The Duster Monster visited us today. We looked at how the electric circuit makes the Duster Monster move around. We also had to solve some problems:
There were a lot of giggles as it moved around.
We have been practicing for our Talent Show. Some people sing, some dance, some recite poetry and some do the Chicken Dance! It has caused much laughter. We have three judges at the table and have to write names, make comments and score out of 10. We also have the Golden Buzzer. A star is born!
We learn our phonics and letter rules using Nessie in ICT. We really enjoy playing the games as we learn. Every time we get something right , we earn “nuggets” from the mine.
Some of us had to on a hunt for right angles. We knew to look for the “L” shape, where to straight lines meet. There were lots around our room.
The sun shone and Mrs Arbuckle had an excuse to wear a frock and a tiara. We couldn’t have had a better day for our Royal Wedding Party fun. We danced; we made flower bouquets and wrote our wedding invitations; we played party games and ate and drank. Thank you to all of our parents who dressed the children in their wedding clothes. ( Mrs Arbuckle hid the felt pens and glue to avoid any disasters. ! 😁👍)
Adrienne came in to tell us another Bible story today. She told us that she had lost her car keys in the room and we had to search for them. She then told us another story about something else that was lost. It was the story of “The Lost Sheep”. We had actions to do when she told us the story. She then had a little “true or false” quiz at the end for us. We were good at it.
It doesn’t happen very often, but the sun shone and it was really warm. We had been practicing for our show with Primary 2 and 3 and had been sitting for a very long time. There was nothing else for it- we had to go out and run about in the sunshine on the adventure playground. It made us very thirsty, so we got a big drink from our water bottles when we went back indoors.
When we review our day, Mrs Arbuckle is often told “we haven’t done any work today!” This makes her smile. Play makes us learn so much, but we don’t realise it’s work! Balancing nuts and bolts? That will be maths. Building a den? That will be STEM. Looking at our plants with magnifying glasses? That will be science. Touching the meteors and the moon rocks? That will be STEM. Reading stories? That will be literacy…… and so it goes….😁👍
We were extremely fortunate to have genuine moon rocks from the actual moon in school today. What a thrill. They came all the way from NASA. We also had meteors that came from Mars. Our lovely P7 Lab Technicians came in to tell us all about them. They told us lots of information. We watched the moon landing too and discovered why the astronauts had to “bounce” around. They were also quite clumsy because of their big spacesuits.
We planted runner beans and sunflowers two weeks ago and now they have really started to grow. We have discovered that that not all seeds and beans grow as they might have not enough/too much water. Before the shoots grow up, the roots grow down to keep the plant stable. We will take them home soon as they are getting too big for class.
