Primary 4 have had another week of working hard and learning new things.
In Numeracy we have completed our Multiplication topic. We were all given a post topic assessment to do, where we were encouraged to try our best and use all the new knowledge we have gained. We will now use these skills to look at Division.
In Writing this week we worked together as a class, looking at all the necessary points that need to be included in a Narrative piece. We looked at our comments from last week so that we all knew where would could improve this week. We wrote our piece together and used our topic as our stimulus. We wrote about a person travelling to Ancient Egypt and mentioned some of the things they may have experienced such as the changing seasons, meeting the Pharaoh, taking on a job as a farmer and trading for goods. As a class we picked names for our characters, decided what the complication was going to be and agreed on a resolution. Here are some of our finished stories. We are very proud of this piece!
In Reading we have discussed the importance of answering fully when it comes to comprehension tasks. When we have been reading aloud, we have had a focus on using expression and being aware of things such as exclamation marks, question marks and italics, and how we should read when they are present.
In Art this week we finished off our scarab beetles and made some wings for them. We also got an opportunity to do some free drawing.
In topic this week we learned all about the mummification process. Here are our thoughts on this:
Sophie C – It was weird but interesting to learn about.
Summer – It was interesting to learn about how mummification works.
Kayleigh – I found it gross when I heard that they mashed the brains up and took them out with a hook.
Derry – It was disgusting when we heard that when a person is dead that they can still do the toilet and it would like down the board they were on!
Erin R – It was interesting that they had to use salt, I didn’t know it helped to soak up water.
Chloe – When the body is wrapped up the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are put in jars.
Hadiyaah – It was disgusting but interesting to hear why they would mummify people.
Olivia – It was very interesting as I thought they just out the wrapping out but they take out most of the organs first and mash up the brain.
Have a lovely weekend!
