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To Infinity and Beyond!

Thanks again to Miss Ferry for this weeks virtual school trip. Primary two, this week you are astronauts and off to explore space! You’ll need to complete different missions along the way. Good luck!

**Some of the games require flash and may not work on a mobile or tablet.**

Mission One

Your first mission to build a rocket to travel to space. Build a rocket online by clicking on the link below or follow the video instructions to make your own straw rocket.

Rocket Builder

Mission Two

A trip to space is different from a normal trip. Complete the astronaut training below before you head off.

MissionX Training

What to Pack

Mission Three

You’ve arrived at the International Space Station. Click on this link to find out all about the International Space Station and take a tour below.

Mission Four

Time to explore the Solar System. Click on the links below to tour the Solar System and find out what your age and weight would be on each of the planets.

Solar System Tour 

Solar System Age and Weight

Mission Five

The first planet on your tour of the Solar System is Mercury. Click here to find out all about Mercury . Your mission is to Complete the Pattern.

Mission Six

Next stop on our tour of the Solar System is Venus. Click here to find out all about Venus. Your mission is to see if you can spot the difference between these two pictures. Click on the second picture to mark the differences. Spot the Difference

Mission Seven

The next planet on our space exploration is Earth. Click here to find out some facts you perhaps didn’t know about Earth . Your mission is to use your addition skills to reach the target number in the moon and make the rocket blast off to the next planet. Click on any two numbers on the grid that add to the target number. Addition Blast Off

Mission Eight

Click here to find out all about Mars.  Your mission is to help NASA’s Curiosity Rover explore the surface of Mars. Click here to Explore Mars  (to start the game drag and drop the start button then press go – it took me a while to figure this out!)

Well done on completing your Mars mission! Before you head off, hop onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover and explore the surface of Mars in a 360-degree view while learning about space exploration 360 Mars Rover Tour .

Mission Nine

On the way to your next planet your mission is to help Paxi clean up space by collecting debris and repairing satellites Space Clean Up  .

Well done on completing your mission you’ve arrived on your next planet. Click here to find out all about Jupiter.

Mission Ten

On your way to Saturn your mission is to learn about galaxies by playing Galactic Explorer . Scroll to the bottom to read about different types of galaxies before you play.

Well done on completing another mission! Click here to find out all about Saturn.

Mission Eleven

Click here to find out all about Uranus. Before you leave your mission is to complete these Space Repairs

Mission Twelve

You’ve arrived at the last planet on your tour of the Solar System. Click here to find out all about Neptune. Your mission now is to complete this Solar System Quiz and test your knowledge!

Mission Thirteen

Your final mission before you return to earth is to build your very own space mission!

Build Your Space Mission

Bedtime Story

Well after that exciting day exploring space I’m sure you’re all ready for a good night’s sleep! Choose a bedtime story below read all the way from space. Each story is read by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station.

The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home

If I were an Astronaut

A Moon of My Own

Astronaut Annie

Moustronaut

Moustronaut Goes to Mars

Rosie Revere, Engineer

Endeavour’s Long Journey

The Wizard Who Saved The World

Max Goes to Jupiter

Max Goes to Mars

Max Goes to the Moon

Max Goes to the International Space Station

Hey Ho to Mars We’ll Go

Extra Missions – Should You Choose to Accept Them

Planet Switch-a-roo

Space Volcanoes

Space and Back Activty Booklet

TESSie Activity Booklet

Space Launch System Activity Booklet

Space Explorers Activity Booklet

Moon Activity Booklet

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Sound Storybook

International Space Station Activity Booklet

Space Videos

Good morning boys and girls🌈

Pop up a little message with the help of your grown ups to say hello.

A very short week this week! I won’t be posting a Fantastic Work Friday this week, however all the pictures that have been sent in will be joined up with next weeks pictures. To those who sent a lovely message or picture for Mrs Anderson’s birthday, I sent her them on Monday and she said  they made her day 🥳  I know there were some other birthdays at the start of this week too (Sophia and Rory, if I’m not mistaken) I hope you both had a lovely day!🎈

Have a lovely long weekend of fun!

Miss Laidlaw

Hello everyone

Time for this week’s challenge
THE RAINBOW CHALLENGE

This weeks is a little bit easier than last week and it’s a lovely one. I bet you have noticed a lot of rainbows when you are on your walks. You have maybe even made one for your window at home!

