When we register, we have started to think about which mental maths skills and strategies we are using to add numbers together. It is really interesting to hear which ways pupils are applying their skills.

In HWB, Primary 4 were introduced to the idea of what it would be like to suddenly have to leave your home. Some children were aware of current global situations where people have left conflict zones and unsafe areas.  We compared the things you would pack for a beach holiday and those you would pack if you had to leave your home without knowing where you were going and how long for.

Finally, here is a great picture of P4 with their contributions to the Christmas Fayre!

Wow! We have some very lucky pets- SANTA PAWS is coming to town!!

Today we were busy making up treat bags for the dogs. There are so many skills involved in putting together these lovely treat bags. Look at the lovely puppy’s face- how could anyone ignore such fun-filled advertising?

We conducted a survey to see how many children in the school have dogs and cats and we used this information to create graphs in ICT.

It was good fun exploring the different features of Word.

Language

Spelling words:

This week Groups 1, 2 and 3 look over the words from row 9 the lime green words.

Group 4 – look at the first word in each row – there will be 8 words (went – looked).

For Group 5, look at the second word in each row – there will be 7 words (an-no).

Use whatever method helps you to remember how to spell the words e.g. how many letters does the word have? what shape does it make?, words in words, how many phonemes? etc.

Write them out 3 times CORRECTLY !! and write 6 interesting sentences WITH PERFECT PUNCTUATION!!

Reading

You have been given a school book to read at home.  Please look after it and remember to have it in your bag each day.  Read out loud from your book to an adult to practise your word attack strategies, fluency and expression.

J.K Rowling group – read whole book

Roald Dhal group – read whole book

David Walliams group – read whole book

Number

Using our work on place value as a basis for understanding, we  are moving onto strategies to enable us to add and subtract accurately in different ways.

Page number totals Ask children to find a book at home, and to find all the numbers on the first 10 pages (some might be written in words). They find the ‘total’ of each page number and record the total. They also write an explanation of how they worked this out.

His site has a variety of games to suit different levels of ability and confidence.

The pyramid game is especially useful for larger numbers and remembering exchange between columns.

http://www.maths-games.org/adding-games.html

A few more children have been onto Activelearn, but we need to see more activity on the site. This is a fun way for you to engage in your learning so please use the site to reinforce what you have been learning in class.

Interdisciplinary Learning  – due in Friday 1st December 

Continuing our exploration into the world of the Vikings, create a wanted poster for your favourite Viking God.

This piece of work could be done on the computer, so that you can include cool fonts and pictures.

The poster should contain:

• The God’s name
• A description of what they look like.
• Information about their powers
• Why do you want to find that particular Viking God?

Welcome to enterprise week!

This week the whole school will be focussed on the world of work and Christmas Fayre enterprise.  Please come along to the Christmas Fayre on Saturday to buy the wonderful products we are selling.

DON’T FORGET YOUR PET!!!!

P4 will be selling treathearts for your cats and wooftastic treats for your dogs. Only £1 each!!

Here are some photos showing the fun we had selecting healthy food to put into Pudsey’s Picnic Hamper. This links to Article 27 the Right to  nutritious  food.

We were very good at deciding the foods which would be healthiest   and most  delicious  for the picnic.

Enjoy the longer weekend and we will see you in school on Tuesday – remember that Monday is an In Service day.

Asking someone in the “Hot Seat” how they had improved their language skills.

Demonstrating how to control a ball whilst dribbling through the cones. We know that when we are working as part of a team to achieve a goal, we work harder to concentrate and make our team-mates and ourselves proud.

Tomorrow, we will be “doing our bit for Pudsey”! Remember to have suitable clothes for going outside and get ready to enjoy the spotacular event. Please bring a donation of £1 to add to the school’s contribution for Children in Need. Thank you.

Language

Spelling words:

This week look over the words from row 8 the pink words.

For Group 5, look at the first word in each row – there will be 7 words.

Write them out 3 times and write 6 interesting sentences WITH PERFECT PUNCTUATION!!

Reading

You have been given a school book to read at home.  Please look after it and remember to have it in your bag each day.   Read out loud from your book to an adult to practise your word attack strategies, fluency and expression.

J.K Rowling group – read chapter 4    Please read the chapter before reading on Wednesday.

Roald Dhal group – read whole book  

David Walliams group – read whole book

Number

We have been re-looking at number ordering this week. Everyone has their own number ordering to complete.  Remember to look at place values and check whether the order makes sense!

There are lots of games to help you practise at this site.

 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

 I am able to see who has been accessing Activelearn and very few pupils have been onto the site. This is a fun way for you to engage in your learning so please use the site to reinforce what you have been learning in class.

 Interdisciplinary Learning – this homework should be handed in by 20^th November

Research a famous male or female Viking.

Find out:

·         The person’s name

·         Where they were from

·         What they have done to make them famous

·         Any other interesting facts

·         Include a drawn or printed picture of the person.

Make sure that you use your own words and understand what you have written. DO NOT just copy chunks of information from a book or the internet.

I will be expecting your best presentation and the use of punctuation and correct spelling!

Punctuation was our focus in Big Writing today.

First of all we had to read a passage with no punctuation to work out the meaning, then we could create sentences. We thought of ways that we could make sentences even better by adding commas and connectives. Finally, if we included exclamation marks we could bring feeling and expression to the text.

To practise our punctuation we used the context of the Battle of Largs which we have been learning about. We learnt about the punctuation marks used in writing newspaper reports and we checked our punctuation as we were writing. You will be able to “Read all about it!!”  soon.

We were learning how to use text marking to help us find information in a text. As well as highlighting, we were making some notes and question references next to the text.

Our football skills are really developing! There were great examples of moving into space today. Everyone is trapping the ball and intercepting with greater enthusiasm.

With Miss Thomson we were talking about substances that are safe or dangerous to put into the body. We had a great discussion with the whole class offering ideas.

In our reading work today, we were using different types of answers and highlighting information on the text – we enjoyed showing our skills in different ways.

During ICT we were preparing a document ready to insert a table about furry pets, but we will be using the French pet names !