{"id":15128,"date":"2022-11-11T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/?p=15128"},"modified":"2022-11-11T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:28:05","slug":"primary-4b-weekly-blog-11th-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2022\/11\/11\/primary-4b-weekly-blog-11th-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 4b weekly blog 11th November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a lovely week this week.\u00a0 We have started our new poetry unit and we have explored some poems together, learning all about the structure and features.\u00a0 We wrote some fantastic similes and metaphors about some photos of the sea and we used our comprehension skills to explore a poem about a dragonfly.\u00a0 We worked in groups to present a poem to the class and Mrs Brown was so proud of us for performing confidently, projecting our voices clearly and using actions to engage our audience and help them to create images in their heads.\u00a0 Next week, some of us are going to perform them to Primary 4a.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15134 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132715\/IMG_0151-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132715\/IMG_0151-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132715\/IMG_0151-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132715\/IMG_0151-1-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15133 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132713\/IMG_0150-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132713\/IMG_0150-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132713\/IMG_0150-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132713\/IMG_0150-1.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In maths, we&#8217;ve done lots of work on mental calculations.\u00a0 We have done lots of number bond practise and Mrs Brown has asked us to keep practising this at home so we can become really fluent and fast and recalling these. We&#8217;ve also been sharing our strategies for how to calculate mental addition and subtraction calculations and we&#8217;ve explained these clearly using mathematical vocabulary such as &#8216;partitioned&#8217; or &#8216;tens&#8217; and &#8216;ones&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We have also practised our Spanish greetings and we had some short conversations with our classmates in Spanish, using questions and answers.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Brown has asked us to make sure we bring in our spelling books on Monday (because that&#8217;s when we get our new spellings).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15135\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132718\/IMG_0152-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132718\/IMG_0152-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132718\/IMG_0152-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/uploads\/sites\/6314\/2022\/11\/11132718\/IMG_0152-1-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well done to Paige who is our hot chocolate winner this week!\u00a0 She listened really carefully and produced a fantastic poem analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Have a lovely weekend everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a lovely week this week.\u00a0 We have started our new poetry unit and we have explored some poems together, learning all about the structure and features.\u00a0 We wrote some fantastic similes and metaphors about some photos of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2022\/11\/11\/primary-4b-weekly-blog-11th-november-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}