What a fun week in P4/3 as we were all feeling in the festive spirit!! We enjoyed watching Christmas movies, making crafts and spending time with our friends. We were even lucky enough to have a special visitor during our movie afternoon on Tuesday!!
Wishing everyone a safe, restful and peaceful holiday. Looking forward to seeing the children return in January 2021, Merry Christmas !!! Mrs Morrison xx
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Nativity production this year looks very different. All classes in the school have been involved in creating a stop frame animation of The Christmas Story.
The story was divided into scenes, with each class being responsible for a scene. Pupils made the scenery and props, and set up the scene for their class. Everyone in the class was involved in helping to animate their class scene, and pupils were able to work in small groups at a safe distance.
The stop frame animation involved positioning the characters in the scene, taking a photo, then moving the characters a very small distance. Another photo taken, another tiny movement made, another photo taken, and this was repeated over 100 times for each scene. When all the pictures are sequenced and viewed one after another, the characters appear to move by themselves.
There has been a huge amount of work from the pupils involved in creating this year’s Nativity – well done everyone.
We all hope that you enjoy watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYceZXoYX5w&feature=youtu.be
This week, P4/3 learned about stop frame animation during their time with Mrs Buntin. All of the children made contributions to re-telling the Christmas story using the technique of stop frame. A big well done to Ashley and Nathaniel who were able to describe and demonstrate the process to Mrs Morrison!! Look out next week (via e-mail) for the finished piece of work, well done P4/3!
Next week, we will enjoy our last week of term before the Christmas holidays. A big well done to all of the children for dealing so well with the changes that have had to be implemented due to COVID-19. Mrs Morrison is proud of you all!
Special events next week:
Tuesday 15th December- movie afternoon and snacks!
Wednesday 16th December- P4/3 record a Christmas poem. Children to wear Christmas jumpers or something sparkly!!
Enjoy your weekend and I will check in with you all next week.
Literacy
This week we have been reading our books. We have been reading in our groups and discussing the text. We have been developing our skim and scanning skills when answering questions about our text.
Mia- “We have been asking questions about the book. We answer these questions in sentences”.
We have been practicing our spelling words this week. We have continued to use the look, say, write, check strategy. After we have done this, we write the words with our eyes closed to help us visualise them.
Belle- “We were doing rainbow writing to practice our spelling words”.
Maths
In maths this week, we have continued to develop our addition skills. We can use a number of strategies to support us calculate the answer. We can partition numbers, count on with our finger or use a number square or sticks.
Sai- “We were adding numbers together. I used a 100 square to help me”.
Aaron- “we were doing dice addition”.
IDL
We were learning about the Viking Gods this week. We really enjoyed learning about them and sharing our knowledge of the Viking God’s Thor and Loki.
This week we also enjoyed designing and painting our Christmas baubles.
It has been another busy week in P4/3, as we continue to develop our literacy and numeracy skills as well as beginning to work on Christmas crafts!! Look out for some creative art work heading your way in the next couple of weeks.
Numeracy
We have been working hard to develop our mental maths skills through number talks. All of the children have the opportunity to share their strategies with one another and discover the best method that works from them.
Health and Well- Being
We made the most of the cold, but dry weather (before the snow arrived!) to participate in physical activity. We have discussed the importance of keeping active and the benefits to our physical and mental well- being. Next week, we will design posters to demonstrate our knowledge and some will be on show on a school Health and Well- Being wall display.
Literacy
Next week all children will complete an end of term spelling assessment. If possible, please practise the words (sent home yesterday and today) with your child.
Have a lovely weekend, stay warm and cosy and I will check in with you next Friday.
Read, Write, Count
We loved coming to school in our jammies on Tuesday. All our lessons were about the book ‘ROCKETMOLE’. We created a fact file about ourselves during writing this week. Armstrong the Rocketmole wrote a letter to us asking for our help with addition. We were all every excited to receive our Read, Write, Count Bags.
