Last week, we did some wind painting. We were learning about primary colours and how they can mix to make new colours. The primary colours are red, blue and yellow. We used these colours on paper plates and then held the plates against the wind. We were amazed by the pretty colours and patterns we created. We could also work out what direction the wind was blowing in by which way our patterns were made across the plate. It was great fun!

We completed our rainfall experiment at the start of last week. The weather has changed a lot recently. We have had rain and sunshine!  We discovered that we did not collect as much rain as we thought we would. We have come up with different reasons why we think this happened…

– It didn’t rain enough

– The wind blew our containers and the water came out

– The sun dried up the rainfall

– Not that much water falls in the same place

We are investigating this further. We are interested to find out where rain comes from and where the water goes because we agreed puddles don’t seem to last forever but lochs and rivers do. We have started to look at the Water Cycle to find out more!

We hope everyone had a lovely holiday! In P2S, the pupils have come back excited and ready (and a little taller!) to start the new term. We have also grown in numbers a little bit by welcoming two new lovely pupils to our class!

Our new topic is called Planet Earth. At the start of the week, the whole class discussed what the topic will involve and what kind of things we would like to learn about. A large majority of the pupils showed a keen interest to learn about the weather, the atmosphere and different areas from around the world. Here are some of the pupil and teacher questions we would like to find answers to:

– Why does it snow?

– How do things fall from the sky?

– Do all animals have four legs?

– Why is the time different in different countries?

– What is the planet made of?

– How do we decide if something is living or non-living?

– What impact does the climate have on living things?

– How do people record the weather and monitor the changes?

As you can see this will involve a lot of learning! Therefore, the topic is split into smaller sub-topics: Weather, Living and Non-Living and Climates.

This week we have been busy bees and started a weather experiment to record how much it rains. We had a talk about how much it rains and put out some containers in the playground.  We will be checking the containers next week to record our results. Some photos of our experiment are added below.

We think this topic will be interesting, challenging and fun! If anyone has any ideas or thinks they could help us learn more about our topic then please let us know.