Hello everyone, P4M would like to share their learning with you =]

Jessica D would like to tell you about the jumping dance we did in class! Through our topic, the class decided they wanted to learn about African tribes.  We learned about the Maasai tribe and their traditional dance.  Jessica became the jumping dance champion (warrior!) as she jumped highest for longest! Isla has been enjoying our continuation of our Africa topic.  Baili would like to tell you about our African tribal masks.  We made 3 different kinds, one with paint, one with paper and one using pen. Ana knows that different materials in art are called Media.  Callum thinks that making the masks was fun and knows that they had to be symmetrical.  Isla enjoyed making these masks too.  Since we last posted last year, Oakley has wanted to share about his learning on Nelson Mandela.  He knows that Nelson Mandela was put in prison for believing in equal rights.

Lewis has been playing rugby in PE.  We were learning how to throw the rugby ball using a backwards swing pass. Maxim feels he is getting better at passing the ball.  He enjoyed a passing game that we played. Cara has enjoyed fitness with Mrs Howard because she still has to keep going, even with her rosy cheeks!

In numeracy we have been learning about some pretty big numbers.  Evan has been working with numbers in the tens of thousands! Alana has been working on her written methods for addition.  Erika has been working on her understanding of place value and knows that in the number 287 the 2 stand for 200.

Gracie would like to tell you about our learning in French.  We have been learning new words and been practising the alphabet and learning about families!

Eden would like to share that she has been developing her resilience when solving problems.  We had to make some shapes fit into a square…it was pretty tricky!

In art, Aneta enjoyed sketching a lion!

Aiden would like to tell you about writing.  He was retelling a story in his own words.  We used the traditional African story of, ‘How the sun and moon live in the sky’. Carmen has also been using the traditional tale of, ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ in her writing.  We used the traditional tale of, ‘Why the clouds sit on top of the hill’. Lucas enjoyed this piece of writing.  William feels he has improved his writing and is feeling very proud.

In literacy, Lauren has been reading through stories and identifying VCOP.  Today we were highlighting adjectives.  Ana has enjoyed developing her dictionary skills. Louise has been enjoying this too. Jessica M knows that dictionaries give us the definition of words.

Ruaridh enjoys our weekly circle time and enjoys saying thank you and being rewarded for displaying school values and classroom values.  He also enjoys the chance to show and tell at this time.

Lucy would like to tell you about the theatre that came to school.  We saw ‘The railway children’ and Lucy really enjoyed it.  The main characters were Peter, the railway Porter, Phylis and Bobbie. Ethan thought that Peter was really funny! “Choo choo!”

Jigsaw time is a favourite of Jakes.  We made medals to display our learning goals for the year. Callum S would like to let you know that the Jigsaw puzzle piece we are working on in class is called, ‘Being me in my world’.

It’s a big blog this time, but were so excited to share all our learning in P4 so far!

Thanks, P4M and Miss MacKenzie

We have all settled well into P1 and have been learning lots of things already. We have been getting to know each other and we are very good at sharing and doing jobs that need teamwork. During our transition into Primary One we found out about Julia Donaldson. We decided to write her a letter with some of our questions. Her reply is in the first photograph. In literacy we have been making our own stories by ordering pictures on story stones and speaking our story into a voice recorder. With our buddies we have started practising retelling a familiar story and we will be making characters and a setting to act it out. Already we know the sounds a, t, s, i, and p. We have been learning how to write these sounds and talking about words containing these sounds. In number we have been ordering numbers, practising careful counting of objects, learning to recognise dice patterns and finger patterns and to write numbers 1 to 4. In the afternoons we have been finding out about our school. We have had lots of good ideas about what we can do. Mrs Stewart answered lots of our questions about her two jobs in the school and we learnt how we can help her too. We had a walk around the school and took lots of photographs and talked to people we met.

Here are our comments about what we like to play with and what we have been learning:

Aaron – I like the doll’s house. I’ve been learning about numbers. Butterfly Three.

Alfie – I like the painting table. I know t for tennis.

Cameron- I like the doll’s house. I have been learning about i for Inky Mouse.

Charlee- I like the water. I have learnt how to write.

Daniel – I like playing on the keyboard.

Ellen – I like the craft table. We have learnt to write letters.

Emin – I like doing gluing. I’ve been learning about letters and numbers and pictures.

Emma – I liked playing with animals and I liked Penguin 1.

Jack – I like drawing. I have learnt lots of new things like a and t and p and i.

Kai – I like the water. We do numbers like one and numbers after two.

Leon – I like brick. I learnt writing.

Levi – I like plasticine. I ‘ve learnt letters.

Monty – I like plasticine. Number one just goes down.

Pippa – I like the art table and we do good behaviour.

Ruby – I like bricks. I have done writing.

Theo – I like the water tray. We have been learning numbers and letters.

TJ – I like sand. I have been learning sounds.

Wiktoria – I like drawing. I have learnt letters and numbers.

Zoe – I like the shop. I have learnt s, a, p, t and the one with the dot!  

In Primary 4b, we are all excited and a little nervous to start in Primary 4!  We have already learned about Nelson mandela during our Transition week.   We have talked to each other and our teachers about what we want to learn about Africa.  We decided to learn about plants and animals, how African schools compare to ours, how transport is different and maybe the same and finally, how to read and write hieroglyphics!

We will enjoy showing all our friends and family our hard work during parents` evening!