Rainbows are a sign of hope just now, something to make us all smile and to let everyone working hard know that we are really proud of them. Also, to let our friends and family know that we miss them. SO, this week I am challenging you to create a wonderfuly unique rainbow in a different way from drawing or colouring.

Here are some examples I have found:

Nature                                                                                    Lego

Cut and stick

Baking

Iron on beads    or pipe cleaner 3D rainbow

Some other ideas could be to use things you have lying around your house and garden to make a huge rainbow on the ground. You could also do a science experiment to make a rainbow  (google has loads). I’m planning to make a rainbow tye-dye t-shirt so you could also do something like that.

When the time to stay home is over and we see a rainbow in the sky, I hope that it’ll always remind us of how lucky we are to be able to do all of the things that we are missing right now.

Have fun boys and girls – I can’t wait to see your wonderful creations!

Miss Laidlaw❤️🌈

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This week we are going to the Science Centre.

Every weekday a science lesson is uploaded at 10am. The schedule for this week is below. Choose what lessons you would like to take part in and follow the video link below to access the video on that day. Videos embedded below will only be available after 10am on the day they are posted for. Lessons for Wed, Thur & Fri will be available from main site linked below. Wednesday’s Straw Oboes and Thursday’s Coat Hanger Clanger sounds great for Primary 2 🙂 For an extra challenge tune into the other lessons. Have Fun!

Glasgow Science Centre at Home

Monday 4th May – Make a Planisphere

What is a planisphere and why would we need one to look at the night sky? You’ll see how you can make a planisphere with our handy planisphere print out. We will show you how to use the planisphere for backyard astronomy. You’ll need the planisphere print out (download below), some scissors, blu tack, a split pin (or similar) and some adult permission and supervision. Most suitable for budding astronomers aged 7 and over. View on YouTube.

Download the planisphere print out.

Probability has never been so much fun! Explore the ‘The Monty Hall problem’ with us – will you decide to ‘stick or switch’ when the odds of winning a prize change? The chances of this maths problem being a hit are stacked in your family’s favour! For a further probability activity to try out afterwards you’ll need a pack of playing cards. Fun for everyone with science and maths over 7s will enjoy! View on YouTube.

Strike the right note for a tuneful family activity! Learn about how sound travels, how we get different pitches and make your own straw oboe. To join in at home, you’ll need some paper or plastic straws, some scissors, and adult permission and supervision. Ideal for ages 5 and over.

Thursday 7th May – Coat Hanger Clanger

Tune in for an entertaining exploration of how sound travels through different materials. You can try this out at home! You’ll need some string, a sturdy ‘wire’ metal object like a coat hanger, whisk or the top of a grill from a cooker (minus the steak!). Plus you’ll need adult permission and supervision. Ideal for ages 5 and over.

Friday 8th May – Make Your Own Codebreaker

Learn about cryptography and find out how to send and receive your very own secret messages. You will need some paper, a ruler, pens or pencils, scissors, and some adult permission and supervision. Most likely to appeal to over 7s.

Good morning boys and girls and happy May🎉 (a month of lots of birthdays in our class, we discovered!)

I can’t believe we are here already – hopefully the time going so quickly means we will be back at school before we know it. The end of the week is fast becoming my favourite time of the week. I love seeing all of your hard work and photos, reading all of your lovely and sometimes funny messages and spending time replying to you. I am so proud of you all. Thank you for checking in again this week (we even had a birthday -Happy Birthday Anna-Rose🎈).

Some of this weeks fantastic work

OM has been working hard this week. He looks like he is working hard on his spelling and his handwriting. And just look at his amazing WW1 trench. What a great job – well done O⭐️ Can you spot some of the things we learned about the trenches? I think I can spot a dugout.

Some fantastic gardening happening in OM’s household by him and his little brother. He has also been busy baking and then delivering some delicious cake to family doorsteps on his daily walks. I said since he has been so kind I will forgive him for being on that broomstick! 🙂 What a star you are O!

Someone else who has been enjoying their daily walk adventures with his family is ZS. Here is at the park using some serious balance and climbing skills to build a Dam with his big brothers! Very creative Z 🍃

From all of the messages, I could see that lots of you enjoyed the Harry Potter trip this week. I even had a go and loved it ⚡️ Here is JM enjoying the tour around the studio with his litter sister. He has also been busy working on his spelling and summarising this week. Great work J✨

And finally there has been some very creative building going on this week in Room 4 in very different ways.
CT built a fantastic lego Titanic – It must have taken ages! Amazing job C⭐️
FH, along with his brother and his mum, built an amazing spaceship using cardboard and enjoyed playing in it afterwords. Well done F🚀

Well done everybody in Rm4. Another busy week🙂 Although I have to cover up the faces, I can promise you there are lots of happy boy and girls underneath those stars. Well done to the grown ups, you are amazing too!

