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Another great week!

Literacy

This week we have been learning about stretching sentences. We all had great fun! Here is an example…

Maths

This week we continue to develop our mental agility. We have been learning a new game called elimination. Gabriel has added some new rules which make the game really exciting. You have to answer a multiplication question correctly then you get to eliminate someone and after 5 eliminations you can invite someone back into the game. We love it. Oh and Gabriel is currently developing more rules to make the game even more fun and challenging.

HWB

This week we were acting out situations where people could get hurt and we had to show what we could do to keep ourselves safe.

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the importance of balance. We had three stations to go to and each station had different activities. At one station we had to work with a partner and one person had do be on their hands and knees on the floor while the other person had to lay across the top of them. It was great fun!

Have a great weekend!

Another great week!

Literacy

In our VCOP lesson this week we have been learning about different types of sentences. We learned about questions and statements and the difference between them. We have been discussing why we use VCOP and we all understand that it gives us the skills necessary to do our writing.

Tamsyn- V stands for vocabulary

Luke- C stands for connectives

Brooke- O is for openers

Cameron- P is for punctuation

Maths

This week we continue to develop our mental agility. We have been learning about the link between addition and subtraction. Here is an example 5+4=9 and this is the same as 9-4=5. We can add this to the strategies that we have for doing calculations.

We have been having lots of fun using money. We used coins – 1p 2p 5p 10p 20p 50p and £1. We had to make a given amount using a certain amount of coins. It was quite tricky at first but was good fun when we got the hang of it! Here are some pictures…

HWB

This week with Mrs McKenzie we were learning about medicines. We learned about storing medicines safely at home, how they can help us and how they can be dangerous.

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the different ways we can ‘travel’ when doing different sports. It’s important that we learn to travel safely especially when playing fast games that involve running or playing with a ball.

Have a great weekend!

What a great week we have had preparing for our assembly. We have all been practicing very hard to learn our lines and to learn the different rhythms we had to play. The assembly allowed us to demonstrate a variety of things-

• teamwork
• playing a polyrhythm
• what we have learned about beat and rhythm
• our learning about other cultures
• children’s rights
• being part of the wider community
• speaking for an audience

Thank you for coming along!

Have a great weekend 🙂

Another great week!

Literacy

We have been learning about contractions. First we looked at the root word of contraction to help us figure out what a contraction might be. We then played a fun game with pieces of paper that expanded and contracted to help us understand. Here are some pictures of our activities…

We continue to develop our ability to use a writing planner to help us structure our writing. This week we had to make notes in our planner to help us structure a newspaper article. We also had great fun making up newspaper headlines about the death of Lord Darnley. Here are some of the ones we came up with….

Maisie- Suspicious Death of Darnley

Ellis- Darnley’s Mysterious Death

Luke- Murder or No Murder?

Cameron- Darnley’s Suspicious Death

Callum- Explosion Kills Darnley

Niamh- Darnley’s Mystery Death

Zara- Mary Queen of Scots ….Suspect!

Maths

Once again there’s been lots of hard work this week. We continue to work hard to improve our mental agility. We have been practicing our tables using an online multiplication game which makes learning fun! We have been learning to convert analogue time into digital time. Here’s a picture of the result….

HWB

Continuing on the theme of friendship from last week we made our own little friendship balloon to decorate our classroom door. We are all able to discuss what a good friend does and how a good friend makes us feel. Here is a picture of our door….

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the importance of teamwork. We played the game of castles to help us learn to work together to defend our castle.

Literacy

We have been doing lots of short activities to help us identify nouns/pro nouns and verbs. Each time we practice we are getting better and better!

We continue to develop our ability to use a writing planner to help us structure our writing. This week we had to make notes in our letter writing planner then we used them to write a letter from Mary Queen of Scots to her mother. We are finding the planners really helpful.

Maths

Once again there’s been lots of hard work this week. We have been consolidating our knowledge of time and learning how to tell the time using 5 minute increments eg. 5 minutes past/to. We are beginning to get the hang of it. This week we have also been doing lots of activities to help develop our mental agility. Here are some pictures ……

HWB

This week we were focussing on friendship. We had a whole class discussion about what makes a good friend then we worked in groups to make a poster about what a good friend looks like.

