We have been very busy in Primary 4 this week and Miss Eunson is very glad to be back and has missed everyone in Primary 4.

Here is our comments and reflections on the week:

“We have been writing our own spooky stories” -Darryl

“I enjoyed practising my spelling words and doing different spelling activities” -Aiden

“I enjoyed using the Red Thinking Hat in reading to think about our feelings” -Alesha

“I loved writing numbers using thousands, hundreds tens and ones” -Jack

“I liked doing handwriting and writing a sentence” -Jay

“I liked using the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones materials to make numbers” -Alex

“I enjoyed doing our spelling test for our spelling words” -Jemma

“I liked singing with Mrs Ewing and P6/5 as well”- Michael

“I loved doing Numeracy ICT games” -Rachel

“I enjoyed together time when we got to get together in our house groups” -Carla

“I enjoyed using cotton buds and paint to make numbers on ten frames” -Bethany

“I liked flashing ten frames and getting to guess how many there were” -Lara

“I liked playing the times table bingo game” -Emma

“I liked doing number talks using ten frames” -Daniel

We have really enjoyed this week and we have lots of fun. On Monday, we loved our trip to Whitelee Wind Farm and finding out more about our topic  and renewable energy.

Here are some more of our reflections on the week and what we have been learning:

“I liked finishing our class novel George’s Marvellous medicine and I am looking forward to our next class novel” – Darryl

“I enjoyed the fly swat game in French with Mrs Ewing” – Michael

“I liked getting to meet Mrs Ewing’s daughter Abbie” -Alesha

“I enjoyed presenting to the judges for our school Levenseat competition” -Aiden

“I liked getting to touch the blade from a real wind turbine” -Jaymee -Leigh

“I really enjoyed doing the wind sock experiment when we went on our trip to Whitelee Wind Farm” -Daniel

“I enjoyed seeing the wind turbines in real life and also presenting to the judges about what we have been learning” -Carla

“I know there are 215 wind turbines at Whitelee Wind Farm” -Jemma

“I enjoyed the solar, hydro and wind experiments in the workshop” -Jack

“I learned that the size of the biggest turbine is about 25 buses stacked on top of each other” -Alex

“I know the blades of wind turbines are made out of wood”- Emma

Here are some photographs of our week and us enjoying our time at Whitelee Wind Farm.

We have had a very busy and fun week in Primary four.  We have been working together to design our wind turbine models and cannot wait until our trip to the wind farm. Here are some of our reflections on the week:

“I liked creating a fact mindmap about Autumn weather” -Darryl

“I enjoyed painting the wind turbines that we made” -Michael

“I liked doing rainbow writing with my spelling words” -Alesha

“I liked playing dodgeball with Mrs Warden” -Jay

“I enjoyed creating a poster about wind turbines and learning the signs for more than and less than in Maths” -Emma

“I loved making our wind turbine models” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I liked when we drew insects and mini beasts in French” -Lara

“I enjoyed writing a silly story with all of my spelling words” -Aiden

“I liked singing a harvest song with Mrs Ewing” -Michael

“I liked gym with Mrs Warden” -Bethany

“I liked painting the wind turbines” -Ethan

“I enjoyed doing mini games in football” -Daniel

“I enjoyed writing a letter to Roald Dahl about our class novel George’s Marvellous Medicine”- Rachel

“I enjoyed playing the number bond games”- Carla

Although it has been a short week this week we have still been busy in Primary 4 and have had lots of fun.

Here are some of our weekly highlights:

“I loved the Rookie Rockstar concert and singing all the songs” -Alesha

“I loved doing Izak 9 with Mrs Robley” -Aiden

“I enjoyed playing the Simon Says game in French with Mrs Ewing” -Rachel

“I enjoyed Rookie Rockstars and I thought it was really funny when the parents had to do a rap” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I enjoyed putting musical notes together to make a song” -Carla

“I enjoyed learning names for bugs in French” -Alex

“I liked philosophy when we got to sort the animals into what we thought were good and bad pets. My favourite animal was an Owl” -Lara

“I agree with Lara because I liked doing philosophy and the animal game” -Michael

We have had a very fun and exciting week in Primary 4.  Here are some of our reflections on this week:

