We have been having great fun finding out about the different kinds of weapons the Vikings used. We particularly enjoyed researching the various types of shields and then we designed and created our own Viking shields.
Category Archives: Primary 4
Theme Park Posters
As part of our non-fiction block, we have been finding out about the important features of posters and leaflets, looking at how organisations persuade and encourage customers to buy their good or services. We had great fun looking at examples of posters and leaflets produced by theme parks, such as Alton Towers and Thorpe Park and decided to create our own theme park, creating attractive and interesting posters.
Primary 4 Class Cafe
We have just started our Money topic for maths and have been having great fun ordering food and drink from our Glen’s Cosy Cafe menu, working out the total cost of our food and drink orders and finding the exact notes and coins needed to buy them. Some of us were using our numeracy skills and rounded up amounts such as £1.99 and £2.89 to the nearest pound to make our calculations a lot easier, remembering to take off the pennies that we added on to get the correct answer.
Primary 4 – Language and Literacy
We have been working really hard on our group novels and reading books. We have been using a variety of reading strategies to work out the meaning of tricky words and looking at how an author uses inference to get a message across to the reader. We had great fun using the Internet to research animals linked to our books, such as wolves (The Last Wolf), African Elephants (Poppet) and owls (The Baby Owls). Then we created our own fact files, posters and character profiles.
Primary 4 – Traidcraft Snack Attack Challenge 2016
We had great fun working in our groups on the Fairtrade Snack Attack Challenge 2016. We had to create a new Fairtrade product, design new packaging, write a list of the ingredients, create a logo, write a slogan and finally create a TV advert to promote our product. The Fairtrade committee will meet after the Easter break to choose the winning entry. Details will be announced on the blog.
Primary 4 – Expressions and Equations
We have been working really hard on our maths tasks linked to Expressions and Equations. We have been finding out how to use the symbols for greater than and less than when comparing two numbers. Some of the children have been learning how to solve simple equations by working out the value of a letter, such as n or x. Some examples of these equations:
n +6 = 15 so n = 9 73 – n = 49 so n = 24
We also designed our own Expressions and Equations posters to help us to remember the symbols.
Decorated Eggs P2-P7
Primary 2 – Primary 7 should hand in decorated eggs to the school on Wednesday 23rd March. A chocolate easter egg for 1st, 2nd and 3rd will be presented.
Golden Time Fun on the middle landing
P4 and P4/5 doubled up this week to have great fun during golden time. We had some dancing, football, cake decorating, art, loom bands and some fun on the iPads. We are looking forward to next week already!
Telling the time with Primary 4
Over the past few weeks, we have been learning all about time and how important it is to be able to tell the time . We also identified where we see and use time in our daily lives, such as class timetables, train and bus timetables, Sky TV guide, etc. We have been playing time games on the smart board, bingo games, using TV guides to work out how long our favourite TV programmes last and creating our own fantasy class timetables.
Open Morning with Primary 4
Primary 4 welcomed parents, carers, grans, papas and other family members to our school open event last Friday. We all had a fabulous time telling our visitors interesting facts about rainbows. Then we used a variety of mixed media, such as tissue paper, crepe paper, felt, fabric and other materials to create our wonderful rainbows. The adults had as much fun as we did! Primary 4 would like to say a big thank you to everyone who visited us.
