Primary 2/3 had fun with Science.

We tried some activities like – drawing circles on paper; taking a pencil from the pencil pot and putting it back; building a tower of five cubes, using the same colour; hopping and jumping and clapping.  These activities were all very easy but then we tried them again with our eyes tight shut.  Some of them suddenly became very tricky.

Brooke – building a tower of five cubes with your eyes shut was hard because you had to get the same colour.

Zoe – drawing the circle on the piece of paper with your eyes shut was difficult as you drew different shapes.

Darcy – taking the pencil out and putting it back was tricky with your eyes shut.

We discovered that for some activities we need our eyes and our hands to communicate with our brains to make them easy.  This is called hand-eye co-ordination.

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What’s going on inside

This was a great activity, we had to draw round someone in our group, then we thought about what we know about our bodies, we looked closely at our bodies, we listened to our friends bodies to see if we could work out what parts are inside our bodies and draw them on the person on the paper.  We did really well, but we didn’t get everything correct.  Mrs Horne showed us pictures on the SMARTboard so we could see where the organs really were.

 

 

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Shadows

We spent some time outside in the sunshine investigating our shadows; we checked they belonged to us by watching closely that they did everything we did.  We tried to make interesting shadow shapes and we also tried to jump on our friends’ shadow, but they had to stop us.  Finally we tried making ‘shadow monsters’ but the sun decided to go behind a cloud and spoiled our fun.

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Judo

This week we have had a lot of fun activities too – the firs tone of these was on Wednesday.  We had a Judo taster session, we all had great fun.

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P2 and P2/3 food bank!

P2 and P2/3 have been responsible citizens by collecting food for the West Lothian food bank!

Marshall from the The Trussel Trust came to collect our food. He said we had collected enough for 33 days !!!

We are feeling very proud as we know that we can help others in West Lothian!!

Well done P2 and P2/3

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Exciting experiments in P1/2

This week in P1/2 we have been predicting and experimenting with fruit.  We started with thinking about what fruits might sink or float and gave reasons for our answers.  Next we looked at all of the different fruit we were going to use and made predictions about whether they would float or sink.  Then came the exciting part!   We tried putting them all in the water to see what would happen.  We were particularly surprised to see that grapes didn’t float!

Ryan was our star of the week as he even took time at home to experiment with some of the fruit and brought them in for us to try too (we hadn’t thought about trying a plum!).  Jamie also enjoyed our experiment.

Niamh has enjoyed our reading work this week, particularly completing her comprehension work.  James and Andrew have enjoyed our handwriting this week (P1 were revising the differences between b and d and P2 were continuing practising the common words).

Arran has enjoyed revisiting addition and subtraction in maths this week.

I hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend.

Lava Lamps!!!

P2 have been doing lots of science this week!

We made our own Lava Lamps!!

They looked amazing.

We made them by adding vegetable oil and water to a empty bottle, then we added a few drops of food colouring. Finally we added a fizzing tablet and by magic the gas created bubbles which rose to the surface !!!

Its so easy, you can even do it at home!!

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