Literacy
In writing, we were persuading the reader that reading was important. We had a class discussion before we started and we identified all the different ways that we use reading in our everyday life. When included powerful persuasive language and connecting words within our writing.
In P3/2 we worked very hard sounding out our spelling words. We continued with rainbow writing and using our words in sentences. This week, we also found making a chant a useful strategy to help us remember how to spell our words.
Maths
This week, we were learning about addition. When adding our numbers together we found number squares and sticks useful to help us calculate the answer. We were also working on addition word problems.
IDL
In our Vikings topic, we were learning about what food th
e Vikings ate. The Vikings did not have supermarkets like we have today and they could not import food from other countries. Therefore, the Vikings could only get food that they could grow and catch. To keep their meat and fish fresher for longer, the Vikings would salt or smoke them.
What a busy week in P4/3 as we have been working collaboratively (a skill for life) to discuss, organise, present and film our learning for parents/carers to view. Look out for the link being sent to your e-mail, so you can watch our amazing presenting skills and learn more about what takes place in class!!
Outdoor Learning
All of the class enjoy outdoor learning with Mrs Dobbie on a Friday morning. Here are some pictures which showcase the learning that takes place in our outdoor environment.
We continue to develop our literacy skills and participate in spelling activities on a daily basis. This consistent approach is certainly helping as some children are scoring 100% in their dictation assessments at the end of the week. Well done P4/3, keep up the good work.
Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.
Literacy
We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. We were improving our skim and scanning skills when reading to find information.
Darby- “In reading we were answering questions about the book. We had to write our answers in sentences”.
During ELF thus week we were focusing on varying our sentences lengths. We were trying to use connective words to extend our sentences.
Robyn- “In writing we were making our sentences bigger by using works like ‘because’ and ‘and’ “.
During Word Boost we were improving our vocabulary. We are introduced to the meaning of 6 boost words and we then use these to up-level our talking and listening and writing.
Maths
This week we continued to learn about number sequences. We were learning about number sequences where the rule was minus.
Aayan- “We were learning about number sequences that were take away. I used a 100 number square to help me work out the answer”.
We also were introduced to the game SumDog. There is a selection of different games that involve you using your maths skills. This is something we will be using in class to support our numeracy and maths skills.
Health and Wellbeing
This week we enjoyed staying active and healthy during P.E. After warming up, we focused on balances.
Sarah-Louise- “We have been exercising and this makes me feel healthy”.
It has been another busy week in P4/3 as we continue to build on our learning, challenge ourselves and trying our very best with every task. We have been exploring different texts, with a focus on identifying the differences between fiction and non- fiction books. This is a key skill to develop as the majority of texts children will explore in high school will be non- fiction. We have also been looking at the different types of questions, specifically open and closed questions. Ask your child what is different about each type of question.
Next week, we are looking forward to preparing videos that show case the learning in P4/3 and will be sent home for you to view. This may test Mrs Morrison’s IT skills, however I’m up for the challenge!!!!
Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.
This week, we enjoyed a Health and Well-being focus linked to Children in Need. We explored the 5 to thrive approach to improving physical and emotional well- being.
First Thrive to Five- Connect
Here we explored different ways of connecting with one another to improve well-being. Suggestions included: give someone a smile, sharing is caring , be kind and gentle and include others. We also discussed goals and targets and ways of achieving them.
Second Thrive- Take Note
Here we looked at ways of identifying traits of when people are not feeling themselves and actions we could take to help others.
Third Thrive- Get Active
Moving your body in different ways can help your physical and mental well-being. As part of our P.E. lesson, we took part in a range of physical activities such as speed, dribbling and balance. We discussed the positive impacts exercise can have on the body and then we completed a fitness diary, self-assessing our ability to complete the task.
Fourth Thrive- Be Curious
As a class we discussed the importance of taking part in learning, the different ways to challenge ourselves and why it is beneficial to try something new.
Fifth Thrive- Give
Thank you to all who donated to the sharing shed, it is nice to think of others during these difficult times.
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