We have been learning all about trees and how they help humans and animals breathe.  Kai

I have learned how trees spread seeds to allow other trees to grow.  Declan

We had homework aksing us to explore the street to find leaves and match them on our Leaf Bingo.  It was good!  Jay

If a tree is living and you want to find the age of it you can use an increment borer to tell it’s age.  Kayleigh

I know the life cycle of a tree.  Emma

Today we were talking about how seeds spread in wind and water or animals can carry them on their fur, then when they land a new tree will grow.  Faith

If a tree is not living, you can tell how old it is by counting the rings inside the trunk.  Taylor

Division

We have been learning about Division this week.

“I think that if you don’t know your tables you will not be able to divide.”  Aiden

“This is because division is the opposite of multiplication.” Emma Louise

“I learned about grouping when working out division sums.”  Eva

“We learned how to share in division by giving each person one sweet at a time until they were all finished.” Tegan

As a treat for all our hard work throughout the week, Mrs Wightman let us investigate and explore ways of dividing using sweets.

Here we are dividing sweets by ‘sharing’.

Here we are dividing sweets by ‘grouping’.

Can you believe we all had to answer questions about division before Mrs Wightman would let us eat our sweets?

Luckily we all got our questions correct!! 😀

“Flat Emily”

flat-stanley2Primary Four have the fantastic opportunity to make links with a school in New York using the “Flat Stanley” novel by Jeff Brown as a stimulus.  In the novel Stanley Lambchop has a big problem when a giant pinboard falls on top of him, leaving him completely flattened.  Stanley soon finds out there can be many bonuses to being flat, such as sliding under doors to get into different rooms, and going on holiday to California in an envelope.  Being flat allows him to travel easily.  Today we received a “Flat Emily” through the post with a letter asking us to take pictures of her with our classes.

She had a fun day in our school and even attended her first Whitelees assembly.  As I write this she is with our choir in the school hall and will be taking part in our Bikeability after school club.  This evening she is also on her way to gymnastics, football and bowls with some of our P4 pupils.

We are very excited about making these links and look forward to writing to Emily and her class to find out how school life compares in America.

Emily enjoyed playing bowls with Callum.

Emily joined P4 for ‘ME Time’.

Sarah took Emily to her house and they made some dinner together.

Emily went shopping with Ellie.  She even tried on a lovely dress!

 

*NEWSFLASH*

Title.newsflash2Primary 4B have only just finished celebrating our fourth win of Me Time Class of the week, and we now need to think about how we will celebrate winning it for a fifth time!!

Primary 4B have achieved the most Me Time tickets five times and in doing so, will be rewarded with A Big Day Out. 

We are thrilled to be the first class to win this reward and look forward to planning it for nearer the end of the school year, when we hopefully have better weather.

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ME Time Winners Fun Day!

fundayheaderPrimary 4 always show a responsible attitude, our best manners, always work hard and complete all tasks to the best of our ability.  Our hard work has paid off because we have become the Me Time Class of the Week winners on 4 occasions and Mrs Hunter has rewarded us with a Fun Day in school.

We brought pyjamas and casual clothes to change into.  Check out our superhero PJs!

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“I was excited to bring in my iPad and play games.”  Declan

“Playing the Smartboard was lots of fun.”  Tegan

We chose to invite a Magician to the school to entertain us with a Magic Show and we had pizza delivered for lunch!

“When the magician opened the Noise Monitor Box and the slinkies fell out it was funny.”  Aidyn

“I got a fright when the magician opened the lid and a giant snake popped out.  It made me jump!”  Ellie

“I got to wave the magic wand and made the banner say the correct words.  I felt impressed that I could do magic.”  Kyran

“I thought the magician was really funny.  The best bit was the talking lips on the microphone.”  Eva

“It was nice to have pizza at the same time as watching a movie.”  Aiden

“The pizza was yummy!” Maya

imagesThank you very much Mrs Hunter, for a fantastic day!  We had a great time and feel very lucky!

“I really enjoyed the day, it was lots of fun.”  Dylan

It’s definitely ‘Good To Be Us’!!

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Go Noodle!

We have recently started using Go Noodle to help with Brain Training and keeping our minds and bodies active throughout the school day.  The clips are always funny and make us laugh. 

gonoodle[1]Take a look at our photos and see if you can figure out the types of exercises we were being asked to do.

Try it yourself at homing by clicking the brain at the top of this post.