The children were given the following brief this week and asked to respond via handwritten letter,

A new toy shop is due to open in your local area, called

“Magnificent Toys”

As part of the marketing campaign to encourage people to come to the shop when it opens next week the manager, Thomas Jones, has sent catalogues to every local Primary School; enough for each child.

The catalogue is split into two sections, in the first half all the pages are pink and are filled with dolls and dressing up clothes.  The other half the pages are blue and filled with toy cars and construction.  There is also a picture of the inside of the shop on the front.  

In this shop, on the right hand side, all the shelves and labels are pink and there is a big sign saying “Toys For Girls”.  On the left hand side all the shelves and labels are blue and there is a big sign that says “Toys For Boys”. 

The children applied their learning from last week’s gender stereotype lessons to create a letter to express their opinion and persuade the manager to rethink his shop’s layout.  Well done to everyone, there was a lot of higher order thinking skills being demonstrated.

In Numeracy we have been focusing on word problems and applying our learning and skills in different contexts.  we have been trying to link these into skills for life.  This will continue into next week.  Some of us were also exploring how to express a remainder, from a division calculation, as a fraction.  This will extend next week into converting the fraction to a decimal.  2D shape has also played a large role in our Maths learning this week, if you would like extra practise try this interactive game.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/14/m3_14_00_x.swf

Our seeds are growing well and we have now started our investigation into seedlings that have been fertilised with liquid plant food versus those have not.  Stay tuned for further updates over the next few weeks.

We were all for THE HIGH JUMP in PE this week.  It was so exciting to watch as everyone took part in a class competition.  Colin was our amazing stand out (jump out!) athlete, jumping 1m 40cm!  Well done Colin!

Have a lovely long weekend.

We’ve had a busy week again and managed to squeeze it our writing and spelling assessments!

Another fantastic swimming lesson today – it’s great to see everyone making improvements to their technique!

All jotters and report cards were sent home today – please have a discussion about the work we do in class.

Here are our comments for this week:

Mia- this week has been a busy week, what I mostly enjoyed this week was…THE BLEP TEST. I ran with my friend Erin R, I got 11.1. I’m the fastest girl and P6 in the school.

Erin R-we did our writing assessment and the single word spelling test. We were writing as if we were a refugee asking for help.

Jennifer-this week we did a writing assessment we were to write about poor children refugees. We wrote a letter to the home secretary, number 10, downing street. We had to write as if we were the refugees and asking for them to let us in the country. I enjoy writing assessments. This week has been really fun and we are now going swimming under the pool.

Emily- this week we did our writing assessment we wrote a letter pretending to be a refugee. I also saw my buddy and now we are going swimming.

Emma- This week we had the single word spelling test and on Wednesday  I went to see my buddy but she had the chicken pox so I never saw her – get well soon Abigail !! L We also had a writing assessment which we pretended to be a refugee it was tense and now we are going swimming at James young under the seaJ!

Rugare- Hello we all enjoyed the achievements assembly. I got a new badge in the girls brigade ,it is called the diamond award.

Aliza-  this week we done a spelling assessment and a writing assessment. It was pretty hard but most of us got a good spelling score!

 

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend and I’ll catch up with everyone next week on parent’s evening.

Literacy:

Kerr: There are ‘oy’ words on my whiteboard. I used ‘oi’ and ‘oy’.

Sophie: ‘oy’ is at the end of a word and ‘oi’ is in the middle.

Jarred: ‘oyseter’ breaks the rule because the ‘oy’ is at the start and it’s usually at the end.

Jarred: I had to think what the faces are and write a word in a box. A face was angry or surprised.

Kaitlyn: There was a happy and unhappy face.

Kerr: There was a tired face too.

Casper: We were working on our blooms buttons this week.

Adam: We were working on blue and green blooms buttons.

Jakub: We were working on blue and purple blooms buttons questions.

Esmee: We listened to the story of Snail and the Whale.

Kerr: We had to sort out who was saying different things.

Kaitlyn: They were all in speech bubbles.

Esmee: I was doing an ‘oy’ wordsearch. I found 10 ‘oy’ sounds.

Jakub: I was writing a sentence down. I made sure I had capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

Sophie: The sentence was all mixed up. We had to order to words in the right place.

Rutendo: We were playing a game with the ‘th’ sound. I won the game.

Maths

Casper: I made a bracelet. It was a pattern.

Jarred: I was writing a numberjacks book. It was a special edition.

Hayley: I was playing sumdog.

Adam: I was playing a football game on sumdog.

Patryk: I was cutting the cake.

Jakub: We cut the cake into half a quarter.

Oli: The cake was tasty.

Stefan: I was cutting the cake in halves or quarters.

Kayla: If your cake is in half you have 2 pieces.

Marcel: If your cake is in quarters you have 4 pieces.

Adam: There was a hole in the pizza and you had to make some extra.

MacKenzie: You made an extra half of the pizza.

Esmee: You had to half the numbers in your game.

Sophie: Half of 10 is 5.

Rutendo: Half of 6 is 3.

Jarred: Half of 100 is 50.

Kerr: Half of 40 is 20.

