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Welcome back everyone. We hope you had a wonderful October break.

Mr Muller has been hearing about some of the adventures P5mw children have been getting up to over the holiday.

We have been learning upon our return about Global Goals. This means we have been learning about climate change more specifically global warming and what we can do as children given that this will impact our future environment. We’ve been looking at how plastic ends up in the oceans and how this can harm animals and sea-life.

In numeracy, we have been exploring the x2, x5 and x10 tables. By the end of our term, we hope to recall most, or all, of our times tables instantly. We will be practicing this regularly and it would be great if this was repeated at home. We have been making paper chains to reflect our learning in numeracy. We played speed tables too which was challenging for most of us.

In brass, some of us have been learning rhythms and show our understanding of music using coloured sheets. We have also been looking at different notes to improve our brass-playing skills.

In writing, we have been using our imagination to create spooky characters. We used many ambitious adjectives to up level our writing.

 

 

Primary 4hs Blog 20.10.22

Primary 4 had a great end to Term 1 and are very excited to learn lots of new things during Term 2.

In literacy we have began looking at how to write a narrative. We have already planned and written one which was based on a well-known fairy tale but with an Egyptian twist! We really enjoyed this and can’t wait to develop our writing more.

In numeracy we have been using different strategies to help us with addition and subtraction. We have become much more confident in using the column method. This term we will be developing our knowledge of money and will continue to use different strategies to help us. In Maths, we will be learning about measure.

We are now rounding off our Egyptians topic before starting a new, exciting topic around food chains and “Farm to Fork”.

Below you will find some of the highlights of P4 so far.

I have enjoyed doing the Egyptians topic, I found it really fascinating – B

I have been enjoying ERIC time – Z

I enjoy having table points. We earn these by working together as a team – F

I have enjoyed narrative writing so far – K

I have enjoyed learning about the River Nile and creating some art work around this – C

I enjoyed the STEAM challenge we had where we made things out of plastic bottles – J

I enjoyed writing in hieroglyphics as part of our Egyptians topic – D

P6W Blog 20th October 2022

21st October 2022                                             Primary 6W Blog

Literacy

In literacy we have been learning how to make notes and then use them to create new texts.  We carried out independent research on either Moscow or St Petersburg and created notes using subheadings. We then used these notes to produce colourful leaflets to encourage people to visit these Russian cities.  This week we have started a new topic looking at how to write our own narratives.  We read a story about a boy called Tom who was evacuated to the countryside during World War 2.  We highlighted vocabulary, figurative language and excellent openers that we thought we might use in our own story which we then worked hard to create.

Numeracy

In numeracy we have completed our topic on patterns where we were investigating famous patterns such as Fibonacci and Pascall’s Triangle.  This week we have started our new topic on decimal numbers.  We have been learning to understand what a decimal is, how to find them on a number-line and how to order them.  Next week we will be learning how to round decimal numbers, using our knowledge of rounding whole numbers.

Others

In science we have been investigating reversible and irreversible reactions.  We experimented by separating rice and paperclips using a magnet, separating flour and peas using a sieve, separating salt and water by evaporation, melting chocolate to make Krispie cakes and mixing vinegar and baking powder.

We have also continued to learn about sources of energy by creating and experimenting with our own circuits. We made clowns with light up noses.

We had a visit from West Lothian Ranger Services this week.  They were talking to us about the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.  They explained how we can keep ourselves and others’ safe whilst exploring the outdoors.  They also had a variety of activities for us to do that helped us remember how to use the Code correctly.

We participated in a live Harvest lesson led by the National Farmers Union.  In this lesson they were showing us how carrots go from seed to fork.  Inspired by the lesson, we decided to make our own carrot soup in the afternoon.  Some people even tried dipping carrots in chocolate to see if it tasted nice – it was a mixed result.

During STEAM week we were learning to reuse and recycle plastics.  We heard information about how long it takes a plastic bag to decompose and then created our own “fashion accessories” using recycled plastic bags.