Category: Primary 4

It has been yet another busy week in Primary 4/3.

This week in numeracy we have been focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages.

We have been investigating what a fraction is, how it looks and how we can represent a fraction in different ways. Together with Mrs Stevenson we made up a fraction cheat sheet to help us recall some key vocabulary associated with our learning.

We have been looking at each of our names and what fraction of our name is a vowel or a consonant.

We then completed an activity called Fraction Street, here we not only had to use our knowledge of fractions but also our listening skills. Mrs Stevenson called out an instruction, for example – 1/8 of the houses have a red door or 1/2 of the houses have a car parked outside, then we had to colour the correct number.

We also created our own Fraction Sundaes. Here we created a sundae with lots of different flavours, we then had to identify what fraction of each flavour made up our sundaes. Some of us were super greedy!

We didn’t complete nearly as much as we would have liked to this week so we will continue our learning of fractions into next week too.

In writing we are still working on the genre ‘Recount‘, we are all becoming such experts at what this genre of text requires. This week we wrote a recount of a gymnastics lesson from the previous day. We are very good at using a wide variety of time connectives to help sequence all the different events within our pieces of writing.

This week we have also begun to focus on our Reciprocal Reading skills and have been examining what skills are involved in our current skill focus – prediction. We made a ‘four door’ model of all the skills we will be examining. Prediction, questioning, clarifying and summarising.

Behind each door we can write our answers for the text we are focusing on. When predicting, we have been talking about the most important point, which is justifying our answers using the clues such as  –

The Title,

The illustrations,

The blurb,

The Genre of book,

The audience.

We hope you have enjoyed a little taster of our learning this week. We are looking forward to a well earned rest on Monday and Tuesday next week!

What a productive week it has been.

For literacy, we wrote a recount on Flying a Kite with Ms Taylor, we learnt to use past tense form of the verb by adding “ed”  We uplevelled our sentence writing skills by adding adjectives using our describing bubble.

For Numeracy, we have been revising on writing numbers in words and digits form.  We have also been learning to use partitioning strategy for addition.  For Maths, we explore the properties of 3D shapes and classified them according to their properties.

For HWB, we learn about the roles of people in our community as well as our on roles as children.  For PE we have been working on our hand eye coordination and concentration skills as we performed catching and serving the bean bags on our rackets.

For IDL, we have learnt about how the Romans came to Britain, where the came from and who Julius Caesar was.

It’s been another busy week in Primary 4/3.

This week we got our new family home learning sheets and spelling lists home. We are excited to practise these at home with our loved ones.

This week in Health and Wellbeing we have been learning what it means to be part of a team. Our value focus for this week has been Included, we all know that being part of a team means we feel included. In pairs we came up with words to go alongside the feelings of being ‘Included‘ and ‘Excluded‘.

We were set a tricky challenge of working together as a class team to pass a ball around the circle without using our hands or feet. We really had to work together for this, we had a lot of laughs as we came up with some imaginative ways to pass the ball. Lexie used her head, Charlie used his elbows and Vratko used his ears! We made up word diamonds to choose the most important vocabulary to go with being part of a team and how it makes us feel.

We also started our topic this week, The Victorians.

We are excited to start learning about all of the gruesome things they did in the past! We started off by developing some research questions to shape our learning over the next few weeks.

Here are some of the questions we came up with.

What kind of clothes did they wear?

What did their toilets look like?

Did they have cars?

What did their houses look like?

Who helped sick people?

How did they celebrate holidays like Halloween and Christmas?

What was school like?

What inventions did they come up with?

We can’t wait to get started and share all our discoveries with you.

We hope you have enjoyed a little snap shot of our learning this week.

 

 

What a fantastic week we had!

We learnt to many things about recount writing by working together.  Our teacher gave us text samples of each feature of the text and we had to work as group to classify them into Title, Orientation, Sequence of Events and Personal comment.

We also assessed and our own as well as our peer’s recount writing.  We are getting better at giving feedback based on our success criteria.

 

For Numeracy, we learnt to use partition strategy for addition.  We also identified the value of digits within a number.  We are up to the Thousands now.   For Maths, we created 2D shapes using popsicle sticks.  We named the shapes and talked about it’s properties.

MM- This week we learnt about how to do a recount writing.  The purpose is to retell an event. We started writing about Our First Day Back at School.

DN- We learnt place value.  I know that I need 10 1000s to make 10,000.

SA- I learned using clues on the front cover of a book to make a prediction of the story.

HK- In PE, we were learning to bounce the ball on a racket without dropping it.

 

What an unexpectedly sunny week we have had. Luckily we have been able to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine for gym this week. We have really enjoyed playing a range of team building games and learning all about what it means to be a team player.

This week we have started to learn about a new genre in Writing. This is called Recount, where we are learning to retell and evaluate past events and experiences. This week we have been writing about ‘Our First Day In Primary 4/3′. We examined an example text and looked at all the different parts that make up a recount text. Mrs Stevenson challenged us to identify and name all the different parts of the text and label and colour code an example. We really enjoyed working with a partner to do this.

After examining the structure of the text we looked at some of the language that we could use in our own writing. We explored past tense verbs and time ordering words.

After devising a plan for our work, the next day we had a go at putting our learning into practise and writing our recount. We did a pretty good job! Check out some of our pieces below.

We are taking our time to think about and devise our class charter. One activity we did this week was to think about our own most important value. We shared with each other what we thought was an important quality to possess. As a class we designed a class flag using all of our key values. It is proudly on display in our classroom and we feel it represents Primary 4/3 very well. One of the most common values that appears on our flag is ‘kindness’.

We hope you enjoyed a little snapshot of our week in Primary 4/3. We hope everyone has a lovely, sunny weekend.

 

The summer holidays have come to an end and it is time to dust off the school bags and pencil cases and get ready for a new term in a brand new class. How exciting!

Primary 4/3 has had a very busy first week back of term. We are excited to begin our learning journey this year and continue to develop all the skills we are passionate about.

Thankfully a lot of the past Covid restrictions have been lifted and we are beginning to return to some degree of normality. We talked about the continued importance of good hand hygiene and had a competition to design a poster for the classroom. We made a fabulous effort. We agreed that all of our posters should be –

• Bright and colourful to make them eye catching
• Provide some information on why hand washing is important which is easy to read
• Have detailed illustrations
• Have a catchy slogan

Here are some examples of our wonderful work.

We have begun to read our new class novel ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ by Andy Shepherd.

We made some predictions based on the title, front cover and the blurb. We think this is going to be a really interesting read and are very curious to discover how to grow a dragon! This got us talking about things we would like to be able to grow. We designed our own front cover and changed the title to what we would grow instead!

 

Finally another highlight of our first week has been creating some colourful art for our classroom. We have decided to make a ‘Wall of Fame’ to display work we are proud of and have started drawing our own self portraits to accompany our chosen pieces of work. The care and attention to detail in all of these portraits has been fabulous.  Check them out!

We hope you have enjoyed a little snapshot of our first week in Primary 4/3.

We had a great week getting to know each other.  We played lots of games to help us get to know our teacher and our new class.

We also began to read our class novel and made predictions on what might happen next.  We worked together to create our class charter too.   Overall, our week has been fantastic!

SW- I enjoyed my first week in school because we did lots of art!  I liked doing the addition and subtraction emojis.