We had great fun this week with lots of different science-related activities! We learned about the lungs and the digestive system through some fun experiments and some members of the Eco committee taught us about climate change. Special thanks to all of our visitors who work in different scientific sectors.
Eco committee:
Vattenfall:
Lungs experiment:
GE Engineering:
Strider visit:
Digestive system experiment:
Dean Park Country Ranger visit:
We have been learning about the lungs and explored the movement of air in and out of our bodies.
We had lots of fun playing a game learning about apostrophes for contractions. Each learner was given a card and then they had to race around the class to find their “contraction twin” – 1 card had the contraction and 1 card had the full form.
We have been learning about the brain and its functions.
We made a paper maché brain and identified the different parts of the brain. We used coloured tissue paper to distinguish the different lobes and their functions.
When we start a new topic/IDL, we like to complete a KWL (what you KNOW, what you WANT to know and what you have LEARNT).
Today, the class logged into Glow, open their emails and used the link sent by Mrs Conetta to a KWL Padlet on My Body. It is like an online post-it notice board that updates in real-time! Everyone was excited to post on the Padlet and read everyone else’s posts about the body.
We will revisit the Padlet and add what we have learnt at the end of the topic.
We watched a video about Alexander Graham Bell’s life. We found out interesting facts that he played the piano for his mum who was deaf and she held her hearing device up to the piano to hear/feel the vibrations. Alexander and his father were both teachers. They taught deaf people to speak.
We explored telephones through the years and then designed our own telephones.
As part of our Scottish fortnight, P3/4 are learning about different Scottish Inventors. Today we learnt about John Logie Baird who invented the first TV.
After learning about his life and creating a timeline of significant events, we worked in groups to create our own mini TVs!
We have been exploring the water cycle and created an experiment to see the processes involved. We looked at the different states of water – liquid, water vapour (gas) and solid and discussed the processes of evaporation and condensation.
Having learnt about products and resources the rainforests give us, we decide to look into fairtrade products.
P3/4 watched a video describing what can happen to non-fairtrade farmers who grow crops and compared this to farmers who are fairtrade farmers. They worked in pairs to compare the journeys these products take. We had a lot of discussion about how it is fair that the farmers get a fair price and what they can do with the money.
The results are in! P3/4 have come to the conclusion that plants need both light and water to grow healthily. We examined all the plants and we used our measuring skills to measure the growth of each plant.
Black History Month Homework Block 2 Oct-Nov 
Numeracy 30.9.24 Yellow Spelling Homework 30.9.24 Purple Spelling Homework 30.9.24 Numeracy homework 16.9.24 Numeracy 16.9.24 Yellow Spelling 16.9.24 Purple Spelling 16.9.24 Purple Spelling 16.9.24 Yellow Spelling 16.9.24
