Good morning, everyone.

Today is Thursday and I hope you have a super day.

Remember this?  We always had fun singing along together in the classroom.

Here is a little bit of magic – Little Miss Magic!

Have a lovely day.

Mrs Herbison

Good Morning Primary 2B,

I hope everyone is well today and I can see from all your photos you are sending Mrs Boyle and Mrs Mills  that your are all working hard.

Here is some of your fantastic stories. Well done!

Please remember to keep in touch even if its just to say a Hi!

I have found a game you might like to try today if you have  the time to help you with your spelling.

You can start at Level 1 then challenge yourself with the trickier words.

https://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

Have a fun day learning!

Good morning every! Thank you to everyone who sent Mr brice and me their work this week. You really are working so hard, you should all be very proud of yourself!

I received lots of comments about the shoe in the picture yesterday most people usually see grey/mint green or pink/white.  I see the shoe as grey/mint green and Mr Brice sees it as pink/white. The real colour of the shoe is pink and white. Strange isn’t it? It’s all about perception. Even though you are looking at a picture of the same object your brain processes the information differently from others.

Science 

Predictions

Some of you made fantastic predications about the eggs yesterday here they are..
– The egg in vinegar would explode.
– The egg shell would disintegrate in the vinegar.
– The egg in vinegar would float.
– The egg in vinegar would change colour.
– The egg in vinegar would crack

Process 

The eggs had been soaking in the vinegar and water for 24 hours hours and this is what they looked like…

Vinegar is a weak acid and the egg shell is made of calcium carbonate. When the two come together they create a chemical reaction that breaks down the calcium carbonate, and produces carbon dioxide (these are the bubbles we can see). As you can see there has been no change to the egg in water. You made predictions that the shell would come off and that the egg would float in the vinegar. The shell is starting to come off and the egg does float, that is why there is a spoon in the picture to keep the egg submerged in the vinegar.

The results

The eggs have been soaking for two days now. All the shell has been broken down and while this was happening the water from the vinegar has been moving inside the egg leaving it larger than the egg in water. See the photo below.

The egg has changed colour, it has become translucent (see through) and because of this we can see the yolk moving around in the egg, we need to be careful with it.

The egg has now become soft, squidgy and has a rubber feel to it. I wonder if I could bounce it??

Elliot enjoyed bursting the egg, he is now crying because he wants to burst all the other eggs!

This is a really fun an easy experiment to try at home all you need is an egg and some vinegar. You could also make coloured bouncy eggs by adding a few drops of food colouring into the water. Please remember this isnt a real bouncy ball, it will burst and make a mess 😀

Someone in our class has been enjoying learning about food chains with this video, I thought I would share it with you all.

Have a great day everyone!

Miss Ross

Hello everyone,

Here is the link to today’s Story Time From Home.

https://vimeo.com/425596911

There are lots of other fairy tales that you will know and  can read or watch as videos that might help you with your writing this week.

Thank you if you voted for next week’s story theme – the result was very close and I will share it with you on Monday.

I am working in the hub school again today so I won’t be replying to emails and messages until Friday.

I hope that you have a good day whatever you choose to do.

Miss McDermott

I thought I would ask you to be creative this afternoon. In Primary 1 we love to draw and explore artists. This time I thought that you could listen to the story about a little girl who doesn’t think that she is good at drawing. She then creates the dot.

Listen to the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mGeR4AQdM

Now see if you can create a dot picture. There is so much that you can do with it. Here are some ideas:

There is a famous artist that we looked at before in Primary 1 that uses lots of dots- can you remember who he is? If not, see if you can find him online. We would love to see your art work so please send us photographs.

Have a lovely afternoon.

Good morning, everyone.

Today is Wednesday and I hope you  have a great day.  Here is one of the new Mr Men stories.  I hope we don’t have weather like this today!

Have a lovely day.

Mrs Herbison

Good morning everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and have had a good start to the week. At the weekend I got to visit my sister in her garden and see my lovely little niece she is only 11 weeks old. It was very hard not to grab her for a cuddle! We then had a BBQ it was great fun!

