Today, on the day that a real volcano is erupting, we have erupted our own volcanos. We used our knowledge of chemical reactions and mixed vinegar and baking soda with washing up liquid and food colouring to make magma.

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As part of our natural disasters and Earth materials topic, the children have been discussing how the Earth is made up and how minerals are formed. We made some volcanoes to explode next week. This also links back to our chemical reactions topic, but we will see that in next week.

Today we looked at minerals, otherwise known as rocks! The class found out some great facts about a range of minerals. Did you that amethyst is a stone of peace?!

P6 have been learning about sustainable homes by thinking about how to conserve energy. We have created homes with insulation materials, energy producing windmills and solar panels, vegetable gardens and the latest technology to reduce energy wastage where we live.

Insulation

Windmill

Vegetable patch

The spheres maths group have been exploring decimals. Today they looked at how decimals are used in real life contexts.

The pupils highlighted different amounts of money and then wrote them out as a decimal. They then ordered the decimals from each page from smallest to largest.

Primary 6 have been learning about Poppy Scotland. They used research skills to find information on the history of the charity and how it helps people. They displayed this on creative and informative posters.

They completed a variety of art work to explore the poppy, the wars and the people affected by the wars.

They used note taking to gather their information and chose important pieces of information to display on their own poppy.

Through the exploration of  a case study about an ex-serviceman, they understood where the money raised by Poppy Scotland goes and the important impact it has on people lives who have been affected by wars.

primary 6 took turns to go around the school each day selling poppies and raised a fantastic amount of money for Poppy Scotland.

Well done Primary 6!!!

…but don’t worry. Our firefighters know that CO2 is able to extinguish fire by taking away the oxygen which fire needs.

The children experienced creating a chemical reaction to make CO2.

Prinary 6 /2 have been working on their basketball skills. The last few weeks they have practised passing, dribbling and travelling with the ball.

Today the focus was shooting. P6 identified the skills needed which included accuracy, eye contact and control.

Have a look at some of the pupils in action!

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Thank you to all of the visitors at our open afternoon on Thursday!! Primary 6 enjoyed showing you around our classroom and thank you for your help colouring, cutting and sticking!!!

Here are the finished artwork pieces. I think you will agree they are ‘out of this world’!

We are finishing our planets from last week. They will be used as a wall display along side some fact charts to show what we learned.