Month: September 2020

We have continued to work hard in P4! In Numeracy we continue to focus on our addition skills. I am continuing to see many children becoming more confident with this! This is definitely something the children should continue to practise at home, especially if they don’t feel as confident. There are lots of examples online to use. We have also been continuing to work on our mental maths skills and number talks – one of which focused on making 60 in as many different ways as we could think of. This is only a small number of the examples some of the children came up with:

10×6 – Sophie G

5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+20 – Erin P

10+10+10+10+10+10 – Maisy

1000-940 – Shay

10+50 – Ariah

160-100 – Summer

100-40 – Stevi

60-0 – Kayleigh

70-10 – Joe

40+20 – Gracie

60×1 – Ciaran

 

In Literacy this week we have continued reading in our groups. We have continued to discuss the text as we read and the children have been coming up with some questions of their own as we have read.  We completed some comprehension questions based on our group readers.

I am using expression when I am reading, so it sounds like the people are actually talking – Erin R

It was quite fun as you had to use your book to find the answers – Sophie C

I am using loud voices while I’m reading – Gracie

It was quite easy and fun! – Olivia

It was fun because we had to match up parts in our story for the starts and ends of sentences – Emily

 

In our spelling we have been focusing on common words that came from an assessment in class. We will take some of these home to work on each week in order to help build up our spelling confidence and knowledge. In Writing we have completed an assessment piece about ourselves and our hopes/aspirations for the coming year. We were able to use our previous All About Me stories to give us some ideas. We had to really focus on our core targets such as correct punctuation, using conjunctions (joining words) and using paragraphs, as well as our Descriptive Genre target which include – using a title, including an introduction, describing myself using adjectives and including an evaluation. You can take a look at some of our examples below:

 

In PE we have continued to look at Team activities and this week we had to try out different fitness activities given in our groups. These were activities such as star jumps, human ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’, crab crawl, stretches, frog jumps and many more. This is what the children said afterwards:

We were exercising! – Summer

It was challenging because we had to move onto another one then another! – Derry

It felt like we were being really athletic – Sophie C

We were in our table groups and the person who was our team captain had to tell us the next exercise. It was fun! – Maisy

We exercised in our groups – Ryley

It was really exhausting!! – Chloe

I agree!! (with Chloe) – Ciaran

 

We have been using blocks and squares in our jotters to help our understanding of various times tables. We have also been looking at charts and diagrams and how these can be used to show data. In maths we have also been using chimney sums for addition, subtraction and multiplication, and found that this made it much easier. We have also been practising our addition and tables in Big Maths Beat That.

For language work we do silent reading every morning. We have also been doing SRAs to help with our reading comprehension. We have been practising our handwriting. We have been planning a piece of writing about ourselves, and have written similes about ourselves to describe ourselves.

For our topic work on the rainforest we have been drawing toucans.

Writing

Scarlet- “We were describing The Stick Man”.

Erica- “We were using the describing bubble to describe the sticks that were on the table”.

Sophia- “We were free writing this Friday”.

 

Literacy

Sai and Robyn- “We were spelling tricky words”.

 

Maths

Lucy- “We were counting shapes and using tally marks outside”.

Alexia- “We counted the tally marks and then made a bar graph or a pictogram”.

 

IDL

Harrison-”We read a book about Julia Donaldson”.

Aayan- “The book was a biography. This is a book about someone’s life but they did not write it”.

 

Mia and Emma- “We then wrote facts in our jotter about Julia Donaldson”.

Lucy- “When Julia was a girl she lived with her mum, dad, sister, gran, grandad and auntie”.

Sophia- “Julia Donaldson writes books for children”.

Darby- “She wrote poems when she was little”.

Robyn- “She wrote books for her three sons”.

It has been a short, but busy week in P4/3. We have been working hard on developing our literacy skills, in particular learning to take notes to help us write extended sentences. Have a look at some of our work.

 

We also looked at core writing targets and how we should be using them every time we write. Ask your child to tell you more about them.

In numeracy , we have been exploring adding and subtracting 10 or 100 to a given number. Some children have been finding this a tricky concept to grasp, so we will revise our learning next week.

We have made the most of the better weather and enjoyed P.E. sessions. We continue to improve our fitness levels by using the trim track and taking part in different races.

Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you all next Friday.

This week;

CE- I learnt that to quickly multiply numbers ending in zero, I must multiply the non zero numbers first then add the remaining in the end.

AF- If you are estimating the answer a question, you have to do rounding first.

 

Literacy

LD-  I learnt that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meaning.

FS- I now know that the word they’re refers to a contracted group of  words ‘ they are’.

Outdoor learning

CW- we went outside to pick up leaves, grass and sticks.  Then we made them into artwork.

 

Although it has been a short week, we have done so much learning!

Writing

Macy May – “We were describing a silly house”

Ethan – “We were using adjectives which are describing words”

Elizabeth – “The windows were  square and blue”

Maths

Jayden – “We were using a number square and cubes to order numbers”

Alfie – “We were counting numbers on and backwards”

P.E.

Vrishti – “We have been doing running”

Mark – “Pace means controlling your speed”

Outdoor Learning

Jordon – “We were finding leaves to help us make our bears colourful”

Kayden – “We were looking at different ways to make a flower”

 

We are adding lots of information into our Health & Well Being Big Book. The focus this term is on feeling safe.

We had a great time at the park on Friday. This was a reward for getting all the marbles in our jar. We earn marbles mostly by completing class challenges but sometimes individuals get marbles too. P.4 are particularly good at this! Well done everyone.