Blog by Helen Mackie

As part of our RE work on Buddhism, we discussed can money make you happy. We thought about what you could do with a million pounds. What could you do to help others? What could you buy? What could you do for yourself?

We worked with a partner to investigate our teeth. We noted baby teeth and adult teeth and gaps. Then we colour coded our teeth to show incisors, canines, molars and premolars.

We met Debby for the first time. She taught us how to pick up our violins and pluck the strings.

We had fun making rhythms and playing the boomwackers.

We explored turning clockwise and anti clockwise.  We turned half, quarter and three quarters.

Year 4 had an amazing time at Great Tower. The first job was making the beds

We recreated the digestive process in Science today. We tore bread into small pieces (like incisors biting), added saliva (water) and mashed it all up with a fork (molars chewing and grinding).

We then transferred it to a plastic bag (stomach) and added digestive acid (orange juice) and enzymes…

We had a music workshop with Sarah this morning. We played some games, clapping out rhythms then listened to some music and drew the story of it. We learnt a song and then worked in groups to create a haka.

We looked at the digestive system today. We tried to place parts of the digestive system in the right places on our body l.

We worked with a partner to record what teeth we have.

We used cardboard, paperclips, and split pins to make our own switches.