Outdoor Learning/ Gardening

Ethan said, “Now I know how to plant seeds and look after them.” Ryan enjoyed picking out the potatoes. Ellie enjoyed planting the cress and salad seeds. Roni liked learning how to make potato wedges out of the potatoes. Luca liked harvesting the onions. I learned about tap and fibrous roots said Shanna.

Have a lovely holiday! Please note that children from P4 should wear school uniform to school on Mondays after the holiday but should bring their PE kit for later that day. Thank you.

img_0559 Luca said we’re learning about 2D shapes and how many corners and sides they have.

We love learning!

Roni said, “I like the take away sums we do in Maths because I really get the hang of it”

Science

“I like how we did the moving toys investigation because it was fun to learn. I learned that a force called gravity is necessary to make them move.” Shanna answered.

“I liked how the car went down the hill.   I learned that the steeper hill gave it more power,” Nathan said.  

Morgan said, ” I’ve liked that my teacher is going to a French class to teach us more French. It’s fun!”

“Our class is the best in the world because we got to play playground games and I love learning about Maths, like big sums. ” Ross shared. 

We began the week by preparing, cooking then eating potatoes grown from our  own Whitelees’ vegetable garden. The wedges were delicious Ross and Shanna said.

Later we celebrated our hard work by three of our class going to the special tea party. Friday afternoon the whole school celebrated the unveiling of a special plaque for our 40th anniversary tree. It encourages us to explore, discover and to understand.

Science

We are carrying out investigations and learning about forces and growth.

Morgan said that plants do lots of things like humans like eat, drink and move.

We’re growing seeds and are observing how to grow them with and without light. Luca mentioned.

Mitchell said we scrubbed potatoes we’d harvested and we’re going to cook them next week!

We scrubbed onions too to make them clean explained Ryan.

Bikability

Alesha said in bikability we did different obstacles. I felt happy because I liked it and it helped me cycle better.

P4 children have been very creative this week in the garden and with art. They made Loral Wreaths, Olympic Torches and carnival face masks.

They prepared the vegetable patches for winter and learned about different types of weeds before removing them.

Megan said that, “planting is really important and you have to listen to get it right.”

“Planting flowers and vegetables makes things nice.” Morgan shared

Ross explained.”We can teach others how to plant things now.”

We filmed each other practising our spelling skillls.

Birthday Cards with Luckydip

We’ve made lovely birthday cards for our school birthday box  I liked colouring in the front. Luca and Ryan explained.

Kady-Anne said in outdoor learning we picked out vegetables from the vegetable patches. The P7s then used them to make vegetable soup.

This week we planted mustard, cress and rocket seeds. Lots of children in our school will eat the healthy plants. Roni, Liam and Ebony enthused.

Gardening and Learning in P4

This week the children began Outdoor Learning for the term by learning about horticulture.  They learned about the world’s first plants, roots, veg and weeds. They were busy tidying the school planters, carefully removing weeds and harvesting peas, onions and leek.

Good to Be Me

Argyll said today we spoke about,” being happy, sad or annoyed.”  Abira shared, “It’s good to  be me because I’m happy, energetic and not annoyed.”

“It’s good to be me when I get to go out with all my friends, ” Shanna and many of the class felt.

“I like having lots of friends like Kady-Anne,” Megan and others felt. Logan learned about feelings and Ethan Paul said you should talk about your feelings because it helps you make friends.

This week the children have been learning about numbers up to thousands and have been working on a new novel called The Invisible Boy. They have also learned about the Olymics and how they began.

Children’s Comments

Maths- Eilidh and Zac said, “we liked learning about numbers up to thousands and how to subtract and add 100s and tens.”

Craig was amazed that, “the Olympics began 2700 years ago in Greece.”

Ethan-Paul learned to practice his tennis skills by , “using my hand for an under arm return.”

Star Writers

Zac, Abira, Roni, Argyll, Ross and Carl  Well done! You wrote clear instructions using verbs.

Our New Class Welcome

Ethan Paul said, “I loved maths this week playing games like bingo Maths.”

“I liked literacy because I’m learning to do joined up writing,” Abira shared.

Luca, “likes numbers on the wall that help me to count.”

“It feels a bit like starting Primary 1 again because I’m in a new part of the school and I like that.” Rhys mentioned. 

“I liked coming back to school because I got a new class and new teacher, “Kady Anne.

WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!