This week we have planned and written our own dragon description for our writing assessment following the correct structure (title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation).

We have continued to work on the sequence of numbers to 1000 identifying larger/smaller numbers and putting numbers in the correct order from largest to smallest or smallest to largest.

Our novel is The Boy Who Grew Dragons and we created dragon eyes made with clay.  Here are some examples

We investigated the sense of taste and excited our taste buds with salty, bitter, sour and sweet foods.

Ayla, Emily and Max did not like the bitter taste of the unsweetened chocolate.   Ayla and Emily enjoyed the sweet taste of the fruit pastel.  Ayla also liked the sour taste of the lemon and Emily liked the salty taste of a crisp.

We also carried out the experiment ‘ Can you taste without your nose?  We were blind folded and had to hold our  noses.  We were then given two different foods – apple and potato and had to identify which was the apple and which was the potato.   We all managed to do this.

However, taste is more  complex than a simple message from the taste buds on the tongue.  Foods stimulate the nerves in the nose as well as the mouth and can be difficult to identify the food type when there is no information from the nose.

Primary 3 wish everyone a happy and relaxing mid-term break.

See you all on Tuesday 19th October 2021.