Today we investigated 2 lines of symmetry using a selection of resources.

Today we enjoyed celebrating ‘World Book Day’ by sharing our favourite books with a friend. Primary 4/1 and 4/2 decided on a relaxing place to read to each other.  It was a good opportunity to visit each other’s class.  Here are some photos of the amazing readers in the Primary 4/1 class today.

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about the impressionism art movement of the 19th century.  We investigated the art work of Claude Monet,  one of the first artists to develop the idea of capturing the fleeting moments of ordinary life.  We enjoyed looking at Monet’s many paintings of lily ponds and shimmering water.

Later we discovered the art of Vincent Van  Gogh and  found out he was Dutch.  We studied his painting ‘The Starry Night’  1889 and tried to copy his painting style to create the painting.

We have been learning about the art of paper cutting in China. Usually the artwork is completed on red paper, as red is associated with festivals and happiness in Chinese culture.   We tried to follow the template to make the double happiness pattern.  This design is used to celebrate weddings.

This term we have been working on our listening skills in music.  We have focused on the Carnival of the Animal by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. We listened to lots of different animal songs and learnt new words like staccato, when music is detached or separated and legato,  when music is played smoothly and connected.

We love to hear all about each other’s achievements outside of school.

Anna shared her knowledge about horse riding, Cadence has just moved up a level in ice skating, Ryan demonstrated his drumming skills, Jack confidently explained how you play golf and Taylor and Molly demonstrated their skills and knowledge about kickboxing.

We have been revising the properties of 3D shapes and learning about some new shapes such as a triangular prisim, tetrahedron, pentagonal prisin, heptagonal prisim and hexagonal prisim.

We investigates each shape to discover the faces, edges and vertices.

To make sure we really understood the properties we made each shape using straws, tooth picks, cardboard and plastic.

We applied our new knowledge  of 3D shapes to find each shape in the environment.

We had a great day  making pancakes and then eating them!

Thank you Miss Henderson for teaching us how to make the pancakes and organising the target.

Congratulations Primary 4 on completing a 6 week swimming course.  You all worked extremely hard to improve your swimming skills and have all blossomed in confidence.