Welcome back everyone!
I am delighted to share our Primary 4 blog where we will share updates and photos of our learning in class. 🙂
Inspired by the Lorax, we have created our own "guardians of the forest". Our wonderfully imaginative creatures have come to life in our writing. We created a non-chronological report about our creatures to share where they live, what the eat, what they look like and how they behave.
We have been working on our mathematical talk. We are learning to question each other, explain our thinking and give reasons for our answers. We have been using sentence starters to help us phrase our answers and Mrs Drummond is always asking us to "prove it" or "show me how you know".
We have been enjoying dictionary races to find words using our knowledge of alphabetical order. We are remembering to look at each letter in turn when finding a word and to look at the definitions for the one that fits our sentence. We are getting pretty speedy at using both the illustrated and Primary Dictionaries.
Ask us about the weather in French. We have been practising how to say what the weather is like "aujourd'hui" (today). We made fortune tellers to practising ask about and saying what the weather is. Our favourite phrases are "il fait chaud/il fait froid" and "il pleut".
Inspired by the artist Yayoi Kusama and the world of Dr Seuss, we created our own abstract flower art. We used mixed media and collage to combine wax resist paint background with a pen and crayon flower. We think they look very effective and enjoyed adding patterns of circles to our flowers.
We have been learning about the weather and how it affects our environment. We explored climate zones and weather. We enjoyed being weather forecasters, recording the weather around the world and presenting this to the class. Using imovie, we turned our weather reports in to short films.
Finding our Zen in a busy day. We have been using Yoga adventures with Cosmic kids to stretch and breathe on our busy days.
We have been reminding ourselves of place value, playing maths games and creating numberlines. Ask us to explain place value, to order numbers to 1000 or to show you how we know which number is greater than another.
Working in groups, we talked about how we wanted our classroom to look, sound and feel. We thought about our rights and which rights would be most important to us in our classroom. We have agreed to respect one another, always try our best, listen and value everyone's voices and to have fun together this year. 🙂
As we are learning about caring for our planet and reading The Lorax, we created art to depict climate change. We talked about what climate change is and thought about what impact it has. We used watercolour paint to create the Earth and practised blending colours to create lighter and darker shades and tones. We are proud of how our work turned out.
We have been making the most of the wonderful weather. We took our maths outside to practise ordering numbers and creating numberlines. We had fun throwing our paper planes and measuring to see how far they had flown. Then we placed ourselves in order - we used our place value skills to work out where we should stand.