Day: November 25, 2021

This week has been a busy and quick week.

On Monday in Green Gym we were being animal detectives. We had previously laid cat food out in trays of soil and mud. We then came back to these trays to investigate and look for any animal footprints. We were convinced that we saw deer footprints! We also played a game of Predators and Prey, we had to camouflage ourselves from the prey to avoid getting eaten! We are really enjoying green gym, it is great to be active outside whilst learning about our environment.

This week our teachers apprentice group had the great honour of presenting to Mrs Cochrane. They did a fantastic job of leading the learning and facilitating a discussion surrounding their chosen text about dinosaurs. We are getting very good at using the language of reciprocal reading and being able to apply it to our reading tasks within the classroom. Some of us were a bit nervous but we rose to the challenge and felt proud of our efforts afterwards.

In numeracy we have been looking at strategies to assist subtraction, including exchanging, place value and being able to read word problems for numbers up to 1000. We thoroughly enjoy a challenge and although we initially found this a bit of a challenge we persisted and learned from our mistakes to help us feel confident in out learning.

In writing this week we have been focusing on the planning stage for next week’s task. We have been revising all of the concepts of Persuasive writing and looking at appropriate vocabulary to up level our work. Next week we will be writing about why Santa should give us our chosen present.

We hope you enjoyed a brief snapshot of our week in Primary 4/3.