This afternoon we worked in our “family groups” to design and draw our places of work in the community.

Doesn’t Cleanstream look lovely? We have a farm with orchard, a Vets, a hotel, a supermarket, school, medical centre , police and fire stations. We have a bridge across the river joining the community together. We have decided on our jobs in our places of work and have begun to discuss the jobs we will have looking after our water. If you can, please look at the Scottish Water site. It has sections which give more information about jobs looking after our clean and waste water supplies.

Here we are using features of non- fiction texts to discover facts about water.

Have a lovely weekend!

Thank you for coming to join us this morning, it was great to see you. Here are a few photos to show our learning experiences:

Exploring internet sites, showing how reservoirs and dams are controlled

We were deciding which water uses are necessary for life and which ones are luxuries. We transferred the information onto Venn diagrams.

We had a great time getting messy making our dams and reservoirs. Some of the dams collapsed, which was exciting for us, but in real life it would be a major disaster.

As a craft activity, we made our water wheels which show how we use water in our daily lives. Lots of us are making small changes to help save water and not waste it.

This morning we had a visit from Mrs Keith. She has worked with us before and she complimented us on our maths thinking. We were set a challenge:

We used tens squares and counters, then used number lines to look for the patterns.

We had fun using and talking about the different strategies we use.

This afternoon we made some very important decisions in our topic. We now have a name for our community- CLEANSTREAM and we have decided which parts of the community each small group will look after. Most groups worked well together, but co-operation needs to be practised.

Tomorrow we have our Open Morning between 9.15 and 10.20. We are looking forward to welcoming you to Primary 4 and sharing some of our learning activities with you.

To show people how many times we use water in the house, we took the information from our Water Use Tally and transferred the information into a Bar Graph. We had to look carefully at the scales to make sure that we could fit the information onto the sheet. Our title had to explain what the graph was showing and the axes had to be clear. These examples demonstrate super learning.

This afternoon we were treated to some excellent acts for Woodlands’ Got Talent. Two of our pupils were through to the final and performed really well- we are very proud of you!

Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you next Thursday.

Today we started to extend our knowledge of fractions. We learnt the words numerator and denominator. Will you hear fractions tonight in real life?

This afternoon we were thinking about our most precious possession- water. There were lots of great observations and ideas generated in our discussion. We decided that we have a responsibility to the global community to use water wisely and not waste it.

Here are some facts:

We will be looking in more depth at how the needs of some communities can affect the needs of others.

A huge thank you to everyone who told me how I could get the accents over the letters on the I-pad. As you can see, February is now correct in French- yippee!!

In ICT we tried our activities on Activelearn. Everyone managed to access the site at school and complete some addition/ subtraction and sequencing games. You will need a Flash player to play the games on a lap top at home.

This afternoon we were thinking more about communities and what is most important for them to be successful. We worked more co-operatively than last time and there was more discussion in the groups.

We used the cards to create a diamond showing how important things were to communities. Most groups thought that a healthy environment with clean fresh water would be the most important.

Please could everyone complete and bring into school as soon as possible the Water use tally sheet. We need this to complete work for our project. Thank you.

We have been “Walking to West Africa”. We are all involved in a walking challenge where each class can make laps of the playground and the results are totalled together.

Please try Active learn over the weekend. Everyone has a card with the login details. It will probably work best on a laptop with Flash player, but please let us know how you get on and if there are any problems. We will probably set homework on this program if it works for everyone, so we need to know who does/doesn’t have access to it.

The water use sheet should be filled in this weekend too. It is part of our special topic, so everyone having their input is important to our results.

Have a great weekend everyone!

As an introduction to our topic, we were practising working together co- operatively, taking turns and making group decisions. We were thinking about what we mean by the word “Community” and were then debating our ideas about wants and needs.

This morning we were practising our number bonds to 10, 20 and later in class using our bonds to add e.g. 57 +23. Please practise at home to develop speed and confidence.

In French we were practising phrases to describe the weather. Today il fait mauvais- what does that mean??