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Blog 17.2.17
Dear all
We won class of the week again for good behaviour outside!
In numeracy we wrote down our 2 times 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and twelve times tables. This week we got our maths assessment score.
In literacy we learned about diary entries about the past.
In Health and Wellbeing we did javelin and hurdles. With the javelin we used bean bags.
We had a hedgehog called Sonic.
Three people got chose for Fairtrade art. They were Franz, Sam and Ginny.
Have a good weekend!
P4 are delighted to announce that Katie Calder has been selected as our representative on the Pupil Council.
16 of us spoke about why we would be best for the job, we were all very clear and Mrs McAlpine and Mrs Newton were very impressed.
Once we had finished speaking, we all voted for the person we thought would represent our views and opinions best, Katie got the most votes.
Well done Katie, we look forward to speaking to you about our ideas and views on the school and playground next week.
P4
This has been a busy week in P4a. We have been learning about daily life in Ancient Egypt. We learnt that they had many things the same as us. They had beds, but their pillows were hard neck supports made of wood. They had toilets- however they were nothing like ours! Their toilets were stools with bowls underneath filled with sand- think cat litter box 🙂 They had ovens- fired with wood, fridges- well holes in the ground, but they kept food cold and they also baked bread every day.
Once we had learned all of this we looked at pictures to work out what jobs people were doing, we know that we cannot be 100% sure we are correct as no one from Ancient Egypt is still alive, but by looking at the clues in the pictures we can be pretty sure we know what they were doing.
We created a time line of important events from the past, did you know that Ancient Egyptian civilisation started in 7500BCE- that’s a really, really long time ago.
Finally we wrote a diary entry for an Ancient Egyptian child- Mrs Malcolm visited us during this session and we know she liked our writing. Mrs Newton says it was the best we have done all year!
In numeracy we have been finding missing numbers using inverse operations- that means using the opposite method from the one in the sum. We found this tricky but fun.
In music Mrs Bain recorded our Katie Beardie song- once Mrs Newton gets this she will try and share it on dojo.
We also had snow- well it snowed but then vanished before we could get outside.
Have a great weekend,
P4a
Blog 17.2.17
Dear all
Over the last two short weeks we had fun! We won class of the week for our assembly last week!
In literacy we learned about collective nouns and singular and plural nouns. We wrote diary entries and did a reading comprehension about a book called sport for all.
In numeracy we did our maths assessments on fractions and numeracy. We did big math Beat That. We made times tables out of playdough, wrote them out on a whiteboard or asked a partner questions.
In Health and Wellbeing we learned about medical illnesses in the primary 3 classroom. In PE we did the long jump and high jump. We also did the hurdles, there were a lot of them!
In Learning across the curriculum we started a new topic. It is ancient Egypt. The river Nile is the 2nd longest river in the world. The Egyptians invented marshmallows!! We learned about Pharos and gods, cats and we learned that they were sacred. When Egyptians die they mummify them and take out parts of their body. Then they put them in bottles. They put their bodies in sarcophagus then put them into a tomb. If a man dies then they kill the wife too. In the sarcophagus they put a cat in as well!
We had NYCOS (National youth choir of Scotland) in to teach us rhythm.
With Mrs Begarnie, in science we learned about water and made a water cycle with plates. We also made a sketch of a mug with water in it. We made mini water cycles of our own. We made them out of plastic cups /birdseeds and soil. After that, we put a plastic bags over it to keep the same air in. In R.M.E we learned about the Muslims religion. It turns out they have a god called Allah he is the god of English.
Have a good weekend!
Typed by Arran
Good Morning,
We all had a great holiday and loved the fact we had 2 short weeks. We still managed lots of learning though, and we even managed to lose a few jumpers and cardigans (more on this later)!
For the last two weeks we have been learning how to write diaries, we know they are writted in the first person, past tense and they tell our diary what we have done each day. Next week we will finish this set of lessons by writing a diary entry for an Ancient Egyptian child- we hope we do not have to write in hieroglyphics!
We have started our Ancient Egyptian topic and will be transforming our classroom in to a musuem with artifacts, the odd mummy, pyramids and a sarcophagus- look out for these when you come to Parents Evenings in March.
Yesterday we taught the P2’s how to use Sum Dog, This was good fun and next Wednesday we will be teaching P2/3 how to work Sum Dog as well 🙂
In maths we have finished working on Fractions, we will revisit this next term. We have also been focusing on mutiplying and dividing and our home learning for the next few weeks will focus on using 2 digit numbers to divide and multiply with.
In Science we have been learning about water, we tried different substances to see if they would dissolve and we created reflective pictures using pens and water. They look amazing.
