Today we were working on our comprehension skills. It has been great to explore a new text on Bug Club. We used our knowledge of the alphabet to improve our dictionary skills, find the meaning of tricky words and answered questions about the text.

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Reminder: Homework this week is:

*Sumdog challenge
*Active Learn Reading with an adult at home
*Hit the Button – Doubles to 20 (challenge: can you play against an adult at home and see who wins the most correct answers in the time given)

Well done the boys and girls who have already received their Class Dojo’s and Sumdog coins for good effort.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏆 Maths Week Scotland Sumdog Contest 🏆 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Let’s get as many players from P4 involved as possible! 👍🏼

How it works
To take part, students simply play Sumdog’s maths games.
Scores are based on accuracy, and questions tailored to each student’s level – so everyone has a fair chance.

Each contest runs from 8am local time Friday to 8pm the following Thursday – but you can play at any time during this period there will be rewards for students.

As a reward for taking part, each student who answers 100 questions will receive an item for their Sumdog House.

The contest will run from 25th September until the 1st October.

Good Luck!

Today Primary 4 have worked incredibly hard during Maths to improve our numeracy skills. Some of us are working on 2/3/4 and even 5 digit numbers to develop a variety of Place Value skills. Our new favourite smartboard activity is to represent a number using the Power Maths drawing features. Well done boys and girls, magic Maths! 👍🏼

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Our class have been using Bug Club texts to develop our comprehension strategies. Today we identified the main idea of the text and most important points from the beginning, middle and end of the story. After that we wrote our own summary using BME.

A huge well done to: AC, HB, AT, CW, LB, BJ, L-R H-H, JH & RA for using your own words and including great vocabulary. 🌟

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Primary 4 have had a ‘Popping Monday’ creating some striking pop art linked to our learning of Rights. 💥

We focused on Article 7: We have the Right to a name that is registered at birth. 💥

💥”I liked to add the bright colours around the bubble writing and it was fun.” JL

💥”I made my letters stand out by overlapping them.” RV

💥”I used dots to create an effect that I loved.” CW

💥”Next time I would like to try using contrasting colours to create the comic strip effect.” SM

Reminder: Please check the Woodlands Main Blog Page for details regarding Wednesday’s Macmillan Mile. 💚

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Today Primary 4 have shown good progress in mental maths and representing numbers, both in partitioning and by drawing base 10 blocks. (Th, H, T, U)

It has been wonderful to see the children pushing themselves by applying their understanding to the chilli maths challenges.

🌶 MILD – 2 digits (68)

🌶🌶 SPICY – 3 digits (571)

🌶🌶🌶 HOT! – 4 digits (2,394)

🧟‍♂️ Monster Sums – 5 digits (14,5379)

Some of us even completed their monster sums! Marvellous Maths boys and girls!! 👍🏼

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Reminder: Miss Ferguson’s homework hands with adjectives are due in on Monday. We are using them to make a beautiful display.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! ☀️

Mrs Maher 🍎

Meet the Teacher

Hello everyone! I’m Mrs Maher and I’d like to welcome you all to Primary 4 here at Woodlands. 🌳

It’s been lovely to finally welcome the children back to school after what has been a challenging year for us all.  Due to Coronavirus, school is a little bit different just now; from entering and exiting the school from the blue gate, our one way system inside of the building, what the classroom looks like and how learning will take place this year. Despite this, I am sure we will all have a fantastic year! 😃

Please keep your eye on the blog and The School App often to keep up-to-date with important information, homework, pupil achievements and current class learning. To best support your child at home, please engage with our Maths and Literacy resources on ActiveLearn and Sumdog via your child’s login. A variety of home learning activities are assigned throughout each term that are linked to class learning. This is the perfect opportunity to engage with your child, communicate and deepen their understanding. 💬

I hope this ‘Meet the Teacher’ video will answer any questions you may have and give you an insight into Primary 4 so far. Should you have any worries, please do not hesitate to get in touch via the blog underneath as ‘Comments.’ Hopefully, we will get the chance to meet in person soon. 👍🏼

Take care! 😊

Mrs L. Maher 🍎

Today in Primary 4 we enjoyed learning the French numbers to 20. We have practised our reading, matching and pronouncing our French numerals and vocabulary. 🇫🇷

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Due to Coronavirus we have been saying not singing the words in our song to reinforce our learning of numbers. Why not try it out at home and have fun singing along: 🎵 

This afternoon we logged on to Sumdog and Activelearn to develop our numeracy skills. I will be on Sumdog tonight to try and beat the class top score on Cannonball, Chef and Powerboat. Why not log in at home and see if you can improve yours! 👍🏼

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Reminder: Miss Ferguson’s homework hand is due in on Friday. If you have any problems please let me know.

Mrs Maher 🍎

Today each child in the school was given a handprint by Miss Ferguson. 🖐

This week’s homework task is to think of 5 adjectives to describe yourself then write one word on each finger. Remember to use your nearest writing and large letter size to fill the finger. On the palm, you could draw a design or write you name in big, bold letters and colour with brightly to make it stand out. Miss Ferguson is looking out for those who are trying hard with good effort. ✏️

Please hand in your homework by this Friday. 🌟

Today in Primary 4, we enjoyed learning about block graphs in Maths as part of information handling. Our focus was interpreting and answering questions about the graphs we see. As part of Grammar, we enjoyed using the first letter of our names to make Acrostic poems using adjectives to describe ourselves:

Awesome

Vibrant

Amazing

Everyone was pleased to see the sun come out just in time for us playing Team Games during Outdoor PE. ☀️

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