We said a fond goodbye to Josie this week and wish her well at her new school.

Here is a summary of our learning this week: 

This was written by Anna and Zoe 

Literacy- What we have done this week:  

We wrote a story inspired by a picture and used lots of sentence openers. We also did a reading comprehension about Usain Bolt related to our learning about Black History Month.  

We have finished our Literature Circle books so there is no reading over the holidays. 

 

Home Learning Ideas:

• Write an autobiography and practice any tricky spelling words. 

 

Numeracy:   

This week in Numeracy we have been doing long multiplication sums like 31 x 680 in a traditional sum, (here is a video https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/multiplication-long.html)  also we have been practising division and expressing remainders as decimals.  

In order learning we also did a very old game called Nine Men’s Morris. 

We also started Numeracy Ninjas to practise times tables and key maths skills. 

 

Home learning: 

• Topmarks  
• Practice memorising times tables  
• Teach someone the Nine Men’s Morris game. 

 

Other: 

We have been using an atlas to help us work out capital cities.  We have been getting really good at atlas work. 

In P.E. we did the beep test.  Some of us are now on level 11. 

Also in P.E. The last group did their fitness program it was very great. 

We have started using Plicker cards to check in with our learning. 

 

   Have a good October Holiday! 

 

Another busy week in P4H bringing this very different term to end, I have been really impressed with the way that the children have settled into our new normal and worked together as a class team. Thank you for your understanding at the beginning with the constant changes. After 10 weeks I think we are all ready for a holiday . I hope you all have a lovely Half Term

As usual today’s blog is compiled with P4H based on their reflections of the week

Spelling

We looked at ar/or words where you need to sound out each letter.

Super/Fantastic yard,shark,artist,alarm,carve,cork,forty,orbit,horse,sharp

Spectacular alarmed, enlarged,artistic, corkscrew,information,fortieth, uniform

Tricky words little , only

Home learning

I have attached the 100 high frequency words to practice

Storm .It is becoming very exciting and we have been looking at the way the author uses adjectives to create the atmosphere. We talked in partners and groups trying to predict what will happen next We have looked at the text and talked about whether the Highwayman is really a ghost.The book has really got us thinking, It is a real mystery with exciting twists. We are all enjoying it.

We continued working on adjectives .We substituted words for more powerful adjectives which makes sentences more interesting.

Home learning Think of powerful adjectives for big, small, nice, old, fast,hard ,angry,good

It is Autumn so we looked for signs outside and found out information by reading texts. We pretended to be detectives again looking for the answers to questions in the texts.

Numeracy

We continued to learn how to round numbers up and down to the nearest 10. We remembered that numbers up to 4 round down and from 5 -9 round up. As a challenge we tried rounding to nearest 100

We used our addition and subtraction skills in rounding too. We had to estimate .

We practised the 3 times table and tried to do sums out of sequence

We did Autumn number puzzles. We had to do addition and subtraction.

Home learning

Rounding -use the digits from a phone number or any long number.. Write as many 3-digit numbers as you can. They round each of these numbers to the nearest 10 and record them like this: 486 → 490

IDL We looked at the landmarks in Scotland . Some of us had visited them. We labeled a map and found out the names of the islands and seas around Scotland .

Art Our class novel is a funny story about Nessie. We looked at photos and clips of possible sightings of the Loch Ness monster and drew our own pictures using pastels

PE We set up fitness stations and worked at each for 30 secs. It was quite hard but fun when it started to rain.

Outdoor Learning. We looked for signs of Autumn. We worked in groups to play colour bingo searching for natural objects to match the colours on our sheet. We did a scavenger hunt for things on our list.

Lunchtime Chats At lunch we have to stay in our own seats to keep in the guidelines. Mrs Tulloch has been telling us an interesting fact every day like things about earthquakes and explosions in WW1.. We all enjoy learning these facts while we are eating.

Home learning Can you tell someone the interesting facts?

Have a great holiday

from P4H and Ms Hastie

Good afternoon everyone.

Literacy

Our spelling pattern

• We were adding er / est to an adjective ending in y to compare 2 things, We have to change y to i and add er / est (windy = windier)

Here are the words

cheekier                sunniest

stormier                 sleepiest

luckier                   sturdiest

unhappiest            messier

craziest                  angrier

Our tricky words were

people                      because

We continued to work on our descriptive skills this week for writing. We created a paragraph about our favourite place. We learned about how using effective openers can improve our writing.

