It has been a very busy first term and we wanted to share with you some of the things that Primary 4 have been doing.

We have been studying famous artists this term. So far we have looked at Steven Brown and Kadinsky with a focus on their use of colour. The class have used pastel and paint to recreate the artist’s work for our classroom art gallery.

We are taking part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge and the class are aiming to read for at least 15 minutes everyday. They have also been given a reading passport to complete when they finish a new book. We have some cushions and beanbags that children can use at this time but if your child has their own that they can keep in class for the year then please send them in with their name written on them. We are also looking for donations of books and magazines to improve our library. If you have any books that you could donate to us then please send them in to us.

It was National Poetry Day on Thursday and the children wrote poems using similes and metaphors. Our star writer of the week was Kayla Sinnet.

Well done Kayla.

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We have been working on our personal projects in class, We picked our own topic to research and had to stick to the following criteria:

Your project must

• Have a front cover with a title, picture, author and illustrator
• Have a contents page
• Have a blurb on the back page
• Have page numbers

This morning in P4/3 we wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather so we took our classroom outside. We did some comprehension, some reading and of course we had some time to play/keep fit on the Trim Trail.

P4/3 were given the challenge of creating their own smoothie. Sounds fun right? It’s never that straight forward with us ;-). We had set criteria

1. It must contain at least 2 of the 5 food groups,
2. It must cost less than £2.00 to make,
3. It should be as healthy as possible – each food item was given a points value based on its nutritional value,
4. It must be written in recipe form.

We made a plan on how to best attack this problem by breaking it down into manageable chunks. We also identified the skills required.

Sam – I’m going to have kiwi and grapes because they’re 10p. I’ll add fromage frais for my second food group then it means I can add lots more fruit to make it healthy.

Ben – We’ve made it really healthy. We used all fruit and spent £2.00. (5 minutes later) – We took away 1 pineapple so we could add milk.

Brendan/Scot – Honey as it’s sweet, sugary, better than chocolate sauce – it’s healthier. Banana is cheap and delicious.

Aaron – I’ll add milk and honey. Milk is good for you and honey is healthy because it is made by bees.