Mrs Anderson also thinks you are all amazing – she has left you all a lovely comment below!  It’s her birthday on Monday too 🙂 Since we can’t make her a card in our class, maybe we can leave her some birthday messages below.

Have a lovely weekend everybody.

Miss Laidlaw💕

This is our weekly check in station. Just the same as last week, please leave a comment to ‘check in’ and let us know how you all doing 🙂 This can be just a simple ‘Hello’ or even a sentence about how you are or something you have been doing this week.

I have had a fun and busy week helping the Primary 1 and 2 boys and girls in Calderwood but I have been missing my own room 4 gang!

Miss Laidlaw

Good Morning boys and girls,

Wow! I really enjoyed spending some time yesterday looking through all of Room 4s emails and photographs. You lot have been very busy and it’s lovely to see your happy faces in some of those pictures! I am so proud of how hard you are all working and it’s good to see that you are remembering it’s important to have fun too 🙂

I have uploaded the Wednesday Challenge photos I have received to the tab at the top (see how your friends got on) and I am glad you all enjoyed it. There were some very interesting finds. Well done everyone!🌟 I wonder what next week will bring…

Some of this weeks fantastic work

I love this puzzle that AC was working on – I might need to try a circle one like that next. It looks tricky. She also wrote a great imaginative story all about a black and white horse. Well done A⭐️

C.P has been hard at work with her dad making an amazing WW1 tank. Isn’t it just fabulous? I love the detail and the camouflage colours. Wonderful job C👏🏻

Some more WW1 learning going on in JM’s house. He found this war memorial on his daily walk in Cambuslang park and spent some time reading it. He has also been recreating WW1 battles with his own toy soldiers!

As well as this JM has been making bird feeders out of milk cartons (very Eco friendly) and enjoying some quiet reading time. You are a star J!🌟

And I’ll finish off with some really wonderful news this week…

Our SB had a very special spring break this year as she became a big sister over the holidays! What a beautiful picture she has sent us (have a look on twitter to see her properly) and what an amazing big sister she will be. Congratulations S and family, such lovely news for us all to hear✨

Remember if you haven’t yet ‘checked in’ leave a comment on our check in station that I posted yesterday. I will post this every Thursday.

Well done for working so hard this week everyone! Have a great weekend.

Miss Laidlaw🌸

Hi boys and girls 🙂

I hope you’re enjoying the home learning activities for this week. Today, as mentioned on the school app, I thought we could do something a bit different and go on a ‘virtual’ school trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. There is a live lesson all about monkeys today at 12pm on their Facebook page. During the lesson, there will be a question and answer session if you have anything you would like to ask Shonagh. There will be a fun quiz after to test your knowledge. I will be watching too so leave me a comment below to let me know what your favourite part was or a fact you learned. If you can’t tune in at 12pm, don’t worry. You can still watch the video at a later date. Last week’s lesson about penguins is still available too! You can access their Facebook page by clicking on the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/blairdrummondSP/

Have a good day!

Miss Laidlaw

Good Afternoon🌞

Following on from Mrs McGarvey’s message on the app, we would love to know how all of the boys and girls are doing.  Leave a comment on this post to ‘check-in’ and you can help the children to tell us how they are and anything nice they have been doing.

Boys and girls, see if you can spot your friends comments and what they have been doing!

After a busy morning on my laptop, I’m now spending some time resting in the garden with a cup of tea and enjoying this glorious weather!

Miss Laidlaw🙂

Just a note to let you know about a fantastic website Miss Muir came across!

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

This website has lots of free books to read online. You don’t need to register or login.Books are organised into various different categories, if you search for an item you can filter the options to books for your year stage using the funnel button at the left of the screen (for P2 we would be Year 1).

There is an option to have the book read aloud to you using the play button at the bottom left of the screen once you select a book to read. Words are highlighted as you read and there’s even a dictionary built in that you can search for the meaning of any words you are stuck on.

Have fun reading some new books!

Ps. It’s so lovely to hear from some of our children and parents in the comments! But please remember to sign off your comment with who you are (who your child is) as sometimes email addresses aren’t very clear and it would be lovely to know who I am hearing from.