Primary 4 Mrs Nixon/Mrs Davidson

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Decorating baubles on our first Festive Friday in December. More fun to come next Friday🎅

World Around Us Topic 1: AUTUMN

This is a most interesting time of the year to get out and about and notice the changes which are taking place with the weather, animals and plants.

Get to know the names of the trees near to where you live and make sure the whole family go for a walk in Solitude Park or even to Gosford, Castlewellan or Tollymore Forest Park over the next few months.

We have been exploring our school forest area by identifying trees, seeds and fruits. Using crayons, we have been doing bark rubbings of a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees and comparing our results.

In the school grounds we collected natural materials. After that, each group chose a spot in the forest area and created a piece of art in the style of the artist Andrew Goldsworthy. Well done everyone 🍁

🦋Having fun with symmetry activities🦋

We had fun experimenting with mirrors to find the line of symmetry in pictures, shapes and patterns. Everyone enjoyed using ‘Symmetry Artist’ on the computer to create their own symmetrical picture.

🍂Autumn Activity Based Learning🍂

ABL is one of P4’s favourite times of the week. There were lots of opportunities to play together and learn more about autumn

School in the Past: Activity Based Learning

Learning to sew, being ‘a teacher from the past’, trying cursive writing, being books detectives and of course, playing old style card games like ‘DONKEY’

Chinese New Year

We will be learning all about the country of China and how they celebrate the Chinese New Year. We will be finding out where in the world China is and which animals live there. We will enjoy researching information about giant pandas.

We will study the stories of The Willow Pattern and the Zodiac Race.

2025 is the Year of the Snake.

Watch out for our lovely artwork as we hope to design some beautiful Chinese Vases.

Planning a Chinese Party

We worked with a partner to plan a party for four people. We had a lot of items to choose from but we were only allowed to spend £5. We had to use our four times tables to help us to count up our bill.

Science Experiment

Chinese people give children a Lucky Money Envelope with a shiny coin inside to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We did a science experiment to see which liquids cleaned our pennies the best. We tried water, coke, sauce, lemonade and salt and vinegar. We filled in a table of results to record our observations.