Football training

We have been lucky this term to have football training for 6 weeks.  We have been learning lots of new skills including dribbling, passing, controlling the ball and shooting.  It is very tricky to keep control of the ball!  We had to play football outside on Tuesday this week because the stage is set up in the hall - it was VERY cold!

Please take a look at our photos to see what we have been doing:

Slideshow - Football fun

Rubgy in all weather!

Bruce has been coming to St Andrews every week for the past 5 weeks to teach us how to play tag rugby.  It is a lot of fun and we have to go out in all different weathers - even if it is snowing!  We have been learning about passing, defending, swerving, diving, dodging, side-stepping, catching and holding the ball, scoring a try, rolling passes, tagging each otherand running onto the ball when someone passes to you.  There is lots to remember!  Please check out our slide show to see us in action:

Slideshow - Rugby

Book reviews

We were writing our own book reviews this week.  This was new for us and we found it a little bit tricky!

These are the things we had to think about when writing this:

• the author - who wrote the book?
• the characters - who were the people in the story?  Did we like them?  How did they make us feel?
• the plot - what happens in the story? 
• our opinion - did we like the book?  What was our favourite part of the story and why?  Were there any funny or scary bits?  Did we learn anything?
• recommendation - do we think someone else would like to read the book?  Why do we think this?

Are there any books that you have read that you especially like?  If you have read any books you would like to recommend, please leave us a message!

Puppets!

We have been doing our reading differently in Primary 4 this term.  We have been choosing our own books to read at home and doing different reading activities in school.

When we are doing our reading in school, we do this in three different ways:

1) we work in our groups to read the story together and discuss what has happened so far and predict what we think might happen next.  When we have all taken a turn to read we ask each other questions about what we have read.  Before we finish, we also have to think of something good that we did when reading aloud and think of something we could do better next time.  This is called 'a star and a wish'.

2) we talk with Ms Rendall about the book and discuss what has happened so far and then read it together.

3)  we do different activities that link directly to the story we have been reading.  The activities include making a comic strip of the story, writing book reviews, writing new beginnings and endings for the story and designing our own book covers. 

This week we made puppets of the main characters from the books we have been reading.  It was lots of fun!

Symmetry

We have been learning about symmetry this term.  Symmetry is when you half a picture and both halves of the picture are identical.  You can use mirrors to help you figure out if a shape is symmetrical or not.

  

We all designed half of a picture for someone else to complete.  Some of the pictures we designed were very tricky!

Some of us used the light from the windows to trace the pictures - this made it a little easier. 

  

3D shape investigations

We have been investigating 3D shapes this week.  We have been learning more about cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, prisms and pyramids.  We have been learning about the edges, faces and corners of these shapes, and were able to use what we had learned to build our own 3D shapes.

                                      

It was tricky to get our shapes exactly right but we managed it!  Now we know much more about 3D shapes.