In class today we learned about angles. We used this great website.
If you’re feeling hungry and fancy an angles challenge, try this site!
Children as teachers.
Today we had our fundraising event – children dressing up as teachers (and teachers dressing up as children). Have a look at our pictures and see what you think. We had a great day and raised lots of money. Thank you all for your support.
Co-ordinates.
We did some work on co-ordinates in class today and some of the children asked if there were any games on the internet which they could play which would help them remember how to find co-ordinates.
Here are some links.
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug/bugcoord.html Billy Bug.
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/coordinates.swf
http://www.athena.bham.org.uk/old/coordinates1.htm
And finally a couple of tricky ones!
P4’s measuring system
Today we learned about some of the measuring units which the Ancient Egyptians used.
We then tried to create our own measuring unit and then measure some of the objects in our classroom using this new measure.
Have a listen to the new units we created!
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Question of the Week
Who would play you, your family and your friends in the Movie of your life?
(Please remember just to use first names for you and your family!!)
Boats – Who will be the winner?
More boats!
We have been busy making boats at home using different materials.
Adam and Jamie built their boats/baskets out of foil. Eilidh used a plastic tub.
Adam’s boat was able to hold 8 large marbles and 30 small marbles, while Jamie’s could only hold 8 large marbles and 11 small marbles. However, Eilidh’s boat could hold 8 large marbles and 65 small marbles!
Here are some more boats that P4 pupils made. Do you think there is a boat that will beat Eilidh’s record? Let us know and leave a comment! We will soon let you know who is the winner of our boat competition!
Science week – Aged paper
We have been making lots of tea in P4! Unfortunately, it was not to drink but to paint with! To make our paper look like it was from the time of the Ancient Egyptians, we painted it with tea and threw a couple of coffee granules on to the wet paper to add some darker spots.
We discussed why the paper changes colour and decided that the tea stains the paper.
What is the name of the chemical in tea that stains the paper?
Science Week – sink or float?
Inspired by the story of Moses and how the queen found him floating in a reed basket along the River Nile, P4 decided to build a model of a reed boat.
We discussed which materials we can use to build our boat thinking about the properties of that material. We thought paper and card would absorb the water so we decided against those materials. We dicussed other materials too and decided straws would be best.
Here is a picture of some of us building our boats.
The moment of truth to see if the boats will float!
Eilidh was worried that her boat might not float because she had wrapped a lot of masking tape around her boat making it quite heavy. Luckily, it was not a problem and her boat floated!
Commenting
This morning we thought about commenting on people’s writing on blogs.
We read and enjoyed the stories on this blog page.
We thought about some rules or ideas for good commenting. This is what we used.
● 1.Acknowledge the author – use their name in your reply.
● 2.Give a specific compliment – say what it is you like.
● 3.Agree or disagree with what they say…but ALWAYS say why.
● 4.Be appropriate.
● 5.Be polite.
● 6.Give some details, ask a questions or add some information or your opinion.
We then added some of the comments onto the blog page.
