Another busy term has begun…
We are learning all about Energy Around Us and have been looking at NON-RENEWABLE and RENEWABLE energy sources.
Do you know the difference?
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Gymnastics
STEM WEEK SCIENCE
We let the science happen and followed instructions on…
using only 4 ingredients!
STEM WEEK
We had a week of learning about…
Bridges
#1 We brainstormed to think about what we already know about *types of Bridge *materials used for bridge building *use/purpose of bridges *famous bridges
We also thought about what we want to learn about them.
#2 We learned about the 7 different types of bridge. Could you name them?
#3 We watched some clips about how bridges are built as well as seeing some amazing bridges from around the world.
#4 We had a go at designing our own bridges. They could be real or fantasy…
#5 We had a go at building bridges using Lego and K’Nex.
#6 We did a paper bridge challenge to make and test paper beam bridges.
The winning design was by the trio above. Their bridge managed to hold an amazing
139
5p coins without collapsing!
Bridge art
Inspired by Monet’s painting of a Japanese bridge, we made our own finger-painted, impressionist paintings…
World Book Day
P4 had great fun…
*dressing as WBD characters, *working with P2 at the outdoor Blether Stations, * playing the Yes/No character game, *sharing our favourite stories, *visiting the Book Fair, *making WBD bunting, *watching an Author’s live lesson and *watching clips of stories read by celebrities!
Phew…what a busy day!!
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Butter Making
When P4 visited Burns’ Cottage, we had a challenge to make butter using a whisk or a brush to beat the cream to turn it into butter.
Back in class, we wanted to make butter again.
This time we used…
an empty milk carton, a pot of double cream and a pinch of salt…nothing else.
We poured the cream into the bottle and got shaking…
(We even had a wee bit of Swifty’s ‘Shake it Off’ to help us along!)
Eventually the cream separated into solids(butter) and liquids(buttermilk).
We added some salt and gave it another good shake.
Then we poured off the buttermilk and cut open the cartons to get to the butter.
We patted the butter dry with some kitchen towels, wrapped it in greaseproof paper and popped it into the fridge to harden up a bit.
Later on we tried out our homemade butter on baguette, pancakes and croissants and guess what?…
It tasted just like REAL butter!
P.S. We didn’t let the buttermilk go to waste…Mrs Burt took it to make buttermilk scones and pancakes YUM!
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Willie’s Wife
We looked at the poem, “Willie Wastle”, by Robert Burns.
We looked for all the descriptive phrases and used them to create our pictures of Willie’s wife.
Whit dae ye think?
Scots Language
We hiv hud great fun thinkin’ about aw the guid Scots words that cum oot o’ oor mooths .
Hae a swatch at these yins…
Burns On Display
We have been busy learning lots about Burns.
Have a look at our display boards.
STEM CHALLENGE
Our challenge was to build a replica of Burns’ Cottage using recycled materials…
On Monday 5th February P4 headed to Alloway to visit Burns’ Cottage and…
Burns Birthplace Museum.
We started with a workshop with Chris…
We had a go at ordering items from oldest to newest…
We had irons, cups, communication gadgets and whisks.
A tour of the cottage was next…
We went into the barn first.
We saw where the animals were kept and learned about the jobs that had to be done.
We went into ‘the spence’ which was the good room and where Robert had his lessons.
We went into the last room which was used as a living room, bedroom and kitchen.
We went back to the workshop and had a go at making butter using a whisk or a brush.
Lastly, Jackie took us along Poet’s Path and told us the story of Tam O’ Shanter.
We also met a fox and a giant moose!
On Tuesday 6th, we headed down the street to Burns House Museum to see where Burns lived when he stayed in Mauchline.
Dressing up in 18th Century clothing…
Arts and Crafts – making a Burns character…
Touring the Museum and looking at artefacts…
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Burns Poem 
P4 have been busy learning ‘Willie Wastle‘ by Robert Burns.
Everyone got a turn to recite their poem to the class and Mrs Burt had a REALLY tough job of choosing only 4 to go through to the competition on Thursday.
The 4 finalists are…
Ella, Keira, Cora and Khloe.
They will join 2 others from Mrs Bissland’s P4 children at the final on Thursday.
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We had a go at bringing Rabbie up-to-date with a modern makeover… whit dae ye think?
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Take a look below to see what the elves in P4 have been getting up to…
P4 had great fun at the party!
All things Hedgehoggy!
As part of our book study of ‘The Hodgeheg’ by Dick King-Smith,
we have been…
using natural materials to do Hedgehog Art