We also continued working on the skills of taking notes, we have been researching and learning about Black history month, this week we looked at the importance of Rosa Parks. We took notes from a piece of reading and a video. From our notes we created an information poster to show our understanding.

Ideas for home learning

Research further about Black history month and find out about important people who helped contribute to or change society.

Maths

We started working on the column method for subtraction and began exchanging or borrowing when the larger number was on the bottom of the sum. Here is a video to remind us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39/articles/zc78srd

We have been learning more about shape and worked on calculating the area of a flat shape. We used the formula Length x Breadth = Area. We spoke about how useful this measurement is for life outside school.

Ideas for home learning

Work on finding the area of a right angle triangle by halving the formula above. We started this so you could work on it.

Have a fantastic holiday week

Mr Bothamley

Please find attached a summary of our learning this week. Thank you to the pupils who created this document. I wish you all a happy & safe holiday.

Hello!

Happy Friday!

We have had a great week this week…

Literacy

In Spelling, we focused on our rule ‘ly’. We know that this is a suffix and usually appears in adverbs, for example, slowly, quickly and silently. We are trying to remember that an adverb describes the verb. Please see our spelling words and activities to do at home from our post on Wednesday.

In Reading, we were learning how to take notes. We know we should try to find the key information and then write this in our words but not in sentences. We showed our notes through bullet points and mindmaps. Some of us then tried to create a factfile using our notes. We also were thinking about the context of a passage and using this to find missing words. We had to ensure we understood the text before choosing a word.

In Writing, this week we have been further developing our descriptive writing skills. We practised using a variety of descriptive words to help us and we worked on ‘characterisation’. We focused on thinking about good descriptive words and phrases to help create a clear picture of our chosen character from a book.

Activities to do at home:

• Try to take notes on whilst watching something at home(for example, Newsround or even a documentary)
• See our spelling document
• See the progress record for this week’s reading pages. Try summarising the main events of what you read to someone at home, focusing on key events
• Think about how the characters are described in your reading books (school or personal). Can you picture them in your head? What good wow words and phrases did the author use to describe them?

Maths and Numeracy

This week we have been consolidating our learning on 3D objects. We did well at remembering the names and properties of different 3D objects. We know we should describe them using language such as vertices (corners), faces and edges. Ask us what they mean if you don’t know!

In Numeracy we have been focusing on using a chimney for subtraction up to 3-digits. This week we introduced exchanging. We have been practising this all throughout the week and will continue to work on this next week.

Activities to do at home:

• Create a poster showing your learning about 3D objects

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/place-value

Practise subtracting one number from another both in your head and using the chimney sum strategy

Other areas of the curriculum

French – We were learning how to count (up to 30) in French. We enjoyed playing a game to practise our counting.

In our Free the Forest topic this week we have been discussing the resources that humans use from the rainforest. For example, wood for benches, tables, doors, medicine and palm oil for chocolate, shampoo and bodywash. We discussed the impact that this is having on orangutans

We hope you have a super holiday and look forward to seeing the children back on Tuesday 27th October.

Miss Martin and Miss Mangan

Hello Magic Monkeys and Happy Friday!

In literacy we have covered:

• Single sounds of the alphabet
• Sounding out/blending/spelling words (CVC, CVCC, CCVC)
• Writing ‘Holiday’
• Writing Star Steps: use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops
• Sounding out and spelling oo and ew words
• Digraphs (oo and ew)
• oo words – book, cook, roof, boot, shoot
• ew words – flew, grew, new, few
• Dictation
• Tricky words (block 1 – 5)
• Letter formation – cursive and non-cursive
• Reading Groups

In Numeracy we have covered:

• Subtraction within 30
• Chilli Challenge subtraction – in our new maths jotters!
• Time – reading the time on digital and analogue clocks
• o’clock and half past
• Quarter past and quarter to
• Counting in 5s
• Number formation

Reading

• Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• reading to our ‘Learning Partner’
• Recalling information

P.E:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• Joe Wicks fitness
• Yoga
• What skills are we developing during P.E discussions

Morning Starters:

• Monday – weekend whiteboard
• Tuesday – word building
• Wednesday – cursive letters
• Thursday – partner game
• Friday – ‘Just Dance’

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Marble Run
• Block Play
• Lego/construction
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table
• iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• smartboard games 
• Bingo – led by the children
• Listening and talking activities

I am looking forward to the October Break because…………..

