Puppets!

We have been doing our reading differently in Primary 4 this term.  We have been choosing our own books to read at home and doing different reading activities in school.

When we are doing our reading in school, we do this in three different ways:

1) we work in our groups to read the story together and discuss what has happened so far and predict what we think might happen next.  When we have all taken a turn to read we ask each other questions about what we have read.  Before we finish, we also have to think of something good that we did when reading aloud and think of something we could do better next time.  This is called 'a star and a wish'.

2) we talk with Ms Rendall about the book and discuss what has happened so far and then read it together.

3)  we do different activities that link directly to the story we have been reading.  The activities include making a comic strip of the story, writing book reviews, writing new beginnings and endings for the story and designing our own book covers. 

This week we made puppets of the main characters from the books we have been reading.  It was lots of fun!

Symmetry

We have been learning about symmetry this term.  Symmetry is when you half a picture and both halves of the picture are identical.  You can use mirrors to help you figure out if a shape is symmetrical or not.

  

We all designed half of a picture for someone else to complete.  Some of the pictures we designed were very tricky!

Some of us used the light from the windows to trace the pictures - this made it a little easier. 

  

3D shape investigations

We have been investigating 3D shapes this week.  We have been learning more about cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, prisms and pyramids.  We have been learning about the edges, faces and corners of these shapes, and were able to use what we had learned to build our own 3D shapes.

                                      

It was tricky to get our shapes exactly right but we managed it!  Now we know much more about 3D shapes.