Have a strange Christmas!

Today, we researched different Christmas traditions. Here's some of the traditions from around the world we found:

In Japan, some people go to KFC for Christmas dinner!

In India, people will decorate a mango tree at Christmas time.

In Brazil, seeing someone dressed up as Santa surfing is no surprise but seeing a reindeer surfing would  still be shocking!

In Canada, people will bake a cake with a bean inside. The person who finds the bean is king or queen for the day! It's a very lucky bean, I guess.

In the Ukraine people usually hide fake spiders and webs in their Christmas trees.

In Russia, everybody belief in St. Nicolas is popular but they used to believe in a witch woman instead.

Christmas events!

Today and tonight we have our Christmas service and concert. Primary four did very well performing their song, 'Mary's Boy Child'. Their practice certainly paid off! We really enjoyed watching the other classes performing well! 

Santa came to visit us today! He brought presents for our class: bean bags for our reading area and board games. On Tuesday we had our Christmas party with P3 and P5. It was filled with Scottish dancing, games and food!

This week! (By blogger Nell)

This week, we have... chimney sums 
I have learnt...to tell the time
I have enjoyed...Christmas crafts.


Fiddler on the Roof: I was in it and so was my dad I have been practsing rile hard anybody that comes I hope you enjoy it.

Teaching maths to the class

Maths groups had to teach the rest of the class how to add two numbers together. The pupils had to really think about what other children might find difficult, how to help them, and what was the important steps to explain.

School Closure Activities!

In the event of a school closure or when pupils are unable to get to school, here are some activities to benefit learning...

1. If there's enough snow, build a snowman. Make sure he has eyes, a nose, mouth, arms and a scarf! Can you make a snowman that is over 1 metre tall? 

    If there's not much snow but a lot of wind, create a kite. Here are two guides to help you. If you don't have some of the equipment, can you improvise by using something else? How high can you make your kite fly?

http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2013/03/how-to-make-kite.html

http://www.u-createcrafts.com/2012/05/how-to-make-garbage-bag-kite-by-2.html



2. Write a cinquain poem about the weather. Remember a cinquain has five lines. 

The first line is one word
The second the second line has two describing words
The third line has three action -ing words
The fourth has a short sentence (four-five words)
The fifth is another word for the first word (synonym) 

Can you write a cinquain for the wind? the snow? your favourite sport? film? feeling?



3. Practise your time tables. If you feel confident with a times table then time yourself. Try again, can you beat your first time?

4. Practise our song for the Christmas concert: 

Term 2: Salutations!

This term in primary 4, we have been reading a class novel: Charlotte's Web. The whole class is very excited about the story! 

Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White, is a children's boo about a pig called Wilbur. He is in danger of being killed and eaten as pigs usually do. Soon he befriends Charlotte, a very intelligent spider, who promises to save his life. Charlotte's Web teaches us all about being a good and encouraging friend. 

Good friendships make our life better.

We have used different ways of exploring the novel. In languages we have written and performed our own plays (based on the chapter 'Bad News'). This helped us understand the features of a play script and our talking and listening skills.

Menna is playing Charlotte, high up in her web. Abi is playing Wilbur, in his pen.
Dylan is the sheep with baaadd news!

Caity is playing Fern, who watches and listens to the
animals and their adventures.

Pupils had to work well in groups to write and perform their play.

Recently, Primary 4 acted as reporters at a fair so they could write a news article about Wilbur's trip to the fair. This was a great way to think more about news reports and the lot of Charlotte's Web.


We have used Charlotte's Web to inspire our art work but most of all, it teaches us about friendship.

Wedding!

Last term, Primary 4 held a mock wedding. This was an enjoyable way of learning about the meaning of a wedding ceremony. 

The bride, groom and whole class had to make decisions about the wedding service. We discussed what each role's responsibilities were and how we could do them.

It took a lot of courage to be a main role in our mock wedding, well done Primary 4!

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