“I’m looking forward to spending time with my family” – Beth

“I’m looking forward to going to my Granny’s for a sleepover” – Scarlett

“I am looking forward to going running with my Daddy” – Louise

“I am going to playing with my baby brother” – Ella

“I am looking forward to getting a new toy and going in my campervan” – Lewis

“I am looking forward to my Birthday” – Connor

“I am looking forward to playing Lego with my Dad” – Roman

“I am looking to going to golf with my Dad” – Jack

“I am looking forward to training my dog” – Megan

Extra Information 

• If anyone has any unused/unloved Lego at home we would love to have it in class to add to our Learning Through Play activities – please don’t buy any new Lego!

Enjoy the October Break!

Have fun and stay safe,

Miss McGhee xxx

Another super week in the Golden Treasures class. Here’s what we’ve been learning this week. 

Literacy

• Spelling- Team Jewels: initial sounds a, t, p, n
• Team Gold: revision of the ow/ou sound for example: cow, owl, bow, town; loud, cloud, proud, shout Tricky words: into, here
• Team Treasure: spelling words with ai/ay for example: aim, chair, train, straining, stay, pray, today Tricky words: only, old
• Reading- continuing to work on our fluency skills when reading aloud; we completed a how many letters activity and we made character profiles of characters from James and Giant Peach
• Handwriting- continuing to practise our letter formation. We have worked on forming c, C, d, D, e, E and f, F correctly this week.
• Writing- writing super sentences with capital letters and full stops about our friends.
• Dictation of our spelling sounds and writing a sentence.

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Numeracy and Maths

• Sequencing/ordering numbers from smallest to largest.
• Counting from a variety of starting points both backwards and forwards.
• Practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Working on number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 and knowing these really confidently; making posters about bonds to 10 and 100 with a partner.
• Addition skills: bridging through 10 to add numbers.
• Reading and displaying information in charts: creating our own Carroll diagrams.

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Other Areas

• Continuing our learning about sound in science. We thought about how instruments make sounds that were quiet, loud, high and low.
• Outdoor- games to help our teamwork and listening skills- and Letters and Numbers and PE with “Joe”. Choosing our own games to play.

Have a great week off and we look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 27th October.

Mrs Graham and Mrs Tweedie

Hello Wonderful Wolves! Happy Friday and Happy Holidays too! 😊

It’s been such a fun and busy term so far and I can’t believe it is the holidays already! I hope you all have a lovely relaxing break and just a reminder that Monday 26th of October is an In-service Day so I will see you back in class on Tuesday 27th of October.

This week we have been very busy!

  In literacy we have covered:

• Feelings Monsters – writing super sentences, using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces 
• Writing Challenge Star Step: use a connecting word to extend the sentence
• Sounding out/blending/spelling CVC words
• Recap of the oo and ew sounds
•  Example oo words – food, hook, book, cool
•   Example ew words – new, dew, chew, few
• Phonics Sound Sorting Boards
•  Tricky Words (Block 1 – 8 PowerPoints are attached to this post, if you would like to practise at home)
•  Letter Formation
• Word searches and Boggle (word building)
•  Reading Groups – in class
•   Reading sent home

Reading:

•  Reading groups
• Reading out loud to the teacher
• Reading with expression
• ‘Fastest Finger First’ for tricky words and punctuation
• Identifying the beginning, middle and end of a story
• Identifying the problem and solution in a story
• Predicating and recalling information

A reminder that reading groups have been set up and are based on in-class assessments – these groups are fluid. Please don’t be alarmed or worried if your child moves groups – changes are only made in order to support your child’s individual development and engagement

Here is a link the PowerPoints of our Block 1 -8  tricky words:

Tricky Word Block 1 PP

Tricky Word Block 2 PP

Tricky Word Block 3 PP

Tricky Word Block 4 PP

Tricky Word Block 5 PP

Tricky Word Block 6 PP

Tricky Word Block 7 PP

Tricky Word Block 8 PP

In Numeracy we have covered:

•  Numbers bonds to 10, 20 and 100
• Addition to 10, 20, 50 and beyond
• Addition with missing numbers (eg 3 + ? = 8)
• Identifying 2D shapes and their properties Identifying
• 3D shapes and their properties
• Shape sorting activities 
• Repeating patterns
• Chilli Challenge addition

P.E:

Our P.E days are a Monday and Wednesday.

