What a wonderful day we have had!

This morning, Cosmos Planetarium visited the school. We had an amazing morning exploring the sun, moon and stars. We were taken on a journey into space, landed on the moon and looked at what space travel might look like in the future. We also took part in a rocket launch with Tim Peake! It was very exciting.

We then made some of our own rockets with our table partners, using the junk that was sent in from home (thank you to those who sent in junk!). We made lots of interesting rockets with lots of detail! We can’t wait for you to see them on Thursday at the open morning!

After break, we did some writing and made our own Space Passports, in case we ever need to go into space.

We enjoyed some time in the shared area today, making rockets with the construction blocks and pretending we were on a space mission on the climbing frame. We enjoyed reading some books about space and drew some pictures about what we learned.

After lunch, we learned about constellations. James knew that these are groups of stars that make a pattern or picture. We looked at some of the constellations in our sky and then made our own, which you can see on Thursday too!

What a great day!

This week is Science Week, and P1 are learning about space, in particular the sun, moon and stars.

Today we started our science week by thinking about what science is. Lexie knew that science involves experimenting, and lots of us knew that people who do science are called scientists. This week, we are going to be scientists!

We then thought about our science topic of space and brainstormed all the things we already know. Mason knew the names of lots of the planets. We knew that the sun is very hot and we can see it during the day, and that we see the moon and stars at night. James knew that the moon is made of rock (not cheese!) and that the sun is a star. We then worked in pairs to make a picture about space and shared these with the rest of the class.

This afternoon, we learned about the sun, earth and moon. We now know that the sun doesn’t move- it is actually the earth that spins (once per day) and that when we are facing the sun, it is daytime and when we are not facing the sun, it is night time. We also learned that the moon or it’s the earth – that means it goes around earth. We then did some art relating to this topic, which you will be able to see at our open morning on Thursday.

We cant wait to learn more about space!

Today, the Primary 1 boys and girls from Stoneyburn came to our school to further our learning on litter and recycling. We started the day by having some free choice play in the classroom and shared area and got to know each other again. After break, we watched a programme about how bin lorries work and how paper is recycled and turned into newspapers. We then split into 2 groups and created Recycling Superheros to encourage people to recycle their waste. We planned our superheros first, thinking about the colour of their outfit, cape and mask then thought about logos for the front of our their outfits, thinking about what would encourage people to recycle. We thought that the green recycling arrows would be good, or a capital R for Recycle. We had great fun drawing then painting our Superheros and enjoyed getting to know the children from Stoneyburn.