We’ve had another busy week in P4a with lots going on.

After a fabulous procession, the children and staff enjoyed a well-earned day off on Monday.

In Numeracy with Mrs Mackenzie we are continuing to learn about fractions. In Maths with Mrs Collings, we are learning about comparing measurements. This was very challenging for a lot of us!

On Wednesday, we visited our new classroom. Unfortunately, our new teacher, Miss Baxter, was unable to join us so we enjoyed an hour with Mr Jeffries. The children are really excited to meet Miss Baxter on Monday.

In RME we watched ‘Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat’ as we are thinking about the Christian values of integrity, wisdom, justice and compassion which are demonstrated in the movie.

In writing, we started learning about speechmarks. We know that there are rules for writing speech and conversation in our stories. These are 1) Speech needs capital letters as it is a sentence or a phrase just like any other writing 2) Speech marks go at the beginning of the words that are spoken and the end 3) We use punctutation like a comma, to separate the words that are spoken from the reporting clause (which tells you who has spoken) and 4) Speech needs to be punctuated with question marks, exclamation marks and commas just like the rest of our writing.

In Science we checked to see how our radishes were growing. We discovered that the radishes germinated in all the soils but some were much healthier than others. We didn’t think the orchid soil would let the radishes grow but they did germinate slightly. Even the seeds in the sand grew a little. The plants in the ericaeous, tomorite and the cactus soil grew best as they had more nutrients.

In cricket we played beat the ball where the batsman runs around the square trying to beat the ball which is passed from post to post.

Table of the week – with 500 points