The children had lots of fun learning how to work with chopsticks.  They made paper bowls with origami and then played a game where they had to pick up a polystyrene ball and pass it to the next person.  They worked in teams and worked well together, motivating each other and just having fun.

We have been experimenting with static electricity to find out what it is and how it is formed.  We also found out that this is how lightening is made!  We used balloons to create static electricity and had great fun around the classroom seeing what it will stick to.

All the Primary 4’s went for swimming lessons this term.  Some of them have never been for swimming lessons before, but learned so quickly and we are so proud of all of them!

For our calendars this year, we made pictures by using pointillism.  Pointillism is when you create a picture by just using dots.  We used cotton buds and paint to make ours.  It may take a long time to complete your picture, but the end results were beautiful!  Well done guys!

The children have been learning about electricity and circuits.  We now know what an insulator and conductor of electricity is.  The children had great fun experimenting with the circuits and built different ones to test their theories.

We have been working hard on our Problem Solving skills this term.  The children were given the challenge to make a working Ribix Cube out of numeracy cubes.  In the end (with some help with our friends and teacher) we all completed the challenge!  Every week we had a different challenge with the cubes.

This term we are taking part in an enterprise project like every year to make and sell something at the Christmas Fair.  We have thought of a few things that we can make or do, but decided on making ‘Snowman Soup’.  We had to discuss what we will need in order to make the final product and what is profit.  The children then had to start researching and comparing prices at different stores, so that we will be able to find our products the cheapest to make the most profit.

We have been experimenting with water colours to make a silhouette picture.

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While reading the BFG, we’ve noticed that when Roald Dahl is describing the dream bottles, it sounds like it is filled with different kinds of colours, bubbling inside.  As an art project we used washing up liquid, water, straws and paint to blow bubbles to create a bubbly effect on paper to make our own dream bottles.  After it dried we wrote some acrostic poems on it.  The children loved blowing the coloured water and we almost had no mess!

The children have been learning about what soluble and insoluble means.  They have been experimenting with different kinds of materials to see what happens to it when it is placed into water.  Some of the results really surprised them!  Great investigating guys!