Category: Primary 4

This week in Numeracy we have been working on addition with missing numbers – for example

12 + __ = 34. This is something that has always come out as being a challenge for pupils, but when we looked at these together the children found them much easier to work out. Hopefully when we are faced with these again we will be able to answer them confidently.

In Number Talks we have been looking at a two digit addition sum and the pupils have been asked to share how they would work it out and if they could find more than one way to answer it. One of the sums given was 24 + 45 = and here were some of the ways of working it out:

 

For literacy this week we have continued working hard on our new spelling words and we have taken these home again to practise. We have completed some other comprehension questions on our group readers this week, this time looking at reading sentences from the story and deciding if they were true or false. In writing this week we looked back at our All About Me stories and we assessed ourselves using our core target grids and our genre target grids for descriptive writing. We talked through what each target meant then assessed ourselves after we had read over our work. We then used our genre placemats to help us record what went well in our piece of writing and what we could do to make it better.

 

 

For our Novel Study this week we created some questions to ask the characters in the book. Then we took turns at taking on the role of one of the characters to answer the questions we had made. We had to use our imagination as well as our knowledge of the text to help us answer.

We used our miming skills in drama to act out a scene from the story and our classmates had to guess which part we were acting out.

 

 

I hope all the children and their families have a wonderful October break!!!!

It has been another busy week in P4/3! as all of the children continue to make improvements in their learning, well done everyone!! We have added to our learning environment in the form of our flying high wall display. We shared our ideas on the different ways we can encourage and support each other and succeed in our learning. A big thank you to Mrs Walker who helped create the display in her own time.

Our class novel this term is ‘ The BFG ‘ by Roald Dahl. We have been enjoying exploring the different characters, especially the Giant! Have a look at some of our directed drawings of Sophie and the Giant. Mrs Morrison is proud of your efforts!!

 

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

 

 

We finished our non- fiction readers this week so we were able to review our books. We thought about all the the book review worksheets we had completed in the past and we decided to create our own. We had to create the layout that suited us best and decide on the content too. Mrs Lockhart thought they were fabulous (better than the worksheet ones!).

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

 

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.

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.

It has been another busy and enjoyable week in P4/3. We continue to work together to improve our learning environment and develop our abilities to become independent learners, well done P4/3!!

In Literacy we have been learning to spell common words. These are words that will be found in most books, texts etc that will read and don’t necessarily have a pattern to them, but still have to be learned. I was so impressed that some of the children will transferring their knowledge from their spelling and identifying common words in their reading books, well done!!

We continue to work on number patterns and sequences up to 1000 and in some cases beyond. Ask your child to demonstrate their learning.

Finally, a big well done to the children who have been working hard at home with their numeracy, spelling, note- taking and directed drawing. Mrs Morrison is proud of you all.

Enjoy the long weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.

These characters helped us improve our descriptive writing this week. Each group had their own character which they named and described. We had names like Eleven, Speckles, Bob and Scales. There were some great descriptions and we are looking forward to sharing the finished versions.

It has been another busy week in P4/3 as we continue to challenge ourselves in our learning. Mrs Morrison and Miss Swanson are proud of the children, well done P4/3

We made the most of the dry weather and enjoyed our first time together on the trim track. We discussed the safety rules and I am happy to report that everyone took part safely and responsibly.

In numeracy this week, we have been exploring number sequences, identifying odd and even numbers and recalling number bonds. Here is an example of our work

A big success this week has been the children’s focus and enthusiasm towards their writing tasks. Miss Taylor visited our class to share her knowledge of descriptive writing. All children were able to write a descriptive piece about dogs and The Big Friendly Giant and as they were doing so, were learning to write in paragraphs. Here are some of the comments from the class about their learning.

” I challenged myself with my writing” Ashley

” I was confident about my writing” Finlay

“I am trying to work independently” Tadas

Well done P4/3 for an amazing week!!

 

This week Primary 4 have been busy again. We have been looking at fables with Mr Turner and for part of this we created our own little animals from clay. We will be using these to create our own fables and story scenes. We had to use our creativity and modelling skills for this. These are our creations below before they dried.

In Numeracy this week we have continued with the theme of addition this week by looking at carrying over in our work. Some of us have found this quite challenging, so we should be practising this at home when we can. I have asked the children to look up some addition with carrying questions online or to ask someone at home to create some for them if possible.

 

In Literacy we have been looking at descriptive writing. We worked together to create a description of Pandas, including a title, an introduction, the main characteristics of pandas and finally an evaluation saying what we think about pandas. We will continue with descriptive writing but using different contexts. Here are a few of our pieces:

 

We have also continued our novel study and have been creating drawings of all the characters we have met so far. We have had to use our creativity and imagination, as well as what we have read in order to do this. Each group had a character to draw. Here are some of our characters: