Author: Miss Graham

Primary 3 Art Activity

Afternoon Primary 3,

I hope you are all keeping well. Keep working on the home learning tasks that were posted on the blog on Tuesday and keep using Sumdog and Education City.  I hope you have been enjoying Joe Wicks PE lessons in the morning. I even tried it myself yesterday and had such fun!

Thought you might like an idea for an art lesson – you know I love to do art in the class.

Shadow Drawing

Resources: paper, pencil, colouring pencils/pens/ crayons/paint, light source (sun/ lamp), toys

 

  1. Get your paper and place it in the sun/ beside a lamp.
  2. Place your toy(s) on the paper so that the light is behind them
  3. Trace around the outline of your toy
  4. Add detail and colour in

I will also be posting other websites later on for other activities.

 

Stay safe

 

Miss Graham

Primary 3 Tasks

Morning Primary 3!

Hope you are all well and enjoying Sumdog and Education City. Great to see some of you completing tasks already on it! Keep it up!

I am missing you all and hope that you are all keeping well.

 

Here are some tasks that you can complete throughout the week. I will post a new set of activities next week. Hope you enjoy some of them.

Primary 3 Home Learning Week 1

PE

A good way to start your day is with a little exercise.  Every morning Joe Wicks will be live streaming a free PE lesson on his YouTube channel at 9am.  You can access it through this link:

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

 

Cosmic Kids Yoga is another great way to relax and start the day.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

 

Go Noodle can be used for fun tasks between activities.

https://family.gonoodle.com/

 

 

Literacy

Phonics 

This week we will consolidate the sounds

Sun = tch, wr, ea (bread)

 

 Moon: ay, ea (wheat), ow (snow)
witch

ditch

write

wrist

bread

head

 Play

Pray

Wheat

Team

Grow

throw

 

  1. Practice reading and writing the spelling words.
  2. Active spelling task: pyramid spell.
  3. Word hunt: look around the house to see if you can find words with your sounds.

 

Reading

Read a book that you have at home with an adult.  Draw a picture of your main character and write a description of them.

  • Think about how they look.
  • What are they wearing?
  • What qualities do they have? (kind, caring etc.)

 

Writing

What would you do if you had a pet dragon?

Think about:

  • Food
  • Where it would stay
  • Exercise

 

Now write a story with a dragon in it.

  • Why not add some pictures.

 

 

Maths

3D Shape

Have a hunt around your house to see what 3d shapes you can find.

Create a tally chart that you could use to record your findings as you hunt for 3D shapes. Keep a tally of how many you find of each shape.

What was the most common 3D shape in your home?

Tell an adult 5 things about 3D shapes.

 

Other Ideas

  1. Look outside and have a look to see what animals you can find and draw them.

It might be a butterfly, a bird, a squirrel, a dog.

  1. The Ancient Egyptians: Draw the River Nile and write 4 facts about it.
  2. Use Education City and Sumdog to complete the games set.

 

 

 

 

 

New term and new beginnings

Well after a lovely summer holiday our new primary 5’s have been busy since starting. So far we have created lovely self portraits, stained glass names and even started our topic.

The pupils enjoyed making their stained glass names and put a lot of thought into the colours they wanted to use. They were so excited when they were finally put up on the window and luckily for us, the sun was shining so we were able to see the effect of them.

 

The pupils have also been busy making kites where they looked at what they enjoyed last year, what they are looking forward to in primary 5 and what their strengths are. They also thought hard about something they would like to become better at.

 

We have had a great start to the term and can’t wait to keep you updated with all of our fun activities in class and what we are learning.

 

Miss Graham and Primary 5G

 

 

Happy Easter from P5G

Primary 5G would like to wish you all a Happy Easter.

We hope you all have a lovely holiday.

