P4

Today we went outside on a beautiful day and recorded sights, sounds, textures and smells from our playground.  We wrote a poem using our notes back in class.

 

I see bunnies as cute as can be

I hear birds chirping a sweet song

I touch the tall tickly grass

I smell mint leaves as cool as polo mints

 

 

I see flowers that look so beautiful

I hear children chatting, playing and having fun

I touch the huts that feel very smooth

I smell the lovely cut  grass

 

I see buzzing bees flying around

I hear lawnmowers chopping fresh grass

I touch the rough brown wood of the picnic tables

I smell the strong smell of rosemary from our herb garden

 

We have looked at weather and climate and we have discussed what each one means.

Lewis – Weather means the type of weather a place is having at a specific time.  Climate is what usually happens over the year.

Taylor – There is a polar climate zone.  It is cold and dry all year round.

Aimee – There is a temperate climate zone.  The temperate zone is a mixture of weathers and changeable.  It is not too hot or too cold but just in the middle.

Jordan – Scotland is in the temperate zone.

Jake – There is a mediterranean zone.  It has mild winters and hot summers.

 

We will be learning more about weather and climate and will report back soon.

 

Today we went to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

 

We made telescopes in the learning area with our leader Geraldine.  We liked putting the lenses into the telescopes because it was the final piece of the telescope and was ready to use.  We are taking them home with us tonight to look at the stars.  We hope to see lots of interesting things.

We also got to see how a thermal imaging camera would take photos of stars and we could see that stars are very hot.

 

We got to see memory metal which is metal that always remembers it’s original shape.  It is used for satellites and telescopes.

Today we researched how far away the planets are from the sun.  We created tables on word and then recorded what we found in our tables.

Together we checked we all had the correct information then we decided to measure out how far each planet is away from the sun.  The problem with measuring this was that one of the measurements was 45 billion kilometres and our school is absolutely nowhere near that size.  We made the measurements smaller and put them into metres rather than kilometres and this made it a bit easier for us.  This is called using a scale.

We didn’t realise that the first four planets in the solar system are so close together compared to the other planets.  The last 4 planet were very far apart from each other.  We just had room for the last planet Neptune at the end of the corridor before the main door.

The group who worked in the infant corridor didn’t have enough room for all the planets as the corridor was too short.

On the next nice day we will go outside and do this again.  We will try to fit in Pluto which is a dwarf planet and the furthest from the sun.

Today we went outside to measure.  We used trundle wheels, rulers and metre sticks.  We had to find two things to measure with each of these pieces of equipment.

here are some of our measurements

trundle wheel

-perimeter of playground 145 metres

– length of P3/4 playground – 37 metres

– distance from grass to fence -23 metres

-perimeter of square football area – 36 metres.

Metre Stick

-distance between two trees – 1m 50 cm

length of kerb 92cm

blue bench – 3metres long

height of bench 81cm

 

Rulers

bench leg 30cm

bin 60 cm high

brick 20cm

 

We used different items to measure different things because some this would take much longer to measure with a ruler or metre stick.  Some items are smaller than others.