Primary 4 are spending the last few weeks of term rotating around different master class activities. Week 1 for Primary 4c was a chance to explore rivers and lakes from around the world using the virtual reality headsets. They discussed what they could see with their peers and compared the similarities and differences between the rivers from different countries. Inspired by what they saw they then used their artistic skills to create their own river line drawings! Check back next week to see what master class primary 4c will attend next!
Cluster Reading Challenge – An OLM Reading TOUR!
Each week we have met and learned more the different books and authors that are out there for us to read!
On our Yammer page – we saw some children from our Cluster school’s creating pictures in their school library. This gave us the idea to go and visit OUR school library and read our books there.
On our way, we popped in to our Reading Cafe and had a go at creating insane and funny stories using the Puppet Show stage we found there. We made the story up as we went along – and the characters too. It was a lot of fun, and pretty hard to stop laughing… especially when giant chickens suddenly appeared on the scene!
Then we stopped off at OLM’s ‘First Minister’s Reading Challenge’ wall. When we got there we noticed some cool David Walliams story outfits and decided it’d be fun to come back and maybe try them on later!
Finally, we arrived at the library! It was time to settle in for some quiet reading… with a few top trump challenges thrown in for the competitive ones.
All in all – it was quite the Reading Journey. We’ve decided that in future we’ll maybe go to a different place each time!
Fun in the Sun – A Sacramental Celebration!
Many of our Primary 4 pupils were blessed to celebrate their Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion this year. We spent a fantastic afternoon having ‘Fun in the Sun’, celebrating these occasions together.
Many thanks to the PSA who provided delicious cake and Capri-suns for all our pupils. The church services in Holy Name, St Vincent’s and St Joseph’s were very special and memorable for all involved!
Electricity
Primary 4c have been learning about electrical circuits and understand that it is made up of a continuous loop of conducting materials. They combined simple
components to create their own circuits. They had to work as a team to find materials which were conductors to get their light bulbs to light up.
Digital Learning Week
Primary 4c invited Mr McLaughin from St. Ninian’s into their class today. He taught them how to use Google Sketch Up to design their ideal house on the laptop. #digitallearningweek
Mental Health Awareness Week
Primary 4 children enjoyed going on an ninja adventure today. The children had fun playing games to feel good, stretching to increase relaxation and reduce stress, practising breathing exercises to increase our oxygen intake and help us become calm plus identifying positive qualities about ourselves in our affirmations.
Andy Goldsworthy Inspired art work
The art of Andy Goldsworthy inspires countless opportunities for students to engage with the environment in art-making. Primary 4 enjoyed the creative process involved in using the materials around them.
Mental Health Awareness Week
P4b enjoying the 7 steps of relaxation -move,play, stretch,feel, breathe, believe and relax.
Digital Learning Week
P4b enjoyed using Scratch to learn about coding today.
Cluster Reading Challenge Continued!
We have now met twice, and the OLM Cluster Reading Challenge Group are beginning to come up with some fantastic ways of sharing ideas and stories with other children in the school.
We also had a laugh using the Cluster Reading Challenge Yammer Page. We were talking to children from different schools and deciding what gifs and messages we wanted to send. The dancing bear was probably our favourite – great job Ryan. We also decided that we prefer using kindles to read books just now – so we are downloading even more books onto our kindles, and will take turns bringing them home!
We also managed to win a few more Top Trump Cards! Orla and Grace ended up being champions and winning most of them of of us all again. Next week we are going to take out even MORE cards and start some big battles and challenges… we can’t wait to open up the ‘Minions’ set!
