Month: January 2018

Today we were visited by a pediatric nurse, Tamara. She looks after sick children in hospital.

She demonstrated how to put a bandage on and we had the opportunity to practise on each other. She also brought a range of medication for us to look at and we identified what the different types of medicines are used for. We had great fun whilst learning.

 

Why is litter harmful for our environment? Let’s research…

Litter can make the world grey – Maya

Litter could harm animals – Sam

Litter is dirty – Hollie

An estimated one million birds die each year because of litter – Manahil

Litter can spread around the world – Euan

Primary 2.6 will be developing their football skills with Coach Connor for the next four weeks. They are demonstrating fantastic technique!

We found out how much rain fell over a week as part of our Social Studies investigation. Have a look! Here are the instructions if you would like to try 🙂

What you will need:

• An empty plastic bottle (2 litre fizzy drink bottle would be ideal)
• Scissors
• Sticky tape
• Ruler
• Paper
• Pencil

What to do:

1. Cut around the plastic bottle about two thirds of the way up.
2. Turn the top part of the bottle upside down and place it inside the bottom part – fix it in place using the tape.
3. Pour jelly into the bottle and allow it to set.
4. Fix a ruler to the side of your bottle from where the jelly finishes.
5. Find a place outside to put your rain gauge. It must be open and away from trees.
6. Dig a hole and bury your rain gauge so that the top is sticking out about 5 cm out of the ground. This will stop the rain gauge from blowing down on windy days.
7. Check the rain gauge every day at the same time, measure the amount of rain collected, and empty the bottle.
8. Don’t forget to write down the amount of rain collected in your weather diary.

 

 

Today in Primary 2.6 we were learning about push and pull forces in our new science topic with Miss Nichol and Miss Khan. We had a walk around the school and identified as many push and pull forces as we could. Here are some pictures of the different forces that we identified.