Primary 4b Wallacewell Primary

The children had a great time experiencing and trying new foods. As part of our Scotland topic and Response writing plans the children became food reviewers. We all got to taste traditional haggis neeps and tatties and the following week we got to review our experiences. Lots of the children were very pleasantly surprised by the taste, however some have decided haggis is just not for them.

We have had another busy and enjoyable week in class!

In maths, we have been learning the multiplication box method, and the children are developing a really secure understanding of this strategy. For literacy, we focused on the ‘oo’ phoneme in spelling and worked hard to spot and use it in our reading and writing. We thoroughly enjoyed welcoming parents into the classroom on Thursday to see our learning – thank you so much for coming along and sharing this with us.

The class also watched the P6 Burns Showcase rehearsal, which inspired lots of great discussion. We have planned a response writing task linked to this and are really looking forward to writing these next week.

In art, we painted our clay model Loch Ness Monsters, as well as creating some beautiful Nessie landscape paintings. The results were fantastic and full of creativity.

Finally, we have been learning all about Robert Burns ahead of Burns Night, exploring his life and looking closely at the language features in some of his most famous poems.

Well done everybody for all your hard work!

After a well deserved break P4b have come back with a determination and desire to learn. We have loved our Scotland topic, especially learning about Scottish myths and legends. In writing we are learning to write a response and have been working on facts and opinions. We having been learning to work as a team and will have a special focus on team building skills this term all across our learning. We have learnt about Lohri festival as part of R.M.E and to celebrate we created mini bonfire piles in our playground. Finally we ended the week researching the Loch Ness Monsters, we created these with clay, made colourful drawings and made mini fact files for our drawings too. Well done everyone, you have worked so hard.

And just like that term two is officially over. Primary four have worked so incredibly hard this term and I’m so proud of the dedication, resilience, and hard work I’ve seen throughout the term. This week has been jam packed full of Christmas fun and celebrating the end of another successful term. The children had a fantastic time at the Christmas party. I would like to say thank you to all of the children and their families for such generous gifts. I wish you all the very best over your Christmas holidays and I can’t wait to see you in the New Year. Have a great break, you deserve it!
love, Miss Mackenzie.

This week the children enjoyed a range of learning experiences themed around Christmas. We started with reading comprehension following poetry study. We planned our Character writing from a famous John Lewis Christmas advert. After watching the nativity story the children were able to create actions and pictures to identify the main points of this story, next week we will create a summary from this prior learning. In numeracy we are focused on using sharing to support division word problems and creating tally sheets and bar graphs for Data Handling. The children loved spending Thursday Morning in our playroom. This week the children all performed their solo talks accompanied by some fibulas posters showcasing all the research they did for each talk.

The boys are girls have worked very hard this week to create our collaborative Christmas tree door art! The children worked so well together to create such a wonderful piece. We have had another very busy week and everyone is very excited to go to the school Christmas Fayre tonight!

We have had a very busy week in P4. On Tuesday the children learnt about Remembrance day and created some beautiful poppies to mark this occasion. We are very interested in learning about Black History Heroes, to continue our learning from Black History Month In October. This week we learnt about Rosa Parks, we created some beautiful drawings of her and learned to write a summary of events in her life. For this weeks Recount Write the children recounted their experience during our showcase last week. Everyone has improved their writing so much already this term. In maths we have begun to count a range of values with coins, and convert these between pennies and pounds using a decimal place. This week we have also created some beautiful Christmas card designs for a competition run by Taylor Whimpey. The winning child will have their card sent out to all Taylor Whimpey residents. Permissions slips will be sent out on Monday!

This week the children has been working very hard. In maths we were using the mirrors to spot multiple lines of symmetry within different shapes and objects. After our classroom activity we took our learning outside to find natural items which are symmetrical.

In writing the children have been continuing the learn to write a recount. We have loved using our Halloween theme for this activity. In reading the children are practicing their metalinguistics. This week we have been focused on definitions of words. The children have loved using the reciprocal reading strategy to practise their reading each day.

To celebrate Bonfire night, the children learnt about The Gunpowder plot, then created some beautiful firework art using onomatopoeia to link this to our literacy learning.

Finally this week in our library committee the children were challenged with creating comic strips in partners to be displayed in our school library.

Well Done P4b!

The boys and girls have worked so incredible hard the last three weeks on their Showcase. They all performed so well and everyone gave it their all. I am so very proud of what they have accomplished this term already.