September
Using Dienes to help us learn how to subtract with exchanges
Using MS Paint to draw Moira Castle 💻 🏰 🎨
Touch typing ⌨️ and spelling practice 🔤🍎
Autism Awareness Day 🩵
Today for Autism Awareness day, P4 read a fantastic book called A Friend like Simon. We discussed how Simon felt and watched a video through the eyes of someone with autism. The children then completed retrieval task that focused on showing our understanding of Matthew and his new friend Simon
Experimenting with brushes, shapes and colours on MS Paint 🎨
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P4M’s litter pick of the school grounds 🌎
Using Dienes to help us understand addition WITH EXCHANGES 🤩
Waking our brains and bodies up with a movement break 💃 🕺
We started tricky addition today and worked on it practically with dienes! WE ACED IT 🧮🤓😎
Sorting plurals based on the correct suffix ⭐️🌈🍎🌽
Moira themed Maths extensions 🤩🏡
Learning to add practically using Dienes 😁
Sorting plurals by their suffixes
Today the children became estate agents and used their rounding (to the nearest hundred) skills to place houses for sale around Moira into groups according to the customer budget
Our aspiring poets worked together today to start building their descriptive phrases
Aspiring poets seek inspiration in Moira Demesne
Today the aspiring poets of P4M took a trip to Moira Demesne armed with their iPads in search of inspirational places to photograph and describe (we even brought Mr Ford along with us) 😀 The children were very good at using adjectives to describe what they could see, hear and feel and then used this in the classroom to create descriptive PicCollages which will help us write our poems over the next few days… here is a sneak peek of our ideas 💡
P4 have been using our car park lines to help us round to the nearest hundred
Rounding to the nearest ten carousel
Today the children completed 5 rounding challenges.
Group 1: used their rounding knowledge to park cars in the correct parking lot at Howard Abrahams.
Group 2: placed the lollipop sticks in the correct recycling bins according to the number they found to.
Group 3: played rounding 4 in a row
Group 4: challenged each other in a rounding race
Group 5: consolidated all their rounding knowledge on a ‘Football shoot out’ using the iPads
WALT: round to the nearest hundred
P4P love coding 💻🖥️⌨️🖱️
We did it! 🎉 P4M have reached 500 dojo points and earned our reward of cookies and biscuits 🍪
Experimenting in ABL- what is the bounciest ball?
Building, marketing and selling houses in ABL 🏡🏡
WALT: read a map
WALT: round to the nearest 10
Practicing our throwing and catching skills during a game of bench ball 🏀
Finding our partner by using our doubling and halving skills
Having fun practising our touch typing skills this afternoon 💻
WALT: order numbers
More circuits fun🔌🔋💡
Introducing Chloe our ECO warrior 🌍 and Elliot our school councillor 🏫Well done to every child that presented a speech to the class. You were all amazing 👏 👏
Using our place value knowledge to practically order distances from Moira, house prices in Moira and the changing population of Moira over the years
Learning how to use compasses and locating places in Moira on Google maps
Using iPads to research the history of Moira
Enjoying a glorious afternoon with PE in the sunshine ☀️
PE ⚽️🏀🏑🥅
Using a compass 🧭
Today we played matching games to consolidate our understanding of total tens in 3 digit numbers
Practically using dienes to represent numbers
We love reading 🫶🏼💜🌈
ABL WEEK 1: Making circuits and experimenting with conductors and insulators 🥄🫙⚡️💡🔦
Partitioning and illustrating numbers 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
Using dienes to practically partition 2 and 3 digit numbers
Partitioning relay races
MEET BOB 🌈💜
Welcome to P4P
P4’s first glimpse of our magical storybox. Today the children used magic to open up the story box 🪄 and explored the clues to our story inside.
P4M spent this morning showing great kindness by sending secret compliments to each other