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the importance of playing safe. We played some games that helped us to identify when we are not being safe and then we worked together to make sure that when we are running at speed or changing direction quickly we do it in a controlled way.

What a great week!

Pupil of the week – Nathan

Table of the week – Sharpeners

We have all really settled well into P4a and we are ready for a great first term. We have been discussing how a positive mindset influences how we learn and we will all try to keep a positive attitude towards our learning.

Literacy

We have been learning about the life of Mary Queen of Scots and have used this as a focus for our writing this week. We used a writing planner to record the facts that we needed. We then used the planner to help structure a newspaper birth announcement.

Maths

We have been learning how to use loop cards to help with our recall of the times tables. We will record how long it takes us to complete the loop each time and gradually get quicker. We have all made a times table helper and are looking forward to some exciting games and activities in the coming weeks that will develop our understanding and recall of the times tables.

HWB

We are very lucky to have Mrs McKenzie to teach us in Health and Wellbeing. This week we were discussing what strengths we have and here are some of our comments ….

Ellis – I am friendly to others

Donna- I am an honest person

Brooke – I am a happy person

Ross- I am kind to others

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about teamwork. This is important in almost everything we do in school. We played the castles game and had to work together to stop people from knocking our castle down. We are also very excited that we now get to use the changing rooms and we are learning how to behave when we use them.

Thankyou to everyone who managed to come along to meet the teacher on Wednesday.

Have a great weekend!!

What a great start to the new school year!

We have been doing lots of little activities about getting to know each other along with  some maths and language as well. We are all finishing the week feeling great!

Katie – I liked the maths

Ross – I enjoyed making my name poster

Rory- I enjoyed writing this week

Luke – I enjoyed music

Tamsyn- I enjoyed music

Ellis- I enjoyed circle time and talking about what I did at the summer

Brooke – I enjoyed the ‘all about me’ activity

Ammie-Leigh – I liked storytime

Zara- I liked doing ‘all about me’

Callum- I enjoyed writing

Jodie- I enjoyed playing the drums

Blaire- I enjoyed creating my folder

Arran- I enjoyed making my name poster

Donna- I liked music

Ruby- I liked coming back to school

Erin- I enjoy our morning circle songs

Kai- I enjoyed the morning circle

Murray- I enjoyed the writing

Farah- I enjoyed writing about my holidays

Cameron- I enjoyed the music

Niamh- I enjoyed playing the drums

Mia- I enjoyed playing the drums

Nathan – I have had a good week back at school

We are all looking forward to the weekend! Have a good one 🙂

Literacy

This week we have been developing our ability to use a dictionary correctly. We know there are different reasons why we might use a dictionary –

Mia – to find a word that you may not know how to spell

Euan- to find out if the word is a verb, noun or adjective

Connor- to find the definition of a word

We have had fun working with a partner to find the definition of words that Mrs Little put up on the board. First we had to find the words though and that was the tricky part!

Denholm- if I was finding the word ‘last’ I would flick through the pages of the dictionary to get to the letter L then I would search the words that begin with ‘l’ and ‘a’ the word would be quite far down the list because the third letter is an ‘s’

Maths/numeracy

We have been having a great time with our numeracy lessons! As always we have lots of opportunities to develop our numeracy skills both written and mental. This week we played games such as nine snap, Harry Potter Maths, elimination, hit the button, loop cards and Tom Thumb. Some of us were using Numicon to create number bonds and we also used the fuzzy ball darts to help with counting in 10’s.

We have also been learning about chance and probability this week.

Jason- we played ‘play your cards right’ and this is about predicting what the chances were of a number being higher or lower than the number on the board.

Alfie- if there are three green cubes and two red cubes in a bag you are more likely to pick out a green one because there are more of them

Euan – if you have 7 balls in a bag and two are orange and the rest are black you have a two in seven chance of pulling out an orange ball.

P.E.

We have been learning to play golf with Mr Jeffries.

Denholm- we were learning how to chip the ball

Kiara- we were learning about long distance and short distance putting.

Euan- I liked it when Mr Jeffries made a golf course and we got to play it

That’s all for now! Have a great weekend!

Apologies for no blog last week!