In PE we have been continuing to learn how to play Hockey, we are getting better and really love it. We have also been using GoNoodle. We love the morning one and yesterday we actually managed to complete “Class Dismissed” at the same time as the bell!
Another exciting piece of news is that 11 (yes ELEVEN) of our girls have been chosen to be flower girls for the Gala Day- WE ARE SUPER EXCITED (and we still have 4 months to go!!!!!)
Back to the missing jumpers and cardigans. We have a number that have vanished- we think the jumper dragon is eating them, but Mrs Newton thinks that it is just us getting mixed up. Could everyone please check that they have the correct jumpers and cardigans AND make sure that all clothing is labelled with our names.
Have a great weekend
P4a 🙂
P.S. The weekly photo will be on Class Dojo over the weekend as usual.
Thank you to Primary 4B and Mrs McAlpine for their hard work in putting together last Friday’s assembly. Following on from the previous week’s assembly, the class chose to stick with the Scottish theme and they showcased their many talents as they shared examples of our culture. The children had also made wonderful models of Scottish landmarks which were on display for the audience to look at. Well done to all of those involved!
Blog 3.2.17
Dear all
This week we practised our assembly and we did it! We were all nervous before the assembly but it turned out really good. After the assembly we had irn bru and shortbread. Thank you to all our families for coming and helping us to practise and for giving costumes. Unfortunately we only managed to get one photo, but if you managed to take any that you are happy to share, Mrs McAlpine will send out. On Wednesday we had a google experience and saw Robert Burn’s house and Ancient Egypt
In literacy we learned about collective nouns which are groups. We wrote facts about Robert Burns.
In numeracy we learned thirds and tenths in fractions. We practised dividing to help us with our fractions.
In P.E we were doing hurdles for athletics and it was great, fun and energetic and we built up our stamina.
We started our new topic with P4A, which is Ancient Egypt! We found lots of information including the pyramids and that hieroglyphics are pictures which replace letters and that people were mummified when they were dead.
With Mrs Begarnie, in science we did arts and crafts for the water cycle. In ICT we improved our typing on the computer. In music we learned to play different instruments. The National choir came in again to help us with rhythm.
Have a good weekend!
Typed by Lola
This week we worked with P4b to discuss our new topic- Ancient Egypt. We shared what we know, what we think and what we want to learn. This helped Mrs Newton and Mrs McAlpine plan some fun learning activities for us.
In numeracy we have been focusing on fractions, multiplying (6 and 8 times table) and dividing. We are using songs from Education City to help us.
In writing we wrote biographies on John Logie Baird, he invented lots of things and we used our learning from last week to help write these. They are really good and we will be making a biography book from them.
On Tuesday we had singing with NYCOS again, we think we are getting better 🙂
On Wednesday Google Expeditions came to school- this was AMAZING!!! We loved it.
On Thursday we disovered GoNoodle- this is a great site for physical workouts- some of us used it last year, we think it is amazing. This morning we did the Fresh Start work out to get us ready for the day.
Home Learning- next week we will have this as normal BUT because we are not in on Friday we will have 2 weeks to complete the tasks.
Have a great weekend P4a 🙂
With the assembly behind us we got down to some serious learning!
This week we learned about John Logie Baird- did you know that he invented warm socks and glass razors? We didn’t either, we also found out about the TV he invented and how it was different from the ones we have today. Mrs Newton even told us that long ago you had to get up to change the channel!!!!
In maths we are focusing on our times tables- we are learning the 6 times table just now and revising the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10. We are also practising dividing with these numbers.
We are also learning about fractions, using our multiplication and division skills to help us.
We have started a 12 week block of singing lessons with NYCOS- we had a great time this week and are looking forward to the next 11 weeks.
Mr Fryer came to visit and talked to us about budgets, wants and needs. We really enjoyed this session, even though Abbie now knows that a Lamborghini is a want and not really a need (if only it was the other way around 😉 ).
Finally we wrote stories about China, dragons and lanterns. Mrs Newton says these were excellent.
Have a great weekend, P4a
WB 23.1.17
Dear all
This week we practised our assembly a lot.
In literacy everybody got to pick a famous Scot and make up a who, what, where, when, why and how Scottish story.
In numeracy we got tubs of playdough to help us with fractions and numbers.
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In P.E we started hockey with Mrs. Reid. We started off using just our hands, and then we tried a stick. With the stick we did competitions to get the stick and the ball back and forth. In P.E with Mrs. McAlpine we started athletics.
In music someone from the national Scottish choir came to help us with rhythm and keeping the beat.
In French we revised what we had learned and planned what we would like to learn.
With Mrs Begarnie, we were learning about baptism.
Have a good weekend!
Typed by Una
