We used pastels, chalk and charcoal to produce our own versions of extreme weather. Some of us used black paper and cut out the silhouette of the landscape to add to the effect.
Wonderful Weather Primary 4
All posts by M McDaid
Primary 4 – Wonderful Weather
We have been working extremely hard today on researching various types of extreme weather in the world. We worked in our co-op learning groups to research storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis and lightning. Did you know that tornadoes can reach up to speeds of 483 kilometres per hour? Did you also know that thunder and lightning happen at the same time, but because light travels faster than sound, we see lightning before we hear the thunder?
Primary 4 – Talking and Listening
The Authors reading group have recently finished their group novel, The Best Dog in the World by Sylvia Green. The children had to present a talk to the rest of the class about their special dog. Each pupil or pair had to make sure that they included a detailed description of what their dog looked like, the breed or type of dog it was, how their dog behaved and why it was so special to them. When presenting their information, the children had to make sure that they made good eye contact with their audience, their voice was loud and clear enough for their audience to hear and the content o.f their talk was both interesting and informative. The audience also had an important job to do as they were assessing the presentations by recording what was interesting, how the readers caught their attention and advice about how to make any improvements. Well done Primary 4.
Primary 4 – New Year Resolutions
We have enjoyed looking back at our proudest moments of 2015. Then we discussed our targets for 2016 and came up with a few New Year Resolutions linked to school life, such as learning our times tables, working harder on the presentation of our written work in our jotters and listening more carefully to Mrs McDaid’s instructions.
Primary 4 Christmas Activities
We have been getting into the festive mood in our class by designing our own Christmas baubles, Christmas stockings and drawings of Santa and Rudolph. We watched a very interesting video which gave us step by step instructions on how to draw Rudolph.
Mrs McDaid and Primary 4 would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Primary 4 – Ready Steady Cook Challenge
We rose to the cooking challenge set by Mrs Martin by making fantastic frittata. The ingredients included cheese, eggs, spring onion and new potatoes. We all enjoyed working in our groups preparing the vegetables, mixing the ingredients, designing our own placemats and creating our menus. We all had a piece of the frittata and it was delicious!
P4 – Drama
We really enjoyed taking part in our recent drama lessons when we had to work with our peers on various tasks, such as writing a script and performing to an audience using mime. We had to look at an image of a little girl looking into a doll’s house that was full of little fairies and pixies. There were also sinister looking faces in the background and we had to try to work out how the girl got there in the first place , where the fairies came from and who did the sinister faces belong to.
Fractions
We have been working extremely hard on learning about fractions of shapes and fractions of numbers. One group was working on quarters of regular shapes and the other groups were using their knowledge of times tables to help them work out thirds, fifths and tenth of numbers. Some of the children also used cubes to help them find the answers.
Primary 4 – Health and Wellbeing – P.E.
Over the last few weeks we have been working hard on developing skills in possession games like netball.. We have been learning how to hold the ball correctly, how to pass it and how to defend our goal. Then we used these skills when participating in several netball competitions with our peers. 
Primary 4 Research 1990s
The children have been working extremely hard on researching important events and significant people of the 1990’s. Then they used their information to create group posters about the World Cup, Princess Diana, the Channel Tunnel, the Internet and Hurricane Andrew. They have also brought in a variety of toys, games, DVD’s and videos of that era.
