🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Seven
✏️ Literacy
This week, our magical door transported us to Ocean World! When the children returned from the long weekend on Tuesday, they discovered that the classroom floor had been “flooded,” with seaweed, stones, shells and beach-themed objects scattered near the magical door. This created lots of excitement and curiosity about what might have happened when the door opened.
As part of our writing, the children imagined having a conversation with a sea creature, learning about how pollution is affecting our oceans and marine life. This linked beautifully to Global Goal 14: Life Below Water.
We continued developing our understanding of speech marks, while also exploring more exciting alternatives to the word said. Our grammar focus looked at how emotions can be shown through speech and how different verbs can help bring conversations to life in our writing.
🔢 Maths
In maths, we began a new focus on measure, linking this directly to our Building a Business topic. The children recognised that running a café involves both money and measurement, from designing spaces to preparing food.
We started by exploring metres, taking our learning outdoors and around the classroom with practical measuring activities. Later in the week, we introduced centimetres, using hands-on tasks such as estimating and measuring Play-Doh snakes. These activities helped the children develop confidence in estimating, measuring accurately and comparing lengths.
🌍 Topic – Building a Business
This week, our café project became even more realistic as the children completed their job application forms and began developing their interview skills in preparation for applying for roles in our class café.
This has been a fantastic opportunity to develop important real-world skills such as communication, confidence, responsibility and self-awareness, while encouraging the children to think about the qualities needed for different jobs.
💻 ICT / Global Learning
This week we explored the Earth Cubs website as part of our learning about protecting the oceans. We completed the “Plastic is Not Fantastic” lesson, which linked beautifully to both our literacy work and Global Goal 14.
The children enjoyed engaging with the songs, quizzes and activities while learning about the impact of plastic pollution on sea life. It was a fantastic way to reinforce our learning about caring for the environment.
🥔 Wider Learning – Potato Day!
Friday was our much-anticipated Potato Day, which was packed full of learning across the curriculum.
We began by exploring Global Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and 13 (Climate Action). We watched the Earth Cubs video Potato Dream, which helped us think about where our food comes from and the journey food takes from farm to table.
The children then created their own potato people, giving them names, personalities and even passports. This linked to our geography learning as we explored where people come from and different nationalities around the world.
After break, we put our new measuring skills into practice. We measured the height and circumference of our potato people and then learned about grams and kilograms, estimating and then weighing them. We also completed some fun practical challenges, including estimating how many potatoes would make a metre and guessing the combined weight of three potato people before checking our answers.
Next, we read Potato Pants and discussed how clothing is designed and made. After lunch, we linked this to sustainable fashion, exploring how our clothing choices affect the environment. The children were amazed to learn facts such as how it takes approximately 15,000 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans – roughly the amount an adult drinks in 15 years!
Using recyclable and reused materials, the children designed and created outfits for their potato people before taking them down the catwalk in our very own fashion show.
To finish the day, we learned how potatoes are turned into crisps and enjoyed a small crisp tasting session while reflecting on all the learning we had packed into one potato-filled day.
It has been another wonderfully busy week, full of creativity, practical learning, global citizenship and real-world skill building! 🌊🥔✨
