Today we did some meditation using Mrs McMillan’s Take a Moment video- a special place. We also sequenced instructions to make fairy cakes and this afternoon we were able to enjoy eating some!

We enjoyed using a copy of our shared text today. It was useful to look for evidence in the story.

Today we walked a mile around the school as part of the MacMillan fundraiser. In our writing today, we learnt how to make an origami teacup and we carried these with us as a link to the coffee morning that we would usually have.

We also finished off our lions’ manes today- don’t they look great?

Have a well-earned break and enjoy your long weekend, everyone !

This afternoon we started a mixed piece so artwork to link in with our climate zone topic. We are focusing on the elements of a lion’s face using a 3d effect for the mane.

Today we were learning about where different animals come from in the world and we were linking the information to our climate zone work.

For this week’s class homework please read Chapter 4 of Escape from Black Mountain on Activelearn. There are also independent texts on Bug Club for you to read too, if you’re not already reading a book at home. Please carry on playing the number games on Activelearn and Sumdog too!

Any homework information from Miss Ferguson will be posted on the main blog as well as on our class blog.

I hope that you enjoyed looking at our classroom and hearing about our learning and teaching in the video.

Today we have been learning more about verbs, which we revised yesterday with Mrs Davidson. We have started to learn about negative numbers and where we can see them used in real life.

If you can discover any other uses and examples of negative numbers in real life, please let me know next week.

Have a brilliant weekend!!

Hello everyone and welcome to our Primary 4/5 Virtual Meet the Teacher. I asked the children what they would like me to include and although I could not mention everything that was suggested, I hope that you enjoy “visiting” our classroom.

To support your child at home, please encourage them to read, find the meaning of any new words and discuss the text. Individual texts have been allocated on Activelearn and there are quizzes to enjoy too! Sumdog and Activelearn are great resources for practising number and maths skills to support place value learning in class.

If you have any questions, then please type them in the Comment box and I will get back to you soon. I hope that we will be able to meet in person soon , but until then ……. enjoy the video!

For our instructions writing task today, we made pouches for our sanitisers. We followed the criteria for writing the steps and then used origami folds to make the real pouches. Great folding skills, everyone!!

This morning we were using our skills to think about what words meant and than checking them in the dictionary. Most of us agree that our dictionary skills are improving.

Today we were talking about important Skills for Learning and we were thinking about Communication Skills. One of our class members showed us some signs for words which could be used to communicate with others who are deaf or can’t hear very well.

May you could find out what these signs mean?

Everyone has been given a handprint template for Miss Ferguson’s special homework. In the fingers write words to describe yourself- this links nicely to the work we have been doing in class. Make the hand look attractive and make the words stand out. Once it is ready this week please bring it back to school with your name on the back of the sheet.