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.