We had great fun taking part in the “Military Fitness” activities. There were lots of skills to practise as well as finding our way safely through the inflatable.

As it is Saint Andrew’s Day, we have been learning a little about his life and how he became the Patron Saint of Scotland. Our learning involved sequencing and learning how to look carefully at dates when we are creating a timeline.

Today we tried a new way of thinking about our learning, called a Thinking Routine and the one that we tried was called CSI. This stands for Colour, Symbol and Image. We finished our class novel so we used the CSI to think about some of the main themes and our thoughts about the story.

Please remember that we have a “Military Fitness” session tomorrow, so joggies, T shirts / PE kits and indoor shoes will be needed. It is also St Andrew’s Day so there will be a special lunch and if you want to wear tartan, then please do.

Today for reading some of our group members joined to read a play together. It is nice to hear one another and be able to listen for fluency, how people are using their reading strategies and noticing the punctuation which helps us to put expression into our voices.

Mrs Keith was working with us today. She read a story and then we were thinking of our own ideas to create a page in the same way. We had to think of a character- a new friend for Claire, and then we could think of a very imaginative reason why Claire had hurt her knee. We came up with some really cool ideas!

Here is a photo of another magnetic game. As you can see we have been very inventive in linking different parts of our learning.

Finally, please could all of this term’s homework be given to me either tomorrow or Friday. Any books borrowed from the library should also be returned this week. Thank you.

Here are most of our magnetic game designs- there is still one to be photographed! As you can see, we are very proud of what we achieved. Ask me about my game, how it is played and any difficulties we had in making the game.

This afternoon we were putting the finishing touches to our magnetic game designs and then had fun using the rules of different groups to then try to play their game! I wonder whether we have any games designers of the future in Primary 4 right now?

Just to show you a flavour of how the hall looks in preparation for the Christmas Fayre tomorrow.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow morning between 10 and 12.  If you can’t make it, see you next week.

What an enterprising  group of children. Everyone has worked well and pulled together as a team to produce these great items for the Christmas Fayre.

Don’t forget your Pets! We have treats for both cats and dogs.

We also have a festive candle in a choice of two colours and fragrances.

Well done, Primary 4, you all worked well and helped each other out- that is the sign of teamwork!

Congratulations to our classmates who have been achieving success at clubs outside school!

We have been very enterprising today!

Homework

More children have been showing me their reading homework activities.  8 children have just received new Reading Activity sheets and if you need any resources, then please ask.

You have your weekly spelling wall rows to practise at home and after this week, a new assessment will be made of your spelling skills.

There are new Activelearn and Sumdog challenges allocated for everyone.

It is our Enterprise week and we will be preparing for the Christmas Fayre whilst learning about aspects of being enterprising.

https://www.learn4good.com/games/tycoonbusiness.htm

http://thesmallbusinessgame.co.uk/Game/global/Play.aspx?GameID=391096

The Minecraft games are also very good for learning about how to run businesses, make investments, make profits, look after staff, budget, etc. So if you can access Minecraft, then have a go at being an entrepreneur this week and let me know how you get on.

Pudsey and Blush will be very proud of our picnic rugs which have five healthy foods that they could add to their picnic basket.

We have all had a great day learning how Pudsey and our donations help Children in Need. There are projects to provide food for children in the holidays, projects to give young careers the opportunity to have fun and relax and groups where children with disabilities can meet others and discuss some of their experiences. Thank you and have a great weekend.

Today we were exploring how our magnetic games would actually work! To link in with writing the instructions, we took a quiz to find out what we know about instructions and how to write them. As we have been developing our games, we have realised how many instructions we might need!

Remember that tomorrow s Children in Need and we will be raising money for Pudsey by coming to school in spots, yellow or something Pudsey related ( including your ears)!. The day will be lots fun as we try out different activities linked to Children in Need.