Primary 4 have had a great week this week. We have made the most of the sunshine by taking our learning outdoors.
This week for reading we spent time in the garden. We worked in pairs and trios to read to our friends. It was a great way to spend our afternoon.
We also explored non-fiction this week by reading a passage about Brazil.
Chloe “We had to read very carefully to find the information.”
Beth “I found it a little bit tricky.”
Vanessa “I found it interesting learning all about the country Brazil.”
Primary 4 are thoroughly enjoying their IDL topic “The Olympics”. We have been learning about many athletes and looking at their personal achievements. We then discussed our own personal achievements and WOW! Primary 4 have many of them. We used this for our writing this week and wrote a personal recount. We learned some great descriptive vocabulary. We know that apprehensive means nervous or a little scared about something.
Taylor “My personal achievement was performing my hip hop dance”
Beth “I moved from level 1 in gymnastics to level 3”
In maths this week we wanted to find out what the children in the school’s favourite Olympic sport was. We talked about ways we could gather this information. We decided to do a tally chart and use the information from the tally chart to make a bar graph. They were fantastic!! P4’s favourite Olympic sport is basketball! P6/7’s favourite is gymnastics.
We also did a lot of talking in maths this week during our ‘Number Talks’.
Cole B – “This is a good way to find the quickest way to work out a sum.”
Joseph – “I like talking about numbers!”
PE was good fun this week. We focused on running. At the beginning of the week we were doing sprints. Some of us are really fast! On Thursday we were doing the hurdles. We did a lot of warm ups to make sure we were jumping over the hurdles correctly. Check us out!! Athletes in the making.
In Art this week, we looked into 3D art. It’s amazing that just by putting curves into a picture it can make it look 3D! We drew colourful hands in 3D.
As it is the month of May we have been praying to Our Lady. We have been learning all about the Rosary.
Have a great weekend everyone
Mrs W and P4
