Yesterday we took part in the ‘big grow’ and planted radish, beetroot, salad leaves, spinach and peas in our individual pots. We need to remember to water them regularly and sit them in the sunshine. We are hoping that the sun starts to shine a bit more!
We continued to learn about Ancient Egyptian times and this week we learned how Pharaohs made all the rules for people to follow. This lead to an entertaining discussion about what rules P4/3 would implement. Here are some of the suggestions;
” Only be nice” Joseph
“To able to leave school whenever you want!” Charlie
“Have everything for free!” Brendan
Literacy
We continued to practise explanation writing and this week we used our learning from Mrs Dobbie to help explain ‘How Paper turns into Trees.’ Firstly, we made notes to help us write our ideas in paragraphs. We are certainly improving, well done P4/3!
Numeracy
This week, we assessed our knowledge of multiplication. Assessment is a good way for Mrs Morrison to see what the children have learned, but also for the children to not only recognise success, but to identify areas to improve. Next week we will learn about division.
Enjoy your long weekend, hope the sun shines and I will post again next Friday.
Welcome to this week’s learning in Primary 4.
In Writing we have written our final piece for our genre of Explanation Report Writing. This week was our assessment week where Mrs Hillan will look at our writing and see if we have met all the success criteria needed and see where we would need to go next with it. This week we wrote about the role of a Firefighter. We started off with a discussion around this, then completed our pieces.
In Numeracy we have continued working on our tables. This week we have begun a focus on multiplying a two digit number by a single digit. This is our thoughts so far:
Emily – I thought it was going to be hard but once Mrs Hillan explained how to do it, it was quite easy!
Summer – At first some of us thought it was quite tricky but when we started doing it, it was a bit easier.
Chloe – It was kind of hard and easy at the same time. Some people learned new things.
Shay – I thought it was a bit scary coming to the front of the class to do a sum, but once I saw other people doing it, it seemed fun to do!
Ciaran – I thought it was going to just using one table but it wasn’t.
Lewis – I thought it was going to be hard but when I saw other people doing it, it was easier.
Erin R – It is interesting to find out how other people’s minds work!
Olivia – It was easy but at the beginning I was thinking “How am I supposed to do this?”.
Derry – It’s kind of like other chimney sums only this time using multiplying.
Sophie G – It looked hard at the beginning but when you got to see other people doing it, it became easier.
In Spelling this week we have created a word search using our words as well as testing our partners on the words for the week.
In Reading we have used our prediction skills. We were asked to predict what we think might happen next in the story of The Witches. Here are some of our predictions:
Chloe – I think the boy will talk to his Grandma and she will try and help them.
Sophie C – I think Bruno and the boy are going to go up to the boy’s Grandma but she won’t know who it is.
Summer – I think they are going to the boy’s Grandma’s. At first she’ll be scared and then she will try and help them. They will hear one of the boy’s mice talk.
Lewis – I think the boy and Bruno will go to the boy’s Grandma and she will put them in a cage and keep them.
Erin R – My prediction is when they try to go up the stairs the manager is going to catch them.
Emily – The boy’s Grandma will take care of them until they change back.
Caelan – I think the little boy and Bruno will go to Grandma and then steal all the Action Mouse Makers and smash them.
Sophie G – I think that the boy and Bruno will go to the boy’s Grandma and then she will go to Bruno’s mum and explain.
Alyssa – I think the boy and Bruno will go to Grandma, who will then explain to Bruno’s mum and dad and the manager.
Ryley – The boy and Bruno will go to Gran and she will be scared but then she will try to find a cure.
Gracie – I think the boy is going to explain to Grandma and she is going to go and sneak and grab the bottles and throw them off the balcony.
Rihanna – I think the boy and Bruno will go to Grandma, she will be confused but then she will help them.
In our topic this week we have been working on our note-taking skills. We watched a video about the daily lives of Egyptians and noted down any key facts or pieces of information we particularly liked. We are going to use this information to complete our next writing piece.
This week we have continued our personal class talks where we have been sharing information on a topic of our choice. Mrs Hillan and our peers have been assessing us on our skills in doing this. Mrs Hillan and Mrs Wood have been so impressed by the quality of the talks given as well as how brave everyone has been in standing up in front of the class.
Next week we have a Monday holiday, but we will be ready to learn again on Tuesday!
We continue to explore our topic, Ancient Egyptians. Following last week’s virtual lesson with Mrs Liddell, we were lucky enough to have a delivery of artefacts from Egyptian times. This was so interesting as it enabled us to look closely at the items and learn more about them. A big thank to Mrs Liddell for enabling us to do so.
Numeracy
We continue to develop our understanding of multiplication. Most children can apply their knowledge in a range of ways, including describing arrays of numbers. Have a look at some of our examples:
Health and Well-Being
We continued to discuss the topic of Friendship and identified the qualities of a good friend. We then acted out different scenarios of how to resolve conflict and make everyone feel safe and secure. Here our some of our efforts;
What a busy, productive week it has been ! Well done P4/3!
Welcome to another week of learning in Primary 4.
In Writing we have continued with our genre of Explanation Report Writing. We reminded ourselves how this sort of text had to be written in the present tense and also how this was not a text where we mention I or We or talk about our feelings. This week’s piece was on The Life Cycle of a Butterfly. We used a smart start activity where we had to order the stages of the Life Cycle of a Butterfly, then we watched a video about this and took some notes. After this, Mrs Hillan showed us an example piece and we talked through this together before creating our own versions. Read some of our pieces below:
In Numeracy we have continued working on our tables, with a focus on all tables again this week. We will soon be completing our post-topic assessment on this to see how we have improved since the start.
