As part of STEM Fortnight P3/4 created Homopolar Motors. Take a look at them in action!

Milosz: “I was learning about how to use electricity.”

Louise: “I liked it because it was fun and we got to make electricity.

Primary 3/4 had a fantastic time at the library today! We met author Renita Boyle. She taught us some songs, played games and she sang us her book, Honk! Honk! Rattle! Rattle! We were also very lucky to all receive a copy this book! She challenged us to become storytellers and read this book to someone.

Today P3/4 visited the library and look what we found on the way! 

We were so excited to see our Chinese Dragon displayed at the Inspired Exhibition!

“We learned about how bees live and survive.” – Mason

“We learned how honey bees collect nectar.” – Milosz

“Honey bees see differently from us, they see flowers in a blue colour.” – Alan

 Today as part of STEM Fortnight we went exploring through the Privies looking for Mini Beasts. When got back to class we made some notes of the bugs we found and compared them to our friends. Take a look at what we found!

This week in numeracy we have been learning about Symmetry.

We made Symmetrical patterns using Lego.

We looked online for images that showed symmetry in Nature.

Played games where we had to complete a symmetrical pattern.

Sorted images into Symmetric Shapes and Asymmetric Shapes.

“We were using our books to create a new version of snakes and ladders” Mia.

“We used the characters from the book to create our snakes and ladders” Louise.

On Wednesday the Primary 4s and 5s visited the Library to meet Scottish Author Janis Mackay. Janis spoke to us about using inspiration and imagination in our writing. She also told us about her award winning novels; Magnus Fin and The Accidental Time Traveller.  After hearing about her stories we had the opportunity to begin our own novel!

Primary 3/4 have just finished their novel, Pugs of the Frozen North. We created a mind map of the key events of the story.  Then we sequenced these events so that we could remember the order of the story.

Louise: “Using this list we made a map.”

Mia: “The map will help us remember what happened in the story even when we have not read the book in a few years.”

Milosz:  “At the start of the lesson I didn’t know that making a map could be such fun!”

Alan: “I need to improve my handwriting.”

Dominik: “I can now explain to somebody else a summary of our story.”

Yesterday our class was very lucky to receive a visit from Pro Judo.

Jack taught us some Judo moves and even some Japanese words!

Mia: “It was fun but at little scary at times.”

Leon: “It was fun and funny because people got flung and I am going start Judo!”

Leon: “The Judo was very awesome and we learned about Japanese words!”

Steven: “I didn’t like it because I got flung on the ground but it didn’t hurt.”

Alexander: “When we were doing the Judo Jack showed me a move where he flipped me onto the mat. I would quite like to do it again. It was a bit frightening.”

Sara: “I liked it when he flipped me down because it was pretty funny.”