This week Primary 4 have done lots of learning.

Our spelling this week was based on the Scottish words we learned last week for Burns’ day, the children loved learning what all the different words meant. Our numeracy has been focussed on word problems for the multiplication we have been learning over the last few weeks. The children have been great at putting their learning into context and understanding what kind of questions relate to different sums. This week our focus was multiplying 2 and 3-digit by 1-digit, and next week we will be looking at multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 using word problems.

Topic this week focussed on researching the process of recycling paper and how it happens, in preparation for next week when we will be attempting to recycle and make our own paper.

Our communion preparation is going well, this week the children learned about the penitential act and that this is asking God and everybody around us to forgive our sins. the children all got a little pebble and thought of a sin they want to let go, they then dropped this into a bowl of water symbolising them handing it over to God. Our non-sacramental children learning about other world religions, learned about Hinduism this week.

We learned about how nouns, adjectives and verbs are used in information reports and did a highlighting activity where we went through a passage and highlighted all of the nouns present. The children were great at spotting all of them!

We had a little lesson about respect and how we can show more respect to others at school, in an effort to highlight how important respect is and how this goes hand-in-hand with friendship. The children had some wonderful ideas about respecting their peers, teachers and school building, hopefully we can all remember to  put these into practice!

Well done to our winners this week, they have not received their prizes as we ran out of time on Friday so they will be told on Monday!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and get lots of rest!

Miss Duddy