We have enjoyed beginning our learning about the Vikings.  We have been writing our names in Viking runes and exploring where the Vikings came from.

In numeracy we have been exploring different strategies to help us with multiplication and lots of us have been really challenging ourselves in our learning this week.

Please remember to bring outdoor P.E. kit on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

Here are some highlights from this week:

Keira, Lily, Grace Marshall, Sophie A, Freya: We all enjoyed learning about mime in drama and loved the activities.

Sophie S, Evie, Sophie, Ava, Marley: We had great fun using the ipads to find information and create fact-files about reduce, reuse and recycle.

Luis, Harris, Fearne, Archie: Our favourite part of the week was P.E. where we were playing benchball.

Eden, Joseph, Dionne: We enjoyed our spelling test this week.

Eilidh: My favourite thing this week was learning about St Andrew and writing about him.

Tiana: I enjoyed Health and Wellbeing with Mrs Mackenzie.

Brandon, Nina, Emily, Grace Mac, Isla, Esther: We couldn’t pick one thing because we enjoyed everything!

Keegan, Max, Grace Mac, Dionne, Archie: We enjoyed doing our maths test and assembly this week.

Freya, Marley, Ryan, Lacey, Scott, Keira: We enjoyed dooking for apples at Halloween.

Eden, Liam, Eilidh, Ava, Emily: We have had a great week and we enjoyed everything!

Luis, Brandon, Sophie A, Esther, Joseph, Tiana, Isla: We liked the maths test and writing a persuasive letter where we tried to convince the council to stop the use of single-use milk cartons and plastic straws.

Harris, Grace Mac, Lily:  Our favourite parts of the week were when we went dooking for apples and the maths test.

We have had another fun-filled week in P4b.  In maths we have been continuing our work on shape with Mrs Rodger.

In numeracy we have been thinking of different strategies for subtraction and sharing our ideas with one another.

We wrote some coded letters this week like the ones Mary Queen of Scots might have written when she was a prisoner.  Some of us used some really clever codes!

We enjoyed our first futsal lesson on Monday and are really looking forward to having these lessons every week.

Have a lovely weekend.

What a busy but short week we have had.  Here are some of our highlights:

Sophie S & Brandon: We enjoyed spelling this week.

Sophie M, Freya & Grace: I enjoyed sharing strategies in number talks.

Nina: I really enjoyed my first pupil council meeting.  I got a new badge which I will wear on my uniform.

Fearne, Dionne, Harris, Kayden, Keira, Ryan, Sophie M, Lacey & Ava: We liked maths when we were using counting on as a strategy for addition.

Archie, Max, Kayden, Luis, Jess, Lily, Harris, Marley & Eden: I enjoyed playing castles in the P.E. hall.

Isla & Tiana: I enjoyed writing a letter from Mary Queen of Scots.

Liam: I enjoyed adding in numeracy.

Evie & Eilidh: I enjoyed maths and P.E.

Sophie S: I liked making our healthy posters.

Scott: I enjoyed helping someone in maths.

Emily: I loved everything!

Have a lovely weekend!

This week we have had fun doing lots of exciting maths activities.  We have played games inside the classroom as well as taking our learning outside to the playground to do a maths trail.  Well done to Sophie S who won a certificate for her excellent effort in all maths and numeracy lessons all week.

In literacy we enjoyed trying out some new activities to help with our spelling and we also finished our imaginative stories.

Well done also to Emily who was the first P4B winner of the certificate for demonstrating school values.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Primary 4b

Week beginning 3.9.18

This week we have been learning about Mary Queen of Scots and her early life.  We made birth announcements to show our learning.

In maths we continued our learning on shape with Mrs Rodger.  We participated in number talks with Mrs Knowles where we explored lots of different strategies and learned from each other.  As the weeks progress we aim to become a lot more confident at sharing our strategies with the class.

In art we were working on shading and we created some wonderful pieces of work.

Don’t forget we are having a “meet the teacher” session on Thursday.

P4b

Wow! What a fantastic first week in Primary 4b!

Here are our highlights:

Liam, Lacey, Dionne,Ava, Keira, Fearne and Brandon enjoyed starting P4 and meeting their new teacher.

Tiana, Kayden, Freya, Sophie S, Grace Marshall, Jess and Lily enjoyed writing about the summer holidays.

Joseph, Scott and Evie loved doing the wordsearch with all our names on it.

Luis and Grace Mackinnon enjoyed number talks.

Archie really liked playing the maths game.

Eilidh and Isla enjoyed writing their targets and drawing the picture of themselves.

Sophie M loved getting her happy face award.

Esther enjoyed art with Mrs Rodger.

Eden loved cosmic kids.

Emily, Max, Nina, Keegan and Sophie A couldn’t decide on one thing as they enjoyed everything this week!

We have had another busy week and we are all getting excited for the summer holidays.

Art was the highlight of the week for Brooke, Blaire, Cameron, Mia, Tamsyn, Lucas H, Luke, Zara, Lily, Donna, Erin, Samuel and Farrah.  We made an Arizona landscape using chalk.

Callum enjoyed the bronze catch-up event when he got to watch Tom and Jerry and eat an ice lolly.  Lukas K, Samuel and Arran had great fun at the silver event.

Alexander, Ellis, Evan, Rory, Ross, Ammie-Leigh and Maisie all loved P.E. this week where we were playing castles.

