We made helicopters today and they were so cool. We had to cut out the template and fold over the different parts. We then added a paper clip on to the bottom to give it weight. We flew them off the balcony and watched them spin as they flew. It was amazing to watch. We learned that the air helps to support the rotar blades and makes them spin.
We used our fine motor skills to cut out spirals. We looked at the properties of spirals and looked at different places that we can see them . Spirals are amazing!
We are as busy as ever in P1.3. Never a day goes by without us learning something new. ( We know that children always say they learned “ nothing” in school!). Miss O’Neil was busy working with children creating a map of the local environment; Mrs Arbuckle was busy helping with making structures in the Tuff Tray; some people were “making” tools with the giant meccano; some people were making pizza for deliveries in our Pizza Hut; some people were looking at Google maps, finding the local area. We have also been to Assembly and gone over our phonics. It’s all go!
We planted our tomato seeds today and hopefully they will grow into tomato plants in the coming months. We carefully put the soil into the paper pods and covered them up then watered them. We will take them home on Friday. Remember to let us know how well they grow!
We had been inside a lot this week because of the heavy rain, so we took the chance to go outside and enjoy the sunshine for a little while. We had lots of things to play with and we were able to share with each other. It was quite windy and lots of things kept blowing away!
Rachel Crawford from Highland Spring Water came along to visit us today to talk about her job. She is a lab technician and has to check if the bottled water is safe to drink. She showed us lots of pictures about her job and we got to ask her lots of questions.
The SSPCA dropped off some little mechanical rabbits today for us to look at. We all learned how to hold them correctly, how to feed them and how to look after them properly.
We were doing some problem solving and used the strategy “acting out the situation”. We had to pretend to put our garden slabs in order, without any hanging over or without any gaps. It took a lot of concentration. ( We didn’t use real slabs, obviously! Mrs Arbuckle couldn’t carry them into school!)
We were very lucky to have Eilidh’s mum visit us today for part of our STEM FORTNIGHT. She is a doctor in a hospital and told us about all the people who are needed to work in a hospital. We got to use the stethoscope, look at X-rays, listen to a heart beat, look at microbes and lots more. We learned so much. Thank you Dr McEwan!
Dr Jamie Gallagher launched our STEM Fortnight today at Assembly . He works in Nano technology and does super cool things. He showed us how technology has changed over the years. He showed us his microscope and showed us insects in detail. He also had a drone and showed us how it works. It was amazing. Mr Tyler told us about all the brilliant things that are happening in the next two weeks, including our amazing STEM Showcase on Thursday, 21st March 6pm -7pm. Come along ! It’s free!!
