Following on from the Terrific Scientific project, Primary 6/7 made the most of the good weather, to go and make identification sketches of the trees. The trees that we planted a few years ago are growing well. There were lots of birds feeding in the area and bumblebees flying around. We also caught a big ground beetle.
Terrific
Today we took part in our fourth Terrific Scientific investigation. This time we are investigating trees. We have to survey the 🌳 in the school grounds and record how tall they are and the circumference of their trunks. We will then use a carbon calculator to work out how much carbon each tree is storing. We will then calculate the total amount of carbon stored by all the trees in the school and learn about why trees storing carbon is important and where the carbon comes from.
This time we are sending our results to Leeds University and they will analyse the results from all the schools in the U.K.
If you want to see our results so far, you can look online at the Terrific Scientific website. There are lots of other activities on there too that children can do at home. We have also tried the ‘bouncing eggs’, which was a lot of fun.
This afternoon we had a really interesting hour learning how to carry out CPR. We used dummies to learn how to do chest compressions and mouth to mouth resuscitation .
We had a great session with the Glasgow Science outreach service. They came to teach us about the whole process of digestion from start to finish!
We started with a cream cracker challenge, which showed the importance of saliva. Frankie and Lily Jane just couldn’t get those two crackers eaten in 2 minutes.
We saw how the food we eat gets mushed up in our mouth, stomach and intestines and watched Ms Scanlan catch the end product!!!
It was good to see everyone back after the holidays and lovely to hear about all the fun things that we’ve been doing during the holidays.
Emma Chittick came to do her second STEM session and we all had fun programming the space satellite to do a few more things.
It was great to get our emails from Olenguruone this week and we have been busy putting together our replies and making little gifts for our friends. Ms Scanlan is going to post them this weekend and hopefully they will arrive in Kenya soon.
It was really good to receive our certificate in the post this week. We’re still feeding the birds 🐦 everyday and seeing lots of spring migrants and breeding birds coming through.
All the class have now received their emails from their 🇰🇪 Kenyan pen pals. We are busy getting ready replies to send to them at the end of the week.
The P 6/7 s have been working hard on their reading this term. Some of the bairns have made a super effort to read more frequently, or more difficult books, or read books by unfamiliar authors. Ms Scanlan had a really difficult job deciding which two pupils should get a £10 book voucher. In the end she had to put several names in a hat and the two well-deserved winners were Michaela Christie and Jemima Budge. Well done to all the excellent and enthusiastic readers in P6/7!
Joy Duncan has worked with all our classes this term and what a treat it was today to hear and watch all the different drumming, singing and dancing from all over Africa.
Every class performed something quite different and the audience loved it. It was clear by looking at all the children, that they really enjoyed their learning too.
Thanks Joy, looking forward to the next drumming lessons already 🥁
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