Katie, Ruby and Niamh enjoyed finishing the class novel and we are all looking forward to watching the DVD next week!

Murray’s highlight was our climate factfiles.

Shelbi enjoyed learning how to say different animals in French.

Kai enjoyed our number talks.

This week we got to meet our new teacher during our school moving on session and we are all very excited to move on to Primary 5. We are especially looking forward to learning about The Victorians and some of us can’t wait for our school camp to Lowport.  Other highlights of the week for us were: continuing to learn about fractions in maths; working in groups to research and create fact-files on a chosen climate zone and playing castles in P.E. We also wrote a letter to the people at Dynamic Earth to thank them for our wonderful class trip.  Have a wonderful weekend.

We have had an action-packed week in primary 4a! On Tuesday, we went to Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. We learned lots of interesting facts.
Jodie: We learned that when a crocodile catches its prey it swings it about to break it into pieces and then it can be eaten!
Shelbi: By 2060 the temperatures in all the climate zones will be higher because of global warming. Niamh: This will affect the polar climate most because the ice is going to melt and the animals do not have time to adapt which means they might die.
Ammie-Leigh. We learned about evolution and how human beings developed.
Kai: We learned that if you are bitten by a green mamba you only have half an hour to get treatment before you die.

In maths this week we have been learning about fractions and we were also lucky to have a mental maths session with Mrs Collings.

In learning across the curriculum we created an animal from either a tropical, arid or polar climate and then in writing we wrote an ode to our animal.  We produced some fantastic pieces of work!

We drew pictures to display in our windows with the Toy Story theme.  Can you see them from the playground?

Our new Head Teacher Mrs Johns came into our class to say hello.  We were all excited to meet her.

Have a great weekend in the sunshine!

P4A

This week in maths we have been interpreting data and creating our own Venn and Carrol diagrams.

In literacy we have been working on acrostic poems about climate.  We came up with some amazing poems.

We all enjoyed the city walk and tried really hard to smash the target.

Have a lovely weekend.

We have had lots of highlights this week.

On Thursday we had our final NYCoS session where we got to vote on our favourite games from the 12 sessions and play the most popular.

We have started our new topic on climates and we have been learning about the different climate zones around the world.  We all shared our experiences of holidays in different climates.  Some of us have been to some very exotic places!

We wrote Haiku poems in writing.  A haiku is a poem which has 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.  To start with we played a fun game on the smart board to make sure we all knew how to count the syllables in words.  Some of them were really tricky but we got there in the end. We then all made our own poems which are so fantastic they are going to go up on the wall!

We all earned our full golden time this week and some of chose to make squishies (sorry parents if some of them burst and leave a floury mess on your floors).

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

We have had another busy week in P4a. Here are our highlights:

Shelbi: I enjoyed writing a mini saga about the Vikings.
Maisie: I enjoyed the vocabulary table at shared start.
Erin: I enjoyed sharing my learning with my mum during the shared start morning.
Kai: I enjoyed writing the mini saga.
Mia: I enjoyed shared start at the openers table.
Ruby: I used play dough to spell my words.
Donna: I enjoyed doing my self-portrait in art.
Blaire: I enjoyed writing the mini saga. I liked the challenge of writing a story in 50 words.
Lily: I liked dong the mini saga.
Tamsyn: I enjoyed writing the mini saga. Mine was about a battle between the Vikings and the monks.
Luke: I enjoyed doing fractions. I liked figuring out what everything meant.
Amiie-Leigh: I liked writing the mini saga and I found it really hard to write it in 50 words.
Lucas He: I liked doing fractions.
Rory: I enjoyed doing fractions.
Farrah: I enjoyed number gym homework club and I did the 8, 11 and 12 times tables.
Katie: I enjoyed doing a self-portrait because I got to decorate the helmet.
Zara: I liked doing the self-portrait in art and decorating the helmet.
Ellis: I enjoyed writing my mini saga.
Brooke: I liked art and the mini saga.
Evan: I enjoyed writing my mini saga.
Ross: I enjoyed starting our learning about fractions.
Murray: I enjoyed writing the mini saga.
Cameron: I enjoyed writing the mini saga.
Arran: I enjoyed futsal. We had a tournament.
Callum: I enjoyed futsal. My team won!
Niamh: I liked doing the self-portraits in art.
Lucas: I liked futsal.

We have had a very busy week in P4A. Here are some of our highlights.
Lily, Blaire and Arran enjoyed using the different types of scales to weigh things around the classroom and some food that Mrs knowles brought in.
Lucas K and Kai worked hard in number talks and confidently shared their strategies with the class.
Ross, Lucas H and Luke loved working on coordinates in maths.
Zara, Tamsyn and Farrah had great fun in art where they drew self-portraits of themselves as Vikings.
Maisie, Cameron, Katie and Shelbi really liked using play dough as an active spelling activity to help remember their spelling words.
Jodie, Ellis, Ruby, Evan, Mia and Rory have loved doing their talks to share their knowledge of the Vikings with the class. Niamh, Erin and Murray said their highlight of the week has been listening to them and learning something new.
Samuel really liked writing a persuasive poster selling his Viking Longhouse.
Callum had fun in our NYCoS and loved playing the games and composing his own music.

Have a lovely weekend.