The Kirkhill Chatter

This week we worked quite a lot on our topic about the Titanic. We made menus that passengers would have had from 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd class. We also used our imaginations to write a letter home to our families from the Titanic. We had to imagine we were children travelling on 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd class. Lastly, we had lots of fun out in the sun when we were drawing round our partners to show how passengers from all the classes may have looked!

In maths, we were learning about lines of symmetry in 2D shapes. Toby learned more names of 3D shapes and feels more confident. Grace S enjoyed working in groups and having a partner to share learning with. Joshua learned that a heptagon has 1 more side than a hexagon! Oscar , Cristian Blanka, Nico, Deryn, Layla, Allie, Grace B and Steven especially liked our outdoor learning activity. We had to find real life 3D shapes out in the playground.

We enjoyed the sunshine this week! Outside we practised for Sports Day by racing each other in the egg and spoon race and skipping. Our class especially enjoyed the Judo Taster session. Alanna liked that she got to squish her class mates like a pancake. Steven enjoyed learning the Judo throw. Zach liked getting to throw his partner safely on the mat. Toby learned and reminded the class that we should never do any Judo moves outside of the Judo classes! Thank goodness J

Last of all, Primary 4 were super proud when Nico got the Head Teacher Award for excellent writing and for joining the Golden Club.

Roots of Empathy

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This was the last week the class will meet baby Billie.  They have enjoyed watching her grow and develop, and learn all about empathy, and the growing process that Billie went through.

Outdoor Learning

To take advantage of the fabulous weather this week, P3 went outdoor to do some learning.

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And some other news…

P3 continue to develop their mental maths skills using Number Talks. This is a process where they learn different strategies, and have to be able to articulate the thinking process they go through to come up with the answer to a problem set by Mr Robertson.

P3 have also been practising for the sports day next week. Hopefully the weather will continue to be just as nice for Sports day on Tuesday.

They have been learning how to improve their writing by using VCOP – Vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. The focus this week has been on connectives and openers.

It’s been a shorter week than usual, but we’ve kept busy! Here are some comments from the children.

“I liked doing CEM testing. My favourite was the maths.” – Tait

“We were learning about teeth. We got to see what all the teeth are called. We used dentist’s mirrors to look in people’s mouths to see their teeth.” – Harry

“I enjoyed using compasses. I learned that it points North all the time.” – Tiana

“We are learning about the three little pigs, and we designed our own houses.” – Cadence

“I liked making a letter to the three little pigs from the big bad wolf to say sorry.” – Emily

“I liked going outside and having relay races.” – Alan

“I enjoyed learning about teeth.” – Arran B.

“I enjoyed seeing a video about the three little pigs.” – Arran S.

Here are some pictures of us using our dentist’s mirrors to look at each other’s teeth:

Enjoy your weekend!

In writing this week the class have been focusing on planning to aid in the writing process. We discussed different ways that people like to plan and the different sorts of writing plans which we could use to write our stories. We had some visitors in during the planning stage and they were impressed with how creative the class were being with their planning and how much they could talk about their learning in writing. Well done!

We have read up to Chapter 10 in our transition novel ‘The Boy in the Dress’ and will read the rest of this when we go to Broxburn Academy after the summer. We were introduced to the poem ‘Timothy Winters’ which we are going to be writing a critical essay about at the start of next week. We started our work on the poem by annotating the different techniques which the poet had used such as similes, metaphors and repetition. Remember that next Wednesday and Thursday are transition days to Broxburn Academy and the children should go straight to the Academy.

In our indoor P.E. slot on Wednesday the class enjoyed participating in some Yoga which they followed on the big screen. The yoga and movements were based around a Star Wars story and the children are looking forward to doing this again. During outdoor P.E. on Thursday we enjoyed the sunshine and participated in a Mini-Olympics with P7/6. We represented different groups of countries and participated in events such as the sprint, hurdles, long jump, hammer and javelin. A reminder that Sports Day Option 1 is on Tuesday and that all children should bring their P.E. kits for this.