Tag: P3-5

Recently we held our first Show and Tell assembly since COVID. All the boys and girls across the school were very excited about this! The children had super achievements to share with the rest of the school. Some children decided to show their fantastic art work, awards for Kickboxing, Highland Dancing and all the facts they had been learning about dinosaurs.

We cannot wait for our next Show and Tell Assembly!’

OUR LEARNING THIS WEEK
‘We were learning about how the scientists think that the asteroid wiped out all the dinosaurs.’ Sophie

‘Palaeontologist is someone who looks for dinosaur fossils’ – Sophie

‘Palaeontologist found a fossilised leg with skin still on it’ – Andrew

‘The Palaeontologist found a dinosaur leg and they can now see that they’re actually scaly – they just assumed before that they were’. – Sophie

‘The place that found the fossils was called ‘Tanis’. – Riley O

‘The asteroid hit the planet in Mexico’ – Christopher

‘The asteroid was the size of Mount Everest’ – Donnie

After the asteroid hit, it broke into little balls. They fell from the air and they were really hot and the dinosaurs couldn’t breathe’ – Freya

‘Since the asteroid hit it was black for a decade because of all the gases blocking the sun’. – Sophie

‘After the asteroid hit there were lots of tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes’ – Hilda

‘They found a bit of meteor and now they can learn different facts about it’ – Sophie

DINOSAUR FACTS

Diplodocus:

• ‘A Diplodocus is 27 meters tall’ – Christopher

T-Rex:

• ‘T-Rex had a diet of Triceratops’ – Noah
• ‘Lots of people thought the T-Rex was the biggest dinosaur but it wasn’t. The Argentina Dinosaur was.’ – Andrew
• ‘T-Rex are one of the biggest carnivores’ – Jayden
• ‘The weight of a T-rex is 7000kg’ – Noah

Triceratops:

• ‘A Triceratops has 3 nose horns’ – Jack
• ‘The triceratops uses its horn to tear down trees’ – Theo
• ‘Triceratops are 3m long and they’re also 12000kg’ – Charlie

Stegosaurus:

• ‘The stegosaurus was 9m long and 3m high.’ – Sophie
• ‘Even though the stegosaurus was huge its brain was only the size of a ping-pong ball.

Primary 3-5 have been busy learning how to weave.

We have been learning how to weave. We are hoping to make a basket. Here are the instructions on how to make it:

1. We started with a paper plate and cut the bumpy bit off.
2. Then you draw a circle in the middle of the plate (a medium sized one).
3. After get a ruler make a line with a black pen through the middle, turn the plate and draw another line. You repeat this till you have 8 equal sections.
4. Next you get another colour and repeat leaving a 1cm gap between the 2 colours.
5. After that you cut the black and other coloured line to the circle. It should leave a little gap.
6. Then you get some wool, tape it to the back and then start weaving.
7. You go round the plate over and under. Once you get back to the start you miss 2 sections and repeat. Continue till you have made a basket.

As part of our science learning, P3/4/5 have been exploring the properties of different materials and why their different properties make them suitable for different jobs. This week we explored waterproofing and carried out an experiment to find out which materials would protect an item from getting wet. Before the experiment pupils discussed each material and its properties and made predictions about which material would be best for waterproofing. Next, everyone coloured in 6 dinosaurs and then covered these with the six different materials. The same amount of water was then applied to each. It was interesting to see which dinosaurs ink ran the fastest based on which material was protecting it.

In maths today P3/4/5 were working with Mrs McClymont to explore angles and identify angles within a full rotation. This linked to our previous learning knowing the cardinal and intercardinal compass points. It was great to see everyone working hard, especially when breaking angles down into smaller parts to work out degree turns.

We have recently started our new PE focus of gymnastics and this week we explored different balances. We practised balancing on lots of different body parts and found that some balances were a lot trickier than others! Once we had learned some new balances, we worked in pairs to create a sequence, linking five different balances with a range of rolls and floor movements from previous weeks.