Mrs Arbuckle – Page 5 – P5.17 Blog 2023/24

Scientist Of The Day – Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a wonderful conservationist and her close observation of chimpanzees is world-renowned. We watched a clip of her releasing a chimpanzee back into the wild and we were really moved when the chimpanzee gave her a goodbye hug before going off into the wild.

We then did our own observations of gorillas in Africa on a live webcam. They were amazing as they licked each other to wash and ate the shrubbery. We were even more amazed when the gorillas went away and three giraffes wandered into the picture!

John MacAdam – Scientist Of The Day

John MacAdam invented tarmac. He discovered that small stones and lime chippings were much smoother to travel on and when heated, it became a smooth surface – tarmac.

We road-tested our vehicles on different road surfaces. We discussed which was the best road surface material and what problems were faced with the other materials.

Arthur Fry – Scientist of The Day

We looked at the brilliant work of Arthur Fry. He accidentally invented the Post It note. His special glue meant that paper could be stuck down and lifted off without using any marks.

We made our own glue to see if we could use our own ingredients to stick two pieces of paper together, We used flour, cornflour, sugar, salt, liquid soap, detergent and water. We could use some of the ingredients or all of them. We were remarkably successful!

Hallowe’en Fun

Mrs McVittie has shared some photos that she took of our Hallowe’en fun. Everyone looked fabulous all dressed up! The spooky activities took place on our new pitch. Thank you to everyone for their support and their donations.

Beautiful Handwriting

We have been working on joining up our handwriting and are trying to use it in our everyday work. It is really all beginning to come together now.

Values Play

On a Friday, we still have our our values play as incentive to adhere to our school values.

Adjectives

We have been doing lots of work on adjectives this week to use in our writing and extend it. We had to describe the monsters.

Problem Solving : Act Out The Situation

We are having a problem solving week and learning a different strategy every day this week. Today’s strategy was to “Act out the situation”. Our problem was to find the tallest and smallest in each group and then the whole class. It took a while, but we got there in the end!