We had a short but enjoyable week here in P4/5.  We learnt about Internet Safety and Liam very much enjoyed it.  We had good fun playing dodgeball in PE.  We also did some spooky art work for Halloween.  We learnt a French song about Halloween from Mr. Herman’s childhood.  It was nice to see everyone in the class back after haft term.  We started recorder lessons this week and will keep practicing hard!  The panto was great and Nathan was our star of the week.

This week in science we finished up our unit on inheritance, where we learnt about different characteristics.  We have started to develop our skills in benchball this week and were very successful.  Also this week we started reading the Twits, and we looked at a character description of Mr. Twit.  Chloe had a very different view of what Mr. Twit would look like, while Lucca’s looked very close to what Mr. Twit looked like in the book.  On Friday we had lots of fun dressing up as different animals to help support the building of a orphanage in Kenya.  Star of the week this week was Lucca, well done!! Hopefully we will win Goblet of Good Manners when we get back.

We enjoyed writing this week about our dream piece of playground equipment.  Chloe M and Liam really enjoyed designing their equipment.  In science we learnt about evolution and why animals needed to evolve.  We learnt about white moths that adapted their colour to camouflage with the black trees. Carla was our star of week for being an effective contributor and Chloe & Emma took our Dojo of the week honours!

We have been very lucky to have Iona from the secondary school in to help us this week. We will miss her lots when she goes back to her own school.  We have enjoyed starting our new topic about the Bankton playground, but we found the mapping of the playground quite difficult! We worked really hard to improve our throwing and catching skills in PE.  in writing we worked very hard to convince the council not to build houses in our playground.  I hope they reconsider (FYI – This was just a hook in our writing, West Lothian Council has no plans to build here!)  Our parents came in to visit today to see how we were getting on with our work.  It was really fun and good to see the parents in the classroom.  Some even got a free art lesson.

This week has been a very short and busy week.  We once again enjoyed the National Youth Choir of Scotland and their very fun games and songs.  We are very excited for what will come next!  Katie thought the writing was very fun this week as we were writing our own set of instructions for George’s Marvelous Medicine.  Ella Gordon was our Star Writer!  Jenny from Niamh’s Brownie’s group came to join us for our P.E. lesson. (Jenny is a doll!)  Liam had really good fun sorting very larger numbers.  Chloe Bell and Hannah won our Dojo points for the week and Deano had an excellent week and won Star of the Week in assembly!