Category: Primary 4

Hi Everyone,

This is what we have been doing in Primary 4 this week:

James, Ava, Harry, Angelina, Ahmad, Aaron, Filip, Lennon, Annayah, Alishba, Marcus and Alan – We liked doing PE. We were doing running to work on our stamina. We worked with a partner and had to run for 10 minutes whilst our partner marked down tally marks for how many laps we got. We tried to get 80 laps!

Madison, Yaroslav, Kayden, Vanessa and Wojciech – We liked doing number talks and towers sums. We have been adding money and working out the amount of change which we would receive.

*Home Learning Opportunity – If I spent £3.67 on a teddy and paid with a £5 note, how much change would I receive?*

Maeve, Chloe and Zoe – We liked doing writing. We worked in groups to come up with a Scots’ poem. We wrote about made up family members our poems were about ‘ma wee brother Ben’, ‘ma wee sister Lizzie’ and ‘ma wee sister Emma’.

Julia, Ana and Alice – I liked doing maths with a calculator.

Elenta – I liked doing adding money and working out money problems.

Matthew, Lilly, Leo and Ryan – We enjoyed doing Scotland research. We used the netbooks to look up facts about bagpipes, the saltire, Scottish cathedrals and Scottish monuments. We made posters and presented these to the class to share what we learned.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Miss Ford 🙂

This week we have been doing lots of different things in Primary 4. Read on for more information:

Wojciech, Alishba, Oma and Abdullah  – Today we went to our committees. In Arts and Crafts Committee we made models with clay and fireworks pictures using glitter.

Annayah – I enjoyed going to Mini Glee Committee. We did some dancing and singing. We also practiced the song ‘you got a friend in me’.

Harry, Ryan, Yaroslav and Leo – We enjoyed going to STEM committee. We did some science experiments with magnets, electricity and water.

James and Vanessa – We liked doing number talks this week. We did lots of sums about money.

*Home Learning Opportunity – If I buy an RC car costing £5.29 and I pay with a £10 note how much change would I get? Use ‘counting on’ method to get from £5.29 to £10.*

Maeve and Ana – We enjoyed doing PE which was Halloween themed! We also did some ‘Just Dance’ to Michael Jackson’s song Thriller.

Lennon, Filip, Alan and Elenta – We liked going to One World committee where we tried different foods. We tried popadoms, bajis and sauce.

Zoe and Julia – We liked doing 9 tower sums in maths. We had to add amounts of money to find the total.

Angelina – I liked writing a book review of the class novel ‘My Brother’s Famous Bottom Takes Off’.

Alice – I liked copying a silly story in handwriting. We tried to do our neatest and best joins.

Matthew, Marcus and Ahmad – We liked going outside with the outdoor committee. We had to look for and collect items which related to Autumn. We brought lots of sticks back to school.

Lilly, Kayden, Chloe and Aaron – We had fun celebrating Miss Diamond’s 30th birthday yesterday!

Madison – I liked learning about the seasons in Science. We made posters to show the changes in weather and plants.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Ford and P4 🙂

It has been a great first week back in Primary 4. Read on for more information about what we have been doing!

Julia and Madison – I liked creating a leaf for our class charter. I went to the garden to pick one and then copied it.

Marcus – We finished our class novel – I liked the book because I liked learning about New York.

Harry and Ahmad – I liked setting new goals and colouring the GIRFEC wheel in.

Wojciech and Zoe – I liked learning about how the sun and the moon affect the tides and the ocean on Earth.

Aaron, Ava, Annayah, Oma, Alan and Abdullah – I liked doing fitness for PE.

Leo, Chloe, Ryan, Angelina, Matthew and Lennon –  We liked playing Helicopter in PE.

Filip – I liked doing number talks especially Countdown.

Elenta – I liked going to the tennis afterschool club.

Alice – I liked doing money worksheets where we had to add and subtract amounts of money.

Kayden and Yaroslav – I liked doing Minecraft themed Yoga in PE.

Lilly – I liked doing adding sums with money.

Maeve – I liked taking part in a competition to name a gritter for West Lothian Council.

Ana – I liked writing about a Haunted House for Halloween.

Vanessa – I liked learning about verbs in grammar.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Miss Ford.

Hi Everyone!

Each week just seems to be getting busier and more fun!!! Here is what we’ve been doing this week:

Harry and Alan – I liked playing hockey for the second last time this term.

Filip, Aaron, Ava, Oma and Abdullah – We liked doing Handball with the Sports Leaders from James Young High School. It is the Handball Festival next week and we are so excited!

Wojciech – I liked doing maths smart start this week.

Madison and Lennon – We liked learning about keeping healthy. We had to draw round Lennon and write post its about how to keep healthy then stick them on the drawing!

Maeve and Zoe – We liked learning about money in maths. We had to use coins to work out problems. This is a life skill and it was fun!

*Home Learning Opportunity – If you visit any shops this weekend ask your child to add some prices together and involve them in paying if you are using cash!*

Angelina – I liked when the NYCOS teacher came to teach us some songs.

Alishba – I liked writing a pretend email to the president. This is linked to our class novel because the family are meeting the president in the next chapter!

