COP 26

This week we learned about COP 26. COP 26 is an important meeting all about taking action against climate change. Over the next two weeks, more than 200 world leaders will meet for an event, known as COP26, to discuss climate change. COP26 will take place at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, and will be the biggest meeting of world leaders that the UK has ever hosted!

We read a story called The Trouble with Dragons. The story is about a world which is populated by beastly dragons who don’t care about how much they pollute the oceans, chop down the trees, gobble up all the food and use everything up without stopping to think. We worked in groups to think of advice to give to the dragons to help them save their world before it is too late.🌍🔥🌞

Rainforest animal factfiles

As part of our rainforest topic we wanted to learn more about the animals found in the rainforest. We explored what animals are found in each layer and chose to focus on six of them; jaguar, potoo, scarlet macaw, sloth, red eyed tree frog and the emerald tree boa. We used the internet and books to research information about each animal, their diet, habitat, appearance, character and fun facts. We organised and presented all of this information in a colourful fact file using headings, subheadings, text boxes, bullet points and pictures. 🐆🦥🦜🐍🐸

We also wrote acrostic poems describing the rainforest. Zoom into our wall display to have a read at some of our poems.

Animal family poems

We have been learning about similes. A simile is used to compare things using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. We wrote animal family poems where we compared our family members to animals.

We used symmetry skills to draw the other half of an animal photo. This was quite challenging! We used a mirror to study the other half of the face first. Next we drew the outline of the animal. After that we added in the smaller details and coloured the animal using pastels. We are extremely impressed by how well our animal drawings turned out. You can’t tell some of them are drawings, they look like real photographs!🤩 We love how our writing wall turned out. Zoom into have a read at our poems.

Skeleton art

We have come to the end of our human body science topic. We enjoyed learning about the position and function of the skeleton and major organs of the human body. We used cotton buds and glue to create this skeleton artwork. The cotton buds represent the bones in the human body. Did you know there are 206 bones inside your body?💀

Maths Week Scotland

As part of Maths Week Scotland we completed many different maths activities.

We used origami skills to make a fortune teller filled with lots of maths questions which we enjoyed asking one another.

We drew half a symmetrical picture and swapped with a partner who completed the other half of our picture.

We completed a coordinate grid by cutting and sticking the animals on the correct grid references.

We used cocktail sticks and mini marshmallows to create 3D shape models.

We used thousands, hundreds, tens and units blocks to build a palace and then had to calculate its total value.

We created tessellation art by drawing round 2D shapes to create a tile pattern.

The lungs

Once we explored the heart and the circulatory system, we focused on the lungs and the respiratory system; the group of organs and body tissues associated with breathing. We took part in different types of exercise to see the effect this would have on our breathing.

Next we used half a plastic bottle and balloons to make a model of the lungs. Have a look at the photos below.

The balloon at the bottom works like your diaphragm—a strong muscle that expands and contracts to cause your lungs to fill with air and then empty out again. The movement of the balloon matches your breathing – when you breathe in, your lungs fill with air just like the balloon inside the bottle did. That’s because the diaphragm expanded making room for air inside the lung. When you breathe out, your diaphragm contracts (or squeezes in) pushing all the air out of your lungs. 🎈🫁😮‍💨

The heart

Our science topic this term is the human body. We have been learning about the skeleton, bones, muscles and are now beginning to learn about the main organs in the human body.  Recently we explored the heart. Your heart is sort of like a pump, or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of the heart does the exact opposite: It receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body.

We filled up 3 two-litre bottles with red-coloured water to represent the quantity of blood in an average adult human. We passed the bottles around so we could feel their mass. Each bottle was around 2kg (6kg in total).

Next we used red and blue coloured play dough to make a model of the human heart. 🫀♥️


Rainforest Layers

We have been learning to identify the layers of the rainforest. Just like a cake, the rainforest has different layers. These layers include: forest floor, understory, canopy, and emergent. We worked in groups to choose a layer of the rainforest to focus on. We used the internet and books to research information about the layer, what it looks like and what plants and animals can be found there. We recorded our research on a poster and presented this to the rest of the class. 🌳🐾🐍

Our School Library

Our class was lucky enough to be the first class in the school to visit our new school library. Thanks to Mrs Britton and the primary seven helpers who gave us a tour of the library, introduced all the different genres to us, gave us comfy cushions to sit on and let us listen to audio books on the iPad. We enjoyed our quiet (and very comfortable) reading session in our lovely new library.📚📖

 

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