Japan
This afternoon, P2/3 were learning how to count in Japanese and how to write their names in Japanese. We also drew our own manga characters.
Amazing work P2/3!
P2/3 – Japan
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P2/3 – Mobile Library Visit
Mobile Library Visit
Yesterday, Fausto from the East Ayrshire Mobile Library came to talk to us and our parents about the resources the library can provide and how to join the library.
Thank you for visiting!
P2/3 -Numeracy
Numeracy: Money
This week P2/3 have been learning about money. We have been counting coins and some of us have been calculating change.
Fab work P2/3!
P2/3 – Space
Space: Mini Fruit Solar System
Today, P2/3 made a solar system out of fruit. They used a raisin (Mercury), a blueberry (Venus), a grape (Earth), a raspberry (Mars), grapefruit (Jupiter), an orange (Saturn), a tangerine (Uranus) and a plum (Neptune).
The children worked in their groups to figure out the order of the fruits comparing them in size to the planets.
After that, we added the fruit to a skewer to make our very own mini fruit solar system. The children loved trying the fruits as we were making our solar systems, the oranges seemed to be the favourite!
Amazing work P2/3!
P2/3 – Numeracy
Numeracy: Fractions
Yesterday, the P4s joined us to help with our numeracy rotations. We were learning to match a fraction of a shape to the correct fraction and find 1/2 and 1/4 of a number. As a challenge, some of us were finding 1/5s and 1/10s of a number.
At the end of the lesson, P2/3 showed P4 some of the body percussion we had been learning to the song ‘Happy’! The children loved this!
Fab work P2/3 and thank you to P4 for helping us!
P2/3 – Space
Space: Day and Night
This week P2/3 were learning about how the Sun and the Earth move in space to give us day and night. The children also learned about Tim Peake and made their own 3D alien shape.
Great work P2/3!
P2/3 & P5/6 – Science
Science: Gummy Bears
Firstly the pupils enjoyed learning about solids, liquids, and gasses where they made a human solid, human liquid, and human gas.
In a solid, particles are tightly packed.
In a liquid, particles are less tightly packed and free to move past each other.
In a gas, particles are spread out and move randomly.
Experiment time:
P5/6 created hypotheses of what might happen when we placed a solid (gummy bear) into a liquid (water) and left it overnight.
P2/3 led the learning by showing P5/6 what to do.
We left the cups containing our solid and liquids overnight to investigate today. When we returned the gummy bears has gotten bigger. We learned that this was due to a process called osmosis where water molecules travel from an area of high concentration of water to an area of low concentration of water.
Finally, we discussed how we could use this knowledge to remove the water from the gummy bear. Some hypotheses we have put to the test are:
- placing the gummy bear in a saturated salt solution
- placing the gummy bear in a saturated sugar solution
- placing the gummy bear in just salt
- placing the gummy bear in just sugar
Why don’t you ask your child about the final outcome?
P2/3 – Science Center
Science Center
P2/3 had an amazing time at the Science Center today. The children loved going to the planetarium and learning lots about the stars and planets (P2/3 were brilliant at answering questions about the phases of the moon!).
We then explored all the different floors of the Science Center, including BodyWorks, Space Zone, Powering the Future and Newton Flight Academy.
What an amazing day had by all! 🙂
P2/3 – Science
Science: Solubility
On Friday, P2/3 were testing the solubility of salt, sugar, sand, and pepper. We learned that salt and sugar and soluble and sand and pepper are insoluble.
Fab work P2/3!
Check out a video of our experiment.
P2/3 – Space
Space: Phases of the Moon
P2/3 have been learning about the phases of the moon. The children had great fun re-creating the famous Jaffa Cake advert, check out the video:
