Mrs Allman & Mrs Slyth's P4 Class | Towerview Primary School

This term we have been very busy writing narrative stories based on European traditional tales. The stories that we looked at were: 'The Cat and the Cottager' (Iceland), 'The Dragon who got Tricked' (Greece), 'Baba Yaga' (Russia) and 'The Cockerel and the Fox' (Belgium). We have enjoyed using these as a base to create our own imaginative stories. We hope that you enjoy reading them!

Hola! Bonjour! Here are some pictures from our Europe Day. We had lots of fun learning Scottish dancing, trying new types of European food and learning French and Spanish! We enjoyed relaxing with a European themed film at the end of this fantastic day.

Term 3 - Learning to use weighing scales , painting in the impressionist style, writing stories and The Amazing Journey visit.

Sports Day

Our first week in P.4

We had a busy first week in Primary 4, learning new routines and remembering how to look after our belongings. We created a class charter after sharing our ideas in groups. We found out about nouns and played a game on the IWB about them. We also used our numeracy strategy of 'trial and error' to make a repeating pattern.

Welcome to P4

Minibeast hunt

On Tuesday 11th September we went on a minibeast hunt. We were amazed at how many insects and bugs we saw. We even found quite a few frogs!

Numeracy

We have been working hard at counting forwards and backwards, exploring hundred, ten and unit numbers and solving problems through our'trial and improvement' strategy.

The Belfast Zoo Visit P4

We had a fabulous visit from The Belfast Zoo in October. We got to see many different animals and bugs. We even got to hold and stroke some of them. have a look.

We have been learning that we can use drawings to help us when we are working out number problems. We call these Bar Models. We have also been using other equipment when we need it to help us.

November - here we are busy again, learning about adding with exchange, rounding numbers, making circuits and doing many other fun things.

Investigating circuits.

'Farm to Fork' - sorting foods into animal or plant.

Term 2 Castles

We have been finding out about castles as our new topic. For science day we investigated stored energy in elastic bands. To test this, we made catapults, something like what might have been used in attacking or defending castles. We have also been busy during ABL, Art and WAU time creating shields and castles and researching using the internet and library books.

Science Day

ABL - Castle activities

Numeracy - we have been busy beginning learning our times tables facts, how to subtract with an exchange and doubling and halving numbers. Some of the problem solving strategies that we have been exploring and have found helpful are working backwards and partitioning numbers.

Our Visit to Bangor Castle

On the 5th February we went to visit Bangor Castle. A lady named Heather showed us around the castle and the town hall. She also told us many interesting things about the castle.