“I enjoyed challenges on sumdog for Maths week” -Michael

“I also really liked playing on sumdog” -Jemma

“I enjoyed challenge time in Rookie Rockstars and singing the Pop Rock Melody” -Carla

“I liked going to the open evening and getting to share what we are learning” -Emma

“I liked designing the CD cover for Rookie Rockstars” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I enjoyed Roots of Empathy and the story about feelings” -Ethan

“I liked learning the different body parts and colours for the Hungry Caterpillar in French” -Rachel

“I liked the number treasure hunt in our classroom” -Alesha

“I liked the rap challenge in Rookie Rockstars” -Bethany

“I enjoyed designing my own front cover for our class novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine” -Alex

“I liked doing the Jo Wicks school workout in the hall” -Jay

“I enjoyed going up for a challenge in Rookie Rockstars” -Darryl

We have had a busy week in Primary 4. This week we met baby Archie at Roots of Empathy and we were all very excited and can’t wait to see him again already!

We have been working really hard on our Energy topic and have thought of ideas for creating our own wind turbine models which we are going start to make next week. If anybody would like to bring in  or donate any used plastic bottles, cardboard, plastic cups or pringle tubs this would be great and would really help us!

Here are some of our reflections on the week:

“I enjoyed working together in a group to design a wind turbine model and doing bench ball with Mrs Warden” – Carla

“I enjoyed music with Mrs Ewing and talking about the proper names for loud and quiet music which are piano (p) and forte (f)” -Daniel

“I loved doing Go Noodle at the end of the day with Primary 3/2” -Rachel

“I enjoyed number talks where we used dot patterns and practising dribbling in Football with Miss Eunson” -Emma

“I liked watching Nina and the Neurons to find out about wind mills and wind turbines” -Jemma

“I enjoyed presenting my wind turbine model design to the class and getting two stars and a wish from our class” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I liked finding out about what renewable energy is” -Alex

“I enjoyed doing different spelling strategies and our spelling test” -Alesha

“I had fun at Roots of Empathy because a special baby Archie came to see us” -Darryl

“I thought the whiteboard number bonds game was good fun” -Michael

“I liked the number bonds smart board game we played” -Aiden

“I loved when Archie when Archie was trying to move in Roots of Empathy” -Lara

Here are some photographs of us at Roots of Empathy meeting baby Archie and of our groups presenting our wind power model designs to our class.

We have had a very busy week in Primary 4.

On Monday, we had a visit from the Scottish SPCA and we really enjoyed our workshop on Food and Farming and learning about how to protect and look after animals in Scotland.

We had our first Roots of Empathy session with Mrs Allardyce on Wednesday and we can’t wait until baby Archie comes in next week! 🙂

Here are some of the other things we enjoyed and our class reflections on the week:

“I really enjoyed making our emoji themed class charter” -Carla

“This week we started our Roots of Empathy with Primary 3s as well and it was really fun” -Jaymee-Leigh

“I enjoyed designing our class canvas and getting to use paint to put our handprints on it” -Alex

“I enjoyed guessing how much baby Archie weighed and guessing how big he will be next week” -Michael

“I liked doing Number Talks with my new class” -Daniel

“I loved designing my own emoji” -Aiden

“I enjoyed French and Music with Mrs Ewing” -Emma

“I loved doing P.E with Mrs Warden and Miss Eunson” -Rachel

“I liked Emma’s magic show” -Jack

Here are some photographs of us on our first week back.

Primary 4 will be having gym on Tuesdays and Wednesdays this term so please remember to bring in your gym kit on these days.

We have really enjoyed our first week back at school after the summer holidays.  We have settled in really well and are working well as a team.  Here are some of our reflections on the week and what we have enjoyed:

“I have enjoyed seeing all of my friends again” -Alesha

“I am really happy we are back from the summer holidays, I missed my class and my classroom” -Jemma

“I liked writing on Thursday about my favourite memories in the summer” -Darryl

“I liked thinking about the class charter and getting to vote on what we wanted it to be” -Carla

“I liked going to gym with Miss Eunson because we got to play games”-Jay

“I enjoyed gym with Mrs Warden and drawing our monsters in class” -Emma