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Today in science  we explored conductors and insulators. A conductor is something that lets electricity flow through an object. An insulator is something that stops electricity from flowing through it. Materials which did not conduct electricity were rubber, wood and plastics so they are insulators.  All the metals objects

we tested lit the bulb so metal is a conductor. From watching a short clip we also learned that although all metals conduct electricity, some are better than others.  Good examples are silver, copper and aluminium.

 

Today we used Glow to learn about electrical circuit symbols.  We watched a video about it and took some notes.  We downloaded a document from our class page to label and then we uploaded it back to our own class area.  After that we used our new understanding of circuit symbols to create circuits using circuit diagrams.

 

Look at our comments below to find out what we learned and what we found challenging this afternoon.

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Our new topic is electricity.

On Thursday, we used different equipment to light a bulb.

The equipment was – lightbulbs, battery pack, batteries, crocodile clips and leads and a bulb holder.

To make a circuit you needed to join up the clips and the battery pack and then join the other end to the lightbulb holder.  A circuit is like a circle.

When lighting two bulbs it was quite tricky but some groups even managed to light 4 bulbs.

 

We are going to do more electricity this afternoon so we will report back on how we get on.

 

This afternoon’s update!

This afternoon we put switches and motors into our circuits.  We put our lego men onto the motors and watched them spin around and around.  Lots of us got  a surprise when the lego men started spinning as we weren’t expecting it.  Some of the lego men flew off as they were going so fast so we used blu tac to try to stick them on.

 

Challenges – It was really hard to turn off the bulb with the switch.  We hadn’t connected the switches properly.  We learned that the switch has to be inside the circuit for it to work properly.  Some of us made a loop onto the circuit and it didn’t switch the light off completely.

Our next challenge was to make the motor spin the other way round.  To do this we swapped the wires attached to the motor round the other way.  This changed the direction the electricity was flowing through the circuit.

 

 

p5-homework-march

 

Here is the P5 homework for the first two weeks in March.

 

I am really impressed with the improvement in effort and presentation over the past month or so.  Keep this up!

 

 

This morning we went on a trip to St Mungo’s Museum and the People’s Palace.  First we went to St Mungo’s Museum .  We got into partners and the man told us where to go.  There were three floors which told us about different things.   They were all about different world religions including, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism.

We went to the People’s Palace in the afternoon. We had a snack outside at the water fountain first.  The statue at the top of the fountain is of Queen Victoria.  This was the second Queen Victoria statue as the first one was blown up by lightning.  We went to the first floor to look around at all the artefacts before we had lunch.

After lunch we had a workshop called “Changing Glasgow”.  It looked at how housing, children’s play, health and working lives have changed in Glasgow since 1900.

Jordan – It was a really fun trip.  One of the best I have been on.

Ava – I had a great day.

Grace – I enjoyed learning more information about Glasgow.

Jake – I enjoyed the trip but it was exhausting.  We had to walk up and down the stairs a lot!

Kali – My favourite par twas the workshop as we got to go to all the floors in small groups to find out facts.

Isla – I really enjoyed it but it was very warm.

Angus – I enjoyed the People’s Palace and St Mungo’s.  I especially enjoyed the workshop.

Please look at our photos.

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Today was the day that these 3 pupils beat their best ever score!  We are so proud of you.  Very well done.

 

 

This afternoon we have been making models of different monuments and landmarks in Glasgow.

We used different types of materials to make these such as clay, straws, knex and multilink.

One group was also using iPads to create a document using an app of their choice to show what they have learned about Glasgow during our topic.

This afternoon these were our challenges and how we overcame them:

Jocelyn – Getting the knex to stay together.  We asked Christopher for help and he showed us how to push the pieces together.

Isla – Trying to keep the clay together.  I found out that adding water to it helps it to stick.

Lewis- Jake and I found out that we had to measure how big the crane was to stop it toppling over.  We had to add smaller bits of knex in between the bigger bits to stop it from falling over.

Jordan – I found it tricky working out how to create the clay model and make it stay together.  I got it together and used water as a glue to keep my model together.

Ava – When I was using the clay it kept sticking top the table.  I used a ruler to slide under it to scrape it off.

Kali – When Ben, Abbi and I were trying to get the crane to stand up it was difficult.  We used tyres to balance it and used the radiator to help.

We hope you like looking at the pictures of our afternoon.

 

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Following on from the work we started before the holidays, this afternoon we were looking at inside out characters.  We got a piece of paper and an inside out character and we had to write  different meanings of the feeling here  are the characters we done Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear here is some of our words –

for Disgust Maggie thought of the word Yuck.

And for Anger Jake thought flaming hot.

For  Sadness Taylor thought of unhappy.

Abbi thought of scared for Fear.

And for Fear Kali thought of thought of the word haunted.

Each group get to paint a part of the emotional rainbow for our health and wellbeing wall.

 

Here are some pictures of us thinking and doing our work –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Isla and Carmen

p5 homework february

 

This is your homework for the next two weeks.

 

Remember to borrow a book from class if you need it for the reading task.

 

The standard of homework in the class has been improving in recent weeks so please keep up the great effort in every task.

Today we started looking at non fiction texts.  We wrote facts about non fiction texts on the whiteboard.

 

Here are some of them-

Carmen- You can sometimes get a glossary which is like a mini dictionary.

Angus Mac – A non fiction text is facts.

Grace – There are usually photos or diagrams with the text.

 

We then looked at the book and read a text about elephants.  After that we made question hands.  On the question hands we had to write 5 different questions about elephants which could be answered from the text.  Once we had done that we wrote the answers on the back.

 

Here are some of our questions-

What is a female elephant called?

How many kg of food do elephants eat in a day?

What makes African and Asian elephants different?

How big is an African elephant’s ear?

At what age do elephants leave their parents?

 

Our thoughts on this activity

Matthew – I think it is strange how it is calle non-fiction when it is fact.

Keavie – I enjoyed learning interesting facts about elephants.

Kali – I enjoyed learning that a female elephant is called a cow.