Fun with science

We had great fun doing science experiments on Thursday afternoon! We were investigating rocket propulsion.

Here we are trying to prove that there was gas being created in a bottle.

We talked about the experiement and then wrote reports on it.

We did drama outside this week. We went into groups and made up plays to show why it's good to be honest, then we acted them in front of everyone in the courtyard. It was fun. Mrs MacNab said that was the best acting we've done yet - we made up the plays ourselves and most people remembered to talk loudly so the audience could hear.

We also did more maths this week. It's getting difficult now. One group were dividing by 3, another were finding out about remainders and the other were using strategies to help them multiply numbers that aren't in the times tables (like 36 or 120). We'll be doing more practice of that next week.

Did you know there's games online where you can practise maths? If you click on the 'Class 3/4's Links' on the right of the blog you can find maths games to play.

In RME we've been doing the Easter story and practising our songs for the Easter performance. Next week we'll be finding out about how they celebrate Easter in Greece, and we're hoping to teach Miss Persidou about how we celebrate Easter in Orkney.

We love books

We celebrated World Book Day this week. We watched a live broadcast with Michael Rosen - he was really funny!

Then we had our own World Book Day event in class. Everyone brought in their favourite fiction book and their favourite non-fiction book. We did book reveiews and then had time to share our love of books. Everyone got very enthusiastic about sharing their books.

Mrs MacNab and Mrs Scott had brought in books too - their books were older than us!

We enjoyed seeing other people's books, and we found interesting facts about space in a lot of the non-fiction books. We also looked at Winnie the Pooh in Polish.

We also had World Maths Day this week. Lots of people took part in live maths games against people from all over the world. We were very proud that Molly C came top of the school for Level 1.

The rest of the week work carried on as usual. Here we are doing drama. We are making plays about being honest.

This is us looking at newspaper articles to find the 5Ws - who, what, where, when and why. We noticed that you can always find the 5Ws at the start of an article. We wrote our own newspaper articles about the space shuttle. Some of them will be appearing on the blog before the end of term.

Problem solving in maths - we were working together on different strategies to solve a problem.

We had an exciting time on Thursday and Friday when Mrs MacNab said we all had to become teachers and teach other people in the class. At first we were a bit worried, but in the end we loved it!

We went into groups to research all about how astronauts live in space. Some people found out about what they ate, some researched how they sleep, one group found out about how they keep clean and the last group researched what astronauts do in space when they're not working.

Here we are doing our research and making and highlighting notes to use to teach our group.

We went back to our original groups to teach them, so that everyone learned all about how astronuats live.

Do you know what astronauts eat?

Did you know that astronuats wear nappies when they are on a space walk?

We had to speak clearly so our group could hear us.

Did you know there is a keyboard in the International Space Station (ISS)?

Mrs MacNab showed us a picture of an astronuat playing it and Ewan spotted that he wasn't sitting on a seat, although he looked like he was sitting down there was no seat!

We watched some astronauts being interviewed in the ISS. They had some apples and oranges but most of their food is dried and needs to have water added and to be heated up.

We would like to be teachers again.

The Space Shuttle has launched!

Today we watched the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. We saw the crew get ready and get strapped in and then we watched the launch. We wrote newspaper articles about it. We hope you enjoy reading them.


The Endeavour takes off               by Rosie

About half past nine this morning the Space Shuttle went at 1800 miles per hour to the International Space Station. It went to deliver some new things to experiment with. It was going to go a few days ago but the weather was too bad but today the Space Shuttle left. By now it will be there. On it there were five men and one lady.



The Space Shuttle takes off          by Amy

The Space Shuttle is called Endeavour. It took off at about half past nine and it took off in Florida. Then it blasted into the International Space Station. It went to the International Space Station to do more science experiments.


Space Shuttle launch            by Ashleigh

This morning the Space Shuttle took off in Florida. The Space Shuttle’s name was called Endeavour. It was going to the International Space Station. It was gigantic and noisy. They were taking potions to the space station. It was going at 1800 miles an hour. They did a countdown.



Space Shuttle takes off                 by Joe

On Monday morning at half past nine the Endeavour took off to go to the International Space Station to put a new science lab on the space station. It took off from Florida in the United States. It went at 1800 miles per hour.


Off to space                  by Alanah

This morning at half past 9 our time in Britain a space ship was launched in Florida. Florida is in USA, the United States of America. There were 5 men astronauts and 1 lady astronaut. The astronauts are going to the International Space Station to do experiments in space. They counted down from 10 to 1 and after 1 they all said LIFT OFF! The space ship went up to 1800 miles per hour. The space ship was called the Endeavour. The space ship was very very very loud. The space ship is whitey grey and it said United States on it. I think that it was very fun to watch.


NASA Rocket Takes off!                by Molly H

On Monday the Endeavour (one of NASA’s rockets) launched in Florida at about 9:30. We saw a clip on Mrs MacNab’s laptop there was tons of smoke and flames. The reason they went up is to add a new room to the International Space Station. Endeavour took off at 1800mph and to get into their seats the spacemen and women climbed onto their seats and they were lying down but when they were in space thankfully they would be the right way round. There were 5 spacemen and 1 spacewoman. When the Space Shuttle lifted off it made a really loud noise like thunder. I wonder where the rocket is now?

Our topic

This term our topic is space. We just started 3 days ago. We just found out that there are 3 new planets so the books are all out of date.

by Abbie