Category: Primary 4

This is our last week of Primary 4 – we are sad to be leaving P4 behind, but we are excited about moving onto Primary 5 and discovering the new challenges it will bring!

We have enjoyed completing some Summer activities this week such as creating a Summer scene, making a list of things we would like to do over the holidays, and writing about the things we have liked about this year.

We have written a ‘message in a bottle’ for our P5 teacher to tell them a little bit about ourselves. It will be interesting for Mrs Hillan to see if any of our likes and dislikes have changed over the past year for those of us still in her class.

We rounded up our Egyptians topic by finishing off our jewellery and having a little sum up of all we have learned, here are some of our points:

Sophie C – ‘After people die, there’s a chance that they can still do the toilet!’

Gracie – ‘When they are mummified they put masks on their coffins so they know who they are.’

Shay – ‘They use a hook to take their brain out.’

Hadiyaah – ‘Scarabs are special to the Egyptians.’

Lewis -‘Egyptians believed that cats were protective.’

Emily – ‘If you were given trading something valuable for food then you would get a lot of food.’

Caelan – ‘The Egyptians believed that their brains were in their hearts.’

Ariah – ‘The eye symbol is called the ‘Eye of Horus’.’

Olivia – ‘They brought their cats to work with them.’

Derry – ‘The scarab beetle died at night and was reborn in the morning.’

Ryley – ‘The Egyptians would do the toilet as well as bathe in the River Nile.’

Maisy – ‘There were animals and bits of animals in the river and they still swam in it.’

Kayleigh – ‘They thought your thoughts came from your heart.’

Chloe – ‘Egyptians don’t have money so they trade for what they want.’

Summer – ‘They didn’t wear clothes until they were 5 years old.’

Holly – ‘Kids drank beer!’

We finished off our week with Mrs Hillan with a treat of watching the original movie of ‘The Witches’ after finishing our class novel.

Primary 4 and Mrs Hillan would like to wish everyone a happy and safe Summer holiday! Have a wonderful time!!

This week in Primary 4 we have been finishing off our reading books ready for starting fresh ones in the new session. We have had some good discussion around these and Mrs Hillan is seeing a big difference in many of us with our confidence in reading aloud and our use of expression.

We have also completed a spelling baseline of the spelling words/patterns that we have been focusing on this term. This gives Mrs Hillan a good idea of how well we have been practising these words and our next steps in spelling.

In writing we got to create our own narrative stories based on characters that we had created a couple of weeks ago. We had to ensure that we used correct punctuation, paragraphs, and exciting words, as well as including a complication and resolution in our stories.

In Numeracy we have done some work on Division. This topic links in nicely with our previous topic of multiplication. This is something that will be continuing in our new session as we move on to Primary 5.

In our topic this week we have created some Egyptian jewellery:

Summer – I thought it was very interesting to make something out of pasta and paper plates

Shay – I liked it because it reminded me of Gucci.

Maisy – It was fun and a little bit sticky!

Alyssa – I thought it was fun and I just loved to see how people made pieces that were totally different from each other.

Derry – It was fun!

Ryley – It was really messy!

Olivia – It was fun and exciting to make these and all of the designs were so different.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!

Another busy week in P4/3! We continue to work on improving our literacy and numeracy skills. Well done to those children who have worked hard to become independent learners, Mrs Morrison is proud of you all!!

Literacy

We continue to work on our listening and talking skills, in particular presenting information in front of others. Here are some more pictures:

Numeracy

We have begun to look at fractions and explored what half and a quarter of an object would look like. We have also looked at the written form. Please practise with your child.

Health and Well-Being

We have started our new topic, ‘Changing Me’ and looked at what babies need to survive, from their time in the womb and when they are born. The class contributed to discussions in a mature manner, well done P4/3!

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!

It has been another busy week in P4/3. We  made the most of the sunshine and took our learning outside. Some children presented their class talks out on the field, here are some pictures;

More photos to follow next week.

Numeracy

We continued to develop our understanding of division and looked more at solving division word problems. Some children challenged themselves to look at division sums with remainders. Well done P4/3! Next week we will look at fractions.

Literacy

We explored the  new writing genre of Narrative writing. We discussed what kind of writing this would entail and discovered that if we wanted to become the next JK Rowling or Roald Dahl, then we would need to be familiar with and practise this type of writing. We will work on improving our imaginative writing over the next few weeks.

