We have started learning about the important stories in Christianity and Judaism.  We looked at the differences between these two world religions. The place of worship for Christians is called the church.The place of worship for Jewish people is called the synagogue.

We have been working hard on  our castles topic. We researched why castles were built and when they were first built in the UK. We also had to decide where we would build a castle and give our reasons for this. We shared this together and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each location. This week  we were also working in a small group to discuss and sort the strengths and weaknesses of a motte and bailey castle. Did you know these could be built in just a few weeks?

Our imaginative writing task this week was to write about a time travel trip to a castle. We had to write an interesting story with a beginning. middle and end. We used lots of wonderful wow words to describe our setting.

Also this week we have been learning about alliteration. This is where the same sounds or letters are together in a few of the words in a sentence to make it more interesting! We wrote some tongue twisters using alliteration! Here is an example of one of these- Racing Robertrolls rubbers!

Our health topic is internet safety and we have found out that if you get an e-mail from someone you don’t know, delete it! It might have a virus! We worked hard to create a display for our dining hall, which shares some more important tips that we have learned!

It has been a fun and busy week!

‘This is P3/4 and P4 Christmas Enterprise blog. We will be showing you what we were doing andwhat we made.’  Andrew

‘It was very hard, but we had to do everything with care. We will keep you posted on how we spend the money that we earned. ‘ Nikita

‘Thank you for helping us raise money. We raised £343.47’  Euan

‘We might spend the money on gardening equipment.’ Lily

‘We really enjoyed making and selling our products.’ Taylor

‘I was standing with Katie and selling lots of stuff. We sold the Christmas boxes first because lots of people really liked them.’ Gabriel

‘Me and Euan were in charge of offering everybody shortbread and mince pies. It was for a donation.’ Holly-Ann

‘Me and Sommer were passing the key rings and sun catchers to the adults.’ Emma

‘Me, Mark and Jamie were giving out the timetable sheet and sometimes it was really busy and sometimes it got quite quiet.’ Emma

‘My table sold all of the suncatchers and key rings really quickly.’ Sommer

‘We were surprised that some items didn’t sell and some things went really fast.’ Xander

‘We got a nice comment from one of the mums. She said, ‘This is really good! How long did it take you to make them?’ Alex

‘I was so surprised that we had lots of people at our table.’ Abbie

‘We were excited by how many people came.’ Beth

‘Thank you for coming to our Christmas Fair and we hope yo enjoyed it!’ Jaime

This week in primary four we have been working hard to get organised for our Christmas Fair. We received our order of all the materials we will need to make some more wonderful things to sell. We have started to think about the different prices each item will cost. We had a vote with P3/4 to  organise the item that we would like to make.

In maths we have been learning about rounding to the nearest ten and the nearest hundred. We have also been using our rounding skills to estimate the answers to some addition calculations. We sang a little song to help us to remember whether we round up or down. Kian really enjoyed mental maths and the new game we played this week.

In our writing lesson we were looking at Roald Dahl and thinking about all of the wonderful adjectives and verbs that he uses in ‘The Twits.’ We wrote about a disgusting meal that Mr Twit could cook for Mrs Twit, as revenge for the wormy spaghetti. Sophie thinks the Twits are absolutely disgusting.

In health we have been looking at where different food comes from. Ciara is confused about where  jelly comes from and is going to research this at the weekend. We are going to be label checkers and try to find where all of our food has come from.

Mrs Lough & Primary 4

This week primary 4 have been extremely busy! Please read some of our comments below about what we have been doing!

Christmas Enterprise:

‘We have been making Bouncing Snowmen.’ Lily

‘We have decorated bookmarks to sell.’ Ciara

‘We worked together with P3/4 to shop online for materials to make things to sell to our parents.’ Beth K

‘Our class has been making reindeer food and instead of sugar crystals we used glitter.’ Kian

Science:

‘We looked at what dissolves and what doesn’t dissolve.’ Robyn

‘We did a little experiment. We had two glasses of water and put sugar in one and a pea in the other. The pea didn’t dissolve.’ Kalanah

‘We learned that cocoa powder dissolves in hot water.’ Jaime  

‘In science the words soluble and insoluble. It means it can dissolve if it is soluble and insoluble means it can’t dissolve.’ Euan

Language:

‘We learned about Ebenezer Scrooge and did some writing about him. At the start he was grumpy and hated Christmas and at the end he was happy and joyful.’ Sophie

‘We remembered to think about our VCOP superheroes- Violet Vocabularly who helps with wow words, Captain Connective who makes sure that you join two short sentences and take away a full stop and add a connective. Also, you  have Dr. Punctuation who makes sure you’ve got stuff like fulls stops, capital letters and question marks when you need it. Incredible openers make sure that the start of our sentences are interesting and you don’t just use the same word all the time. ‘  Nikita

Thank you for reading!

Primary 4