Our topic is the human body - in groups we discussed the organs, match them with their names and tried to place them correctly in our body 👀🫀🫁🧠

We visited the library this week and took full advantage of the outside reading area 📚

P4 and class teachers would like to say a big thank you to our parent helpers who came on our Farm Trip today. We loved having you and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. 👍🐂🐖🐑 @missthomson-wps.bsky.social

Sneak peak at today’s trip to the farm! 🐷🐥🐄🐖🐑

This week we have been revising times tables and introducing division through fact families. We recapped ways to work out times tables and ways to calculate division. Once we know 1 facts we know 3 more! Test us a home!

Some mindfulness Easter bunny art on Friday 🐰 👓

Last week was neurodiversity week. We began by celebrating what we are good at by walking round the class writing compliments to each other.

Here are some of the strategies we have been working on in class to help us calculate our times tables ✖️➗

Reminder about outfits for our assembly should be brought in tomorrow.

We learned all about onomatopoeia and the created our very own comic strips using these words. Great job 👏

We have been revising previous tables learned and working on fluency this week. Here are some of our activities. Tarcia puzzles, flash cards, skip counting, songs/chanting, Sumdog and a variety of QR code games. One of our favourites is ICT games - tug of war or table tennis 🏓

As part of out farming topic we learned all about arable farms then planted our own cress seeds. 🪴

Dear Parents/Carers, Please find in Home Learning folders a song list and speaking parts for children to practise at home for our Friendship Assembly. You will be welcome to attend on Friday 13th March at 9:30am. We can’t wait to see you there.

Our beautiful Kandinsky inspired valentines art ❤️ we spoke about the colour wheel and tried to use complimentary colours 💚

We have been looking at different punctuation in our writing. We were able to identify where speech marks should go in a sentence and some were showing off by adding speech marks to their writing this week “Good Job P4T”

What a great start to our farming topic with a visit from Katie from RHET 🚜 this afternoon 🌾 🐄 🐑

We followed a variety of step by step guides to create our very own personalised bookmarks. They turned out amazing! #readingschoolsweek

Drop Everything And Read during our first library visit this week #readingschoolsweek

Last week we received a pre loved book to take home. What a great start to creating a buzz for #readingschoolsweek

Today we visited our new school library and had a brief from Maggie about how to find different books, authors and topics 📚 #readingschools

Hard at work creating our very own lovely Roman mosaics

Monday - Wednesday this week we are learning different mental strategies to subtract numbers. We partitioned (break down the numbers) into smaller more manageable numbers.

On Thursdays be Fridays we are learning to tell the time on analogue and digital clocks. ⏰

Some of our symmetry face art from last week

We begin looking at different strategies to work out subtraction calculations this week. We started with column calculations. Sumdog tasks are focusing on subtraction and can be completed at home as well.

Please check your child’s school bag for a copy of the Scots Poem for this year. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Working on serving the shuttlecock and trying to make it land in the hoop 🏸

This week we revised our addition strategies from before the holidays and the link between addition and subtraction through fact families

We learned about new year resolutions and created our own vision boards on PicCollage 📸

We loved making melted snowman biscuits today

This week we have been creating our very own maths addition board games in groups. We then got the chance to test out other groups games to see if they worked.

Out on our jingle jolly jaunt on Tuesday 🎅

And finished with some games during fun 31 - choosing time. Thanks to Chippy our elf for delivering twister for us to play.

We decorated Christmas tree ornaments this afternoon 🎄

Today we put our knowledge of symmetry to the test by trying to draw the mirrored image of different Christmas designs 🎄 🎅

P4T Santa hat day for Strathcarron hospice 🧑‍🎄 🤶 🎅

We watched ‘An Elf story’ and paused it on a cliff hanger. We created our own ending to the story! Once we were finished we peer assessed our work to ensure we had capital letters in the correct place and it made sense. 📖 ✍️

You may have spotted some of our lovely folk tree art around the school if you were at the fayre on Saturday. 🌲

P4 learning some social dancing last week for the Christmas party 💃 🕺 @mrsdougherty-wps.bsky.social

This afternoon we focused on being very descriptive to describe a character/scene to allow ai to create an image of this. We ensured we added lots of adjectives to help ai get a clearer picture of what we wanted. The results are amazing!

This letter was sent home yesterday regarding class reward on Thursday.

We worked in groups to place Roman events in order.

On Mondays we write about our weekend then share it with a partner to ensure it makes sense and that we have included capital letters and full stops.

This week is also Book Week - P4T chose two characters from different books and wrote about what happened when these characters met.

This week we have been completing online SNSAs then working on our addition through active learning stations and Sumdog

Merging numeracy and spelling as we make our spelling words and count how much each word is worth.

Thank you so much to @scottishopera.bsky.social for putting on a fantastic giant harp show for the P4s today. 🪉

We created right angle finders 📐

Children in need day!

Yesterday we had a visit from @rhetfvci to take part in some moo maths - we loved milking the cow and measuring how much we had produced 🐄