P4S planted trees back in the autumn. Today we went to check to see if any had started to sprout. There was great excitement when we examined our pots and noticed that roots and some shoots have appeared. We planted trees because they are so important in taking in carbon dioxide from the air and giving us oxygen to breathe.
Today we used a tuning fork to see sound vibrations. When the fork was vibrating, we heard a lovely sweet note. When the vibrations stopped, so did the noise. We then ‘saw’ the sound by making water jump using the vibrations. Great fun was had by all.
The children had great fun being scientists last week. Our WAU topic is ‘The Senses’ so we carried out smell and taste tests on crisps. We tallied our results and drew bar charts based on these. The children were amazed at how much their sense of taste was enhanced by their sense of smell.
Some pieces of Literacy work were submitted by P4S in the recent Portadown Rotary Club competition. The theme was ‘Environment’ and we entered poems based on the weather and some stories based on a water droplet’s trip through the water cycle. We were delighted to learn that Rosie’s story was awarded first place and Tyler’s poem came second. Rosie’s story now goes forward to the next stage of the competition.
P4S enjoyed a visit fromJack this morning. He came into our classroom to deliver the PIPS Home Support Gimmee5 program to the children. This is a very child friendly wellbeing program based on 5 elements: connect with others, be active, take notice of your surroundings, keep learning and give.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their morning.
lots of the children dressed up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day. We had everyone from Harry Potter casting spells, Mary Poppins singing, George and his Marvellous Medicine to The Queen ofHearts treating to chop off our Heads! We had a fun day.
We made pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. The children had great fun measuring out and mixing the ingredients, including free range eggs from Lenny’s girls at Lisnabunny. They then enjoyed eating their delicious pancakes.
On Tuesday P4S pupils took part in the Portadown Speech Festival. The girls performed their poem, Blame, and we’re delighted to be awarded first prize, two second prizes and two fourths. The boys’ poem was The Witches and they came first and second. In addition Sophie was awarded most promising girl of 2022. The whole class performed their choral piece, Pirate Pete, for the adjudicator. They excelled themselves and were awarded a cup for their efforts.