Celebrating Success

Here are the recipients of our celebrating success awards-

Suvi – Head Teachers Award

Megan- School Values Award

William- Effort and Improvement Award

Sophia- High Standard of Work Award

Kiara- P.E. Award

Maths/Numeracy

We continue to work hard developing our numeracy skills each week. We are all feeling much more confident using fractions. We can find a fraction of an amount and we also know what the term ‘equivalent fraction’ means and how to identify them.

Literacy

We have been using our knowledge of poetry to move from non rhyming verse to one that rhymes. Here are a few examples –

My Friend by Suvi

I have a friend his name is Mike

He loves to go on a mountain bike

I have a friend her name is Nancy

For prom she loves to dress up fancy

I have a friend his name is Ben

He has a very silly hen.

My Friend by Euan

I have a friend his name is Peter

He is always a big big eater

I have a friend her name is Jane

She always is a great big pain

I have a friend her name is Lily

She runs around looking silly.

That’s all for now, have a great weekend in the sun!

This week we have enjoyed being back and sharing our stories about our Easter adventures.

Language

We have started learning about different types of poetry. We will share some of our poems with you over the next few weeks. This week we have been looking at poems that do not rhyme and we all agree that this was a little trickier than we thought it would be. The title of our poem was ‘In My Box’ here is a little sample written by Suvi (we will post a completed one next week).

In my box I would put…

The touch of my dog’s fur

The smile of my mum

My dad’s tickles

In my box I would put…

A hug from my mum

My dream of an Olympic swimmer

And an Icelandic whale swimming in the ocean

Maths

We have started learning about fractions and by the time we are finished some of us will have made links between fractions, decimals and percentages while others will be able to identify equivalent fractions. This week we began with building fraction walls –

LATC

Our topic for this term is weather and climate. This week we discussed the weather in Scotland and how our climate determines the agriculture and lifestyle we have.

Suvi – I am looking forward to learning about the climate of different countries

Sophia – I am looking forward to learning about what life is like living in the tropics

Alex – I am looking forward to learning about life in the polar region

Writing

This week we have been writing about what it was like going to settle in a new country with our Viking family. We can all see how well our writing has come on in P4. We are including adjectives, varying sentence openers, using wow words and similies more often!

Maths

In maths this week we have been learning about angle. We made an angle finder which we then used to find right angles around the classroom. Some of us were learning about different types of angles-

Suvi –an acute angle is smaller than a right angle

Sophia- an obtuse angle is bigger than a right angle

Murray- a reflex angle is bigger than a right angle

Ranna- a right angle is 90 degrees

Science

We have been learning about parts of plants and what they need to grow. We planted cress seeds and watched them grow. The seeds that had no light or water didn’t grow.

Have a great weekend!

Writing

This week we used our Viking theme to create five different Viking families within the class. We then had to decide who had what role within the family and create a character profile for the person we were. We used some of what we already know and used text books to research information as well.

Maths

This week we have been learning about compass points and clockwise/anti clockwise. We also learned about half turns and quarter turns.

We also learned about 3D shape and how to use 3D nets.

World Book Day!

We had a fantastic day on Thursday celebrating world book day. We had several opportunities throughout the day to read quietly, read to each other, build a reading corner and share excerpts from our books. Here are some of our pictures –

HWB

We were demonstrating how to use a cool, weak or aggressive response with Mrs McKenzie.

Suvi – it’s really helping me to learn how to react to certain situations

Campbell – aggressive response isn’t the best to use

Liam – if you use an aggressive response it could get you in trouble

Kiara – I understand how to respond better now

Have a great weekend!!!

Short week!

Writing

Our writing this week was a recount of our trip to the museum. We used our writing planners to help us. We are getting much better at taking notes and using them to help with our writing. Here is an example –

Maths

This week we were learning about centimetres squared and found it quite tricky! Mrs Little put a task in our home learning to see if we can remember how to work out the are of a shape in cm squared.

LATC

Last Thursday we went on our class trip to the National Museum of Scotland to learn some more about Vikings. We all had a great day. Here are some pictures and some comments –

 Mia – I really liked it when we went to the theatre to learn about Viking life from two actors

Teighan- I really liked seeing the Viking grave

Sophia – I learned that a Viking pot was found in Bathgate 

Megan- I learned that there are three alphabets

Jason – I learned about how the Viking paid for things using ring money

Kiara- I really liked going to the room where we got to hold Viking artefacts and had to guess what they were

Have a good weekend!!

