Hello world!

We apologise for the delay in blogging this year!  We’ve been so busy planning, assessing and getting on with learning, that it’s taken us a while to share what we’ve been up to.  So, here’s a wee update to let you know what’s been going on…

Literacy: We have new reading groups for a new year.  Our groups this term are called: Brazil, Canada, France, and Egypt.  With our groups we can discuss our books and help each other to answer questions about what we have read.  We are learning to use different strategies when we read, for example to:

• work out what new words mean (clarifying),
• look for information in the text (scanning),
• use clues in the text to work out answers to questions (inferring),
• share our thoughts and opinions about the text (evaluating),
• ask our own questions (self-questioning).

We learn a lot by getting things wrong and working out how to fix them.  A common mistake for P4 this week has been rushing and not reading questions carefully!   Some of the children have been in such a hurry that they answered what they thought the question was, rather than what was actually written down.  This week we’re going to take our time and think carefully about what we are being asked.  An important lesson!

Numeracy: we have been focusing on rounding to the nearest ten in our latest numeracy work.  In real life we often use rounding, for example when we say that something costs ‘about a pound’ when the exact price is 99p, or when we say that it’s 5 o’clock, when it is exactly 4:57 pm.

The children have been using number lines to work out which two tens the number is in between, and then to decide which ten is closest.   For example:  34 is in between 30 and 40.  It is closer to 30, so we would round down to 30.

 

30_________<——-_______34______________________      ______________40

You can practise this at home with prices, time, measurements, etc.

Technology and Talking and Listening

The children have begun working with partners to create a PowerPoint presentation about a topic of their choice.  They have been learning what makes a good PowerPoint, and about skills for presenting to an audience.  We will be working on these presentations over the coming weeks and delivering them to the class when they are complete.

If you have any questions or comments we would love to hear from you 🙂 .

 

Ms Newall and Miss Brooks