Health and Well-Being

We continue to explore friendships and the different ways to be a good friend. Next week we will introduce a new topic, ‘Changing Me’ where will explore the changes in our body.

I will update the blog next week, have a great weekend when it comes!

This week in Primary 4 we have been working hard as usual. We have moved onto a different genre for Writing, one which we are already familiar with – Narrative. This is where we can use our imaginations more and create our own stories. We started off by discussing the layout of this type of text – we need to include who, when and where when we first start. Then we need to include a complication in our story (something that goes wrong), and we finish it with a resolution – how the problem is solved and the outcome of this. We are needing to ensure that we remember the basics – reading over our work to check that it makes sense and that we have included correct punctuation as well as used paragraphs and a variety of sentence starters and connectives. We will give this more focus next week. Some of our pieces are below for you to read:

In Reading this week we have become illustrators and created a new front cover for our group novels. We have also been looking at making predictions again, and this time we used Mr Bean to help with this. Mrs Hillan paused at a variety of points during the programme and we recorded/ verbally gave our predictions. It was interesting to see if our predictions would be right or not. Here are our thoughts:

Gracie – It was fun but tricky and you might have got it wrong, but that’s alright.

Shay – It was hard at the start but it started to get easier.

Rihanna – It was fun when we got to see if our answer was right or not.

Ciaran – It was really fun hearing other people’s answers on what they thought.

Maisy – It was funny and some of the guesses were true and some were wrong but that was okay.

Stevi – It was fun to watch it and make your prediction.

Roman – It was fun but it was a bit hard, but we all had a laugh.

Olivia – It was funny and it was also fun to hear other people’s answers, some of which were funny!

Derry – The first video was funny and quite easy, but the second got a bit harder to guess.

In Numeracy we are coming to the end of our multiplication topic and we are about to do our assessment again. It would be good if all pupils could practise their tables this week ready for the assessment next week.

We are very lucky in Primary 4 and are getting some Art lessons with Mr Bennett over the next few weeks. The pupils shared what they did and their thoughts:

Summer – One of the tasks was to take little pieces of blu tak and stick them onto the table to make them next to each other.

Chloe – It was hard, when we stuck the blu tak down it started to look like a beetle.

Sophie C – When you put the blu tak down we got a picture of a beetle and a plain piece of paper and we had to mark out the parts of the beetle to then draw it and shade it in at the end.

Ariah – For me it was fun and a bit tricky as you had to measure and mark.

Alyssa – It was very fun and the lesson was relaxing.

Emily – It was very fun and everybody’s picture turned out very good. You could creative when colouring in.

We look forward to more learning next week!

P4/3 have enjoyed another successful week of learning and Mrs Morrison is proud of her class. We were lucky to have Mrs Stewart visit our class this week, where we demonstrated our knowledge of explanation writing. We explained the purpose of the writing and presented our information in paragraphs. Great job, P4/3!

Numeracy

We began our new topic of division and learned that dividing means to share groups equally. Some children used concrete materials to demonstrate their understanding, whilst others began to work out division problems. We also looked at the connection between division and multiplication. Please practise dividing by 2,5 and 10. Homework sheets will be sent home on Monday.

Literacy- Class Talks

Presenting information in front of others can be a nerve-wracking experience and as a class we discussed how some people are more confident than others at delivering this skill. However, we are all willing to give this a go and support and encourage each other. Well done to Isla and Ethan who presented their talks and answered questions from their friends. I look forward to listening to other children next week.

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

This week we made predictions about what we thought would happen next in the story of The Witches. Here are some of our great ideas:

Lewis – I think that the boy’s gran is going to put him in the knitting and put him down to the witch’s balcony.

Summer – I think that the Grand High Witch will go to her room and not see the boy/mouse and he will grab a bottle of the mouse maker, take it back and they will creep into the kitchen and put it in the witches’ food, but the Grand High Witch won’t eat it.

Shay – I think that Grandma will lower the mouse down to the balcony and he will grab the Mouse Maker, but the Grand High Witch will see him and try to grab the knitting as he goes back up!

Gracie – I think Grandma is going to go to the Grand High Witch’s room and get the bottle and give it to the Grand High Witch as a drink, she will drink it and turn into a mouse.

Sophie C – I think the boy is going to go into the sock and be lowered down to the balcony and steal all of the Delayed Action Mouse Makers and bring them up to Grandma’s room!