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World Book Day Fun

For World Book Day we all dressed up in fantastic costumes and took part in different activities.

We listened to an interesting talk about books, drew our favourite characters from our class novel ‘Cakes in Space’, answered questions in a book quiz, got up on stage for a costume parade and went ‘thing finding’ like Pippi Longstocking from our last class book. We found some interesting items and made up unusual stories about them.

Thank you to Louise, Mrs Foote, Mrs MacPhail and Derrian from Dundee United for reading to us – what a treat!! 😊

 

Human Heart

As part of our learning on the human body we have been learning about the heart and the important job it does.

We carried out some experiments to help us understand how the heart works. We tried to find our resting heart rate by placing our fingers on our pulse and made models to show how the heart pumps blood around our body. When the wall of the heart contracts it pushes oxygenated blood out and sends it to every cell in the body through the arteries and tiny capillaries. Once the oxygen has been used the blood travels back to the heart through the veins.

We really enjoyed making our models and pumping the ‘blood’. By creating a valve we prevented the liquid from mixing or traveling back in the same
direction. We recorded what we did and what we used in mini lab reports.

Maths

We have been working on fractions and column sums in maths. We found fractions very tricky to start with but now we can show and write fractions. We can also find a fraction of a number. Woohoo!

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Sponsored workout with Louise Renicks!

On Thursday we were visited by judo champion Louise Renicks. She led us through a workout and showed us some judo moves. Louise then spoke to us about her diet,  fitness regime and career as an athlete.

Together we watched the moment she won gold at the Commonwealth Games 2014 and she brought along her medal to show us. It was all very exciting!

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Homework

Hello P4!

For a homework task this week please leave a comment somewhere on our blog to let me know you’ve stopped by. This can be about an activity you have really enjoyed, a topic you want to learn more about or mention something you are working on at home.

Short and sweet will do just fine.

I look forward to reading them.

🙂

Burn’s Day

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For Burn’s Day this year we recited some Scottish poems and songs including ‘Caledonia’ and ‘Mince and Tatties‘. We also learnt about some Scottish myths and legends and made our own wading Nessies! Most of us believe in the Loch Ness monster!!