In Spelling this week we have created interesting sentences using our words as well as testing our partners on the words for the week. We have also created some spelling pictures for our words.
In Reading we have continued to use our summarising skills. We have summarised our own group texts again. We need to ensure that we remember our punctuation as we write. We have also worked on our comprehension skills by answering questions based on our group texts.
In our topic this week we got to see some cool objects and artefacts from Ancient Egyptian times. Here are our thoughts:
Sophie C – When Mrs Hillan opened the box, it was like we were in history.
Summer – It was very interesting seeing all the things from Ancient Egypt.
Erin R – It was fascinating learning about the Egyptians beliefs.
Emily – I liked the cat statue because they thought they would be protected by it.
Sophie G – I liked seeing different things with hieroglyphics on it.
Olivia – It was exciting and there was some cool things inside the box.
This week we have begun our personal class talks where we have been sharing information on a topic of our choice. Mrs Hillan and our peers have been assessing us on our skills in doing this. The skills we have looked at are being able to speak loudly, speak clearly, look at our audience and share facts. We have really enjoyed hearing these so far, some really interesting subject choices. We will continue these next week.
Well done P4 for another busy week!
We looked at ‘saving for a rainy day’ today as part of our Maths topic on money. Some very good discussions on what we feel is important and why. Super work P.4.
It was a fantastic start to our week as we took part in a virtual lesson with Mrs Liddell, from museum services. She was able to share her knowledge about the Egyptians and showed us some artefacts too! It was really interesting to learn some new facts and also to apply our questioning skills to broaden our understanding. Here are some of the questions we asked:
“Why was the bracelet so important to Egyptians?” Lexie
“What food did the Egyptians eat?” Elkie
We continued to work on the explanation genre of writing, using the context of ‘How a Caterpillar Morphs into a butterfly” Almost all children were more confident with the content and structure of writing and next week we will continue to practise, but with less help from Mrs Morrison! I’m sure the children will rise to the challenge!
In numeracy, we continued to develop our skills in multiplying numbers. Some children worked on describing and building arrays (groups of), whilst others tackled multiplication word problems. It was a challenge for all, but we gave it a go, well done P4/3!
I’m sure next week will be just as much fun!
Mrs Morrison
This week has been a short week for us all, but we have still been busy.
We were very lucky as the West Lothian Museum people gave us an online lesson on the Egyptians. The lady showed us artefacts and told us lots of interesting facts about them and the Egyptians. Here are some of the facts we liked best:
Emily – Scarabs were in the bandages with people when they were mummified.
Roman – They used Canopic Jars to store their hearts in.
Maison – Egyptians used to wear straw sandals.
Gracie – They wore masks when they died because they needed to know who they were to be brought back to life.
Lacey – They wear jewellery so that nothing bad happened.
Shay – They had little blue statues called Shabtis
Summer – Egyptians slept without a pillow, they used a neck rest instead.
Derry – They thought cats protected them.
We created a new explanation text on the role of a nurse. This gave some super discussion again and some of us even learned something new. We have included some of our pieces below:
We are still working hard on our times tables, with this week having a focus on all of our tables. Here are some of our thoughts:
Holly – I have learned the 9x table.
Ciaran – I have learned most of the tables. They are getting easier!
Rihanna – I think the times tables are getting easier the more I practise them.
Hadiyaah – I feel that times tables are tricky but once you start learning them slowly, they get easier.
Erin R – I think that once we move onto Division it will be really easy as we already know our tables.
Emily – I feel like multiplication is a bit harder than division.
Thank you for reading about our week!
It has been another busy week in P4/3. We have been able to spend more time on our Egyptian topic and the children enjoyed learning why the River Nile was so important to the Ancient Egyptians. We used our note taking skills to record information and discovered facts such as “The Nile would flood every year to help fertilise the soil for crops to grow” Brendan. As a class we enjoy directed drawings lessons. Not only does this improve our drawings skills, we have to listen and follow instructions to help create the best pictures. Here are some examples of our work:
In numeracy, we began to learn about the concept of multiplication. We discovered that multiplying is just “a quicker way of adding numbers together” Ethan. We explored sets of numbers and began to learn or revise the 2x, 5x and 10 x table. Please practise these tables with your child. The children love to add a competitive element to their learning and enjoy testing themselves against the timer in different games.
In literacy, we learned a new genre of writing, explanation writing. It was a little tricky for us to complete, but we will continue to practise over the coming weeks.
Have a lovely long weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.
Mrs Morrison
This week we have been busy once again!
In Numeracy we have continued working on our tables, with a focus on the 4x and 9x table. We looked at these in our Number talks before then working on these individually.
In Writing this week we started our new genre of Explanation Report Writing. We discussed how this sort of text had to be written in the present tense and also how this was not a text where we mention I or We or talk about our feelings. We worked together on our piece, creating a text about how bees make honey. This created some super discussion between us all. Read some of our pieces below:
In Reading we have continued to use our summarising skills. We have summarised our own group texts as well as another chapter of our novel. We need to ensure that we remember our punctuation as we write. Some of our pieces are below:
In our topic this week we have been looking at the different types of jobs the Egyptians may have done. We are going to use this further next week. We also created some line drawings of the Pharaoh – we had to ensure to include detail and take our time. Here are some of our drawings:
We will have a shorter week next week, but we will still have lots to do!
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