We have just had an amazing time in the hall taking part in the Dance-a-thon! Although we are a bit tired now, we managed to dance for a whole hour! We also managed to fit in a Gay Gordon’s and a Canadian Barn Dance – so much fun dancing with all our friends in P3, P5/4 and P5 too!

This week, we began our annual Heartstart sessions. This week, we revised our knowledge of what to do if we came across a conscious casualty. We remembered that we have to check for danger first, then check for response, then get help. We can phone 999 or 112 to get emergency services if they are needed.

In Numeracy, we were learning about arrays to help us with our multiplication facts. We already know that multiplication is repeated addition eg, 4X3 = 3+3+3+3. We are continuing to familiarise ourselves with multiplication facts for 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10.

This term, we are concentrating on non-fiction texts and their key features. Our writing will also be non-fiction based, as we will focus on Newspaper articles. If you have any recent (appropriate) newspapers that you can send in, they would be appreciated.

Please continue to support your child with any homework that is sent home and encourage them to attend Homework Club on a Wednesday lunchtime, if you think this would benefit them.

Have a lovely weekend!

P4 and Mrs Stewart. 🙂

What a funny bunch!!!

Thank you to all the parents/carers who attended the Parent consultations this week, it was great to get a chance to speak with you about your child’s progress. Thank you for your continued support. :-))

This week, the children have finished painting their stones and they’ve had their ‘glue wash’, so they are now ready for going out into the garden.

The class have been working very hard on creating their Learning Pit for the classroom. After a class vote, they chose to have a Lego theme and they worked together to decide on the strategies and comments they could include. Please ask your child about the learning pit, as it represents the learning process very well.

On Monday, the children were treated to a Tennis session from a visiting Tennis coach, Rory. They had a great time, learning some basic skills and working in pairs to improve their technique.

As well as all of this, the children have also been working on Literacy and Numeracy!

One more week to go before the holidays, lots more work still to be done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Stewart. 🙂

Kenzie B – To help us learn about Similes and metaphors, we have been singing a Youtube song that we found.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU

Lennon – This week we have been learning to skateboard, with instructors who came into the school.

Jack C – We used the Jack in the Box game, from Education City, to help us practice counting back in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s.

Erica – We shared our descriptions of the ‘cabin in the woods’ that we had for Big Talk homework.

Alfie – Mrs Cordner, who sponsors a guide dog puppy, gave us the letter she recieved about how Fifi is doing and a lovely picture of her.

Sasha – In P.E., we worked with partners to practice our chest passes.

Murron – In the Circles, with Mrs Stewart, she dropped some cubes into a tub  and we had to count how many she put in. Mrs Stewart took some out and we had to guess how many were left.

Cara – When we were working in our Numeracy groups, one of the stations was a subtraction game that Mrs Stewart made for us. The Triangles had to subtract 2-digit numbers to 50 correctly, to be able to move around the board. If we didn’t, we had to go back to the place before.

Kenzie M – In our writing, we had to think of how to describe the old house, using exciting words.

Lauren – In Education City, the Squares were playing the ‘Jack in the Box’ game which let us practice counting back in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s, from 100.

Alex – On Thursday, the Circles played the Cow Countdown game on Education City. We had to find the missing number in a backwards number sequence.

Derek – Yesterday, we went down to the school library to choose a book for reading in class.We had to make sure that it was at a suitable reading level for us, not too easy but a little bit challenging. It also had to be a book that would interest us and we would like to read.

Jamie – During Science, we were sharing what we knew about water and also what we wanted to learn.

Jack P – The Squares played a subtraction game to 100, with a partner, which meant that we had to subtract 2 -digit numbers mentally to be able to move around the game board.

Ava – On Tuesday, because it was Pancake Day, we had to read a piece of text all about Pancake Day,and answer comprehension questions about it.

Ryan Scott – When we were learning to use the skateboards, we had to go down the ramp, standing or sitting. Even though I fell, I tried again.

Lewis – In maths, we were learning about Carroll and Venn diagrams. These are ways of showing information.

Ryan Stewart – The Stars have been learning about words with ‘ng’ endings and we all did very well in our spelling test today!

Kyle – This week the Suns have been learning about words with ‘le’ endings. If the words have a short vowel sound, there has to be two consonants before the ‘le’.

Scott – This week, we were given our own Education City username and password. We have one copy in the classroom and one at the front of our homework jotters, so that we can log in at home.

Teresa – The Circles were imagining that there were 20 cubes in the tub, Mrs Stewart took some out and we had to work out how many should be left.

Makayla – The Blue group has been reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. We have been reading aloud to improve our reading skills and answering questions about what we have read.

What a week!

Have a lovely weekend! 🙂