Happy New Year to everyone from P4b!  It has been so lovely having everybody back and seeing everyone’s brilliant renewed enthusiasm for their new learning.

Our new numeracy topic this term is multiplication and division. We have been learning our seven times table and we have learnt that division is the inverse of multiplication.  Next week, we will learn our nine times table and we will be looking at multiplying by 10 and 100.  We will also be revising our other times tables across the term.

In literacy, we started the term by writing a recount about what we got up to over the Christmas holidays.  We have since been learning about how to punctuate speech using speech marks (inverted commas) and we have been improving our use of verbs, including using the past tense correctly.  We also used Word to publish our Hogwarts setting descriptions that we wrote before the holidays.  Mrs Brown was SO PROUD of us for our setting descriptions!  The level of detail included in our sentences was amazing!  We will be writing narratives in our writing lessons over the next couple of weeks and will aim to continue using our fantastic descriptive features.

In Spanish, we learnt how to say some classroom objects in Spanish. Mrs Brown’s favourite word is un sacapuntas, which means pencil sharpener.  We also played some games to practise our new vocabulary.

We also met Mrs Day-Lewin, who came to do some singing with her.  We enjoyed using different languages in some songs.

Our highlights:

Matteo: I really liked Spanish, especially learning ‘sacapuntas’.

Shelby: I really liked doing counting and writing on the laptops.

Ashley: I enjoyed singing with Mrs Day-Lewin.

Daisy-Dee: I enjoyed using the laptops to do my writing.

counting and writing on the laptops.

Ashley: I enjoyed singing with Mrs Day-Lewin.

Daisy Dee: I enjoyed using the laptops to do my writing.

Well done to Daisy Dee who was our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and well done for a great first week back!

Mrs Brown