As usual it’s been a busy week in P4a.
In writing, we thought about our classmates and how they contribute to the daily life of our class. We wrote letters for every individual in the class to read for our advent calendar. We are looking forward to finding out what is written in the letters.
In number we learnt how to use counting on as a way of taking away. We learnt that it is often easier to count up from a smaller number to a bigger number, getting up to a friendly 10 and then adding on the ones.
In Science, we learnt about how fossils are formed. When a sea creature dies, its body sinks to the sea bed. It is covered in sand and mud which become rock. The fleshy parts of the creature rot away and the skeleton forms a fossil in the rock.
We looked at a huge ammonite fossil from the Jurassic coast which showed us what real fossils look like.

We made our own fossils using dinosaurs and shell imprints in clay which were then cast in plaster. They look pretty cool!

In maths we have been learning about 2d shapes – our new favourite new shapes are rhombus, trapezium and parallelograms!

We also spent some time learning about St Andrew – the patron Saint of Scotland. He is the Patron saint of Greece, Russia, Cyrus, Sicily, Romania, Barbados and Ukraine. He is also the patron saint of fisherman, fishmongers and rope makers.
Table of the week – with 730