Electricity

We have been learning all about the components of electrical circuits.

Our next challenge is to make an electronic circuit using Little Bits!

No teething problems for Primary 4!

Teeth Week!

As part of our new topic on staying healthy ("healthy body, healthy mind"), Primary 4 have begun to explore hygiene. They discussed the different areas involved in staying clean, and thought about why it is important to have good personal hygiene.


This week, the class focused in particular on dental hygiene and how to brush your teeth properly. The children completed a number of activities about brushing their teeth, and wrote some fantastic instructions during Big Writing time. Some writers even used adverbs to make their writing more detailed, which is very impressive for Primary 4!

 

Lacey enjoying the teeth jigsaw!

 

Brilliant results from our ordering task!

 

 

 

Fantastic instruction writing John!

Can you spot the adverbs in George's instructions?

Millie has used lots of adverbs as well.

April's Achievements

April also saw lots of extra-curricular achievements from Primary 4.  Well done to Cara, Leah, Libby and Sasha for earning medals in their pre-bronze tap exam, and congratulations to Brooke Stewart for winning the gold award for trying hard at Irish dancing. We are very proud of all of you!

Also a massive congratulations to our tennis players for coming second in the WDC tennis festival! The children tried very hard and won almost all of their matches, well done Libby, Evan and Lauren!



Brooke with her gold award trophy.

Pre-bronze medal tap dancers Cara, Leah, Libby and Sasha.

Tennis superstars Evan and Lauren.

Fun-filled February!

STEM, Recycling and Dodgeball Champions!

February has been a very busy and fun-filled month for Primary 4!

We started the month with a new STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) challenge, which was to build a model football stadium with working floodlights. The children worked very hard, designing, measuring and constructing their stadiums. They also used their knowledge of electrical circuits to create the floodlights (a circuit with multiple bulbs). The groups worked very well together, and the end results were fantastic!

Brooke, Rhys and Lacey had the original idea of opening their box up whilst creating the sides of their stadium. They glued them back up at the end and the end result was brilliant!

Mary, John, Sasha Aleishia had some trouble creating the goals, but they got there in the end!

Libby, Brooke and Lauren decided to make their goal posts out of straws. This made them very sturdy, well done girls!

Hailey and Cara did lots of measuring to create their stadium. Here they are constructing the goals out of straws and string.

Great team work Leigh, Leah and Evan!

Libby and Eva went the extra mile and made ANOTHER stadium at home! We were so pleased to see their efforts, fantastic home learning girls!

Primary 4 were also lucky enough to receive a visit from West Dunbartonshire Council's waste management team. They participated well in a discussion about recycling, answering some very tricky questions! The children also watched a cartoon about reducing, reusing and recycling waste at home. They learned all about what to put in each of the bins, the consequences of littering and doing graffiti, and what they can do to clean up our local area. Thank you Kevin and Ronny for such an informative morning!

The fun game we played to test our knowledge of reducing, reusing and recycling.

Winners! Thank you for our cool recycled stationary!

 Last but by no means least, the Edinbarnet dodgeball team were the champions at the Active Schools dodgeball festival on Thursday 22nd February. Along with children from Primary 4/3, Cara, Brooke, Libby, Brooke, George and Kian ran, caught and dodged to the best of their ability; coming first out of fifteen teams! Well done to everyone involved, we are so proud of your achievement!

P4 Ninjas!

In January, Primary 4 took part in a nunchucks taster session with Alex from Nunchaku Scotland. We were a bit hesitant at first, but soon got in to the swing of things! We learned some basic chuck skills, including the arm switch and figure eight. We also talked about how developing nunchuck skills can help us to improve our coordination, flexibility and precision. We really enjoyed our session, thank you Alex!

Leon has real nunchuck skills, look at him go!

This stuff is harder than it looks...

To find out more, visit Alex's Facebook page https://en-gb.facebook.com/alnscotland/

P4 Visit the Science Centre!

Glasgow Science Centre

In December, Primary 4 were lucky enough to spend the day at Glasgow Science Centre! We watched the Christmas Science Show and loved all of the experiments! We also had a lot of fun exploring each of the levels, learning about the body, physics and energy.

Evan and Sasha sent a message through the parabolic microphone.

We had lots of fun playing with the optical illusion mirrors!

Look, we're upside down!!

Lauren and Leah built the helix structure that makes up our DNA

Brooke, Leon, John, Boyd and George had lots of fun designing and building a track for a toy car.

Lacey and Emily made the bowl sing and the water shake!

Mary, Aleishia, Rhys and Allannah had enjoyed constructing models out of shapes.

Where has Millie's body gone?!

And Eva's too?!

Cara was blown away by the physics that kept this ball in the air!

Thank you to the Glasgow Science Centre for having us, and thank you Primary 4 for being such enthusiastic scientists!

STEM Homes!

STEM Homes!

Over the past couple of weeks, Primary 3, Primary 4/3 and Primary 4 have been working with different teachers to solve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) challenges.

This week, Primary 4 have been learning about the different types of homes that can be found in our local environment. Miss McKenzie challenged them to design and build a home that could be found in Faifley. They worked together and created some fantastic designs using cardboard boxes, tape and decorating materials!

Leah, John, Skye and Lauren built a flat.

Boyd, Lacey and George created a semi-detached house.

Emily, Leon, Aleishia and Hailey made a semi-detached house.

Evan, Brooke and Leigh created a terraced house.

Sasha, Cara, Kian and Libby designed a terraced house.

Brooke, Mille and Allannah created a flat

They put a lot of effort into the back detail (expertly modelled by Brooke!).

The STEM work also related to our Local Environment topic, and has helped us think about the ways in which the land is used in Faifley.

Don’t forget to ask us about our Word Aware words of the week, we are very good at sneaking them into conversation!