We have been very busy this week.

We had a rootin tootin time performing in this year’s show! A huge thank you to everyone for your support, help with costumes and rushing boys from football to school yesterday evening!

Today we have been taking things a little easier. This morning we were looking at words starting with the prefixes a and al. This happened because last night we had the question “Who is already ready? ” and we started thinking about other interesting word combinations. It was a great opportunity to apply our dictionary skills too, to find out what the words meant and because all words started with “a”  we were looking at 2nd, 3rd and 4th letter ordering.

Take a look at the Woodlands blog in the PAG section. If you scroll down to Whose Water, Whose Power?, Mr Green has put photos of our work that is in the “Big Book of Learning” to music – it is really cool!!

We still have several children who have not brought in their show clothes. Please bring them in tomorrow for the Dress Rehearsal.

This morning we were creating and matching array patterns to show the relationships between stations of different times tables.

In ICT we learned how to split cells and insert colour into our block graphs. They are looking really great!

We worked in our groups to decide on the features of different reading/writing genres. We are going to write a story in the genre of our choice and have started to write our initial ideas for settings, cool words and character descriptions. I can’t wait to read the final stories and share them with others.

It was time to let the butterflies go this afternoon. Mrs Bellamy carefully encouraged the butterflies to come out of the net and she let them go!! They flew off to start their lives in the wild – good luck!

Finally, please could we have all show costumes in school tomorrow ready for the Dress Rehearsal on Friday. Thank you.

P4 went on a school trip to Calderglen.  We saw the animals in the conservatory and small zoo.   We saw banana  and pineapple plants. We all loved the Fennec Foxes. They were so cute!  We saw snakes, fish and leaf-cutter ants inside and then went outside to see many other birds and animals including harvest mice and doves.  When we had lunch we had to shelter from the rain so our sandwiches didn’t get too soggy! It was a great experience to team up with p3/4 to go on a nature walk. Finally we had great fun on the zip wire, slides and giant rocking rope at the park even though it was raining!  Quite a few people fell asleep on the way home!!

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We started to create bar graphs to display our results from our traffic surveys. We were using the insert  and table functions in Word to create the graph template.

This afternoon we were reading over our play scripts ready to start filming.

Have a good day tomorrow and remember to wear suitable clothes and shoes on Friday – the forecast looks like rain!!

********** the final countdown to the school show is on! *************

Please bring in costumes as soon as possible.  It would be great if you could write names on each item of clothing to avoid mix-ups. Please hand in costumes in a poly bag with your child’s name clearly marked on it.

costumes- Wild West theme

We suggest  -denim jeans, shorts, skirts or dungarees

– checked shirt, plain shirt or t-shirt

– neckscarf or neckerchief

– Waistcoat, sheriff badge, big belt or cowboy hat if you    have them.

Remember, there is no need to buy anything new!

Some of of our work today… 

Today we have been handling data! We realise that we have to translate data to find out information. So, in line with our Road Safety work, we decided to focus on traffic for our first data handling exploration!

We collected information about the types and colours of vehicles which went past on the main road for ten minutes.

Then we created tally charts and bar graphs to show our results.

This afternoon each group finished its Road Safety Playscript and had the chance to practise bringing the script to life! This gives us the opportunity to add more stage directions and think about how each character will say their lines.

We had a great sports day today in beautiful sunny weather.  Thanks to everyone who came to watch and to all those who took part. Have a fabulous long weekend. Hope the sun keeps shining!

Primary 4 have been busy with some testing today. We have also heard the final presenters from our 4 in a row challenge.  Well done for all the effort and practise put in.

We had some very boring maths to do today…not!!!  We have been learning about measurement and today we looked at measuring volume.  We investigated how successful we were at bottle flipping a 500ml bottle when it was filled with different volumes  of water.  It was a really fun way to learn about measuring volumes!

Yesterday  we were lucky enough to get a performance from the Greenfaulds High School bands.  They were fabulous!

Today we have been doing some more work on measurement, writing, circle time and song practice.  We also enjoyed some more of our book presentations.   The final few will be done tomorrow.   The p4 pupils were so impressed with some one point perspective art completed by the p7s that they begged to give it a try.   How could I say no?

This afternoon we started on some perspective drawings and we are hoping to finish and take them home tomorrow to show you how talented we are!