The Pupils have been enjoying working on some Easter themes activities:

  • lined Bunny Rabbits – the pupils used line to create the effect of fur
  • Bunny Tangram Puzzles – the pupils had 7 shapes to create a picture and had to solve a puzzle
  • Comprehension Drawing – the pupils had to listen to instructions carefully to create an Easter Egg

 

Have a lovely holiday!

 

Primary 5G

 

P5G STEM Cornflour Slime

Yesterday (Tuesday 21st March) Primary 5 had a wonderful science STEM day and made cornflour slime. The children all enjoyed getting involved with the experiments and trying things out and following the instructions to make new things and to show changes in colour and changes in state.

Cornflour slime

The children found it quite tricky to mix the cornflour and water and had to work hard to combine the two using lots of muscle power.

Eventually, when the consistency was correct the pupils chose their preferred colour for the slime.

 

Results

  • adding a little water didn’t work well and we had to add more
  • cornflour and water mix to create a substance that is hard when you tap it and turns runny when you handle it.
  • it looked gooey and squishy
  • was hard to mix food colouring

 

P5G STEM Day

Primary 5 had a fabulous day today conducting a variety of experiments in class related to changes.

They looked at colour change and change in state.

3 experiments included:

  • fizzy colours
  • paper towel colour mixing
  • cornflour slime.

The children completed science reports on each and came up with their predicitons for each experiment before conducting it.

 

The children had an excellent time participating in these experiments and worked together in small groups sharing ideas.

They then came up with their findings and conclusions for their reports.

Fizzy colours

Findings

  • when the vinegar was added to the food colouring it made it go lighter
  • paintbrushes didn’t work for adding the vinegar to bicarbonate of soda so we poured small amounts in.
  • when the vinegar interacted with the bicarbonate of soda it erupted, puffed up, got bigger and fizzed up.
  • we learned that it gave off a gas and that this gas was carbon dioxide.
  • bicarbonate of soda = alkali
  • vinegar = acid.

 

Paper Towel Colour Mixing

Findings

  • the food colouring became lighter when water was mixed with it.
  • the paper towel became soggy when inserted into coloured water
  • water travelled up the paper towel because the paper towel soaked it up (absorbed it)
  • the coloured water began to mix when they both moved up the paper towel to create the colour purple.

 

Tomorrow the children will finish their report on Cornflour slime and reflect on their findings.

Photos to follow of these fab experiments.

Fair to say that the children enjoyed their science day and will hopefully have more science experiments to report on.

 

Why did the Titanic sink?

Yesterday (Monday 20th March) Primary 5 were exploring these questions in some depth.

Firstly we came up with our own theories regarding the reasons(s) why the Titanic sank which included;

  • the weight if it was balanced
  • the mass and density of the Titanic made it float
  • The turbines and propellers made it float by spinning
  • it was made with enough density
  • the funnels had air going out
  • it was made of metal
  • the shape of the metal allowed it to float
  • there was a lot of air on the Titanic
  • it was very spacious – air on board
  • lots of hollow spaces

I am sure you will agree that Primary 5 really thought very hard at this and did very well at giving reasons and when questioned further were able to justify their reasons.

 

Today we had a guest in the class to help us answer this question and allowed us to have a deeper discussion and develop our understanding. They were all so engaged in the lesson and the questions that the class were asking were just fab!

Today we learned that the Titanic stayed afloat through buoyancy where the upward thrust of a force allowed it to float – when something is placed in water it will sink until it moves enough water to support it.

The reason the Titanic sank = it hit an iceberg and ripped a hole in its hull. water then poured into the hull and the ship became too heavy – there was not enough support or upward thrust to help it float.

Why did it sink diagonally and why did it snap?

  • Think about a seesaw – more weight at one end will lift the other up, so one end of the Titanic came out of the water. The end that was in the water was filled with water and pulling the ship down. The end that was in the air did not have the support from the water and so became heavy (because it was made of metal) and therefore snapped.

 

Primary 5 really did a brilliant job today of digging deeper into these questions and have developed a good understanding of them now. Their questioning and reasoning was great!

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