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P4hs Blog Update 2.9.22

We have been learning lots of new things in Primary 4hs! 

In Literacy, we have been exploring descriptive writing. We discussed different adjectives we can use to describe a character and a setting, and we have also written a creative story about a robot already. We are going to use this new knowledge to help with our writing to enter the West Lothian Bathgate Hills writing competition!

In numeracy we have been revising place value and we can now use this to help us with our addition and subtraction using carrying. In maths we have been exploring shape and symmetry. 

We have been reading an exciting novel called “The Wild Robot” to go along with our technology topic. We have explored our novel through our writing and expressive arts where we recreated the front cover using monochrome effects. We even learnt a bit about coding! 

We have been enjoying P4 so far and look forward to learning all about the Egyptians next!

P4s Blog Update 2.9.22

P4s have had a great start to the year. We have been working hard to make our classroom feel like our own and have already learnt so much about each other. We have worked together to create a class charter and rules that we have all agreed to work hard to follow to help make our classroom a respectful, responsible and enjoyable space to learn.

In Maths we have been focussing on symmetry: “…we learnt that some shapes have more than one line of symmetry”. In Numeracy, we have been reminding ourselves about place value and have recently started practicing our chimney sums using addition.

We are reading a really exciting class novel at the moment called The Wild Robot and have explored the story through writing, using lots of adjectives and through Art… re-creating the front cover using paint.

We have a special guest in our classroom called Jigsaw Jino. He is helping us explore our first Health and Wellbeing topic, Being me in my World.

Oh, and we can bring our own devices into class too which is very exciting!