Primary 4 visited Kilsyth Library this week to listen to an author talk about his series of books.
The author’s name was David MacPhail and he spoke to us about his books entitled “Thorfinn The Nicest Viking”.
We learned a little about Vikings, Ancient Scotland and what it is like to be an author.
The children also took the opportunity to pitch some ideas for David’s next book!
The Unsinkable Ship
We recently began our new topic of “The Unsinkable Ship” which is a topic based on The Titanic.
We decided to paint a picture of the Titanic for our wall display.
Symmetry
As part of our Maths topic on symmetry we searched for symmetrical objects in our classroom and in the outside environment around our school.
Science
This term, linked to our topic, we are learning about ice and what makes it melt.
We discovered that cold objects have slowing moving atoms and that warmer objects have faster moving atoms. When the two come into to contact the faster moving atoms move into the cold substance.
We used the recent snowy conditions to put this to the test.
The fast moving atoms from our hands transferred into the snow, causing it to melt.
Today, as part of our ABC Music programme, we learned to work with 2 bar ideas, and do actions on different beats of a 2 bar phrase.
Here’s a video of us in action.
As part of our maths topic on 3D shape, we used our school environment to identify 3D objects, name them and describe their properties.
