Primary 3 had brilliant fun visiting Calderglen Country Park.  We visited the play park, went on a river walk and saw lots of animals!

This term in Science we are learning how make predictions about and experiment with dissolving things in water.
We are learning how to relate our findings to the world around us.

Key Skills
To be able to investigate the difference between soluble and insoluble substances.
To be able to investigate what makes things dissolve more quickly.

Key Knowledge
Dissolving is when a solid gets mixed in a liquid and creates a solution.
A solution is a brand new thing made from mixing a liquid and another material which dissolves in the liquid.
If something is soluble, it dissolves entirely in the liquid.
If something is insoluble, it does not dissolve in liquid. For example, if you put a plastic dice in water, it would not change. The dice is insoluble in water.

We have conducted lots of different  experiments 🧪  first we dissolved sugar at three different temperatures to create a solution. Then we experimented to see if sand, salt and oil dissolved. We also watched jelly dissolving. Lastly we discussed saturation point and carried out an experiment with sugar and water.

The triangles group have been working really hard this term in Maths.  We have been exploring money and can identify and use all coins and notes to £10.  We have also investigated different ways of making the same total and created a class shop and practised mentally calculating the correct change.

We have been learning about Food Chains in Science.

We investigated the terms herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.  We had to draw and label an animal and then correctly sort the animal using a whole class Venn Diagram.  We then had to answer questions about our Venn Diagram.

Primary 3/1 we have been learning about the Parables of Jesus as part of our RME topic.

We listened to and discussed the story of the two builders – the wise man and the foolish man.  We talked about the message of the story and how we should always work hard in everything that we do.

We used different building materials and tried to build a house on cushions to be like the foolish man who took the easy way out.  We then built a house on solid foundations – it was more difficult to knock down.  We decided we would rather be like the wise man!  We also designed our own dream homes.

We have been having great fun learning about Space this term.

We learned about the planets, the sun and the moon.  We have discussed why we have different seasons on earth.  We made models to demonstrate that the earth spins around the sun and the moon orbits the earth.  We also investigated how the moon reflects the suns light using a torch as the sunlight.   We have decided that we want to learn about astronauts and the international space station next.  Have a look at our learning so far!