Another great block in Primary 4b with loads of great learning opportunities and experiences. Please read below to find out about what we've been learning this October! 🎃
Literacy
Over the past few weeks, we have been doing lots of research, using the Chromebooks, about Ice Age Animals. We used our findings and worked on our note taking skills to create mind-maps. Then, we used our mind-maps to help us write fact files about an Ice Age animal of our choice! Take a look at our amazing presentation and facts in the pictures above. 😊
We have also been working very hard on our sentence writing in Grammar, with a particular focus on using capital letters and full stops. To help us with our learning, we wrote some incorrect and silly sentences in our partners jotter and then corrected them with proper punctuation and spelling underneath. It felt a little strange writing in our peers jotter!
Maths
We have really been enjoying our Numeracy and Maths in Primary 4b recently. We all love a challenge and are always keen to complete our targets. Some of us have been learning about data collection and discovered how to use an excel spreadsheet to present our data. As well as this, some of us have been exploring the calendar and deepening our knowledge on the number of days in each month. We learned a trick using our knuckles to help remember this. We have all been revising our times tables frequently and enjoy playing games like around the world and buzz to practise.
Multiplication bowling has been a huge hit recently. We use the game to help us practise our times tables and trickier multiplication calculations. Some of us have been bowling a number and using this to multiply with another single. Others have been multiplying by 2,3 and even 4 digit numbers!
"Multiplication bowling helps me do my times tables quicker and it's really fun" - Molly
Learning across the Curriculum
We have continued to use our class context 'The Ice Age' to learn across the curriculum this month. We learned about cave paintings and why they are so helpful when studying a period of time like the Ice Age. The painting’s were a way that the homo sapiens communicated with each other and we discovered that they are a great source to help us understand what certain animals would have looked like, e.g., the woolly mammoth and saber-toothed cat. We transported back in time to the Ice Age for the afternoon and became homo sapiens. We couldn’t communicate in English, and to mimic the feeling of an Ice Age human we flipped our tables to become our caves and created some cave painting art!🎨
To round off our topic, we wrote a diary entry as an Ice Age homo sapien. The children were able to demonstrate their fantastic understanding of the topic in their entries and thoroughly enjoyed the task!✍
"Giant sloths were actually really really big, I saw one in the museum" - Maria
"I enjoyed using the chrome books to research a saber-toothed cat, it helped me write my fact file" Alasdair
HWB
Our PE focus this term has been Basketball. We have really enjoyed learning about shooting, passing, and dribbling. Some of us were even able to knock Miss Lees' ball out of the square during some dribbling practise! We put our skills to the test and completed some head-to-head battles with Primary 4a, it was great fun.🏀
Our focus in Health and Wellbeing has been Emotions. We have looked at different emotions and discussed how these can make us feel both physically and mentally. We created some emotion dots to represent each emotion with the colour that we felt represented them best. After, we used movie Encanto, particularly the song ‘Surface Pressure’, to discuss emotions which sometimes hide deep inside us. We discussed that when we feel these emotions there are loads of people who we can talk to. Have a look at some of our ‘Ice Bergs’.
"I liked learning how to shoot in basketball, I think I am good at passing the ball because I go to a basketball club" - Kani
Spooky Pumpkin Patch
Take a look at our spooky pumpkin patch! Well done, everyone. 🎃