Welcome to our first primary 4 blog. It has been a fast week but we are all so happy that it is Friday!!! So what has been happening this week…

TOPIC

Our new topic is the Rainforest. We will be finding out why the rainforest is important and we will be investigating living and non-living things through this topic too.

Melissa said “I’m really excited to learn more about the animals in each layer of the rainforest”

 

LITERACY

We are well underway with our class novel ‘The Magic Carpet Slippers’ by Dick King Smith. He is also our Author of this month. Mrs Doherty is helping us to understand the 6 important reading strategies.

Jakub … “Metalinguistics helps me learn about new words”

 

MATHS

Lots of revision for our first few weeks. We have been using the number square to talk about number ‘tricks’ we already know! We have also revised our place value and we are getting better at reading and writing numbers to 100 and beyond.

 

ART

We have learned about the work of Kandinsky and experimenting with colour and shape to create abstract art.

Erin… “I really liked mixing colours and making tints and shades”

 

What we are looking forward to…

 

• Kaisey – Finding out more about the rainforest
• Sam – I can’t wait to do more art
• Emma – Getting more maths work next week
• James – I’m excited to read the next 2 chapters in the novel.

 

Aston is our STAR PUPIL this week. Well done Aston – Keep this up!!

 

Thank you for reading our blog. We are now ready for a relaxing few days off.