As part of our learning on the human body we have been learning about the heart and the important job it does.

We carried out some experiments to help us understand how the heart works. We tried to find our resting heart rate by placing our fingers on our pulse and made models to show how the heart pumps blood around our body. When the wall of the heart contracts it pushes oxygenated blood out and sends it to every cell in the body through the arteries and tiny capillaries. Once the oxygen has been used the blood travels back to the heart through the veins.

We really enjoyed making our models and pumping the ‘blood’. By creating a valve we prevented the liquid from mixing or traveling back in the same
direction. We recorded what we did and what we used in mini lab reports.

We have been working on fractions and column sums in maths. We found fractions very tricky to start with but now we can show and write fractions. We can also find a fraction of a number. Woohoo!

When we are finished we like to play games on the interactive whiteboard or choose an activity from our extension box.  

On Thursday we were visited by judo champion Louise Renicks. She led us through a workout and showed us some judo moves. Louise then spoke to us about her diet,  fitness regime and career as an athlete.

Together we watched the moment she won gold at the Commonwealth Games 2014 and she brought along her medal to show us. It was all very exciting!

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We have been learning about our main internal organs. We can describe where they are in the body and what they do.

We worked together to make these fantastic fact flap diagrams!

For Burn’s Day this year we recited some Scottish poems and songs including ‘Caledonia’ and ‘Mince and Tatties‘. We also learnt about some Scottish myths and legends and made our own wading Nessies! Most of us believe in the Loch Ness monster!!

We had great fun discussing paintings and creating work in the style of abstract artist Jackson Pollock.

This week we received a special parcel full  of letters and sweet biscuits from our pen-pals in France.

Merci beaucoup! 🙂 They were delicious and we all want to travel to France right away for some more!

We are currently writing postcards about Dundee in French and hope to send them soon.