James and Ahmad – We liked doing number talks this week. We have been doing more subtraction calculations.

*Home Learning Opportunity – Try 100 – 49=? Please ask your child to talk about the strategy they used to get to the answer.*

Julia – I liked designing a healthy packed lunch when we were learning about how to keep healthy.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Miss Ford and Primary 4 🙂

Hi Everyone!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Marcus and Angelina – We liked playing handball with sports leaders who came to our school. This is to prepare for the handball festival in 2 weeks.

Alan and Kayden – We liked playing hockey with Mr McCurdy.

Yaroslav, James and Ryan – We liked doing a tricky subtraction number talks and figuring out how to solve it.

*Home Learning Opportunity – Try this tricky number talks with your child: 124 – 57 = ? Talk about the strategy which they would use to solve this.*

Abdullah and Filip – We enjoyed doing mindfulness colouring.

Lennon and Aaron – We liked doing kickstart in writing. We do this to learn from our mistakes and act on feedback.

Zoe, Chloe and Julia – We liked doing addition in maths where we coloured a picture in based on the answer to the sum. We also liked writing a postcard from America as if we were with the family in our novel!

Alishba, Maeve and Oma – We liked going to assembly for ‘Wee John the Janny’. We also liked doing subtraction in number talks.

Wojciech and Matthew – We liked doing music activities with the NYCOS teacher.

Vanessa, Elenta and Annayah – We liked doing races in handball and mindfulness colouring.

Ava – I liked working with Mrs Scott doing maths.

Madison – I liked doing maths this week.

Leo – I liked doing a maths assessment about number.

Lilly, Ana and Alice – We liked talking about what to do in an emergency and how to keep safe. We also liked watching Newsround.

Ahmad and Harry – I liked going to the Tennis after school club.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Miss Ford 🙂

Hi everyone!

This week has been short and sweet! Read on for more information:

Vanessa and Lennon – This week I enjoyed number talks.

*Home Learning Opportunity – What is 99 + 89? Talk about what strategy you used!*

Alan and Filip – This week I enjoyed the committees. We used clay and moulded it in to bowls at One World committee.

Julia – I enjoyed creating a class number line from 0-100 to help us on our maths working wall.

Abdullah, Oma and Alishba – We enjoyed spending time at arts and crafts committee. Abdullah used cardboard to make a model of a computer! Alishba enjoyed making a heart out of tissue paper and writing ‘I love St. Ninian’s’ on it. Oma scrunched up paper to make a waterfall and rocks.

Lilly, Annayah, Madison, Angelina and Ava – I enjoyed my committee which was Mini Glee. We sung a Toy Story song called ‘You Got a Friend in Me’ and we also did some dance moves too.

James, Matthew and Marcus – In my committee we went to the pond. It is the outdoor play committee. We also went exploring the woods.

Chloe, Harry and Ahmad – I liked doing PE. We played a hockey tournament.

Zoe and Maeve – We liked doing maths posters. We made a poster showing how you would do a tower sum to help us on our maths working wall.

Aaron – I liked going to games committee. We discussed what games we would like to learn how to play.

Elenta – I enjoyed doing spelling. We had to try and spell lots of different words.

Alan – I liked doing Word Boost because we learned some new words and read more of the class novel.

*Home Learning Opportunity – Please discuss this week’s words with your child: powerful, sensational, experience, astronauts, imitate and atmosphere.

Zoe and Madison – I liked writing an acrostic poem using onomatopoeia.

*Home Learning Opportunity – Ask your child what onomatopoeia is and ask them for some examples of this!*

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Miss Ford

It’s the end of another great week in Primary 4. Here is what we’ve been up to:

Zoe and Lilly – We have enjoyed doing Number Talks and learning new strategies like friendly numbers.

*Home Learning Opportunity* – Please ask your child about friendly numbers and maybe even try a number talks e.g. 29 + 45 = ?

Alisha – I have enjoyed doing Wordboost because I like learning new words and their meanings.

*Home Learning Opportunity* – Please ask your child about this week’s words. They are: jaunty, angelic, heap, sensation, scowled and shuddered. 

Harry, Ava and Ahmad – We have enjoyed learning about the American flag and colouring one in using the colours red and blue.

Oma and Filip – We have enjoyed playing a hockey tournament in PE.

Ryan, James and Lennon – We enjoyed doing activities on the smart board using Mangahigh for maths week.

Elenta and Aaron – I enjoyed playing snakes and ladders for smart start to practice counting and working fairly with a partner.

Ana and Alan – We enjoyed making a class numberline with Mrs Stewart.

Leo and Matthew – We enjoyed practicing rounding to the nearest 100.

*Home Learning Opportunity* – Please ask your child to round a number to the nearest 100 e.g. what is 178 to the nearest hundred?

Julia – I enjoyed doing spelling pyramids with this week’s 10 words.

Angelina – I enjoyed learning about Safe as part of our GIRFEC work. We talked about places we feel safe and places we feel unsafe.

Maeve – I enjoyed reading more of our class novel ‘My Brother’s Famous Bottom Takes Off’.

Have a great September weekend everyone!

Primary 4 and Miss Ford 🙂