Thank you to Mrs Smith and Mrs Sewell for visiting us today and providing us with some amazing and exciting science activities.
We got to count how many drops of water we could fit on coins, make a clamp stand following the instructions and sort beads and pom poms by colour and shape.
We learned how to use different apparatus like magnifying glasses, the clamp stand, stopwatches, droppers, thermometers, measuring cylinders and tweezers.
We had a visit from Generation Science where we learned about electricity. We made a circuit, powered by a battery and saw how electrons travel round a circuit.
Then we made a magnetic field which pushed the electrons around the circuit. 
Then it was our turn to test out different coils and magnets. We measured how much electricity we generated using an ammeter.
We used our knowledge to charge up our Hexbugs for the race of the century.
Today we were learning about the circulatory system and the function of the heart. We made our own pumping heart to investigate the flow of blood.
We had a very exciting visit from Ayrshire College who turned our classroom into the scene of a crime: The Case of the Missing Sweets. Mrs Mackay, Mrs Connell and Mrs Connelly were suspects!
We analysed saliva samples, a ransom note and checked the patterns of our fingerprints. We discovered that Mrs Mackay was the culprit but we did get a sweet treat for our hard work solving the crime.
Following our fantastic visit to the Science Centre yesterday, we decided to have our own version in school.
We got to take part in lots of activities making straw oboes, colour mixing and seeing how long we could make a ping pong ball float.
What a busy week we’ve had. Here we are enjoying our electricity topic in science. We designed and tested circuits, making sure they had all the components to work.
In maths, we used play-doh to help us with division.
In literacy, we explored Scots language and completed a crossword in Scots.
Primary 4-7 investigated different types of seeds and looked for their similarities and differences. We also labelled the parts of a flower using a tulip to identify each part.