Patryk: Half of 12 i 6.

Kayla: Half of 18 is 9.

Stefan: We had partners and had to share the grapes.

Kaimee: Everyone had to get the same number as your partner.

Marcel: I had 4 and my partner had 4.

Sophie: You can get 1 each.

Jakub: I had 15 and my partner had 15.

 

RE

Poppy: I was making a candle.

Daniel: We were making them for Mary.

Kaitlyn: I was making a flower.

Patryk: We were making these for Mary because she is Jesus’ mum.

Kerr: Mary is very special.

Adam: We all love Mary.

This week we have been learning all about the human body. We have focused our learning on the respiratory and circulatory systems which links very well with our class novel. We also used our class novel for inspiration for our writing this week and worked on writing persuasive letters.

Here are some of our comments and photographs this week.

Erin O- this week we drew optical illusions some of us did spirals, circles and grids. They look great, we used all different colours and some of us did 2.

Erwin – this week for P.E we have been doing athletics with hurdles and relay races. It was great !

Emma-This week we learned more about what happens when you inhale and exhale we also drew optical illusions yesterday they look amazing! In P.E we have been doing athletics by doing hurdles, long jump/broad jump. It’s been awesome!

Neave – today is going to be a good day for  the girls football team. We are playing 2-4 schools from 1.30 pm -3.00 pm. It is going to be EXTREMELY EXITING! #girls football

Neave – today we found out in assembly when the talent show auditions are and when ST.NINIANS GOT TALENT starts.

Emily – today I got to see my buddy again it was really fun and we also found out that there is going to be a talent show which I am excited for.

Good luck to the girls playing in the football tournament this afternoon! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

This week we have explored different ways to challenge our learning.

1)We took our topic work, about plants, outside and played a game called Seeds and Chaffinches. It helped us to appreciate that not all seeds make it to the stage of germination and that many are eaten by the birds.  Please ask us about the rules to the game because it was great fun and energetic.

2)We had a debate about gender imbalance in careers and also discussed the impact of Toy Manufacturers packaging and labelling of toys and shops.  Watch the following two clips and discuss it at home

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24211824

 

3) In RE we have been learning about the life of St Paul and through this we created interactive posters (with flaps and opening sections), here are some examples

4) On our Maths Glass Learning Wall we have been consolidating our knowledge of how to convert from mililitres to litres.

 

We have had a busy week in Primary 4!

In maths this week, we have still been working on time but looking at the link between analogue and digital time and trying to work out durations. Time is a tricky concept for us to learn!

“I am feeling more confident about time and I tried to teach my little brother how it works this morning!” – Jan

“I can read analogue and digital clocks now!” – Batshewa

In PE, Mr Robinson taught us all about the triple jump. This is when you have to sequence a hop, a skip then a jump and travel as far as you possibly can.

“I enjoyed trying to beat my partners distance” – Evie

In writing, we wrote a letter that we hope to send to the parent council to share what we have been learning about endangered animals and global warming to raise awareness.

In topic, we have been researching endangered animals using different websites to find out about habitats, diet and the causes of endangerment. We are going to use what we have found out to create fact files for the different animals.

We had a visitor in school this week called Patricia. She held a special retreat in preparation for making our confirmations this Sunday. We learned songs, wrote prayers and drew pictures whilst reflecting on our Faith journey.

The children who are making their Confirmation on Sunday are really looking forward to it and have worked hard preparing for this special day.

Have a great weekend,  P4 and Miss Diamond J!

We really liked the way we shared our blog with you last week so we are giving it another go this week.

Here are our highlights:

Kaimee: “I wrote about the Gruffalo. I wrote that he had purple prickles.”

Stefan: “I wrote about the snake in writing. I was writing that the snake was small and he is super green.”

Rutendo: “I wrote about the fox. I said he had pointy ears.”

We were writing character descriptions.

Kyle: “When the hand is pointing is pointing to the 12 it is o’clock.”

Marcel: “When the hand is pointing to the 6 it is half past.”

Kerr: “For digital time you need at 30 for half past and two zeros for o’clock.”

Jarred: “3 o’clock is 3:00”

Esmee: “half past 6 is 6:30”

Sophie: “We were jumping in PE.”

Kayla: “We are learning about athletic in PE.”

Patryk: “We went outside for PE. It is so much doing PE outside.”

Jarred: “I remember listening to wheels on the bus in music.”

Poppy: “I have been learning more about the ‘ch’ sound.

Stefan: “We have been learning about the ai/ay sounds.”

Kaitlyn: “ai comes in the middle of a word and ay comes at the end of a word.”

Jakub: “My reading book is Jed Swims.”

Adam: “My reading book is In the Garden.”

Patryk: “My reading book is I am Sam.”

MacKenzie: “My reading book is The Fib. Fib means lying.

Casper: “In RE we are learning about Mary,

Patryk: “Mary is Jesus’ mum.”

MacKenzie: “We learn about Mary in May.”

Adam: “There is a ‘r’ in Mary but not in May.”

Kerr: “We are learning about Spanish animals.”

Jarred: “We are learning about the days of the week in Spanish.”