Month: March 2021

We have enjoyed another week of learning in Primary 4 this week as we lead up to the Easter holidays.

In Numeracy, we have continued working on our times tables and have assessed our knowledge and understanding at present to see what we need to work on. We have been able to see that we definitely all need to be practising at home.

In Reading we have continued our new class novel of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”. This has brought about some good discussion so far and we look forward to doing some predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising around this. Here are some of our thoughts and things we have learned about so far from the story:

“Witches hate children!” – Erin R

“Witches look like normal ladies and that’s how they catch children.” – Ciaran

“Witches can smell kids” – Rihanna

“Witches have no toes” – Daniel

“I feel like it’s a nice novel, but a little scary” – Alyssa

“They wear gloves to not show their claws and they wear wigs because they are bald!” – Summer

“Witches make children vanish.” – Olivia

“The scent of children is stronger to a witch if they have just had a bath.” – Sophie G

“Children smell disgusting to witches” – Chloe

For our Writing this week we chose to either write a letter to the Easter Bunny or a chocolate company telling them about a new design for an Easter egg. We discussed the layout of a letter beforehand and we told Mrs Hillan what we needed to include. Here are some of our letters:

We hope everyone has a good Easter and stays safe!

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week.

Class Talks

Euan – “We spoke about our favourite toy. I spoke about my football”

Charli Mae – “I spoke about my pengiun who loves to eat fish”

Writing 

Max – “We wrote an information report about frogs”

Andrew – “Frogs hop and make a noise”

Alfie – “Frog eyes poke out like flies”

Archie M – “Frogs are amphibians”

Numeracy

Layla – “We started learning to count in 5s”

Oliver – “We were multiplying”

IDL 

Jordon – “We listen to different theme tunes and spoke about how they made us feel”

Jayden – “We had to work as a team to make a theme song for Super Girl”

Louie – “Our song had to have a happy and exciting beat”

HWB 

Summer – “We had to design a balanced meal”

Sophie – “We needed 1 protein, 1 carbohydrate and 2 vegetables”

Have a lovely weekend!

We are all delighted to be back in school and back together again. We have been working hard since we returned.
In Numeracy we have been showing off our knowledge of subtraction and we have been working on our Times Tables.
In Reading we have been enjoying reading together again. We have been introduced to the final skill in Reciprocal Reading which is Summarising. We have been discussing how we can give a brief version of what has happened in a story and then we used this to give a summary of our group reading books so far.
In Writing we have continued our information report genre and enjoyed writing about a toy of our choice. This week we also completed an assessment on Information Report writing. We have all shown that we have a good knowledge of how to lay out this sort of text.
We are looking forward to next week to see what learning is in store for us!

Literacy

For reading this week, we have been focusing on using key words and phrases to find key pieces of information. We were highlighting the information in the text before answering our questions in sentences.

We have been sounding out our new spelling words. We look, say cover, write and check each word 3 times. Then, we write the word with our eyes closed on our whiteboard as this help us to remember how to spell the words accurately.

In writing, we were using our imagination to help us write a narrative text. We were writing a story with the title ‘Up Up and Away’. We were developing our skills of using adjectives to describe the setting and characters.

Maths

This week in maths, we were focusing on our 5 and 10 times tables. We have been practicing them through maths games and we loved playing times table bingo as a class.

We have also been solving multiplication equations using effective strategies. Some pupils were using arrays to solve the equations and others were using their fingers and skip counting.

IDL

For our topic of toys, we have been looking at plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is a big problem that we face as a society! We were discussing how plastic is a useful material as it is strong and cheap to make. However, it does not decompose and it is not getting recycled properly. Many plastic is in landfill and the sea and this is bad for the animals and the environment.

We had a class discussion about how many toys today are make from plastic. We were shocked to hear that McDonalds is the world’s biggest manufacturer of toys. However, these toys are often made from plastic and are usually throw away toys. We made posters to inform people of the issues created by plastic toy pollution.

Hello and welcome back to our blog! Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

P.E.

Max – “We have been learning new balances”

Elizabeth – “It was hard but we will get better with practise”

Writing

Jordon – “We were writing an information report all about worms”

Archie M – “Worms have 5 hearts”

Euan – “If you cut off a worm’s tail 5 times it will die”

Numeracy

Charli-Mae – “We have been practising multiplication and chimney sums”

Maddison – “I like to use cubes to help me multiply”

IDL

Vrishti – “We made a pop art picture with our favourite toys”

Jayden – “We looked at Andy Warhol pictures and made our own in the same way”

Alfie – “We drew with crayons then we used watery paint to paint over the top”

Mark – “When we tried to put the paint over the crayon it wouldn’t go over it so you could still see our drawings”

Comic Relief 2021

Check out our crazy hair and crazy faces for Comic Relief 2021. Thank you very much for all of your kind donations, they are greatly appreciated!

Have a lovely weekend!