Hi folks,

Primary four need to learn their times tables.  If they practise for five minutes every day, they’ll know them in no time.  It makes learning to do multiplication and division calculations so much easier.  So, to help you learn these at home, here are two websites you can play on to practise:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.timestables.co.uk

We look forward to hearing your progress!

Ms Newall & Miss Brooks

Check out P4 loving our Determined to Dance class!

Today in maths we used buttons to model multiplication and division.  Each group had buttons and had to see how many equal groups the buttons could be divided into.  We then recorded the multiplication and division number facts we had discovered.

For example, we discovered that 24 buttons could be divided into 8  groups of 3, or 3 groups of 8, 6 groups of 4, or 4 groups of 6, 12 groups of 2 or 2 groups o 12, and 24 groups of 1 or 1 group of 24.

We then explored the four multiplication and division facts for each times table calculation.  For example: with the numbers 5, 7 and 35, we have the facts:

7 x 5 = 35

5 x 7 = 35

35 ÷ 7 = 5

35 ÷ 5 = 7

Below you can see the children working in groups to work out the different multiplication and division facts.

Working out how many groups of 4.

   6 x 4 = 24 or 24 ÷ 6 = 4

  24 ÷ 3 = 8 or 3 x 8 = 24

Primary Four have been given a purple jotter to use for a homework research project for this term. The project is on the subject of Scotland, Glasgow and the Clyde which they are also learning about at school. The children can choose aspects that interest them most about this topic and can add pieces of writing, printed pictures, drawings, diagrams, songs, poems, anything they like.

They may wish to explore tourist attractions in Glasgow or the history of shipbuilding on the Clyde or Scottish Folklore, traditional songs, maps, Scottish Art, Scottish castles, battles, industries or a mix of subjects in this area. They could make a contents page at the start of their jotter to show different chapters and cover or decorate the front and back of the jotter.

The best 3 projects will win a prize at the end of term.

Hello world,

Primary four have had a happy and productive start to the new year.  We have begun our new IDL topic for the term all about the land of Scotland.  So far the children have enjoyed learning about some of Scotland’s mythical creatures, including Redcaps, Kelpies and Nessie.  We have also used google maps to locate important landmarks in Scotland and plot them on a map.  We are looking forward to learning more about how the land of our local area is used, plotting routes on a map, comparing urban and rural environments, and other learning that we’ll update you on later in the term.

In literacy the children have continued our work on reading King Kafu and the Moon, and Afraid of Water.  We can see fantastic progress in the children’s ability to summarise, answer inferring questions, and to answer questions in full sentences.

In maths we are continuing to revise our mental maths strategies daily and using number talks to explore different ways to tackle mental maths problems.  This term we are focusing on multiplication and division in numeracy, so you can help at home by practising times tables daily.

Possibly the most fun part of this week was the start of our new block of dancing in P.E.  Determined to Dance will be teaching Primary four every Wednesday for the coming weeks.  The children loved using their bodies to create the shapes of things we find in Scotland – from lochs to mountains to Highland cows and bridges!

The children are working hard to rehearse for their class assembly, which will be held on Thursday 31st January.  We look forward to seeing as many family and friends as possible.