Primary 4 are settling back in nicely and adapting well to the changes in school life just now. Last week we welcomed everyone back by having a check in to discuss some facts about ourselves and what we were looking forward to in P4. We also shared some stories of our Summer.
This week we have started our class novel which we are going to do a novel study on. We are using David Walliams’ story ‘Billionaire Boy’. So far we have read the first 2 chapters and looked at the main characters and what roles they may play in the story. We used the pictures and our imaginations to help with this. As we read, we may change our minds!!!
We have also used what we have read to draw what we imagine the main character to look like in more detail. In pairs we did a comparison between two of the main characters – Joe and his Dad. This gave us an opportunity to think of good vocabulary to show what was the same and what was different about them.
We have been working on information about ourselves to eventually create an ‘All About Me’ story. We shared information on the things we like and don’t like as well as favourite things and hobbies. Primary 4 began a listening and talking task where we had to think of a story that was true, one that was almost true with a little twist in it and one that was fake – I’m sure we will have fun next week trying to guess which is which for everyone!
Primary 4 have revisited our addition skills this week to get our brains warmed up and back into the swing of things. We have done this using number talks as well as some written tasks. We will build upon this over the next few weeks and revisit subtraction too!
We did a bit of art/health work to create kites to display in our classrooms – these tell others what we liked about P3, what we are looking forward to in P4, anything we are really good at and the things we feel that we need to improve on/need support with.
This week we also had a discussion about what we would like to include in our class charter to make our class the happiest and safest place for us to enjoy and learn in. Each of us drew our own images for each part of our charter, these will be displayed in our class. We hope to complete the rest to go on our wall next week.
