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P3 Rain Gauges

We made rain gauges in class.  We go 3 bottles and cut them in half.  We put stones in the bottom so the bottles don’t blow away.  We turned the top around and put inside the bottom, like a funnel.   We made a scale on the side of the bottle using pen and tape.

We put gauges outside, one in the eco pod, one in the quiet area and one outside Miss McAulay’s office.  We are worried the pen might rub off, the bottles might blow away or the rain might over flow.  We will check on our experiment everyday to make everything is ok. 

We checked on our gauges today.  There was no water because it hadn’t rained yet.  We think it might rain at the weekend and we will have some water in our gauges next week. 

Health Week

We have been enjoying health week in Primary 3.

We had talks about toothbrushing and handwashing.  We found out that haribos have 3 tubs of sugar in them.  We have to brush all of our teeth, twice a day, especially the back ones.  We learnt how to wash our hands properly.  We have to wash our hands after we have touched animals, after we have been to the toilet, after playing outside, after coughing or sneezing and before eating.

We tried taekwondo and karate.  \we learned all different kinds of kicks and punches.  We also tried some blocking moves.  We tried to flying kicks, they were fantastic fun.

We did some dancing.  We all did our best hip hop moves.  We did basketball dancing and boxing dancing.  The dancing was awesome.

We had a football training session.  We dribbled around the cones.  We had to walk backwards around the cones.  Then we all played a real game of football.    It was brilliant.

Health week is excellent fun!

Our Evaporation Experiment

This is our evaporation experiment.  It is a glass of water; we leave on a sunny windowsill all the time.  The water has been turned green with food colouring.  Every week we check the level of the water.  We draw a circle around where the water is.  Each week the water goes down a little bit, it is evaporating.

Our topic is weather so we have learning about the water cycle.  Evaporation is an important part of the water cycle.

We are going to leave it for the whole of the October holidays to see what happens!

P3 RME

In RME we have been learning about Spring and New Life. We went for a walk in the playground to look for signs of Spring. We found a blossom tree, buds starting to grow on trees, flowers growing in the quiet area, daffodils, a bee collecting nectar from a flower, a butterfly, new trees starting to grow and new grass growing.