STEM – P3.10 Blog 2023/24

Space Stations

We have decided to turn our home corner into a Space Station or Mission Control! We came up with questions about space and what we’d like to learn about. We had a look at how Astronauts float in space and how they brush their teeth, sleep, wash their hair, be sick without making a mess, exercise and make sandwiches! We then drew designs of our own space stations and created them using our construction pieces and loose parts! They looked pretty fantastic! Mrs Donnelly was very impressed with our efforts.

Right Angle Monsters

We learned about right angles on Friday and created our own Right Angle Monsters! We went on a right angle hunt around the classroom and school to see how many we could find!

Spring has Sprung

We have been enjoying exploring the outdoors for signs of Spring. From this, we have become interested in the different minibeasts we have come across. One of our boys found a little ladybird that had lost its way on the pitch. We brought it back into class to have a closer look then set it free on the grass outside. Our play corner is now our ‘Minibeast Investigation’ spot filled with books about different insects along with some insects to study.

Fairweather Park

As part of our new Science focus on Forces and Motion, we went on a trip to Fairweather park. During our visit we considered whether we were using a push or pull force to make things go. On returning to school, we drew the different park equipment and labelled each with the correct force 🙂

Turn it off Tuesday!

Primary 1.4 participated in ‘Turn it off Tuesday’ and had an electricity free day. We used natural daylight from outside, keeping our lights off, and Mrs Stephenson used the pen board to introduce any new learning instead of using our computer and SmartBoard.

Watch our video and see what else we got up to 😊

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Halloween Potions 👻🎃✨☠️

On Friday we made real potions! We had great fun mixing the ‘magic’ ingredients and creating happy, creepy, sad, rich and love spells, to name a few.

We will document the results of our experiment next week, when the magic ingredients are revealed!

Junk Modelling Rockets

After reading the David Walliams book, “The First Hippo on the Moon,” we have been inspired to make our very own rocket models from junk materials! Thank you for all your contributions from home.

At first we used the 3D shapes we have been learning about to create freestanding rockets.