We have been investigating how the respiratory system works over the last week.

We discovered that when we inhale oxygen it travels down the windpipe into two large tubes called bronchus and then into small tubes called bronchiole ( that look like hairs).

At the end of the bronchiole is the alveoli  (little air sacks) where the air get absorbed into our blood. We discovered we can have 600 million alveoli in the lungs.

Have a look at the model lungs we created using straws, toothpicks and raisins.

Today we made a stand against  racism by wearing red.

This week we had a close look at the building plans for the new nursery. We then explored the building site and had a quick chat with John the site manager.

This encouraged us to think about the resources used in building and exactly how many bricks 🧱 would be used. We decided to measure the length of the walls outside our classroom and measure the height and breadth of a brick.  This will help us with our calculations in the following weeks.

After investigating the skeletal system we explored how muscles make us move.  We discovered that muscles work in pairs and can only pull. We also found out that muscles are attached to bones. We have different types of muscles in our body, voluntary muscles like our biceps 💪 and involuntary muscles that move our organs.

For a maths warm up this week we used technology to answer and create questions for multiplication.  By using the ActiVote pods we could see what the correct answer was and find out who answered in the quickest time.  We enjoyed being tinny teachers making up questions for the class.

In structured writing we investigated imperative verbs.  We now know that an imperative verb is one that tells someone to do something, so that the sentence it is in becomes an order or command.  We listened to George’s Marvellous Medicine and decided to create  some instructions to make marvellous medicine.  We enjoyed using our imagination to create  lists of interesting and in some cases disgusting object to add to our medicine.

When we finished our instructions our writing partners marked our work thinking of two stars and one wish. We looked at the success criteria to help us suggest points to work on the next time we write instructions.

During fitness week we had a chance to take part in a taekwondo 🥋taster session and learn about the different types of kicks.  We practised the side kick and the crescent kick.

Have a look at us in action below.

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During Maths Week Scotland we decided to put our technology skills and mathematics skills to the test. We navigated around an online escape room using our critical thinking 🤔 strategies to solve literacy, jigsaw 🧩 and numeracy problems.  We worked as a team but unfortunately only managed to escape from the first room before the time was up! We will work continue to  work on our skills.

Over the last few weeks we have been investigating the skeletal system and trying to name the main bones.  We discovered that babies are born with 300 bones and as we get older we have about 200 bones. We also found out the smallest bone is in your ear and the largest bone is in your leg.  Using large foam bones  we tried to create or own skeletons. The VR headsets allowed us to take a close look at each main bone and the function  it has in allowing us to stand or protect the main organs of the human body.

We decided to investigate the artistic movement of Cubism and focused on the artists Pablo Picasso. Born in 1881 in Spain he had 23 words in his name.  He started to paint at the age of 7 and at the age of 9 he completed his first painting called Le Picador.  We investigate a selection of Picasso’s famous head images and discussed how they made us feel.  We then tried to create head images in his artistic style.