Pencaitland Primary Blog

[ March 22, 2007; 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ]

[ March 20, 2007; 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ]

Lesson 2 - 27/2/2007
We were set another ‘Impossible Mission’ in our second thinking skills lesson.
Before we could get started we did an exercise to show how important it is not to rush into doing something without listening to instructions and describing clearly the materials provided.  This exercise involved three volunteers.  Each was given a different [...]

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[ February 27, 2007; 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

[ February 26, 2007; 1:15 pm to 3:00 pm. ]

How I made my bicycle
The wire was hard to bend but when you wanted it back in line it was quite easy.  The pipe cleaner was quite like the wire but it was more colourful.I hated the straw because you couldn’t bend it with out making a mess of it.  The back round was quite easy to make.   [...]

 Lesson 1 - 20/2/07
We started something different today. We have been practising our thinking skills.
As a warm-up we practised speaking in turn and listening effectively - this involved a story about a Dalek!
Each week Mr Cain is going to give us an impossible mission to complete. Todays mission was to make two identical fish, same [...]

We were very lucky today as a real life diver came to visit. Mrs Howson had read our blog on the diving experiment a few weeks ago and offered to bring in her real diving equipment to show us.  She explained how the equipment worked -the suit, goggles, air tank, weights, flippers and other gear.  We all [...]

The P7 assembly was a great success. There were mimes, stilters, comedians, musicians, narrators, servents dancers and most importantly THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN!
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Lesson 20 - 9/2/2007
The last day before half-term and our last science lesson.
Today we thought about everything we had learned in the past five weeks, and we completed our personal learning plans and a quiz all about forces.  The winning team scored house points.
We also learned a song about forces and we’d like to share a bit [...]

The nursery have been telling stories today using pictures.
the-race-2.pdf  the-race-1.pdf

Snowball Fight 
In the morning the snow had been falling overnight. So when we got to school there was lots of snow, we were in for a big snowball fight. But as time went by it got more and more rough. Some peole got into trouble because of them throwing snowballs in their face and their [...]

Last week p2/3 read a poem called ‘Weather at work’ by Jenni Morris. They looked at the language she used to describe the weather. They acted out some of the verses in pairs and groups. They came up with some fantastic interpretations!
Next they had to make their own verse describing the wind. In pairs [...]

After the class had finished their clown paintings they showed their pictures to the class and explained their choice of colours. This is Joseph’s painting. On the sad side he used dull yellow, black and blue. On the happy side he used bright yellow and red. What an expressive face!

Lesson 19 - 7/2/2007
We carried out three experiments today to investigate friction in air and water.
Firstly we made different shapes from paper and watched how they fell.  Some fell slowly but some were faster. Screwed up shapes had a smaller area than wide open shapes.  The screwed up ones moved through the air easily and so fell [...]

Lesson 18 - 7/2/2007
Today we learned how water can act as a lubricant.  We slid some flat-bottomed objects across our desks to see which went furthest.  We then tried sliding an ice-cube across the desks and every group found that the ice cube went further than anything else. A thin layer of water, from the [...]

  
Primary 3 practiced their reading skills today hunting for information on Harry Potter. Why not join the Cyberhunt at home with your parents?

Lesson 17 - 05/02/2007
Today we started a different theme in our Forces topic.  We had to use an upturned tray and investigate which flat bottomed objects slid down the easiest.  We tried a variety of objects from rubbers, rulers, whiteboards to pencil cases and paperclips.  We then repeated the experiment with a section of carpet [...]

Lesson 16 - 2/2/2007
We discovered today how magnets affect compasses.  We turned a steel pin into a magnet in the same way as the other day. We stuck it to a piece of cork and placed it in a basin of water. Once it stopped moving we discovered that each group’s pin pointed in the [...]