Category: Primary 4

This week has been all about our assembly. We finished our props (the P7’s accidently knocked the dragon out 🙁 but we fixed him) we did some techinal run throughs in class and managed to get into the hall on Thursday for a full rehearsal. At the time of writing we have performed to the P1-4’s and it was great, BUT we know the one for parents will be AMAZING!

Thank you all for helping us get ready, listening to our singing and braiding our hair. It really makes a difference.

We have managed some other things this week- we had a Netball session which was excellent. We practised our times tables and worked on directions. In science we learned about germs in water and how some people need to walk long distances just to get dirty water as there is no clean water to be found. We tried carrying water outside, it was ok for a few minutes but we do not think we would like carrying it for 4 hours. More people die from drinking dirty water than from wars or violence!

Finally we hope you enjoy our assembly, we know we will 🙂

P4A

Blog WB 9.1.17

Dear all

This week we had the RSPB in, as it is outdoor learning week. Thank you to Mrs Crighton and Mrs Bain foe helping us and to Mrs Woolsey for offering.

In literacy we drew a picture of what happened when the RSPB came in and wrote about what we drew. We tried to spot different birds. We looked at all the birds and counted them .we played games to make learning more fun. We did a game to see how hard it is for birds to get food, water, friends an habitat. We learned that blue tits have to travel 1000 times a day just for food. We learned ducks eat berries, kingfishers eat fish, owls eat meet. Some birds do not like bread because it gives them a sore stomach. When ducks catch the food it looks like they’re doing a handstand. The helpers pretended to be predators. The weather was very bad. We made stories with a game called story spinner.

 

    

In numeracy we did our three, four and six times tables. We practiced our CLIC maths session. We practiced counting three digit numbers, parking the hundred number then adding the two digit numbers together.

In P.E we finished off rhythmic gymnastics. There were four different stations

We got a new music teacher called Mrs Bain. We played some games to get to know each other.

We practiced Skye boat song for our assembly. We learned a song when you shake hands and a song called wake up wake up.

With Mrs Begarnie, we learned that when you get baptised you get water over your head. It shows a person is new to the world. We watched videos about it.

Have a good weekend!

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This week we have been busy preparing our assembly. We have managed to solve some tricky design problems, work out what we are all doing, chosen the music and songs and started to learn our lines.

Suprisingly this is a very long, long, process but we have managed to do some other things this week as well.

In PE we finished our gymnastics set and after the assembly we will be starting hockey. We had music with our new music specialist, it was fun, we learnt new songs, beats and actions.

On Thursday the RSPB came to visit us and were very impressed by all the work we have already done. A huge thanks to Mrs Galbraith (Joanne’s mummy) for braving the snow to help us.

Have a great weekend, fingers crossed for more snow (Mrs Newton says NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)

P4a 🙂

Welcome to 2017 and the second half of P4. We have a busy few weeks coming up, next week the RSPB are coming to visit and the week after is our assembly- eeeek!!!!

We really could do with another one or two parent helpers for the RSPB visit if anyone is able. The visit is on Thursday and we all need coats, hats, gloves and waterproof boots/wellies/shoes in case the weather is not great (this is Scotland after all 🙂 )

This week we created some beautiful, winter art. We used charcoals and chalks to create a winter night scene with the Northern lights in the sky. Have a look for these lovely pictures next time you visit our class.

We set targets and resolutions for ourselves as well as a few wishes for school and the world. We will work hard to meet our targets this term.

In science we looked at what infections are and how germs are spread- our classroom still has a lot of glitter germs everywhere!

We had a long discussion about our assembly, we don’t want to spoil it for you, but it will involve lots of animals, a few dragons and drums. Details of what we need to wear will follow via Dojo next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

P4a

We have had a busy week in class. We have been learning about fractions, super hero times tables and some fun Christmas maths.

We wrote letters to Mabel MacRae Anderson. Mabel kindly allowed us to use some of her poems for inspiration and we wanted to thank her. We have made a book of all our poems for her and Mrs Newton is hoping to meet Mabel during the holidays. We have also asked Mabel to come to our school so we will let you know what she says.

Most of us had Christmas Lunch this week- it was very yummy and we all got a popping candy Freddo bar to finish with.

We have been rehearsing the songs for our carol service next week- Mrs Newton has told us we are better than her P4’s last year!

Next week we have our Christmas Activity afternoon on Monday- we can change into party clothes after lunch time if we want. We are watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on Tuesday morning and we have our Christmas Carol Service on Tuesday evening, we need to wear school uniform for this. Wednesday is our last day before the Christmas Holidays and we are all excited about this.

This will be our last blog this year. Have a great holiday and we will return in 2017 🙂

P4B have enjoyed learning social dancing. So far they have learned the Dashing White Sargent,  Gay Gordons, Canadian Barn Dance and Strip the Willow.

P4B showed off their artistic skills designing a table banner for their groups and worked well together.

Thanks for all the fabulous work the children have made and brought in for our outdoor learning display!

Dear All

This week we started the Christmas post, collecting, stamping and delivering letters to the other classes. This week we had fun doing the advent calendar.

In PE Mrs. Reid sadly hurt her leg so instead we learnt how to keep a balanced diet over Christmas. We designed healthy menus and if you were finished you drew a pie chart of the food categories. In social dancing we learned the ‘Gay Gordons’. Niamh said it was quite easy when you got the hang of it. Rebecca said it was quite tricky turning round. Harry said it was really fast.

In music we sang Christmas songs. We all enjoyed singing Rudolf the red nosed reindeer and super Santa Claus.

In maths we learned fractions. We played tree frog treasure game on the computer. We made a fraction wall to show the difference in sizes of fractions. We had a circuit of different fraction games including loop cards and matching fraction games. We also learned remainders. James Hammond (Rebecca’s brother) and Ben Waldron (Amelie’s brother) and Ross Donald came into our class to help us to understand division better. Thank you very much! In CLIC Big Maths we were learning decimals.

In literacy we were writing Scottish stories. We learned how to write a formal letter. We wrote a letter to Santa. Some people wrote a list of things they would like for Christmas and some people wrote Santa complaint letters!

In French we were learning to tell the time!

Have a good weekend!

 

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