In Primary 4, we have a new class novel, called Matilda.

Matilda is about a little girl who is very special because she can do lots of things at a very young age. She has some mean parents and a brother who don’t care about her.
Matilda is a very intelligent child, at the age of 4 she could read. It is amazing how a 4 year old child could visit the library herself.

In class, we all made posters to describe the characters of the story. The characters were: Matilda, Mrs Wormwood(Matilda’s mother), Mr Wormwood(Matilda’s father) and Mrs Phelps.
We had to write an adjective to describe the character and back up our ideas with a quote from the book. Once we had written this on our post-it, we stuck it onto the poster.

Matilda is a great book, why don’t you try reading it?

Primary 4

Welcome to Electric Fun!

Primary 4 are going to show you what we have been learning in Science this week.

At the beginning of the week, we did some research on the computer which helped us to learn a little bit more about electricity. We visited http://www.hyperstaffs.info/science/work/child/main.html and play some games on this website.

Later on in the week, we were pretending to be scientists by doing a science experiment with electricity.

During this experiment, we had to make a circuit using: 1 x light bulb, 1 x light bulb holder, 1 battery and 3/4 x wires. We tried using different materials (e.g. ruler, pencil, 10p/2p coin, metal and plastic spoon, a nail and tin foil.) in between the circuit to check if the light bulb would go on. These special materials were called insulators and conductors.

An insulator means that the electricity won’t flow whereas a conductor lets the electricity flow round the circuit.

Before we started our experiment, we had to predict if the materials would turn on the light bulb or not.

Once we tested out the various materials, to see if the light bulb would turn on, we had to write our results into a table.

Goodbye for now.

See you next week!

Primary 4