Category Archives: Primary 4

Primary 4, Whole School Events

P4/3 New year, new house corner

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At the beginning of the new term we had our business meeting to decide what we wanted our house corner to be. Jenson chaired the meeting and Macie took the minutes. Everyone had lots of great ideas but in the end, after a fair vote, it was decided to turn it into a Starbucks. Everyone has been busy designing and creating different parts of the coffee shop for play.  We designed the outside and inside, we have a drive through window with a headset to speak to the customers, a road and some cars.  We made menus, snacks, cakes, drinks, ice cubes, a fridge for storage and lots more. We look forward to having lots of time to play and learn in our new area.

Primary 4, Whole School Events

A new term in P4/3

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We have had a very busy start to the new term.
Out new IDL topic is Our Community. We started by looking at the difference between our wants and needs. We now know that our needs are the things we require to live and be healthy whereas our wants are things that make our life more comfortable.

We then investigated the services that are available in our Community to help with our wants and needs.

Jorja – We have a doctors surgery

Siena – We have fire fighters

Amber – We use the Vets

Jenson – There is a police station

Evan – We have shops for food

In maths we have started our work on Multiplication. We used lots of practical equipment to help us learn different strategies to help us. We can use repeated addition, skip counting and arrays. P3 have been working on the 2 and 5 times tables and P4 have been working within the 3 and 4 times tables.

 

Primary 4, Whole School Events

P4/3 Christmas Party

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P4/3 had great fun this week at the Christmas Party. We played pass the parcel and the corners game. We loved dancing to our favourite K-Pop songs, we really have some fantastic dancers. We also loved dancing to some of the  old classics like the cha cha slide and the Macarena. We had some yummy party food and then topped off the day with a Gillespies ice-cream. We were extremely lucky to have a very special visitor, Santa! He managed to take time out of his busy schedule to come and check we have been good this year and he gave us all a sweetie. Thank you Santa!

Primary 4, Whole School Events

P4/3 Visit to the Library

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Continuing our celebration of books and reading for enjoyment during this Book Week we went for a visit to West Calder Library. The rain did not put us off and we had a lovely walk into West Calder. Ann the librarian was very welcoming and delighted to see us. She read us a very funny David Walliams book about a little girl who brought her pet snake to school. We then played an alphabet game and we had a little biscuit. We then spent some time looking at the books and we all checked our books out using  the machine. Thank you so much to Ann for our lovely visit.

Primary 4, Whole School Events

P4/3 Gifting Party

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We got Book Week Scotland off to a fun start with our hosting party in P4/3. Some of our parents and carers joined us this afternoon to do some fun activities related to books. P3 were gifted a Read, Write, Count bag  and P4 were gifted a new book. We all enjoyed creating a book character from a potato. We were very creative in our use of the materials we had to make the characters. We made Where’s Wally, Mr Twit, the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, a minion, some aliens Harry Potter, Hermoine and lots of others. Thank you to all ours mums, dads and grandparents who came to help us. We especially loved the hot chocolate and biscuits.

Primary 3, Primary 4

P4/3 Outdoor Learning

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Some recent photos of P4/3 during Outdoor Learning.  Miss Nelson leads this each week and as the photos show, the children love it!  

Charlotte – I liked making my name with twigs and mud and leaves.

Jude – I liked going to the park and playing with my friends.

Joseph – I like exploring in the woods.

Grace – I love Outdoor Learning because you can learn outside too, not just in the classroom.

Zac – I liked making my name.

Freya – I made a self portrait with things I found in the woods.

Oonagh – Do you know you can make your own self portrait with things in the woods like twigs and leaves?

Jorja – It’s fun to explore in the woods and use what’s there to make our own pictures.

Ariana – It’s fun going to the trim trail and playing.

Primary 4

Japanese Experiences in P4/3

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Today has been an immersive day in lots of things Japanese.
We enjoyed experiencing some Japanese anime when we watched My Neighbour Totoro. This is a very popular anime created by a Japanese film studio, Studio Gibli. We watched a little part at the beginning in Japanese and then we changed it to English.
We then looked at the Japanese alphabet and tried writing some sounds in Japanese and we practised writing the Japanese words for animals. We found lots of the symbols were complicated to write.
in the afternoon we had a taster session of some Japanese food and we tried to use chopsticks to eat it. We tried sushi and some mochi, the mochi was definitely more popular than the sushi.

Lill y- I didn’t like the sushi

Jenson – I didn’t like any of the food, the outside of the mochi was weird

Freya – I loved the sushi and the mochi

Macie – I loved the mochi, especially the ice-cream inside.

Siena – I thought they were both the best thing in the world

Jorja – It wasn’t good.

Abner – I liked everything, the ice-cream and the sushi

Grace – I loved it all especially the sushi with the soy sauce

Joseph – The mochi felt weird in my mouth, it has a funny texture

Jake – I liked everything except the soy sauce and the outside of the mochi

Lucy – I liked everything because the sushi was really nice, I liked the seaweed and the mochi was a different kind of ice-cream.

Philip – I liked the ice-cream but I didn’t like the sushi

Jude – I didn’t like the sushi, I didn’t like the taste of the seaweed but I liked the mochi

Amber – I didn’t like the sushi but I did like the mochi

Primary 4

P4/3 pray the Holy Rosary

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The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary due to the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 7. Praying the Rosary helps us to reflect on the life of Jesus and His mother, Mary, by meditating on the Mysteries. We  learned about the four sets of Mysteries: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous, which reflect the life of Jesus and Mary. 
We all had a set of Rosary beads today and we prayed a decade of the Rosary. We will do this regularly throughout the month.