Here are our reflections on this week:

“I enjoyed learning about fractions in Maths” -Ethan

“I loved learning Spanish words with Mrs Ewing” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I enjoyed writing a reflection on what we learned in our Roman topic” -Rachel

“I liked handwriting” -Carla

“I loved doing a vocabulary cartoon in reading” -Alex

“I liked when we got to go out and do assessments for reading and writing” -Daniel

“I enjoyed learning about division in numeracy” -Michael

“I enjoyed when we did the Drama box workshop” -Jay

“I liked playing the halves game on hit the button when it was the class versus the teacher” -Jack

“I enjoyed doing a spelling test for my words” -Darryl

“I liked learning about finding fractions of a number” -Aiden

“I enjoyed doing gym outside with Miss Eunson” -Alesha

“I liked watching the P3/2 assembly” -Jemma

We have had a busy week in Primary Four. We loved our workshop by Roman Tales on Tuesday, it was a great way to finish our topic on the Romans, where we go to dress up and act like real Roman Soldiers. We also loved the small museum and display.

Here are some photographs of us in action:

Here are our reflections on the week:

“I enjoyed getting to redraft my writing on the computer and that it was going to be entered into the young writer award” –Jaymee-Leigh

“I enjoyed when we went to the Roman workshop and we threw the balls at the Roman Army” –Michael

“I loved doing handwriting and writing sentences” –Jack

“I loved when we got to do pyramid spelling with my spelling words” –Lara

“I liked doing a vocabulary cartoon when we had to find a word from our book which we didn’t know and look up its meaning in a dictionary” –Jay

“I enjoyed seeing Hannah, Brogan and Eve do their dance at their class assembly” –Alesha

“I thought it was funny at the start of Roman tales when we shouted ‘Roman Ready’ and the man jumped out dressed as a Roman” –Carla

“I enjoyed when we were doing numeracy and doing times table activities” –Daniel

“I enjoyed doing the hot air balloon adventure with Mrs Ewing when we got to go to Jamaica and find out about Caribbean music” -Rachel

“I enjoyed playing hit the button to practice division and dividing numbers” –Darryl

“I liked going to Addiewell Primary to get a tour and see what they did in Literacy” –Emma

“I enjoyed starting to learn about the eight times table” –Aiden

“I liked starting division and seeing how it was similar to times tables” –Alex

“I loved doing number talks when we got to do a target number, mine was 14 and 16” –Bethany

“I enjoyed the Roman workshop and the pretend Roman battle” –Jemma

“I enjoyed doing my two times table in Numeracy” -Ethan

Have a good weekend everyone!

P4 and Miss Eunson

This week was a very exciting week for primary four as the whole class went for one night to Lowport for their first school camp experience. We had lots of fun and enjoyed the range of activities we took part in.

Here are our highlights and favourite parts of our stay:

“I liked going on a forest adventure because we played follow the leader and found a table with food on it that squirrels had been eating. We also got to go under a tunnel and it was fun” -Alex

“I enjoyed doing canoeing” -Ethan

“I liked when we went on the forest adventure and we made dens for a small animal or object out of sticks and things we could find outside” -Emma

“I enjoyed the kayaking even though it was freezing” -Aiden

“I enjoyed doing the forest walk because I got to put mud on my face and it was so fun and also getting to put my nose at the end of the Kayak” -Alesha

“I loved the forest adventure because we found a elf door” -Jack

“I thought it was good that we had a camp fire and got to eat s’mores” -Michael

“I liked playing the buzz game” -Jay

“I enjoyed playing silent ball with the teachers and children from Stoneyburn and Greenrigg” -Daniel

“I loved the view we had from our top floor in our room” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I really liked making the nature cocktails” -Carla

“I loved sharing a room with Lara” -Rachel

“I enjoyed falling in the water when we did kayaking” -Darryl

“I loved eating the food at dinner, breakfast and supper, it was amazing” -Jemma

“I enjoyed supper and getting caramel shortcake” -Bethany

Here are Miss Eunson’s photographs from Lowport.

We have reached the end of Term 3 and all the boys and girls in primary four are very excited for Easter and the Easter holidays.

Here are our reflections on this week:

“I enjoyed playing dodgeball” -Jay

“I liked doing just dance and I also liked number talks” -Michael

“I liked doing Maths questions on Plicker with Mrs Rankin” -Aiden

“I liked working with primary one to design Easter cards and helping them” -Bethany

“I enjoyed finishing our crawler transporters” -Carla

“I enjoyed making Easter cards” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I liked seeing baby Archie playing at Roots of Empathy” -Rachel

“I liked finishing off our space stories and starting to redraft our work” -Darryl

“I liked drawing Easter scenes” -Alesha

“I enjoyed performing at the Easter Service on Monday” -Daniel

Miss Eunson has been very impressed to see all the boys and girls in Primary Four so interested in our STEM space topic. It was great to see Emma and Carla both bringing in information from home to add to our space topic.

“I enjoyed hearing Emma sharing what she knows about the company Gore and how their products are used in space” -Jemma

“I liked hearing about the different names of craters and when Carla was teaching us this” -Jaymee-Leigh

This week we have begun a new STEM topic, Space and we are really enjoying this so far and can’t wait to share our learning about this next week.

