What would happen if the chairs went on strike?

Today primary 4p were writing persuasive letters to the chairs in our classroom. We learned about why persuasive writing is important and how to use the right language to persuade an audience or person,

We learned that a persuasive text needs a title, an opening statement, arguments for and closing statement. We used strong emotive adjectives too as a way to convince the chairs to come back to us.

We had a lot of fun doing this and were relieved when the chairs came off strike and joined us again!

Primary 4p

Christmas Enterprise!

Hello everyone, we are very excited to share some news with you all about our Christmas enterprise product. We are going to make recipe books! Next week, we are going to be making some lovely lentil soup. If you would like to get a little taste of this then send your child into school on Wednesday 17th November with a small container so you can try it! This recipe will be featured in our recipe books.

Procedural Writing

The reason for making our recipe books is because we have been learning how to write a piece of procedural writing. We have learned that a piece of procedural writing helps us learn how to do/play or make something.  We can’t wait to show you our procedural writing in our enterprise project!

Thanks for reading,

P4p

P7m

Numeracy

We have been learning how to convert between currencies, the differences between credit and debit cards, what an APR is and how to calculate a monthly interest rate.  We were given a group budget to plan a holiday and created group SWAYs to showcase our learning. We are also continuing to participate in our Transition project with Mrs Lundberg at Armadale Academy every week.

Literacy

In literacy we created our own spooky stories! This was so much fun and we particularly enjoyed sharing these stories with the rest of the class!   We are studying poetry at the moment and we are looking forward to creating our own poems in different styles.

IDL

We have moved onto learning about Oceans.  From our class discussion, we had some fantastic ideas for IDL which we will be taking forward in our learning!

Health & Well being

We are completing Health & well being check ins over the next week.  We continue to model the school values of Ready, Respectful, Responsible and Safe.

P.E

We are learning Netball and Tag Rugby this term.  We have been focusing on the skills needed for these games such as throwing, passing and footwork.  We continue to do P.E inside and outside during the week.

Other areas

Mandarin – We are taking part in an 8 week block of Mandarin. We can say basic greetings, our name and count to 10!  We have also tried writing Chinese characters during our LIVE  weekly lessons.

 We have enjoyed:

Z – “I like doing rugby, it is fun”

C – “I am enjoying learning how to play netball”

F – “Writing my own spooky story was good; I think it was my best one yet!”

R – “I really enjoyed doing the abstract art and I like learning about budgeting”.