A big well done to Alexander who has been busy at home drawing around his body and adding in all the important parts he has been learning about in school! Not only did he write out the words in English, he also wrote them in Polish too! We are delighted Alexander brought this in to share with us. 😊
Primary 2 have been enjoying their quiet afternoons but are looking forward to helping P1 settle into full days next week. P2 have been reading in groups and working together on alphabet tasks. They’ve been really keen to start their spelling tests and dictation work … just like P2 last year and have been learning how we need to set this out in our jotters. They have worked together on practical capacity work in Maths and have been developing their estimation skills. Topic work has been centred around lessons on Our Body and we’ve been keeping our bodies fit in class PE.
Everyone has enjoyed working together to explore capacity and trying out our estimation skills.
Dictation takes a lot of concentration to listen to the words and sounds and write them down.
We set out a cube every time we heard Mrs Smith say a word in the sentence.
The cubes helped us to remember how many words we needed to write and helped us to see where we should put a finger space.
Mrs Tait helped P2 to learn about the major organs of the body.
In class P.E. we have been working on listening to and following instructions first time and developing our ball skills.
Thanks to the glorious Shetland weather, we were able to do all our planned activities today! We started off at the Boddam play park to do an experiment on forces. Then, in groups, we had to show forces at work using the play equipment. After some time inside looking at Electricity with Mr Rose, it was back outside to do a spot of reading before we joined the rest of the school on our whole school walk. A full day of learning and fresh air!
We wanted to test what would happen if we let a tractor run down different heights of slope.
We needed to make sure the tractor would run off smoothly.
On the flat, with no push or slope, our tractor was going nowhere.
We measured how high up we wanted to start our test.
To be fair, we had to let go and not push the tractor.
A little further up.
We watched how far it travelled.
It worked well.
Measuring the distance.
We tried it again, but further up this time.
We had to measure how far it travelled.
We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.
How far will it go?
We just had to try it right from the top!
The girls had to use a force to get the spin started.
Denley and Christina had to PULL hard to get up!
Gravity is all around us!
This group had to show using a push.
Gravity pulls us down!
A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!
We applied forces to make things twist.
Some pushes can be good fun!
This group had to find smooth surfaces that would make the tractor run easily and quickly.
Anders and Ryan were looking for rough surfaces that would slow their tractor down.
Testing the wooden ramp for friction.
P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.
We enjoyed another visit from Mr Rose on Thursday 11th May. He spoke to us all about magnets and magnetism and the “invisible” force they use to attract certain types of metals. We learned the word, “repel” and used the magnets to test out how this felt. We had fun working with our partners and testing objects around the class.
Inara slowly moves her magnet closer until her paper clip is attracted to it.We tested lots of objects around the classroom. We were surprised at some of the results we got.
We had a great time last week learning about the journey food takes through our bodies. Everyone was surprised to learn that our small intestines are 6 metres long!
Later on we had fun exploring the different exhibits on offer. We tried out a thermal camera, a memory game, a multi tasking game, a body puzzle, an X-ray activity and much, much more! One exhibit even showed you what you might look like in 10 years time if you lived an unhealthy lifestyle! It was pretty scary!
Here is a pretend stomach full of food!We played a small intestine race. Each person had to squeeze the ball through the small intestine, acting like the muscles pushing real food through the body.
This exhibit showed what happens to your lungs if you smoke cigarettes. It was much harder to pump air into the black lung.It was great fun using this special magnifying camera.The multi tasking game.This machine let us listen to different people breathing. One person had asthma and we had to guess which one it was.The memory game involved pushing a sequence of colours in the order shiwn. A new colour was added each time it the sequence which made it it’s tricky!
Leighton and George worked as a team to put the body back together again.
Great fun was had by all with the thermal camera.The poor person in this X-ray had barbed wire stuck in their hands! Ouch!
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