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Using Dienes to help us learn how to subtract with exchanges

Using MS Paint to draw Moira Castle ๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿฐ ๐ŸŽจ

Touch typing โŒจ๏ธ and spelling practice ๐Ÿ”ค๐ŸŽ

Autism Awareness Day ๐Ÿฉต

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 ๐ŸŽจ

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P4Mโ€™s litter pick of the school grounds ๐ŸŒŽ

Using Dienes to help us understand addition WITH EXCHANGES ๐Ÿคฉ

Waking our brains and bodies up with a movement break ๐Ÿ’ƒ ๐Ÿ•บ

We started tricky addition today and worked on it practically with dienes! WE ACED IT ๐Ÿงฎ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ˜Ž

Sorting plurals based on the correct suffix โญ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒฝ

Moira themed Maths extensions ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿก

Learning to add practically using Dienes ๐Ÿ˜

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) ๐Ÿ˜€ 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 ๐Ÿ’ก

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 ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธโŒจ๏ธ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ

We did it! ๐ŸŽ‰ P4M have reached 500 dojo points and earned our reward of cookies and biscuits ๐Ÿช

Experimenting in ABL- what is the bounciest ball?

Building, marketing and selling houses in ABL ๐Ÿก๐Ÿก

WALT: read a map

Practicing our throwing and catching skills during a game of bench ball ๐Ÿ€

Finding our partner by using our doubling and halving skills

Having fun practising our touch typing skills this afternoon ๐Ÿ’ป

More circuits fun๐Ÿ”Œ๐Ÿ”‹๐Ÿ’ก

Introducing Chloe our ECO warrior ๐ŸŒ and Elliot our school councillor ๐ŸซWell done to every child that presented a speech to the class. You were all amazing ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

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 โ˜€๏ธ

PE โšฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅ…

Using a compass ๐Ÿงญ

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 ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒˆ

ABL WEEK 1: Making circuits and experimenting with conductors and insulators ๐Ÿฅ„๐Ÿซ™โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ”ฆ

Partitioning and illustrating numbers 1๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ

Using dienes to practically partition 2 and 3 digit numbers

Partitioning relay races

P4โ€™s first glimpse of our magical storybox. Today the children used magic to open up the story box ๐Ÿช„ and explored the clues to our story inside.

P4M spent this morning showing great kindness by sending secret compliments to each other

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