{"id":5,"date":"2025-11-03T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p42526\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:59:07","slug":"primary-4-oct-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p42526\/2025\/11\/03\/primary-4-oct-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 4 – Oct 2025\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Primary 4 2025\/26<\/p>\n

October<\/p>\n

Welcome to our first Primary 4 blog post! We are very excited to share our learning, fun and P4 adventures so far.<\/p>\n

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Literacy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spelling<\/u><\/p>\n

We have been working exceptionally hard across all areas of literacy \u2013 spelling, reading, writing, grammar, handwriting and talking and listening. Now that we are in Primary 4, our spelling words are becoming more and more challenging. We have been learning tricky phonemes and can show that we understand them by diacritically marking them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe do rainbow writing, uppercase and robot writing to help us practise our spelling words.\u201d Jessica D<\/p>\n

\u201cMiss May reads out our words and sentences during dictation and we have to spell them the right way.\u201d Abigail<\/p>\n

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Reading<\/u><\/p>\n

Our class novel for this term, Cliffhanger by Jacqueline Wilson, has been a big favourite in the class. As well as reading in our groups every day, we have also been developing our application of reading strategies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe read Cliffhanger and we answered questions, made predictions and visualised the characters and setting.\u201d Jessica C<\/p>\n

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Writing<\/u><\/p>\n

The writing genres we have practised this term are recount and description. We have worked on descriptive language, punctuation and structure.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe created our own superheroes in our heads and then we described what they looked like and what they did in our jotters.\u201d Sahan<\/p>\n

\u201cMy superhero could fly really high and had pink hair.\u201d Billie<\/p>\n

As well as PM writing, we have also transferred our descriptive language knowledge to poetry. We were able to identify similes in different poems and, after an autumn walk around the playground, we created our own \u2013 they turned out brilliantly!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wrote autumn poems and we used similes and adjectives to describe what we could hear, see, touch, smell and taste.\u201d Alana<\/p>\n

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Maths<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our maths topics so far have included place value, estimating and rounding and the four operations, which are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We are continuing to use fluid groupings, listening to Miss May carefully and then deciding what level we can challenge ourselves with.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe practised our times tables in our heads and then using written strategies as well. Platinum did all of the times tables.\u201d Ashton<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did column addition and had to add the numbers from the top to the numbers to the bottom. If an answer in a column is more than nine, we have to carry it over to the next column.\u201d Adeline<\/p>\n

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\u201cI used Numicon to help me sometimes. I like how we can put the pieces together and count them to help with adding.\u201d Lilly<\/p>\n

During Maths Week, we participated in lots of outdoor activities. We made 2D shapes and 3D objects using natural materials, created Venn diagrams and tallied up how many different insects we could find.<\/p>\n

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Our topics next term include money, time, fractions and patterns and relationships. We have lots of visual resources ready to help us, including play money, miniature clocks and resources we can split into different pieces. We all agreed that using resources like this makes doing our work easier.<\/p>\n

HWB<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mrs Brock teaches us Health and Wellbeing on Monday afternoons. We have been looking at different ways to keep our bodies healthy. We know that we need exercise and a balanced diet, smoking can cause damage to our lungs and that it is important that we look after our teeth and personal hygiene.<\/p>\n

All of us contributed to creating our Class Charter, discussing what makes a good pupil and teacher and how we can be a good friend.<\/p>\n

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Friday mornings are our time with Mr Connor in the STEM lab \u2013 we always have so much fun and come back to class with lots of interesting facts that we\u2019ve learned. Mr Connor has been teaching us about senses and showed us a really cool experiment using water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put one hand in cold water and one hand in warm water.\u201d Joshua<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, we ran and put both hands in the sink. I felt like one hand was cold and one was warm.\u201d Lexi<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was strange because the water in the sink was the same temperature. My brain was very confused.\u201d Jessica C<\/p>\n

Check out our reactions here\u2026<\/p>\n