🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Week Six

✏️ Literacy & Spelling

The Magic Dragon delivered The Gingerbread Man, which led to some fantastic literacy activities. We wrote instructions for catching the gingerbread man and explored how to persuade our audience around the question: “Should the Gingerbread Man have run away?” This created some brilliant debate and discussion, with children learning how to share their opinions respectfully and listen to different viewpoints.

We also watched a video of gingerbread men invading our classroom, which caused great excitement and sparked imaginative ideas for our writing. This also sparked great enthusiasm for creating gingerbread men traps which have been set around the class in case they return.

In spelling, our sound focus was ‘er’. We worked on spelling strategies that we use each week with all of our words, including breaking words into sounds, syllables, and rhymes.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we continued our work on place value in creative ways, including designing Number Monsters. We explored partitioning, thought about the numbers before and after, and practised comparing numbers by comparing our monsters. We also carried on our work on time by looking at the days of the week, months, and seasons, as well as revising o’clock, half past, quarter past, and quarter to.

🌱 Our Topic – Plants & Sustainability

This week we looked at the importance of plants and trees for our environment, particularly how they produce oxygen. The children made posters to persuade the rest of the school to look after our planet. We also discussed water conservation and how each of us can play a part in protecting this vital resource.

💖 Health & Wellbeing

We read Chicken Clicking and used an online Blooket quiz to consolidate our learning about staying safe online. We also enjoyed a mindful afternoon, where we decorated gingerbread men and watched a short film of the story together. As part of our daily mindfulness sessions we introduced some cosmic kids yoga this week. The class loved the Minecraft adventure!