It’s only 1 week until the school show. There’s no homework this week so you’ll have plenty of time to practise your songs and make sure you have brought your costume in!  Remember the dress rehearsal is on Thursday.

We’ve had a great start to Health Week yesterday and today. Here are some photos of what we’ve been up to…

We had a very special visit from the Wild About Scotland education bus today. We had a great time finding out about animals which are native to Scotland.  We also identified six different factors that are affecting them and putting them in danger. I wonder how many people can remember all six!

In numeracy we are working with Mrs McMillan on fractions. Today we were sorting out shapes that showed tenths and shapes that did not.  We also designed our own shapes showing tenths – we had to split the shape into ten EQUAL parts.  We will we working out tenths of amounts next.

We continued our science week work finding out about Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone.  We worked in groups to research facts about him.  We made the most of the better weather by playing games outside at gym time.  We all had great fun!

Science Week!

This is science week at Woodlands. This afternoon we did an Ancient Poo Investigation but don’t worry, it wasn’t real poo!  Analysing fossilised poo is very important as it can tell us what people used to eat and what their diet was like. It is also possible to find out what farming was like, changes in food trends and where foods were imported from.

Mr a Green visited P4 today to give us some very exciting news. One of our class members won a highly commended certificate and goody bag for her JRSO Slogan competition. We are all very proud of her. Well done!

Today we said goodbye to Miss Thomson and wish her good luck for her next school. We made Carnival inspired masks and sweets to celebrate having her with us for so long.  We will definitely miss her!

In RME we have been learning about Lent, Mardis Gras and Carnival.  We wrote senses poems based on what we learned about the Rio Carnival and then we word-processed our poems for display. We are very proud of the results.

Miss Thompson has been teaching us all about different types of questions.  For literal questions the answer is right there in the text. For inferential questions we have to use clues and “read between the lines” to find the answers.  Today we were answering evaluative questions where we had to look into our own minds to think about the answers and we all achieved our learning intention.  Miss Thompson has been reading George’s Marvellous Medicine to us and this afternoon we described our favourite moments and how they made us feel.  We produced some brilliant art to share our feelings and ideas.

We have been learning basic skills to help us progress to playing badminton. It has been great fun practising “fast feet” chasses in gym to change direction quickly!  We have also been learning about the benefits of exercise and got to choose our own way to share what we had learned. Some people wrote and performed a mini assembly or drama to the class, others created posters and books.

We all enjoyed a lovely birthday muffin from our birthday boy today…what a treat! 🙂🎂🍰