Category: Primary 4

We have had an exciting week as we had the ‘ Travelling by Tuba’ musical duo.  They conducted  an interactive musical performance with the children on Wednesday.  Then, NYCOS came on Thursday afternoon to give  us some music lessons.

For Literacy, we have been learning to use commas, exclamation and question marks.   We have also been changing questions into statements.

For Numeracy, we have been learning to subtract 2 digits from 2 digit numbers.  We learnt how to check our subtraction answers through addition.  We played games and did a lot of individual work.  We revisited our number bonds as well as place value.

For Health and Well- being, our focus this term is- seeking support if/ when bullied.  We spoke about who our friends are at school and how individual gain support from others.

IDL this term is concentrated on Scottish music.  We have been listening to the ‘Flower of Scotland’  song and what it meant.   We have also started our research on Vikings as this also another exciting focus this term.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Dear All

This week in literacy we did a book review on our reading books. We had to answer questions on the board and then write the answers in our literacy jotters .We did dictation. In dictation we did the PH sound. We did EA spelling. We had a sheet on EA words to do. We did handwriting and in handwriting we did ! ? – “ and s.

In french we did commands. The girls went to one side and the boys went to the other side and had to give each other commands to do e.g. Silence! and Levez-vous! (stand up!)

In numeracy we did the ball game doing our times tables and we went up to the 6 times table from the four times table. We had to look at what number it was at and what letter it was at. We also did grid references for maths in the morning.

In health and wellbeing we did Gaelic football in PE. Most people liked it. We did walk a mile. We had assembly. It was all good.

In learning across the curriculum we did music with Miss Bain and played instruments to Katie Bairdie song because it was Scottish. Travelling with Tuba came in to play Tubas. It was very loud and people tried to blow on it.  They got loads of people to come up to make a band. NYCOS came in to practise rhymes with us and we learned what ‘pulse’ meant.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Typed by Mark, Cori, Sienna and Mairi

Dear All

Happy New Year with lots of cheer! Hope you had a good holiday.

This week in literacy we wrote about what we did in our holidays and what our new year’s resolutions are for 2018. We practised writing, spacing consistently. We did show and tell to hear about each other’s holidays. We listened to a poem about someone who had a sore pinkie and a rhyming story about fish. We also sang a song about someone who had lost a bouncy ball. We listened to a Hamish McHaggis book about Stirling Castle. In grammar we learned to write commas in lists and we learned to write words with the ‘ph’ sound.

In French we revised the French alphabet, the weather, greetings, how to say our name, months of the year and numbers. We learned how to say pets and animals.

In numeracy we went into groups to learn our times tables forwards, backwards and divided by. We also learned our number bonds to 15 using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

In health and wellbeing and learning across the curriculum we went outside to match leaves to trees. When we came back in, we matched cards of leaves to trees and put them in our jotters. We had music with Miss Bain and learned how to read music singing in low, high and medium voices. We learned a Scottish song called Katie Bairdie.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Dear All

This week in literacy we wrote letters to Santa, Rudolph and Cupid. We have been reading a Hamish McHaggis book called ‘The Skirmish at Stirling’. It was about William Wallace. We got our own personal dictionary and we write any words we have learned to spell in it. We edited our literacy jotters and gave feedback about what our next steps are.

In numeracy we checked our place value, estimation and symmetry assessments to see what we still need to learn.

In health and wellbeing we did PE with Mrs Reid and did some dancing and played Christmas games. We did two plays. The P3’s acted the ‘The Penguin’s Lost Scarf’ and the P4’s acted ‘The Lonely Snowman’. It was fun! Everyone enjoyed acting or watching and they were both good. We had our Christmas parties this week. We really liked them! They were awesome! It was really noisy! We had ice cream. We put up a little Christmas tree in the class. Thank you to Calan’s gran for letting us borrow it.

Hope you have a good holiday, a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The P4s have worked extra hard this week as they have been given the responsibility of collecting, sorting and delivering christmas cards to all the classess in Springfield Primary.   On Thursday, Miss Durano and some P4 children had their christmas dinner together in the lunch hall.  It was quite a novelty!

Here is a list of lessons the P4s have explored this week:

• Literacy-  Revision lesson on plural forms of a word.  Children were able to indentify when to add -s or -es to change from singular to plural form.  The children also engaged in imaginative writing wherein they have to write a diary (Christmas themed).  The children also played a game of story- telling where they worked as a team to create their own storyline.  For spelling, the children learnt to spell words with the sound pattern -ou.
• Numeracy- Mental Math focused on adding doubles and and near doubles.  The children learnt to add 2 digit with 2 digit numbers with bridging.  Towards the end of the week, the P4s moved on to adding 2 digit numbers with 3 digit numbers( with and without bridging).  This lesson also reiterated the children’s understanding of place value as they had to add numbers which belong in the same place value.
• Health and Wel-being focus was on kindness.  “How would you fell if…” was the question the P4s had to reflect upon.  Children also spoke about what are the ways they can deal with bullying and unkind acts.

Thank you to all the parents who managed to join us on the Family Learning Showcase. It was a pleasure to see all of you!

Many thanks,

Miss DUrano

Dear All

This week in literacy we learned the ‘air’ sound. We did dictation and learned to write neatly, listen carefully, write words with the ‘air’ sound in them and put in punctuation. We revised our plurals from last week and we know that if the plural word ends in ‘x’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ or ‘s’ we need to add ‘es’ to the end. We also learned about possessive adjectives e.g. I put on my coat. We learned how to write diaries and we wrote a diary entry of what we do on Christmas Eve. We had show and tell and people talked about their favourite things, while the others listened and then we gave them questions and comments to show that we were listening. We learned to work together as a team to write a story, using spinners to choose the character, setting and time.

In French we have learned the names for body parts and we can sing ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes in French. We made monster pictures using body parts, numbers and colours when Mrs McAlpine said “Mon mostre a… We also learned how to ask what the weather was like and say different kinds of weather.

In numeracy we used Sumdog to practice patterns in shape and we also paired Christmas pictures on an advent calendar on the smartboard. We drew patterns on the board and others had to try to continue the pattern. We added numbers in a group using different strategies and concrete materials including rekenreks, cubes, counters, wizards on the wall and straws. Then we talked about what was the most efficient strategy.

In health and wellbeing we talked in our groups about bullying. We were given different situations and talked about the best way we could help people. In PE with Mrs Reid, we learned more Scottish dances, it was really really fun!

In learning across the curriculum we read another Scottish Hamish McHaggis book called ‘The Lost Prince’. It was about a baby deer that got lost in the woods of Balmoral Castle, where the Queen goes on holiday. In science we also learned about the body with Mrs Begarnie! We found out how the lungs work and conditions like asthma.

Hope you have a good weekend!

In preparation for the christmas fayre, the P4 class further explored addition and subtraction using money.  The children also learnt about distribution of workload while making their christmas craft.  They were split  into five groups and all had designated jobs to do.  Some worked on  advertising (posters), a few were in charge of pricing.  The rest of the pupils were involved in the creation and quality control of the products.

For numeracy, the children were learning about 4 digit place value.  They used concrete materials to understand the concept even more.

For Literacy, the P4s focused on learning to spell words with ‘ou’ sounds.  They aslo revisited how to change a question into a sentence.

For Comprehension,   they had to look for context clues.

For Grammar, the focus was on writing words in plural form.

Lastly, for Health and Well- being, the focus was on appropriate response to different types of  emotions.

“I am very proud of the P4s for all their hard work .  The reindeers were tricky to make but they  were determined to push thtough the challenge.” – Miss Durano

  Thank you to all who participated in the christmas fayre!