Here are our reflections on our learning from this week:

“I enjoyed doing yoga with Miss Eunson” -Lara

“We did gymnastics assessments with Mrs Howard” -Carla

“I learned about verbs and adverbs in reading and I know what they are and can find them in books” -Alex

“I enjoyed learning about Venn Diagrams in Maths and working with Aiden to compare Roman houses and our houses” -Darryl

“I liked creating a wanted poster in writing about Boudicca the celt who fought against the Romans” -Jay

“I enjoyed creating mothers day cards and writing a letter to thank Miss Gracie who has now gone back to University” -Emma

“I liked being part of the Rotary quiz” -Daniel

“I enjoyed learning about the phases of the moon in Science and looking at the moon at night time” -Jemma

“I loved playing a new sight words game on the smartboard” -Bethany

“I liked when we made Easter cards in French with Mrs Ewing” -Alesha

“I liked doing our spelling test for our spelling words” -Jack

“I enjoyed the action game in French for Easter words” -Rachel

“I learned what alliteration is and used this in my wanted poster” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I liked making as many words as I could out of the word Planetarium” -Ethan

Here are our reflections on the week:

“I enjoyed doing handwriting when we were practising cursive” – Lara

“I liked doing maths when we were doing a table and graph on a laptop” – Alex

“I liked when we did the circuit training and we recorded how much we did in a minute and thirty seconds” – Alesha

“I enjoyed finishing off the Roman timeline” – Darryl

“I enjoyed learning how to put a graph or pie chart onto a laptop using Microsoft Excel” – Aiden

“I liked doing an imaginative story in our writing about creatures on a sinking boat” – Rachel

“I enjoyed when we were learning about numbers smaller than 1 (tenths) using a decimal point” – Emma

“I enjoyed doing writing an imaginative story on a laptop” – Jemma

“Everyday we have done number talks and I liked it” – Michael

“I enjoyed when we were finishing off our pictures for the Roman Calendar and finishing the Calendar” – Jaymee-Leigh

“We were learning about what makes a great role model” – Jay

“I like being back at school after being ill” – Daniel

“Yesterday we were doing freeze frames in health and well being” – Bethany

“I liked designing a wall display of what a great role model would do” – Jack

“I enjoyed doing the daily mile” – Ethan

On Monday, we welcomed Miss Gracie into our classroom who is going to be working alongside Miss Eunson for the next five weeks.

This week we have been working hard practising and preparing for our short roman play which we will be performing at our class assembly next week . We have been researching Roman clothing, making our own props, outfits and costumes. We hope to see you all there next week (Wednesday 7th of February at 2.15pm) so we can show off our knowledge of the Romans and our learning from our topic.

On Thursday we enjoyed our day with the whole school focusing on Health and Wellbeing and where our next steps are as a school. We talked about the SHANNARI wellbeing indicators and thought of examples of how we feel and stay Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible, Included and Safe at school.

Here are our reflections on our week:

I liked doing our assessed piece of writing where we got to write a story about a mysterious shadow” –Darryl

“I enjoyed getting to collect information in tables using tally marks in Maths” –Rachel

“I liked when we did mental maths in our jotters” –Daniel

“I enjoyed when we got to paint and design Roman roads” –Emma

“I liked doing number talks” –Jay

“I enjoyed being in the JRSO pupil voice group and when we got to measure how tall we were to measure how tall you need to be without a car seat” –Michael

“I enjoyed meeting Miss Gracie and welcoming her to our class” –Aiden

“I liked doing gymnastics with Mrs Howard” –Jack

“I liked practising for the Roman play using props” –Alex

“I liked designing and painting Roman shields” –Lara

“I liked having relax and read time in our classroom where we got to choose our own books” -Bethany

“I liked working as a whole school for health yesterday”- Ethan

“I liked getting to make a poster for the pupil council” – Jemma

“I liked answering questions in circle time with Miss Gracie” – Alesha

We have had a busy and exciting week this week and have all been working hard in primary four.

Some of our highlights this week were: on Tuesday we had visitors from the Royal Bank of Scotland to do money workshops which was great fun.  Then we had our joint school ceilidh on Wednesday night and also really enjoyed the glow disco organised by the Junior Road Safety officers today!

Here are some photographs from this week:

On Monday, in writing we learned about the features of Cinquain poems and wrote our own Cinquain poem about Burns Night. We then redrafted our poems and designed our own tartan for a background and these are going to be displayed in the school.

Today, we have been focusing on how we can improve our sentences in writing by using different types of connectives, including complex connectives. We  worked together with a partner to write examples of good sentences using connectives and have added these to our writing wall.

Here are our class reflections on the week:

“I liked working out how much change you should get back when you buy something in a shop in Maths” –Jay

“I enjoyed reading Superworm with Jemma and blurb” –Jaymee-Leigh

“I liked adding together hundred numbers” –Alesha

“I enjoyed when the Royal Bank of Scotland came in and we learned about money and wants and needs” –Daniel

“I enjoyed the glow disco” –Darryl

“I liked practising writing sentences in handwriting” –Jack

“I loved practising writing sentences using complex connectives” –Rachel

“At the Glow Disco I learned if you are in the dark you need to wear something bright and shiny” –Alex

“I enjoyed writing Cinquain poems about Robert Burns” –Michael