Today we learnt about how jet engines work to use and fight against forces to keep planes in the air. We demonstrated this by making a human engine and then created a balloon jet engine.

P4 are learning about how countries around the world celebrate Christmas. We have learnt that they all have different traditions and cultures!

Today we learnt about how they celebrate Christmas in Germany, as one of our pupils is part German. His mum came in to tell us about the traditions they had when she lived in Germany, and how she has mix of German and British Christmas traditions now they live in Scotland. Some big differences we heard about are that they celebrate Christmas day on 24th December, they have lit candles on their tree, and they have meat fondue as Christmas dinner!

Thanks you Mrs Bennett for coming to talk to us and sharing the amazing traditions from your childhood!

We have been learning about patterns and sequences in numeracy. Today we had a Christmas patterns session – we had to continue the patterns as accurately as possible. We also used repeating patterns to create snowflakes!

We have been having fun with Electricity.  We have been using our skills to make electrical games and models.

By Emily Heyster and Aimee lee scott

A big thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our recent stay and play sessions! The children loved showing you round the nursery, and showing you all the things they have been up to!

We have got a busy few weeks coming up with Christmas getting close!
Please remember these important dates for your diary…….

Monday 18th Dec- ELC nativity 10.30am and 2.30pm. Please note maximum of 2 adults per child to watch.

Tuesday 19th Dec- ELC Christmas party (normal session applies)

One of our next steps in writing is to create mood, pace and tension. This is what keeps the reader turning the pages in a story. We have been trying to do in this in class by varying the length of sentences.

For homework think of a problem in a story of your choice or make one up. Write the paragraph leading up to the climax using punctuation and length of sentences to create an appropriate mood, pace and tension.

We have three new Digital Leaders in P4. They had to fill out an application form, and get interviewed for the position by Mrs Ward. It is a big responsibility that Aimee, Daniel and Rachael are excited to try their best at! Well done and work hard

Mrs Hinks and her brilliant colleagues came into Primary 5 armed with chocolate planets and lots of toppings for the us to create our own chocolate planet.

I liked when we were tidying up because you got to lick the brush and bowl.  Rowena

I really enjoyed it because it was a creative way to learn about your topic and a fun way.  Gabrielle

I like the chocolate planet making because it was really funny at the end when we got to do the chocolate dip and lick the brushes.  I also liked making it.  Joe

I enjoyed making the chocolate planets because it was fun to make them and we got to lick the brushes at the end.  Jessica, Evie Mae, Rebecca, Adam, Alec, PJ, Joshua and Dean.

I enjoyed making the chocolate planets because when we finished all the decorating we got to take them home and eat them..Yum   Anna G

I enjoyed it because we got to have lots of fun with the creativity and Alec and Kate made their planets really big.  Simon

I enjoyed it because you had a variety of chocolates to select from to stick on it and it could be any design.  Owen

Think about the story mountain that we have been using in class to help with structuring a story.
Watch ‘The Black Hole’ by clicking on this link and scrolling down to find ‘The Black Hole’. Please don’t watch the other videos in case we use them in the future.

Think about the following questions:
• What is normality?
• How does the story build up?
• Is there a turning point in the story?
• What is the climax or problem in this story?

Use your thoughts to write an ending to the story and post it in the comments for Friday 1st December.

We have been learning about how the density of an object affects the buoyancy of it. Watch to see an experiment which explains this scientific idea .