P4 have been working extremely hard with their Numeracy this week. They have used lots of practical resources to investigate Place Value of larger numbers and have refined their Maths skills through lots of opportunities on Mathletics at home and in school. Mrs O'Neill was very impressed as there were more Gold Mathletics certificates in P4! Well done Ethan and Oisin!
During Literacy P4 continued with spellings as they examined the ‘igh’ sound made in lots of ways including ‘i’, ‘igh’, ‘ie’ and ‘y’. They enjoyed finding their spellings in their scaffolded text piece of work. They also looked at lots of different types of books this week and discussed how dictionaries, atlases, fact books, fictional books and autobiographies all have their own style. This tied their Literacy into their WAU and Art work as they learned about various authors and illustrators including Jill Tomlinson, Paul Howard, Don Conroy and local author and illustrator Conor Busuttil and his wonderful book ‘Billy Conkers’. P4 loved how all the authors and illustrators showed how they cared for our world and the creatures in it. In WAU they discussed how weather patterns and climate change affects our planet and how so many creatures especially our native wildlife need our help to sustain their numbers.
For ‘Grow in Love’ P4 read the stories of the angels appearing to Mary and to the shepherds and talked about how angels are God’s special messengers.
As they move on through November, P4 continued to work hard learning the words of all their Christmas carols and songs. We know that everyone will enjoy such beautiful singing in future weeks. A big thank you to all the P4 parents who continue to help out with all the various home learning activities too.
