We have been learning about the treatment of illnesses in Health. Sir Alexander Fleming discovered mould that could help people fight germs. He called it penicillin. What did he call it at first?

We have tried our own experiment. We put bread, cheese, pear and (thanks to Callum) a cheese puff into sealed bags with some sprinkles of water. Our photos show the changes after just one day. What do you notice has changed?

Edward Jenner did the first ever inoculation. He took pus from a cow pox sore and put it into a cut in a boy. The boy never got small pox. Small pox was a disease that killed people but it doesn’t any more.

In the playground some children stood on coloured spots – 10, 20, 30, 60, 100, 120 etc We found that it was easy to add 6 or 8 or 9 to these tens numbers because they end in zero.

We know our place value – 37 = 30 and 7

Look closely at our chalk sums and you will see that we split the number we were adding on so that we could get to the ten then it’s easy to add what is left e.g.

27 + 7  (split 7 into 3 + 4)  27 + 3 = 30 + 4 = 34

Magic e changes the sound of the vowel from a short vowel sound to a long vowel sound a becomes A.

Can you read our Bendaroo words?

Read our newspaper reports. Have we said who? what? when? why?

Have we written in the past tense?

Have we rounded it off – maybe brought it up to date – what is happening now?

Have we used alliteration (B  B  B   or D  D  D ) in our headlines which sum up the events of the article?

Wow! We are becoming ace reporters.

We have been adding to our timeline for George’s Marvellous Medicine to help us to think about the story and the characters and to help us ask and answer questions about the book.  Grandma Gets the Medicine seems to be our favourite chapter so far!

P3 weighed a kilogram of Jenga bricks which was 64 Jenga bricks. We halved the bricks to make two half kilograms.

How many Jenga bricks are in 1/2 a kilogram?

P4 weighed items in grams and put them in order of weight. They weighed 100g of plastic weights e.g. 10 x 10g weights and checked this with a metal 100g weight and they weighed a 100g of corks. I tried to trick them with the question “Which weighs more 1 kg of corks or 1kg of bricks? But Joseph and Jay quickly spotted my test! But it did make us think about the volume of 1kg of corks/feathers compared to 1kg of bricks.

Features of a newspaper:

headline – BOLD, grabs your attention, alliteration (P4) e.g. Amazing Assembly, Fantastic Friendship

We need to say – what? where? when? who?

writing in columns

photograph – with a caption (P4)

We wrote newspaper reports about the strange events in Hey Diddle Diddle

Mrs Thomson was impressed by Rana, Kayla, Emily, Tara, Alfie, Andrew, Benny, Dawa and Holly who wrote captions for their photos.

We enjoyed seeing the churches in Peebles on Google Streetview. Some of us had been to Chattabox in St. Andrew’s Leckie Church.

Can you tell your adults the names of all 6 Christian Churches in Peebles?

We saw where the old St. Andrew’s Church used to be at the bottom of Elcho Street (Ark Housing now)

We talked about what Christians did when they went to church to worship God.

P4 weighed some shopping items in grams. They had to read the scales then  put the items in order – lightest to heaviest.

P3 found things in the classroom to weigh to find things heavier than and lighter than 1 kilogram. They checked that two half kilogram weights equalled 1 kg.

We had a surprise visit from Lyall and Jake with a very interesting old weighing balance used for weighing bull skins. We filled Mrs. Thomson’s shopping bag with lots of weights and the shopping (Mrs. Thomson could hardly lift it!) and we weighed it on the balance. It was over 20 kilograms!