This afternoon in P2/1 we were exploring our sense of touch.  We have already had the opportunity to feel different textures with our hands to see if the were rough, smooth, hard, soft or bumpy.

So today we were finding out if we could sense a touch without using our fingertips.  We discovered that he can feel a touch on different parts of our bodies.  We learned that some body parts are more sensitive than others.

You can find out more about our learning later on this week.

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On Monday we went to the Science Museum in Glasgow.  We were all very excited and our journey began as soon as we got on the bus.  We saw lots of different things as we travelled to Glasgow.  When we were almost there we saw the Glasgow Armadillo, the Hydro (which we thought looked like a giant space ship) and the River Clyde.

Once inside the Science Museum we went to a workshop all about the senses.  We had to use of noses to smell different scents and see if we could name them.  We liked the chocolate smell the best!  We used our sense of touch to find out (without looking) what was in the box.  Granny used her ears to listen carefully as we tried to sneak up on her!  We had to use our eyes to look to see where the animals in Granny’s house were hiding and then we had to identify which ones disappeared!          

After lunch it was time to explore!

We had a fantastic day and saw lots of amazing things!

Have a super long weekend.  See you all on Tuesday.

Mrs M :o)

A few weeks ago in P2/1, we were learning about 3D shapes.  We took part in various activities such as looking for the shapes around the classroom, investigating as to whether the shapes rolled, stacked or both and also sorting real life objects into which shape they were.  Then we were set a 3D maths challenge.  We had to build a model from recycled materials such as cardboard tubes, cereal boxes etc BUT they had to include some of the 3D shapes that we had been learning about.  We brought them in to school this week and spoke about them.  They were so good that we invited Mrs Bruce to our class to have a look.  Mrs Mackie thought they were all fantastic and we wanted to share them with you all. Have a look at the amazing models we made….

Well done to everyone for all of their hard work!

Have a fantastic weekend.

Mrs M :o)

This week in P2/1 we have been learning about the sense of hearing.  We had a listening walk around the school and drew the things we could hear.  We played a guessing game where we had to listen to different sounds and identify them.  Some were quite tricky. We also experimented with different instruments to find out if they made a quiet noise or a LOUD noise!

We use our ears to listen. – Ruby

We have to listen carefully to sounds. – Harris

Our ears have three bit.  The outer ear, the middle ear and the inside ear. – Adam

Soundwaves go into our ears and our ears send a message to our brain. – Cooper

We experimented with tuning forks and watched what happened to water when a tuning fork touched it.

The water exploded! – Kian

It splashed up.  – Lucy

We learned that vibrations cause soundwaves which make noise.

We also learned that people who can’t hear are deaf.  They communicate using hand signals called sign language.  We watched Mr Tumble and found out about loud and quiet noises.  He used sign language to talk to people.

Next week we will be using our noses to learn about the sense of smell!

Have a good weekend!

In P2/1 we have started learning about our senses.  This week we are finding out all about our sense of sight.  We learned that we use of eyes to see and that our eyes send messages to our brains.

We used mirrors to look at the different parts of our eyes.

Skyla – The iris is the coloured bit of our eyes.

Aaron – The black circle in the middle is the pupil.  If you shine a light in your eyes it gets smaller.  It protects your eyes from the bright light.

Can you see what colour of iris these children have?

We learned about the job that our eyelids and eyelashes do.

Kayleigh – They protect our eyeballs from dust.

Adam – It helps to keep our eyes clean.

Some people in our class had longer eyelashes than others!

We decided that Calvin had the longest eyelashes!

We watched a video clip to find out how our eyes work and then we draw a picture of one of our own eyes in our books and labelled it.

We will be learning more about the sense of sight tomorrow…..

Yesterday David was busy making Box Monsters with his Granda.  The boys and girls in P2/1 thought that they were so awesome looking that we wanted to share them with you!

Well done and thank you for sharing David!

Mrs M :o)