Language

This week we have been learning about different types of sentences.

Sophia- there are four different types of sentences

Suvi – the four types are command, question, exclamation and statement

Liam – Suvi went to the shops (statement)

Euan – “Pick the litter up,” said Tim (command)

Teighan – “What is that?” said Suvi (question)

Megan – “I love this ride!” said mum (exclamation)

Maths

This week we have been building on our previous learning about coordinates. We all had the opportunity to make a grid and position objects on it and ask our elbow partners to identify the coordinates.

Denholm – I really liked it when Alfie had to try and solve my grid questions

Connor – it was fun swapping sheets and trying to find what the coordinates were

We also had a fun time using games to consolidate our learning of the four operations. This was also a good time to evaluate how well we work as part of a team and how well we can follow instructions. Some of the games we played were shut the box, nine snap, what number am I and speed tables. Here are some pictures –

HWB

We are all learning a lot about how to react appropriately to different situations.

Suvi – This week we were doing drama. We got a card either saying aggressive, weak or cool and we had to act out what it said on the card with our partners.

LATC

We have started our Viking fact files. We had great fun using the books in class to research where the Vikings came from and what places they raided. We discussed the difference between fact and opinion before beginning our task. Here is a picture of us using the books –

Science

We were looking at different materials and predicting if they were magnetic or non-magnetic. We discussed our predictions with our elbow partner and recording them. We were then able to test our predictions using different magnets.

P.E.

We have been learning about good teamwork and what the qualities of a good team member are. Our challenge was to cross the playground ‘swamp’ using 3 hula hoops per team.

Have a great weekend!

Great week!

We are very happy to have Mrs Caddell in class working alongside Mrs Little until Easter.

Language

This week we have been developing our use of similies in our writing. Here are some examples of similies –

Megan – as flat as a pancake

Alex – as slow as a snail

Joshua – as warm as the sun

Murray – as fierce as a tiger

Hannah – as quick as lightening

Maths

This week we have been developing our ability to find the coordinates of an object on a grid. We have also been learning to find the position of a point using grid lines which was a little tricky to begin with. We have a little saying that helps us to remember how to use a grid –

Mia – along the corridor and up the stairs

P.E.

We had great fun with Mr Jeffries this week! We were learning a Scottish dance called the Gay Gordons.

Kiara – I was a bit uncomfortable at first then I really liked it

Suvi – I enjoyed the part when we had to swing our partner round

Amy – it was a bit tricky at first but I got the hang of it

LATC

This week we have been learning about Viking longboats. Here are some of the facts we found out and some pictures of us making our boats –

Mia – the other name for a longboat is a dragon ship

Megan – they have shield on the side to protect the men and women on the boat

Campbell – at the back of the boat they used a big oar to steer the boat

Alex – 50 or 60 people can fit on a longboat

Alfie – they carve a figurehead on the front of the boat to scare off their enemies in battle

 Fun Stuff

 On Wednesday we were lucky to have a dance taster session. here are some pictures-

Have a great weekend!!!!

This week we have been learning about the Vikings. Here are some things we have been finding out-

Mia – there are five Viking gods

Suvi – Odin is the chief god and the most important

Megan – Loki is the god of mischief

Kiara – Freya is the god of beauty and war

Lauren – Thor is the god of thunder and he is the most popular god

Jason – Frey is the god of fertility

Alex – Vikings travel in a longboat

Suvi – Vikings came from Scandinavian countries

Megan – they invaded parts of the UK

Mia – the countries they came from were Sweden, Norway and Denmark

In maths this week we have been doing algebra! We have been learning to identify the missing number in a sum. Some of us have been working with function machines and although it was tricky at first we soon got the hang of it.

In HWB this week with Mrs McKenzie we were learning about being cool in school. We learned about the different responses we can have to situations. Here are some examples –

Denholm – an aggressive response is when if someone kicks you then you kick them back instead of going and getting a playground supervisor

James – a weak response is when you let people hit you and you do nothing about it

Alfie – a cool response is when someone hits you and you ask them to stop and say that if they do that again you will tell an adult

In P.E. this week we played the bubble game. It helps us to learn about spatial awareness.

 Have a good weekend!

Just a quick blog to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The winner of the school fayre Christmas hamper was Amy Lawrence from our class. Well done Amy!

Merry Christmas!