We have enjoyed experimenting with different art techniques to create amazing art work for our classroom this week.
First we used felt pens to draw flowers on sugar paper. We explored different flower designs and tried out different colours to cover the paper. We then used water and paint brushes to draw out the colour from the ink to create a water colour effect for the background. The finished results of our backgrounds looked really effective.
Next we drew zentagle patterns on our bunny templates and choose funky glasses to add to our pictures.
Our completed art work looks fantastic and has brightened up our classroom and corridor. This has been a favourite activity this week.
During the week we learned about all the volunteers who were coming to visit us on Friday morning. We learned about what their jobs were and created questions we wanted to ask them.
On Friday morning we split in to our different groups and spent the morning learning all about the different careers they had and what they enjoyed about their jobs.
Our visitors were very impressed with the questions they were asked and have even asked to come back to our next World of Work event.
So much talent in p4/5. These girls designed and crafted a beautiful paper home and stylish clothes for their handmade paper dolls. Creativity and imagination knows no bounds in our classroom! #FutureDesigners #STEM
What a great time everyone had at the Science Centre today.
Primary 4/5 once again demonstrated our school values throughout the day and made all the staff and parents very proud of them!
Planetarium
We learned all about the planets and stars during our visit to the planetarium. We explored the different constellations and learned how to find the North Star in the sky. We also travelled in to space to look at the planets in our universe.
Exploring Floor 1
We then had time to investigate, explore, learn and play together on the different levels of the science centre.
Floor 2 and 3
After lunch we visited the Bodywork’s and Powering the Future Floors.
We all agreed that the highlights of our day were ; Planetarium, Dance Mat – generate the energy and spending the day together exploring and having fun.
A huge thank you to Regan and Riley’s Mum,Kerry for coming to help us to make our day run smoothly and helping us to have so much fun.
Capillary Action
P4/5 have been learning about Capillary Action.
Today we explored this movement using paper towels to “walk water” between cups.
Paper towels are made of many small fibres that have gaps in between them. Water gets pulled into these gaps by capillary action—the same phenomenon that allows trees to suck water out of the ground.
Chromatography Experiment
We then used this knowledge of capillary action to separate colours from black ink. The ink started to flow up the paper towel using capillary action and the pigments of the ink then started to separate. We explored different types of black ink pens and then different coloured pens.
Thank you to all our parents and grandparents who came along to our literacy open afternoon yesterday.
We enjoyed sharing some of the literacy activities that take place in our class every week including visualiser, clarifier, spelling and grammar tasks.
What a busy, booktastic day, with some fantastic costumes from our class.
Book Swap
First thing this morning we visited the hall to choose books from the book swap tables. Everyone was delighted with their new books and couldn’t wait to get back to class to enjoy them.
Book Scavanger Hunt
Next we followed the clues around the school to solve the book puzzles and discover the letter combination.
Ilaria was delighted to win the book prize.
Guess Who
Next we scoured the photos of staff from their childhood along with a picture of their favourite book. Everyone in p4/5 found Mrs Ross on her first day at primary school with her huge bag and copy of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Jim was the best detective and worked out who 6 of the staff were!
Author Visit
The final treat before lunch was a visit frim the children’s author, Rachel McGaw. She read her story The Unicorn in the Castle and then we were lucky enough to get a sneak preview of her brand new unreleased book.
So much talent in p4/5. These girls designed and crafted a beautiful paper home and stylish clothes for their handmade paper dolls. Creativity and imagination knows no bounds in our classroom! #FutureDesigners #STEM 
Planetarium
