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The moonbeams have enjoyed learning all about Chinese New Year today. The children learned that Chinese people believe that red is a lucky colour. The children also enjoyed tasting some food and investigating some traditional Chinese decorations and instruments.
The Daisies have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We enjoyed a sensory story about Chinese New Year Celebrations and engaged well with the props. Our favourite thing was trying some tasty Chinese food our favourite was the chow mien noodles. During art we made Chinese lanterns. We drew some numbers in Chinese using chopsticks and our fingers.
What fun we have had today learning about Chinese New Year. We paid good attention to watching a family get ready for Chinese New Year on the board. We saw them decorate their houses and so we made paper lanterns too and decorated our classroom. We even made our lanterns light up as we enjoyed our snack.
After we made our dragon, we took them outside and used them as kites. What a great blowy day for kites!
Throughout our Scottish Castles theme, we enjoyed learning all about the role of a knight.
We were successful learners, showing examples of bravery, labelling parts of a knights suit of armour, and creating our own coat of arms which showed our personalities.
We have been responsible citizens working towards our eco target and learned all about different ways to keep ourselves healthy.
We learned about safe and unsafe substances and objects, and were successful learners when sorting images into these groups.
We were successful learners during our theme work and create a map of Scotland, labelling main cities. We then added pictures to mark some famous Scottish landmarks too.
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As part of our Science focussed area of learning, we learned about push & pull forces. We looked at different toys that you have to push and pull in order for them to move. We had a push car race & a class tug of war to experience these forces. We then made our own slingshots after watching Merida from Brave use her bow & arrow. Some pupils were able to measure how far the items travelled!
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There are lots of places of interest to see in Glasgow. We searched for them online and chose our favourites. We watched a video of inside Kelvingrove Museum and learned that Dippy the Dinosaur had visited there.
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We watched power points and discussed reasons why people might be hungry and needed to use Food Banks. We made a poster showing reasons which included poor crop yields due to pollution and drought. We did a science experiment where we grew two trays of cress, one watered by ordinary tap water and the other watered with a water and lemon juice mix which depicted acid rain. The seeds watered with acid rain developed poorly which showed how pollution can effect crop growth for farmers.
The Bluebells enjoyed listening to the story Katie Morag Delivers the mail. We enjoyed some post office role play posting letters and sorting 3D parcels by their shape. Some of us were able to guess what might be in the parcel through looking and feeling it’s shape.
