky, Mrs Kranky and the chicken. 

 

ICT

We all managed this week to send an email saying our favourite lesson. 

We used the netbooks to investigate different flags for our fair stall “Guess the flag.”

We started making powerpoints about our rights.  When creating a title page and first page, we were able to change the layout of the slide and the font and size of the text. 

 

Art

As part of our outdoor learning we made leaves with our birthdays on them using things we found outside. 

We looked at the artist Kandinsky and tried to replicate his style.  His piece titled “Yellow, Red and Blue” inspired us to play with colour and shape.

“I enjoyed art this week it was inspiring to see how imaginative people really could get,” Ella.

 

French

We were learning French days and months.  We have been challenging ourselves to say the date in French.

Numeracy and Maths

We have looked at writing numbers, up to 4 digits, in words.  For example, 6323 is six thousand, three hundred and twenty-three. We had different challenges which started with 2-digit numbers and worked its way up to 5-digit number.  Most of us were able to complete 3 digit or 4-digit numbers.

We used our knowledge of thousands, hundreds, tens and ones to create 4-digit numbers. For example, 7 thousands, 6 hundreds, and 3 ones is 7603. We used 9-sided dice to make 2 digit or 3-digit numbers and challenged our friends.

We practised our tally marks showing lots of different numbers. We used a board game where we rolled two dice to give a 2-digit number and wrote our answer in tally marks.

 

Literacy

In our writing we were using adjectives to describe different settings.  We looked at different pictures and described what the landscape was like, the time of day or year and what we thought was happening in this picture.

We started looking at our new spelling words and patterns.

In our reading groups, we read our first chapter or few pages together.

In our novel, “George’s Marvellous Medicine” Georges dad, Killy Kranky, wants to remake the medicine and sell it to all the farmers.  After discussing this as a class, we do not think they will be able to remake the same medicine because Mr Kranky has forgotten some ingredients.

 

Drama

We used our imagination to pretend there was a magical box full of lots of items in the middle of the circle. While taking turns we took an item out of the box and acted out what it was.  Our friends had to guess what it was.  If they guessed correctly they had to put our item back and use their own imagination to pull something else out of the box. Some things we imagined included: video games, a gorilla, a teddy bear, a lollipop, a ring and a toothbrush.

 

Loose-Parts Play

We used teamwork and imagination to build the tallest tower and an eco-friendly vehicle.

“I loved making the eco-friendly car and the tallest tower,” Olivia H

 

PE

We have been learning how to play football rounders.  It was fun.  We have been looking at ball skills.  We found it challenging to pay attention to the next base and make sure there wasn’t someone already there.  However, we practised and we showed better understanding.

“I loved playing the football rounders.  One team had to kick the ball and run around while the other team had to catch the ball and roll it through their legs,” Neave.

 

ICT

On Keynote we made a self-portrait of ourselves with Miss Allan. We wrote an email stating our favourite learning from this week to Mrs Skilling using Glow. Mrs Skilling picked 2 statements to add to our blog this week.

 

HWB

We looked at growth mindset and fixed mindset. With our table partners, we made a picture of our brains showing the neurons firing and the connections between them.  Half the brain showed a growth mindset and the other half showed a fixed mindset.  The growth mindset showed lots of neurons and connections while the fixed mindset didn’t.

 

RME

In RME we looked at places of worship with Miss Allan.

 

French

We learned all our numbers up to 20 in French.  We played a game with numbers 0-20 using fly swats.  Mrs Skilling shouted a number in French.  We had to be the first to hit the number and say it in French.

 

Other

We decided on which Committees we wanted to join.

 

P4 Class Blog 25.08.23

The children have written their favourite parts about this week.

Numeracy

“We did a place value quiz. We had to say what the value of something was, for example, what is the value of the 1? It was very fun,” Finlay.

“We looked at the value of underlined numbers. We did place value whole part models. It was hard,” Reuben.

“We were doing place value and we went on the netbooks. We went on Mathigon and we put in the hundreds, thousands, tens and ones. We also did part-models,” Grace.

“I like the whole-part model,” Samuel.

“This week we did place value. When you have to put the value of the number,” Harris

I did well in my place value part-models this week, Jasper.

 

Literacy

“We did grammar looking at connectives,” Ada.

“Our novel is Georges Marvellous Medicine, I love the book it’s so good. Our drama was fun when we pretended to make potions,” Ella.

“We also read a Roald Dahl book called Georges Marvellous Medicine,” Samuel.

 

HWB

“We made our own 5-point scale. We had to colour it. It was so fun,” Neave.

“We did a 5-point scale. We made a 5-point scale so every morning or lunch we can change where we are feeling,” Jack.

“We did a warm up using volcanos, earthquakes, and twisters. It was a really fun warm up to play,” Winnie.

“In PE we have been doing ball skills. We were throwing them to partners to stop with our different parts of our feet,” Rosie.

“We did some ball skills rolling and stopping the balls in different ways,” Ella.

 

Other

“This week we made birthday cards and we did place value quiz.,” Willow

“We made birthday cards and we had to use scrap paper and we made a card with it,” Olivia H

“Everyone picked out a lolly stick and whoever we got we would make them a birthday card and when it’s their birthday they would guess who it was,” Sienna.

“This week we did class jobs and morning starters every day. In the class starters we have had a countdown challenge, animal ladders and country ladders,” Ada.

“We did a morning starter There were three activities, maths, literacy, daily challenge. If we did all 3 we received table points,” Finlay.

I enjoyed the maths pyramids this week, Sasha.

“We had a discussion about what we should do for the summer fair,” Sienna.

Numeracy

A favourite thing this week was our maths quiz. It was a little confusing sometimes but we persevered. Meaning we showed that we are great at challenge ourselves. We had to answer questions in 6 different maths challenges. These were in: addition, subtraction, multiplication, sequencing, word equations and place value.

Literacy

We started our class novel “George’s Marvellous Medicine” by Roald Dahl. As part of our discussion we talked about how we felt about the granny and what we would do if we were George. Yesterday, we read the second chapter and wrote recipes of what we would include in our own horrible medicines.

During our writing about our holiday, we refreshed our knowledge of VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation) and discussed various adjectives we could include in our writing. We talked about the importance of using different openers when writing our blog and together we changed some of our openers.

Art

As part of our Class Charter, we created some patterned hands that looked like graffiti. These were like our signatures to agree with our rules. We looked at various patterns and created our own designs using pens.

Health and Wellbeing

We got to know each other by making hoodies with facts all about ourselves. This was important for everyone to make good relationships, especially new pupils and teachers.

As part of a team building exercise we came up with table names and completed various tasks to help build good relationships at our table. During this, we also discussed the importance of resilience and what it means to be a “good sport” while playing team games. Some of the activities included who could build the highest tower in 60 seconds using Lego, who could go the longest without giggling while an opposite team told them jokes and who could find the word sustain fastest in the dictionary.

As part of creating our Class Charter we looked at the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, the Wellbeing Indicators and our school values. This showed the link between worldwide, national and local rights of children. We discussed what they thought was most important and how we could use these to help with making our own class rules. These are the rules we agreed to:

Be responsible.

– To listen when someone is talking.

– Inside voices.

– Make sure the teacher knows where you are.

Challenge yourself.

Show kindness.

– Kind hands and feet.

– Be a good sport.

Be respectful.

– Respect our classroom and other people’s property.

– Give people personal space and privacy.

Include everybody.

– To respect our differences.

 

Our PE days are on a Wednesday and a Thursday. Please make sure to wear appropriate clothing on these days.

 

“It has been so lovely getting to know all the children this week and I hope everyone has a good weekend.” Mrs Skilling.