We are looking at mental addition this week and we are trying to get quicker at recalling our number bonds to 10/20.  This is a great website where we can reduce the amount of time we are given to answer questions.  How quickly can you get ten out of ten?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/3967

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/addition

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=dartboardadd

We played a game in class, for ordering and comparing numbers. We enjoyed it so much that we wanted it on the blog so we can play at home too!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/placevalue/BPOrder1000.htm

P4a found some websites to help us practise alphabetical order.

Use the links below to practise your alphabet skills at home.

https://1c7951e0f713f82c10d3-9c5e6fbd2c9d828eb37b6bf0399bddd6.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/abc/index.html?_ga=2.196225132.1343692288.1537278498-318247319.1537278498

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/alphabetical-order-1.html

http://media.abcya.com/games/alphabet/flash/alphabet.swf

For a challenge try this one:

http://www.sparkisland.com/juggle_ms/launch.html

We have been learning how to write play scripts this term.  Here is one between George and Grandma:

Grandma: What did you put in the medicine Worm?

George: I put in toothpaste and brown paint.

Grandma: No wonder it was disgusting!

George: You kind of deserved it because you are quite mean Grandma.

Grandma: Me mean? I’m not mean!

George: As well as that I put in some nippy things including horse radish sauce and some chillies.

Grandma: No wonder my tummy went on fire!

On Monday we had great fun in maths.  We were given number clues that we had to work out and each clue was a number that opened a padlock. Once we opened the padlock we got the next clue and had to keep going until we got to envelop number 4.  The first table to crack all the clues was the Matilda table.

I liked designing my own virus and bacteria.  By Isaac

I liked making a maths game outside.  By Eliana

I enjoyed doing handwriting outside with water.  By John

I liked doing football in PE.  By Robyn

I liked drawing George and Grandma in the style of Quentin Blake.  By AJ

I enjoyed watching Newsround because it had lots of interesting things in it.  By Drew

I liked drawing the dragonflies.  By Elsie

It was good fun deciding our table names.  By Sam

I liked writing the alphabet using joined script.  By Frankie

I liked when Mrs Stevenson was trying to remember our names but she sometimes got some wrong.  By Zack

I enjoyed hunting round the class for the letters of our novel – George’s Marvellous Medicine.  By Lochie

I liked making the biggest number I could out of four digits.  By Charlie

P4b worked hard to produce these beautiful dragonflies to put up at the Peebles horticultural show last weekend.  Lots of people were admiring them and saying how lovely and colourful they were.  Well done everyone who entered the children’s section and won prizes!

Primary 4a had the task of choosing 4 things that they wanted to share with the class. They could bring anything, however they had to fit in a paper bag (and not be valuable)!

We had an amazing circle time sharing our bags, and it was a really fun and interesting way to get to know each other. Here are what P4a chose to share…

Can you work out who each bag belongs to from what they chose to share?!

Today we discussed what we are doing in our topic this block:

I know the symptoms of some common diseases caused by germs.  I can explain how they are spread and discuss how some methods of preventing and treating disease benefit society

Key words: germs, diseases, medicines, drugs

What do we know already?

Germs spread, make you sick

Medicines make you better, they’re disgusting

Washing your hands gets rid of germs

Diseases can make you ill and kill you

Diseases can be stopped with vaccinations

Germs come from other people

Medicines stop some, but not all, diseases

Germs give you cancer

Running out of penicillin as people who don’t need it are using it

Germs have little things to make them move

Headlice and dandruff make  nits go away

Germs are when you feel sick

Diseases are caused by germs

What would we like to do to learn about this?

Get Sam F’s dad into school – he is a microbiologist

Jamie’s mum come in – paramedic

Doctors come to visit

Some experiments

Class trip to BGH/Haylodge/science lab

Make our own science lab

Make pretend medicine/potions and see how it works

Find out about people researching new medicines (e.g. flowers in the rainforest)

Research germs, diseases and medicines – books, internet, ask people

Can we get a machine to see germs?

Visit Boots to look at medicine

Look at what medicines we have at home

We had great fun trying out different activities like ballet, cheerleading, yoga and Zumba during Health Week. What did you try? What did you learn?

We learned about our health and well being indicators and we made a classroom display to help us to use these as we learn. We need to know what to do if we need help with our Health and Well being. Look on our display for ideas.

Can you name all the indicators?

Safe, healthy, included, achieving, nurtured, active, responsible, respected.