On Thursday, 6th September we walked to the Aquadome to investigate what facilities and activities were there for us to enjoy. Our guide, Mike, was very informative and interesting and we learned lots of things we did not know about the Aquadome. We are now very excited and will be asking our parents to take us to some of the great activities at the Aquadome!

Thank you very much to Mike, the 3 parent helpers who accompanied us and to the P4 pupils who were so well-behaved, polite and asked good questions while we visited.

Hopefully this is the first of many out of school visits we will enjoy this year.

Mrs Martin-Hodgson

P4 Homework

This week we are looking at the spelling pattern  ck e.g. trick, packet, lucky. Pupils should write out their personalised list twice using the Look, Say, Cover, Write Check method then record as many ck words as they can inside a sketch of a sock, truck, jacket or clock.

In maths we are continuing with our money topic especially on how much change we get from £1 and money problems. For homework pupils should complete Unit 1 of the Mental Maths Worksheets and practice paying for items at shops, either in play situations or in real shops.  We are also continuing to revise the 3 , 4 and 5 times table facts so any extra practice at home would benefit the pupils.

Thank you for supporting the pupils with their homework tasks and things they need to remember to bring to school.

ART

In Art we made Healthy Plates of Food using paper plates and crafts. They will be displayed in the lunch hall at school. We posed for a picture with our Healthy Plates of Food! We are very proud of our art work!

In Art we made Fruity Fitness Fanatic Friends with real fruit and crafts. Here are some of our Fruity Friends for you to admire!

Project

Ava’s Mum visited our classroom in her professional role as an Intensive Care Nurse with specialist experience in heart care. She taught us lots of technical details about the heart, gave us health advice and arranged fun activities for us to use our new knowledge. We loved the Doctors and Patients game so much she left the equipment for us to play this week! On the left we are exercising after taking our pulse rates to see the effect exercise had on our pulses and on the right Ava’s Mum is explaining what can go wrong with our hearts if we don’t look after them. Thank you very much for coming to our class and teaching us how to keep our hearts healthy, Mrs Henderson!

Mrs Martin-Hodgson

This term P4’s project is about Health and Fitness. We are looking at how we can keep healthy, where we can keep healthy and what a healthy body can do. We have started by learning about skeletons, joints and muscles and this week we have a special visitor, Mrs Henderson, who is going to teach us about healthy hearts. We are also going to visit the Aquadome on Thursday to investigate what we can do locally to keep our bodies healthy. Later this term we will be getting into groups to plan a presentation to the class about health and fitness. Already many keen pupils have been bring in some super posters they have made at home to support our project. Top marks for enthusiasm – well done P4.

Visit this website to learn more about our bodies and to play some great games!

WOODLANDS SCIENCE

Mrs Martin-Hodgson