We have found out that our topic for this term is going to be “VIKINGS”!! We will be exploring the world of the Vikings and especially their influence on life in Scotland in the past and present.  There is a fantastic Viking festival held in Largs  from 2nd to 10th September  If you can, I would strongly recommend going along to the festival – it is a great day out! You can try out making Viking jewellery, using weapons, playing Viking games and preparing food as well watching an exhilarating re-enactment of the Battle of Largs on the evening of 9th.  Check out their website for further details:

http://largsvikingfestival.com/

In Largs there is also Vikingar, which if full of interesting interactive exhibits about Vikings. Take a look at some of the activities on the site.

https://www.kaleisure.com/home/other-activities/vikingar-experience

We are continuing to establish our classroom routines and settle into Primary 4!

Today we started to think about our French Comic Life conversations. This is a program that is new to many of us, so we are exploring its features. Our characters will be using French words, so there is a lot of learning taking place!

Continuing our work on place value, we were using the number fans to show numbers, count on and back using the digit values and finally we all chose 3 digits to make a number and we put our numbers in order from smallest to largest – as you can see, some pupils had the same idea and the number 987 was very popular!

Today we have sorted out our group names and have looked at the class Dojo system. We only use this in class, so there are no connections to home. People are keen to earn points for themselves and for their groups, so please remember your PE kits tomorrow to earn some Dojo points.

We were using our retrieving skills to find information from texts and we were also learning more about place value in number.

It was lovely for me to meet the new primary 4 class today.  We had a busy day with revising some number work, assembly, art and even creating some challenges using fidget spinners!  Why don’t you see if you can think up some more at home?

Mrs McMillan

This morning we signed up to our new Class Charter. This means that we agree to uphold the Rights that we have chosen as being important to our class.

These Rights are easy to achieve and help us to enjoy our learning.

This afternoon, we showed great listening and the ability to follow instructions. We made our own pencils as a link to the new huge pencils in our classroom!

Have a lovely weekend, everyone and we look forward to seeing you next week.

Welcome back! We hope that everyone has had a great summer holiday. It has been lovely to see everyone so smart and smiley today! Days for P.E. are Tuesday and Thursday , so unless you can tie your own tie, it would be sensible to leave it at home on those days.  Have a good sleep and I look forward to seeing you bright and breezy tomorrow.