This week for P.E we focused on:

• Fitness – exercise video in class
• Cosmic Yoga
• What skills we are developing during P.E

Morning Starters:

•  Monday – Weekend Whiteboard
• Tuesday – Monster Pattern/Fine Motor Control Activity
• Wednesday -Maths Activity 2D shape
• Thursday – Literacy Activity 
• Friday – Numeracy Activity – Addition

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Role Play – Home Corner
• 3D shape problem solving puzzles
• Block Play
• Construction
• Arts and Crafts table
•  iPads (literacy and numeracy)
• 2D shape games
• Feelings Monsters 

I hope you have a lovely holiday everyone and I will see you back in class on Tuesday 27th October for another busy term filled with lots of fun learning!

Mrs Williamson x 😊

 

Please find below our reflections for the week. Have a wonderful October break everyone!!

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog.

We have had another very busy week, developing skills across the curriculum.

Literacy

We are becoming Reading Detectives as we continue to read our class novel ‘Ottoline and the Yellow Cat’.

Developing our vocabulary and using these interesting words in our own writing.

Exploring the qualities of a good mystery.

Looking for clues in a text – deciding what is important and what might be misleading.

Giving our opinion on a text and discussing a variety of texts (including our home texts) with a partner and in a team.

Sharing and discussing a selection of non-fiction texts.

We are finding information about the characters and asking questions- taking notes in ‘Reading Detective’ notebook.

Developing our writing skills by editing our drafts and publishing our ‘Ottoline and the Case of the Missing Text’.

Developing our joined-up cursive handwriting.

Presenting a weather forecast to the class.

Spelling– words with ‘ar’  and ‘or’

FANTASTIC– yard  shark  artist  alarm  carve  sharp                                                                           cork  forty  orbit  horse  form

SPECTACULAR– alarmed  alarming  large  enlarged                                                                               corkscrew  fortieth  inform  informing  information  uniform

Tricky words– only  little

Ideas for home learning:  Create an ‘a, ‘or’ wordsearch for your family. 

Maths

Rounding 2 and 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10.

Rounding 3- digit numbers to the nearest 100.

Identifying numbers that would round up or down to a multiple of 10.

Developing our knowledge of data handling.

Developing our use of compass points.

Using coordinates to find objects.

Locating towns in Scotland using coordinates as grid references.

Ideas for learning at home- Draw an 8 by 8 box grid. Label it A-H along the bottom, 1-8 up the way. Draw characters, pictures or coloured shapes in some of them. Invent a game using your grid.

Mental Agility

Jigsaw numbers to 100 and using the skill to give change from £1.

Developing the skill to give change from £5 and £10.

Doubling 2- digit numbers.

Ideas for home learning- Set up a shop. Write out some price tickets less than £1. For example – 56p, 34p. Put the prices on your soft toys or books. Ask a member of your family to come and buy an item. What change would you give them if they paid with £1  £5  £10. Extra Challenge- they buy 2 items.

Health and Wellbeing

We are exploring strategies to help us become more resilient.

Developing our fitness, listening and quick thinking skills.

Developing our coordination, rhythm and sequencing skills.

Learning in our outdoor environment.

Social Skill

We are learning how to listen carefully- what this looks like and sounds like.

Working cooperatively- making a positive contribution to the team.

I.D.L.-

Developing our music skills.

Developing our observational drawing skills.

Developing our knowledge of Scotland.

Developing our knowledge of weather maps and symbols.

Developing our knowledge of weather, using the correct vocabulary.

Creating our own Autumn weather maps of Scotland. According to our P4W forecasters some lovely weather is expected over Scotland. Let’s hope we can experience some of that next week!

Enjoy a relaxing holiday, everyone!

After the holiday, we look forward to welcoming Mrs Ling to our P4 Wonderful Woodland Team!