I thought I would try a little science experiment at home. Below is a picture of two eggs one is in white vinegar and one is in water. What do you see happening? Do they look different?
I would love you to make a prediction about what is going to happen to the eggs.
Will they change size?
Will they stay the same colour?
What will the vinegar do to the egg?
What will the water do to the egg?
You can leave a comment with your predictions or send me an e-mail and tomorrow I will post the results.

Just for fun.. what colour is the shoe? You might get different answers, comment on the blog post to find out what colours everyone sees.

Have a great day!

Miss Ross 😀

Good Morning Primary 2B,

I hope you are all well today. I know you will all have had a lovely weekend out in the sun.

Yesterday I am sure you enjoyed listening to Miss McDermott’s story about Jack and the incredibly mean stalk. I thought  that all you budding scientists might like to make a zip wire for Jack  to help him to get up and down the beanstalk.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

Build a zip wire to help Jack

( you could use any small doll or lego person)

to get down the beanstalk. What happens if you change the gradient?

After investigating how changing the gradient of the zip wire changes the speed Jack travels down it, experiment with different types of harness and different types of string for the zip wire.

A thicker, rougher string should mean Jack travels more slowly down the wire as there’s more friction than when using a smooth wire.

If you like puzzles if you have time you can complete this word ladder. There are trickier puzzles on website if you enjoyed this one.

https://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/beanstalk/word-ladder.htm

As it’s Wednesday, please remember and have a look at our Health and Wellbeing blog page today.  Perhaps you could try this activity with a grown up when you have time.

Have a fun day!

Mrs Boyle

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are having a lovely week so far. I have seen a lovely competition being advertised just now that I thought you might enjoy taking part in.

You could win a £10 National Book Token for each of your classmates – and surprise them all when schools reopen!

Create a fabulous National Book Token design while you are learning from home; whether it’s our school crest doodled in ink, a pencil drawing of the entire class, or something completely different, they will be choosing one child’s design to put on a National Book Tokens gift card every week for seven weeks.

When schools open up again, the winners and their classmates will each receive a £10 National Book Token – with the winning artwork on it – to inspire you to choose your next favourite book to read.

Follow this link https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/create-a-national-book-token-for-your-class for details on how to enter. Good luck!

This competition got me thinking about reading and why I love it so much. Do you enjoy reading and being read to? What do you like most about it? What type of books do you like best? Do you have a favourite book? Maybe you could find out what everyone in your household likes about reading or what their favourite books are.

These are my favourite books:

You might have heard of some of them. I LOVE reading because you have to use your imagination and you can learn about different people, places and times. Reading can make you feel like you are somewhere totally magical and out of this world! You also learn a lot from reading stories because you have a chance to think about things from other points of view. Reading is also a great way to become a good writer, so there are lots of good reasons to keep reading.

I hope you take some time to think about your favourite books this week and to remind yourself how fun and amazing reading and being read to can be! Good luck if you decide to enter the competition – you are all so creative, we would love to see any designs you create.

Take care everyone and have a really lovely day,

Your P1 Teachers

Hello P2/1

I hope that you are all well.

As it is Wednesday there is also a Health and Wellbeing blog post today with an activity for you to do with your grown ups if and when you’ve time.

Thank you to everyone who has voted for next week’s Story Time From Home theme. It is very close between the two choices. The vote closes at lunchtime today so if you’ve not voted you can still do so.  Here is the link again.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKTw66e6XAilFua_JmEWQhvVUN1pYOVdERjhSUUNGNTZLNVhCMk9BN0NUTy4u

You will need to wait until Monday to find out the winning choice!

I thought some of you might also like to try another Kahoot quiz.  I made this one for the boys and girls at the hub school as part of our Disney theme. Click on the link below and put in your name and you should be ready to play!

https://kahoot.it/challenge/06513817?challenge-id=f7e99898-d268-40ac-ab21-33079852aadd_1590069139986

Here is also the link to today’s Story Time from Home.

https://vimeo.com/425259405

Have a good day and thank you for all the super photographs and messages this week.  It is great to know that you are all working hard and doing your best for your grown ups.

Miss McDermott