We enjoyed a very successful trip to Lerwick to visit the Energy Recovery Plant and Recycling Centre where we learned about what happens to the materials we throw away or put in our recycling bins.

Can’t believe we are nearly at the end of our first term in p2/3/4.  Here are some activities we have been doing over the last few weeks.

We went for a walk around the school grounds to look for things made from different materials.  Then we grouped them into natural or artificial materials.

Next we sorted some different materials according to their properties.

We made some roofs from different materials and tested them to see  which materials had the best properties for making a roof.

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We enjoyed watching the online pantomime, Cinderella on Friday afternoon. The ice lollies at the interval were pretty good too!

We have been learning about electricity and circuits. Here we are making and testing out a switch to insert into the circuit so we can switch the light bulb on and off.

We have been learning about the force of magnetism in our topic work. Here we are making and testing out our race track and fishing games which use the force of a magnet to make them work. You might notice this was taken on Children in Need Day when we were all dressed up in our pyjamas!

We used interesting adjectives and exciting verbs to describe fireworks for our shape poems.
We were learning about 2D shapes in maths and used these to make our colourful rocket pictures.

We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in maths. We did work on 2D shapes last week to link with Bonfire night when we made some super firework/rocket pictures using 2D shapes. This week we have been learning about 3D shapes and here we are making different 3D shapes using construction kits.

Here we are again on Friday all dressed up in our super Halloween costumes. Today we have been making pumpkins and witches/bats/zombies from our painted paper plates!

On Wednesday afternoon we enjoyed some Halloween craft activities. Here we are making fluffy cotton wool ghosts and spooky spiders as well as painting paper plates to make pumpkins and witches later on in the week.

We had already been working in our new groups to create our Halloween Critters! We have been learning about different kinds of adjectives to write character descriptions for our critters.