Welcome to P4’s blog!
Daily Home Learning Tasks (click here for a list of suggested activities for each day. You can choose what you would like to complete. This is updated daily)
Oliver and the Seawigs (Current class novel)
Chapter 1 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 2 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 3 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 4 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 5 Part 1 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 7 | Quiz | Activities
Chapters 8 + 9 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 10 Part 1 | Quiz | Activities
Cakes in Space
Chapter 1 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 2 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 3 | Quiz | Activities
Chapter 10 + 11 Book Review Quiz
Additional Learning Resources:
Assignments
I will post any specific tasks for you to do via bulleted links below. Your responses can be uploaded as a word doc, ppt, photo or video into our P4 Team Assignment tab, or emailed to me directly at jennifer.ross@south-ayrshire.gov.uk
Recommended Websites
I would really encourage you to try and access some of the below websites as often as possible as these are excellent learning resources:
Sumdog (for Maths, Spelling & Reading)
Readingwise
Nessy (only if you have a school log in)
Topmarks
Mathsframe
Scratch and Hour of code (Coding/Computer Science)
Linguiscope (Username: qma Password: peggy)
Issues with Access:
If you are asked to enter log in details when clicking on Office 365, your details are as follows:
- Your Glow username (the one you use to log in to Glow) followed by @glow.sch.uk
- The password is then the same as your Glow password (for most of the pupils at the moment the password is Gardenrose1)
- Tutorials are available on the Gardenrose Facebook Group and Twitter should you require further assistance, or contact a member of staff.
How to send me work
On Glow you should all be able to access the app “Office 365” which contains Word, Powerpoint, Excel as well as Teams. These can be used for completing any Home Learning activities and uploaded onto our Teams as a message attachment, or emailed to me privately at jennifer.ross@south-ayrshire.gov.uk. If possible, take pictures of any work or activities you have completed and email these to me or upload them onto our Team chat.
I have set more specific tasks and projects in the “Assignments” Tab on Teams. Here, there is an option to upload your work (documents, photos, videos etc) which allows me to mark and respond.
BACK TO THE BLOG!…
Here you can find out information about what we’ve been getting up to recently! We are very excited to share our learning with you.
Term 3
The last Term has been a whirlwind of activity! It all started in January with our Scotland topic. This year our poem was “Wee Freenly Dug” and our song was “The New Teacher.” Well done to our winners, and to all of P4 for making such a big effort practicing our poem and song!
In class, we enjoyed writing our own Scots Poetry, learning about Scottish culture and designing our own castles and tartan outfits. We painted some beautiful “Monarch of the Glen” paintings.
We were also lucky enough to receive a 4 week block of Golf training in PE! Definitely some future Golf stars in P4.
We have LOVED reading The Chronicles of Narnia and studying the film in class. We built our own cardboard wardrobes, Aslan masks and even tasted some Turkish Delight! We were able to make lots of links between the story of Narnia and the Easter Story.
Towards the end of Term 3 we have been spending a lot of time learning our songs and dances for the Amazing Upper Show – Back in the Day. Our songs are…
70s: Status Quo: Rocking All Over the World
80s: Ray Parker Jr: Ghostbusters
90s: Steps: 5678/Tragedy
00s: Snow patrol: Chasing Cars
To view some of our rehearsals, check out the Gardenrose Videos page on our Blog.
Some AMAZING artwork…
Term 1 & 2 have flown in!! Some of our highlights have been:
- PE sessions at Carrick Academy
- Filming our own weather reports
- Making a snowstorm in a jar in science
- Building igloos out of sugar cubes
- Maths and literacy sharing the learning days
- Reading Pugs of the Frozen North
- Halloween activities
- Children in Need – watching Miss Ross get pied in the face!!
- Being visited by Buddy the naughty elf
- Christmas party and the panto
- Making Snow & Decorating biscuits on the last day
In Term 2 we have been very busy.
We learnt about how to write persuasively during writing after we received a very upsetting letter from Mrs Morrison which told us we might have to come to school on a Saturday!! In Literacy, we are continuing to develop our reading, writing and grammar – we have enjoyed doing this in active ways by playing spelling games such as “Splat!” with our Flyswatters and the Gumball spelling boardgame.
In Maths we have been continuing to develop our knowledge of our times tables and mental maths skills, through Big Maths Beat That! And Number Talks. We always try to beat our score and are keen to share our strategies. We’ve especially loved playing maths games online as a class – especially Sumdog and Marlon’s Magical Maths Mission! Our main topics of focus this term have been Fractions and Shape.
In ICT we have started to learn about coding through the use of Scratch. Miss Ross showed us how to code our own videogames and we are excited to learn even more in Term 3. Alongside this, we have continued to develop our knowledge of using the internet safely and responsibly whilst carrying out research tasks. We are continuously improving our word processing skills.
P4 just LOVE art. This term we learned about Brazilian artist Romero Britto. His work always features a symbol and we discussed what symbolises us in order to create a personalised piece of artwork in his style. Miss Ross was so impressed by the level of thought and detail we put into our designs.
We also learned about the colour wheel and can name the Primary/Secondary colours. We discussed how different colours made us feel and related them to different temperatures – in order to create our fabulous snowmen artwork!
In PE this term we enjoyed our weekly visits to Carrick where we got to try a variety of different sports hosted by the Sports Leaders. We also had great fun learning Scottish dances for our Christmas party.
Anyway, that’s all from us for now. Please keep checking our blog for updates – we just can’t wait to see what Term 3 brings!
