It’s a new term and a new topic in P4! We are focusing on history throughout the school in term two, and P4 will be learning about the Egyptians. This week we began our topic by finding Egypt on the map and looking at a timeline of different events in history. We found out that the Ancient Egyptians lived 5000 years ago – a long time! The class watched an interesting BBC video about the Egyptians, learning about why they lived next to the River Nile and how they preserved their Pharaohs (Kings and Queens) and buried them inside the Pyramids. We worked in groups to make mind-maps of the key information we’d learned from the videos. Once we had written as much as we could remember, a messenger from each group went to other groups to see if they could add some more facts that they had written. The children worked excellently in their groups, with the leaders making sure everyone took a turn to add some facts, and the scribes taking down all the group’s notes. Well done P4!
Iqra scribing for her group.
Messengers off to find some more facts from other groups.
Fatima scribing for her group!
In maths we have been focusing this week on reading, writing and ordering numbers up to one thousand. Well, that was the plan, but actually the children were capably working with reading and writing numbers over a thousand! For the activity below, the children had to try and record as many numbers as possible that they could make with four digits. They then had to identify the largest and smallest number they could make. Using their knowledge of place value they realised that the largest digit should go in the largest place value column and the smallest digit in the smallest column. So, they put the biggest digit in the thousands, and the smallest in the units, to make the largest value of number. They did the opposite to make the smallest number.
Zahra working hard, reordering the digits to make a range of numbers.
Laiba had just started!
Mohammed used an excellent strategy, starting with eight in the thousands and seeing how many numbers he could make, then moving on to nine.
In their textbook work, the children were reading numbers in words and writing them in digits, reading in digits and writing as wordings. They were also taking a group of three digit numbers and putting them in order from smallest to largest. This work really helps to develop the children’s understanding of place value, which is essential for all their work in numeracy!
