This week in maths we have been doing a variety of different activities for times table recall …times. We rolled a dice for 2 digits and then rolled once more and then multiplied using the grid method.

We also did some multiplication square challenges to speed up our recall of multiplication facts.

In Literacy we have been working on new reading skills, things like Opener Oracle and Setting Scouter. NEW VOCABULARY ALERT….An Oracle is when you know everything!  Opener Oracle was the task set for us.  We had two groups and the Opener Oracle group was looking through their reading book for adverbs, verbs, adjectives and prepositions at the start of the sentences and it was really fun to do. Setting Scouter helps us to learn more ways to understand what language an author uses to set a scene and ways to create an atmosphere.

We have started our ‘What A Wonderful World Topic’ and spent some time using our reading skills to find out about Space Exploration.  We’ve also been working hard on our Bridges Showcase for our very special ceremony next Friday.

We finished this week with our Children in Need Spotty walk!

We hope you enjoyed our blog.

BLOGGERS THIS WEEK ARE KATIE ANDERSON AND LACHLAN DRENNAN

This week in P4, we have been learning how to subtract on a blank number line. We do this by taking away the hundreds first, then the tens and finally the units.
On Tuesday, we had lots of fun watching the Panto – Cinderella!
“I liked it when Cinderella and Prince Charming kissed’ – Daniel T
“I liked it when they got the teachers up dancing” – Nicole
We also wrote a scary Halloween story during Big Writing time. On Thursday, we made Halloween pictures by making different shades of colours e.g. light red all the way to dark red. Then when that dried we used the black paint to create a silhouette effect!
Most importantly P4 loved the Halloween party !
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

We made up our own stories about Cinderella. We all made a few changes to the story to make it our own. Some of the changes were: Cinderella was bad, the pumpkin turned into a bull, the pumpkin broke down on the way to the ball and the Prince fell in love with one of the stepsisters. the stories were very imaginative and well written. We have also started learning about our topic Livingston now and then. We also looked at some skills for work. We are going to focus on working independently and time management skills. The school also had a Halloween party last night.

P7A and P7B made fantastic first impressions at their first transition event at James Young High School on Wednesday. In their teams the pupils had to complete 19 German activities in 60 minutes. Here is some pupil feedback of the day:

“It was fun learning how to speak German.” Sophie.

“I learnt how to say ‘guten Morgen’ which means ‘good morning’ in German.” Dylan.

“ I enjoyed the food tasting activity because it was decent German food.” Abi S.

“ I liked the blind car game. You had to say German words for directions to get to the finish line.” Abbie M.

“I enjoyed the photo booth activity because it was fun to dress up in the costume. I liked walking around and looking at different parts of the school.” Katie

“It was good to see the school so when we move up we know where to go and it was good to work with the S1 pupils because they already know the school.” Chloe B.

“ It was fun trying to find different parts of the school.” Gabriel

Well done to Joshua Davidson and Katie Ford who were both in the winning team that completed the most activities in the time set.

The whole school watched a super performance all about the rights that children have!

We loved singing along with the songs!!!

Primary Four have been lucky enough to have a visit from Sarah’s dad to talk about electricity! Sarah’s dad talked about what electricity is, how electricity is made and different types of electricity! We really enjoyed the talk about learnt lots! We loved all the demos!!

Primary 4 also won the Goblet of Good Manners this week as a bonus!

This week we completed our Human Body assessment. As a class, we were amazing at coming up with ideas to stay healthy, matching the names of bones with where they are in the body and naming some of our organs. Below are some examples of our excellent work! We also learned about how our blood travels in our body and what it does with the muscles. For writing this week we wrote about animals as characters. We had lots of fun and are starting to develop our descriptive language.