Author: Mrs Rae

This week was Health Week at Chryston Primary.
Every day we had an activity to keep our bodies healthy.
On Monday we has dance and hip hop. On Tuesday Mr Grant took us for football skills lessons. On Wednesday we did a giant walking bus round the local area. Yesterday it was Zumba and the today we had parcour.
I liked the hip hop dancing. I also liked Zumba because I used to go to Zumba.
We learned that when there is an emergency you should dial 999 to get help.
We also listened to different sounds to help us identify traffic and non traffic.
Have a look at some of our photos.

This blog post was told by Hannah Mac and typed by Mrs Rae,

Our new topic is about Transport.
Today we went to the school fence and filled in a sheet with how many different types of transport we saw. We had 10 minutes and we saw lots of types of road transport.
Here are some of the different types of transport we saw
-motorbike
-cars
-cycle
-vans
-lorries
-buses
These are all types of road transport.
Have a look at some of our photos. We used iPods and iPads to take these photos.
We learned that transport moves. Sometimes it is fast. We learned how to use tally marks to fill in a table.
We had lots of fun doing this today and we hope to do another one at a different time of day to see if it is busier or quieter.

This week has been science week.  We have been learning about how to melt ice fast.  We now know that ice melts in the sun, on the radiator and on the window ledge.  It melts in these places because it is warm.  It melted fastest on the radiator because the radiator was the hottest.

Today we dressed up in a science theme.  There are lots of scientists and doctors here today.

This morning we saw a science show all about how food travels through

the body.  This is known as digestion (well remembered Hannah!)

We learned some tricky words like – oesophagus, canines, molars, incisors and intestines.

We had lots of fun this week.  Look at our photos.

Today’s blog was told by Kody

Today we planted potatoes. We planted them in bags of compost. The compost was mucky. Now we are going to put the potatoes outside in the garden so they can get some air, some sun and some rain. I think we will grow 40 potatoes.

We have been reading Percy the Park keeper, “After the Storm”.

We made storm pictures using oil pastels.  During a storm we might hear a bang, see a tornado, see heavy rain or hear whooshing wind.

We made storm music .

We used indian bells, drums, maracas, jingling bells, tambours.

storm music

What did we do well this week?

Hannah Mac – My storm picture was good.  I made big waves.

Aaron – I did my tornadoes well.

Morgan – I did great storm clouds.

Leena – I did good lightning in my picture.

Gregor – I think my picture was funny.  There was a yellow man in it.

Calum G – I worked hard on my storm story.

Today we went outside and we went different ways.  We turned left and right.  Sometimes we went straight ahead.  We had great fun finding our way to different parts of our playground.  It was a bit confusing when people were facing different ways but we are still learning and will practise again soon.

Today we went on an Easter Egg hunt round the school. We had to follow the directions using the words left, right and straight ahead to find lots of Easter eggs. When we got back to our classroom we got a BIG surprise. All of our Easter baskets had been filled with chocolate aggs and straw.

We wish you all a very happy Easter and hope you enjoy the holidays!

Today we had a visit from Mrs Wilkinson the Kodaly music teacher.

We sang songs and played games.

The important words we learned about were
-beat, fast, slow, steady, loud and quiet.

Today is Red Nose Day. We came to school wearing our pyjamas or something red for fun.

This morning we went to the hall to hear about how the money we raise today will help others.

This afternoon we went back to the hall for a cake sale and for some fun activities such as colouring red noses, iPad games and some dancing.

Look at our photos to see the fun we had today!

We have been learning about symmetry. we have talked
about it and we know that if a shape is symmetrical it is the same on one side as it is on the other.

Some shapes have one line of symmetry and some have more than one. Some shapes have no lines of symmetry at all.

You can use a mirror to check if a shape is symmetrical.