Category: Primary 4 Blog

This will be Ms De La Cruz’s last week in P3/4, however it will be a busy one with rehearsals for P3/4 Assembly underway and the filming of our information videos on our Scottish Inventors completed subject to editing. Ms De La Cruz will be returning to teach in P6 after the Easter Holidays so we will still be able to see her and she will be helping at the P3/4 Assembly on 20th March. In Maths we will be finishing our work on fractions and will be continuing to look at money and the change we are able to calculate from different amounts.

In Writing we have started looking at writing imaginative adventure stories focusing on paragraphs and dialogue using our chosen countries from our personal projects to fire our imaginations.

Home Learning will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag, this week, will be the weekly spelling challenge, class reader, the Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheet and the other curriculum challenge sheet. Thank you for all the lovely work that has been sent in so far about the country of Peru, it has been very informative and exciting.

Welcome back, I hope that you had a restful and fun packed holiday. This week we will be starting fractions in Maths and our new topic a Personal Project on a chosen country. We will also start filming our short information films about our Scottish Inventors which we hope to showcase at our assembly in March.

This week home learning will be go home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag this week will be the weekly Spelling Challenge, a book to read for pleasure and please continue with the RMPS Rainbow Mental Maths challenge sheet before and after.

We had a lovely time last week getting to know Ms De La Cruz and she is very pleased to join us until March. On Thursday we will be going on a trip to a Royal Ballet workshop, in the Grassmarket, This brilliant opportunity links to our current learning in PE, dance and understanding how to control our movements when undertaking a sequence of moves.

Home Learning will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag this week will be a class reading book, the weekly spelling challenge sheet, the Rainbow Mental Maths strategies sheets and the other curriculum challenge grid.

What a great time we had at our Scots Assembly on Friday. Well done to the whole class for performing some of their poems, showing off their Scots art work and singing their Scots song.

This week is another busy week, Ms De La Cruz will be joining us in the classroom until March. In class, this week, we will focus on number processes in Maths with particular focus on our four operations. In our Rainbow Mental Maths we are moving to the orange band, number before and number after. In writing we will be starting recount using the information we have researched for our Scottish Inventors. We will continue the topic until the February Week and then produce short films to describe the Scottish Inventors that we have learnt about.

Due to Scots Week we were not able to finish our class readers so once again this week a book to read for pleasure will be sent home in the Home Learning bag. The bag will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday for discussion and reflection. In the bag will be the weekly spelling challenge, book to read for pleasure, new P3 and P4 Rainbow Maths Strategies challenges for the orange band and please continue to use the Scottish Inventors Challenge Grid.

This week P3/4 will be working with P6 and the Play Rangers to learn new games, activities and skills for the playground. Once we have completed this we will be using all these skills during our Fun 31 time and at playtimes.

In Writing, P3/4 will continue to work on their Scots Performance Poems and we hope to be able to perform some of them at the Scots Assembly on Friday. In Maths, we are continuing to look at Estimation and Rounding, along with our Mental Maths Minute challenge.

Home Learning will be sent home in the bag on Monday and should be returned on Friday for discussion and reflection. This week, there will be a book to read for pleasure, weekly spelling words with challenges, other curriculum Scottish Inventors challenge grid and the Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheets. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of the Home Learning provided. Please remember that PE is taking place on Wednesday and Thursday and your child can come to school in their PE outfit or leave a change in school.