We had problem solving maths session today. We had to work together to discover who fell into different categories. We had big discussions with lots of children helping each other and it was a lot of fun.
We had great fun at the sponsored obstacle course today. We were exhausted after running, jumping, climbing and sliding.
We had a visitor in class to watch how we teach science in Primary 1 at Mearns Primary. She was very impressed with our work.
We looked at the properties of ice and why it melts and we even made it colder with adding salt. We made snowmen, looking at how compact ice and snow becomes solid and takes more time to melt.
We had to find ways to rescue the giant paper clips from the ice castles and some of the children tested that out.
Mrs Arbuckle used the digital microscope to look at the snow. It looked tiny crystals.
We looked at animals in the snow and how they survive the cold. The answer was blubber! We used the margarine to make “blubber gloves” so that it was easier to pick up the ice cubes, as our fingers were insulated with the “blubber”. It was great fun.
