Category: Primary 4

This has been a very eventful week as we have been celebrating our School’s 40^th Birthday.

We have been learning about the history of our school, rehearsing for our school concert, enjoyed a fun day where we got to watch a movie, dress down and participate in fun activities in the afternoon. Mark enjoyed the ‘chill out zone’, Aleksander enjoyed using the ipads and netbooks and chose to play sumdog, Batshewa enjoyed making her very own superhero and Aoife enjoyed playing golden time games with her friends. Finally and most importantly we participated in a school mass with Archbishop Cushley and Fr Tony.

We continued to revise multiplication in maths where we are multiplying two digit numbers by single digit numbers. We enjoyed playing different games to help us learn including bingo, jenga and hit the button.

In our topic lessons we have been learning about how Vikings travel and where they travelled to. We made our very own longboats from paper. Adrin said ‘It was fascinating’!

We have a busy week ahead with our concert performances but we are really looking forward to it. We hop to see you there :)!

Have a great weekend, Primary 4, Miss Diamond and Miss Crookston.

It has been a very quick week in Primary 4 because we have been SO busy!

We have been learning about the school and its 40^th Anniversary and have been putting a lot of effort and enthusiasm into rehearsing for our concert.

As our new topic is The Vikings, we have been learning about their lifestyle and we have been looking at maps to find out where they raided and where they settled.  In our writing lesson, we wrote a letter to Viggot Samsson (a Viking) to ask questions and share information about ourselves.

We have continued with learning about multiplication this week but have been focussing more on our 6,7 and 8 times tables. Jay enjoyed playing multiplication card war, Aleksander enjoyed the written tasks, Shannon enjoyed using loop cards and Hannah enjoyed using Sumdog to practise her tables.

We have also had our class mass this week. We were a credit to St.Ninian’s with our participation and behaviour during the mass so much so, a parishioner thanked us for attending and complimented us on our behaviour. As a little treat/reward, we had a trip to the park on our way back to school which was great fun.  We would also like to thank Mrs Slater (Ailie’s mum) for participating in our mass and supporting us.

Have a great weekend, P4 and Miss Diamond :)!

We have had a superb week in P4!

This week, we continued with International Week and have been learning about Poland, Italy and India as these are some of the cultures we have in our class. We got to research and learn about these interesting countries, learn the language courtesy of our class mates and the highlight for us was getting to taste different foods. We got to taste village sausage, braided bread, mashed potatoes, vegetable and steak stew, mjeione (meat balls) and dumplings from Poland, Lasagne from Italy and vegetable pakora from India. We thoroughly enjoyed these delicious foods so much so we wanted more. We would like to thank the families in our class for providing us with the different foods to try!

What the children thought:-

‘I liked the Polish food, especially the mashed potatoes’ – Haseeb

‘I loved the lasagne from Italy!’ – Mark

‘I loved my mums cooking! ALL of it!’ – Aleksander

‘I enjoyed the lasagne from Italy and the Polish Sausage the best!’ – Jacob

‘The pakora was awesome! Thank you Adrin and his mum!’ – Jan

In maths, we have continued with multiplication and have been multiplying 2 digit numbers. We have introduced our 6 and 7 times tables and can’t wait to see what is in store for us next week.

During spelling this week, we got to explore Microsoft word and change the colour, font and size whilst typing our spelling words and we really enjoyed using magazines to find the letters required to make our spelling words.

We have been practising for our 40^th Anniversary concert which is still a work in progress but we are really enjoying it!

We finished our week with our pupil committees that were all very productive. We had people looking at Fairtrade, charity, budgeting, bakes sales, school prayers and lots more.

We hope you have a nice weekend!

P4, Miss Crookston and Miss Diamond :)!

We have had a very busy week in P4! We are 100 % back into the swing of school life after our Christmas break.

We have been participating in ‘International Week’ this week where we focussed on Malawi! We have been learning about a girl who lives in Malawi called Memory. We had an insight into her daily life and compared her life to our own lives. We learned some African dancing, made African instruments and used the netbooks to carry out research about the country itself. We will be continuing with International Week next week but focusing more on different nationalities that we have in our class. Watch this space!

We have been learning about multiplication in maths and have used a range of activities to help us learn. Shannon really enjoyed playing multiplication bingo, Jay enjoyed the written tasks and Haseeb enjoyed playing hit the button on the netbooks.

In PE this week, we have started our new block of Gymnastics. We focussed particularly on rotation and different types of rolls. Ailie enjoyed trying out the dish roll, Brooke enjoyed using the forward roll to move and Evie liked doing her front walkover on both the floor and on the vault.

In literacy, we have been working hard to develop our dictionary skills. Miss Crookston really challenged us ad made us find VERY tricky words. We also had to fid out what type of word it was, e.g. adjective, nouns, or verbs.

We have been working on our typing skills and enjoyed using dance mat typing on the netbooks to help us familiarise ourselves with the keyboard. This got more difficult as we worked through the different stages.

We had an emotional end to the week where we had to say goodbye to Miss Smyth! It is safe to say she will be missed and in P4 we do not know how anyone is going to fill her shoes!! Thank you for everything Miss Smyth!

 

We have had a busy week in P4 this week. 

We had a mysterious gift arrive in our classroom with a letter attached! We had to try to guess who the gift was from and how it got here! We recorded our ideas and thoughts in a story board format which helped us write a story about ‘The Mysteries Gift’. We enjoyed another visit to the library where we learned more about how to navigate our way through the books and enojoyed doing a relay race to find different authors. 

In maths this week we have been learning about grid references and compass points. We made a picture of Santa using grid references and had to navigate our way through Santa’s workshop using our knowledge of compass points. Hannah remembers her compass points using ‘Naughty Elephants Squirt Water’ and Brooke remembers hers by using the ‘Never Eat Shredded Wheat’ acronym. 

In topic we have been learning about the different senses. We made posters to share our learning with others and then carried out an investigation to explore how reliable our senses are. We had to smell, listen, taste, feel and look at various different things. Lauren was NOT a fan of the lemon! 

We have been getting into the Christmas spirit with our class Christmas tree, our exciting pantomime experience, our Christmas lunch and last but not least our Christmas jumper day! The Choir have been performing at the Lime Kiln and will be joining the community links committee at Crusader Court to entertain the residents with our Christmas Carol singing. 

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P4! 

We are all exhausted after a busy week full of hard work and fun in P4.

We are improving every week during our Ceilidh dancing and Mr McCurdy has been blown away by our efforts. He is amazed at how quickly we pick up the dances and has even taught us dances that he would usually only teach to P7!!!!

In Maths, we have been learning about money and making total amounts. Some of our favourite activities have been making a shopping list within a budget to work out what we could buy for children in Africa, using the money loop cards and timing ourselves to try and improve each time and solving money word problems.  We had visitors to our school who joined us during our money lesson and Mr Conway was very impressed with our focus, concentration and the ability to share our number strategies.

We wrote a story about ‘The Night Before Christmas’ this week for our writing assessment. We included everything we have been learning about so far,  including adjectives, similes, description of the setting and onomatopoeia.

As part of our science topic, we have been learning about forces. We went on a magnetic object hunt in the classroom and in the garden and had to make predictions to decide whether we thought it would be magnetic or not. Some of us were very surprised with our findings.

Have a great Weekend, P4 and Miss Diamond.