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 with Mrs Mackenzie we did the four operations. We were looking at addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. We were working out calculations using these operations. It was fun and quite challenging.
On Thursday we met our new teacher for P5, Mrs Harrison. We drew profile pictures of our heads and filled them with our interests and things we like. We also talked about the things we might be learning about in P5 including William Wallace.
In Art we drew a picture with charcoal of a desert adding cactuses. We learnt about drawing the background, the foreground and the midground.
In language we started learning more about speech marks. We looked at cartoon speech bubbles and had to make their speech into direct speech. There’s quite a lot to remember when writing speech!
Table of the week – green with 440 points
Learning partners of the week – Liam and Kyle

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.

Our short week was very busy!

In maths, we have been practicing dividing using our knowledge of the times tables. Last week we learned about Carrol Diagrams and this week we have been learning about Venn Diagrams. We can use both to sort out data.

In Literacy, we were learning about and using alliteration. We had to think of adjectives to add to our names to create alliteration. Then we made up some sentences using words beginning with the same letter.

In topic, we have been learning about Fairtrade, food wastage and food miles. We have thought about how this impacts the world around us and have chosen ways in which we can reduce this impact.
Our beans have sprouted and are growing very well. We also rescued the potatoes from the spoon and potato race from going to the bin. We have been learning how to grow them and have planted them. Hopefully, will be able to harvest them in about 15-20 weeks.
You can find out how to grow potatoes in bags here:
how-to-grow-potatoes-in-bags (All potatoes are seeds – you can grow any potato!)

Have a great weekend!

On Tuesday the 2 primary 4 classes went to Dynamic Earth as part of their climate topic. This is what they enjoyed most about the trip:
Ellie-Rose –My favourite part of the trip was going on the time machine
Annie – My favourite part of the trip was when we watched the 3d movie
Florence – My favourite part of the trip was when we went into the rainforest. It was really cool; it rained and lots of animals moved.
Ruby – My favourite part of the trip was going in the time machine and learning when dinosaurs were around the world.
Orla – My favourite part of the trip was definitely the 3d cinema because it felt really real and we got to fly on a plane. We crashed and saw a rhino and a scorpion.
Noami – I liked when we went to the desert and we crashed on the sand and the people lost the signal when the plane crashed. The rhino ran past us when we fell.
Charlotte – My favourite part of the trip was when we went to the workshop and learnt about the temperature and how we can save the world from getting even hotter.
Olivia – My favourite part of the trip was when we got to touch the ice. It was very cold and when we watched the 3d movie.
Kyle – My favourite part of the trip was when we travelled 14 billion years ago to the beginning of everything and then 4.5 billion years ago to early earth.
Owen – My favourite part of the trip was when we went to the jungle!
Rory – My favourite part of the trip was when the volcano eruptions where magma came out but not real and smoke and the ground shook.
Liam – My favourite part of the trip was when we went in the rainforest and it started to rain. I liked the chimpanzee.
Alfie B – My favourite part of the trip was the bit where the volcano and the ground was wiggling.
Eva – My favourite part of the trip was the iceberg because there were holes and it was so cool!
Max – My favourite part of the trip was when we could touch the iceberg.
Aaron – My favourite part of the trip was when we went in the room and the floor moved and everyone screamed!
Dylan – My favourite part of the trip was when I went in the time machine. It was fun because it showed how much time went by on the earth.
Alife L – My favourite part of the trip was the iceberg because we could touch it.
Holly – My favourite part of the trip was when we got to go in the 3d experience. So cool!!!!!
Brooke – My favourite part of the trip was the volcano room because it was all steamy and the floor started shaking and also the arctic tundra room because we got to feel a real iceberg.
Shaun – My favourite part of the trip was the 3d bit where we put on glasses. It was so cool when a rhino put its head so close.
Ellie – My favourite part of the trip was when we watched the 3d movie because I got to see a hammer head shark.
My favourite part of the trip was going in the time elevator.
Alistair – My favourite part of the trip was the flight and the person was just new and the plane crashed. We saw a rhino and a lobster.
Learning partners of the week – Annie and Ellie.

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.

This week we enjoyed sports day out at Balbardie Park. We were really proud of the sportsmanship showed by so many of the children as they cheered their friends on in the races. We were pleased that Rory and Kaycee were overall winners and that Rory and Charlotte contributed to the house relay winning for Strachan.
Winners in P4b included: Rory 1st place for Sprint, Long distance and the sack race. Brandon and Jamie came second and third in the Sprint. Liam came 2nd in the sack race. Annie came third in the sack race and first in the egg and spoon. Eva came first in the sprint. Kaycee won the long distance and came first in the sack race. Holly came third in the sprint race.
On Thursday we finished f our block of writing on instructions by writing some game instructions for the Primary 1s to learn some new playground games. We had great fun out in the playground with them seeing if our instructions worked!
I liked teaching the P1s games – Brandon.
We finished off learning about length and have started thinking about capacity! We were very surprised that the Haribo tub held more than the 2l bottle. We all thought it would have a smaller capacity!
Table of the week – blue table with 660.
Learning partners of the week – Eva and Annie
Pictures to follow.

This week has been very busy. We are working hard at division and trying to use our knowledge of times tables to check/work out our answers. In topic maths, we have continued looking at patterns and its link with geometry.

In topic, we have been learning about harvesting, farms and farm animals. We have also been learning about where things grow and have been learning about the different types of machines that help with harvesting fruits and vegetables.

Tuesday was our shared start and we had lots of activities to do based on Health and Wellbeing. We were revisiting, revising or learning about internet safety, keeping safe around medicines and healthy eating. Thank you to all the parents who were able to come and watch our learning and help us with our tasks. Here are some pictures if you missed coming.

Our highlights of a busy week –

Charlotte – I enjoyed having a picnic at break today
Jamie – I enjoyed making my paper fish in language.
Brandon – I enjoyed peace and quiet during the reading rave.
Lewis – I liked making the origami dogs
Aaron – I enjoyed bring outside for lunch.
Rory – I enjoyed measuring in maths
Owen – I enjoyed my drumming lessons.
Alfie L – I liked playing on the iPad
Kaycee – I enjoyed making a book with Eva during the Reading Rave
Alfie B – I enjoyed making the paper fish.
Max – I enjoyed eating outside
Eva – I am enjoying making animal arks with Florence, Annie and Ruby.
Bryce- I learned how to make a paper fish.
Ellie- I enjoyed doing PE with Mr Jeffries – we played extreme tunnel tig!
Alistair – I liked playing football before school.
Holly – I enjoyed playing outside with Ellie and Charlotte.
Orla – I enjoyed art this week.
Dylan – I liked learning how to make a paper fish.
Ruby – I enjoyed the reading rave.
Jay – I enjoyed learning the greater than and less than signs.
Jackie – I enjoyed eating outside.
Florence – I liked making the books with my friends.
Ellie-Rose – I enjoyed French with Monsieur Perrard.
Shaun – I enjoyed art this week as I managed to finish my Kraken.
Noami – I enjoyed reading in the reading rave.
Kyle – I enjoyed talking about flowers on Science.
Annie – I enjoyed writing our animal ark books.
Olivia – I enjoyed art because I’ve almost finished the water with the watercolours.
Brooke – I enjoyed doing the water colours for my Kraken.
Learning Partners of the week – Charlotte and Rory
Table of the week – yellow 710 points

You are most welcome to come to our sports day on Wednesday at 1.15 pm at Balbardie Park. Children should ensure that they come in their outdoor PE kit and bring a water bottle and sunscreen if the weather is looking good!

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!