Although it hasn’t even been a week, we have hit the ground running with our learning!

We are trying something new in the classroom to support and develop our learning.  We have ‘learning partners’.  This is someone we will sit beside all week (picked randomly using lolly sticks) and discuss our learning with.  This will change every Monday.   On a Friday we will say ‘goodbye’ to our talking partner for that week and say something positive about having them as a talking partner.  It’s been a great success so far (although makes the class a bit noisier – but it’s good noise)!

We have started our new LAC which is Victorians and will have our trip to New Lanark (date tbc).

It’s that time of year again when poems are given out to learn for our Scots Poetry Competition.  The poems chosen are; Crocodile by J K Annand, Heron by J K Annand and The Ballad of Janitor MacKay by Margaret Green.

We are finishing of our science and continuing to investigate States of Matter.  Today we investigated water changing from a solid to a liquid (ie ice melting to water) and we investigated temperatures and how we could get our ice to melt faster.

We had ‘exit passes’ (another new thing – everyone has to write what they’ve learned on a piece of paper to hand to the CT before going for break)!  Here is some of our learning…

I have learned that ice can melt faster by putting it on a warm radiator and lots of other ways.

That water needs to be heated to 100 degrees centigrade to evaporate.

If you hold ice to long it hurts!

I learned that water turns into ice when the temperature is below zero degrees centigrade.

I learned that jelly is both a liquid and a solid! (we got a bit side-tracked)

I learned that when you melt ice on a radiator it will create a beautiful pattern on the inside!

I learned that ice melts faster if you put it in warm water.

Here are some photos of us carrying out our investigations…

 

 

Have a lovely weekend!