Health and Wellbeing

As part of our ‘friends and friendships’ topic, P3A have been thinking about when friends fall out. We talked about how it’s okay to have disagreements and positive things we can do to help resolve them.
We acted out different scenarios with puppets and Mrs Orr was super impressed with how maturely the children showed they could compromise and problem solve.

 

It was also Road Safety week at school! As part of a whole school competition, we took part in poster making to raise awareness of how to stay safe on or near the roads. Some of our work even made it to the Celebration Station!

STEM

Over the last two weeks, P3A have been learning about Our Place in Space. The children were building on their existing knowledge of the planets to begin to think about their relationship to each other and the sun.

We discovered the distance between each planet and the sun, as well as what order the planets come in our solar system.

After learning about how all the planets orbit the sun, we created a human solar system! We got in correct planet order and each orbited the sun (the person in the middle) and had to rotate our planet at the same time!! Did you know that some planets rotate clockwise and others spin in an anti-clockwise direction?

After warming up by doing just a few planets in small groups, we then acted out the actions of the entire solar system! Take a look at us!

 

We learned some really cool facts about our planet, planet Earth. We learned that Earth is in what is known as the Goldilocks Zone in our solar system. This is because the temperature here is not too hot, and not too cold, a bit like Baby Bear’s porridge in Goldilocks and the Three Bears!

We also learned that the moon orbits planet Earth, and that is why we sometimes see the moon in different shapes. The moon doesn’t actually ever change shape, it just appears different to us, depending on what phase of it’s orbit we see it in!

Take a look at the experiment we carried out to see this in action. We had to find a dark room to see this at it’s best, and the Literacy Store was the perfect place! The lamp acts as the sun, while we act as the earth, with the moon orbiting us.

‘New Moon’

‘Crescent Moon’

‘First Quarter Moon’

  ‘Gibbous Moon’

‘Full Moon’

The whole thing in action 🙂

Primary 3 were learning about Diwali this week! We learned about the story of Rama and Sita and enjoyed creating various Diwali celebration crafts.

Samarth – “I learned about the five days of Diwali.”

Fraser – “I learned why and how Diwali is celebrated.”

Amaya – “People wear fancy clothes during the celebrations.”

Beth – “I learned that Diwali means the Festival of Light.”

 

Ryley – I loved making the Mehndi patterns!

Neave – We made Diya Lamps as this is what people use when celebrating Diwali.

Fergus – I really liked making the Rangoli patterns and using lots of colours.

Happy Diwali everyone!

Mathematics

We have been very active this week in maths! We have been learning all about standard units of measure, focussing on metres. We used metre sticks to measure lots of different things (and even people!) in our class. We had to classify these things into 3 categories – longer, shorter or about the same as a metre.

 

On Friday we had a very special visitor or two!! Miss Fergus brought beautiful baby Harris into meet our class. Everyone was so excited to see them both, and mum and baby are doing very well!