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P5mk Blog 8.10.20

Numeracy and Maths

  • JLD liked learning about angles – I learned there are right, acute, obtuse, straight and reflex angles

*ECB has learned about chimney sums and is working on adding and taking away bigger numbers

  • LS has learnt the split strategy.  I split my tens and add them together.  I then split my ones and add them together.  At the end I add my tens to my ones.

*AW has been following directions – North, East, South, West.  They help you find your way home!

*WR loved Maths week.  We had lots of challenges set by the Deputy First Minister.  They were pretty hard but we managed to solve some of them.

*CR has learnt about 2D shape.  He found different types of angles inside the 2D shapes such as acute, right and obtuse.

*MC has been tiling during numeracy with 2D shapes.

 

Literacy & English

*IE has wrote a story linked to topic about volcanoes.  We used our topic spelling words throughout our writing

  • AM enjoyed writing about Earthquakes.  This was explanation writing and we had to use subheadings to be successful

  • JM has learnt about prepositions.  These are words that tell you the position of a noun.  E.g. on/off, up/down, behind

*EY has been answering questions about something she has read in Topic and being specific in her answer

*CM wrote a story about what it would feel like to be in a natural disaster.

 

Health & Wellbeing

*AJ has learnt about different roles across the school and that all roles are important in our school community.  We looked at different jobs and their roles (e.g. a judge).  We compared lives in different countries and how this linked to children’s rights.  We played charades to learn about making good choices.

*CSc has been taking part in Orienteering.  She has developed her problem solving and mapping skills through this.  She liked the Harry Potter ones best.

*EP has been enjoying Cross Country.  He has tracked his time each week.  His time has improved by as much as 5 minutes!

*JeD liked learning about Playground games, they were really fun!  She liked the Splat game.  The whole class love Chaos Tig and have been playing it at break.

 

Across Learning

  • CM has been learning about tornados through Art.  We made a drawing of tornados in front of each other and coloured them in using a technique to make them stand out like 3D.

*AS has enjoyed Topic and learning about Natural Disasters.  Her favourite was the earthquake as she got to learn how to deal with an earthquake (drop, cover and roll).

  • MR loved taking part in a volano erupting experiment.

*AJ loves doing all the Art with Mrs Smillie

 

Back to School Vibes

  • EM just likes the school in general.

*CSt is quite happy that the school is doing as many things as it can to keep us safe.

*EY likes eating her snack inside as it means there is less litter in the playground

  • AJ likes seeing her friends and being back together.  She gets excited for the summer holidays but likes to be back to see everyone again.

 

P4S Blog it! 8.10.20

We have had a fabulous start to P4 and have been really enjoying our learning. Here are a few of our highlights so far:
TM- I liked the food chain topic at the beginning of P4 because it involved a lot of animals and I like animals.
AC- I am enjoying maths very much because I am enjoying rounding numbers and learning about shapes.
EW- In literacy we were doing research using devices to find out about Ancient Egyptians. I found out that only wealthy boys went to school.

EW brought this real Egyptian papyrus to school!

ML- We made papyrus paper using teabags and paper. Then we wrote on it.
AA- Ancient Egyptians wrote using hieroglyphics. We wrote our own messages using hieroglyphs.

 

JL- We used the ipad to take pictures of ourselves and then turned ourselves into pharaohs.

BLOG IT! P4M 8.10.20

Hello everyone!

P4M would like to share all the wonderful learning we have experienced so far in P4! We can’t believe it is our October holiday already…time is flying in!

J would like to share about how  we mummified some oranges…that was fun! We did this because we have been learning about Ancient Egyptians mummies and life.

T would like to tell you about our Ancient Egyptian Maths.  It was pretty fun and tricky.

E is feeling happy as he feels he has been achieving in Maths.

L would like to tell you about how we made Pyramids.  We used paper straws to make the base of it then used tissue paper and paper to make the outside.

H is feeling happy as he feels he is achieving in maths and numeracy.

Z would like to tell you about the orienteering.  We run about, get some exercise, have lots of fun and solve clues and puzzles.  Z knows that the more we run the healthier our body gets.

N learned that there is a big river in Egypt and it is called the River Nile.

M has enjoyed the rainbow maths quiz we have been doing.  It started during Maths week and we’ve kept going!

M is feeling happy because she feels she is achieving in literacy.

A would like to tell you about Tutankhamun because his tomb is really interesting.  In writing we wrote a description of it.

S would like to tell you about our writing this term.  We did some free writing and wrote either a description or a narrative of our own choice.  S thought this was fun.

E is feeling very happy as she feels she is achieving in literacy.

K would like to tell you about our writing.  At the very start of the term we created our own magical pets and them wrote about them.

B liked when we created some Egyptian Portraits.  B used patterns to compete the design on a profile picture of her own face.

M has enjoyed all of the art we have done on Ancient Egypt.  We made necklaces and head dresses.

J would like to tell you about spelling.  We do spelling tests, diacritical marking and put our words into sentences to help us learn them.

L would like to tell you about Teams.  We learned how to log on and we log onto live lessons on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday using teams.

M would like to tell you about literacy.  We have been looking at adjectives, verbs, pronouns, proper nouns and nouns.

Finally, Miss MacKenzie would like to show you some of our fantastic papyrus paper and hieroglyphic messages.

Thank you for all of your support,

P4M =]