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This week, we will continue with fractions and money in maths. We have started our personal projects looking at a chosen country and we will continue to film our information films about our Scottish Inventors for our Assembly. In writing, we will be returning to Imaginative story writing focusing on paragraphs and dialogue.

Home Learning will go home on Monday and should be returned in the bag on Friday. This week in the bag there will be class reading books and some books for reading for pleasure, the weekly spelling word challenge and please continue to use the Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheet, before and after. Also included for topic work will be a country challenge sheet and the country you can research and compare to the country you have chosen in class, is Peru.

We had a fantastic time at the Ballet Workshop at Dance Base on Thursday and P3/4 demonstrated their talents by dancing scenes from the Nutcracker. We hope that we will be able to show our videos of the event at our assembly in March. This week we have continued to look at addition and subtraction in maths and have started to look at Money in Beyond Number. In writing we are developing skills in producing a recount of events that take place in our lives, focusing on time connectives and sequencing.

Home Learning will be sent out on Monday and should be returned on Friday before the February holiday. This week in the bags there will be a book to read for pleasure and the weekly spelling challenge. The class should continue to use the other curriculum challenge sheet – Scottish Inventors and a Scottish Writer and the P3 and P4 Rainbow Mental Maths sheets. This week we will be visiting the Museum of Scotland on Thursday to look at some of the Scottish Inventions we have been learning about with the idea of producing small information videos about the inventions we have been studying.