Week 4 - almost half way through the term ....

We've been working hard again this week. We've been learning about Greek temples and Greek theatres. We learned that the words alphabet and theatre come from the Greek language. Here we are designing a Greek temple on the SmartBoard. We were pleased with the finished temple - it looked really good.

In Drama we were playing a game - you had to show your emotions by walking with no speaking and the other people in your team had to guess to win the card. We really enjoyed it.

This is us peer assessing the myths we have been working on. We are trying to help everyone make theirs as good as possible - and peer assessing helps us to learn what good work is and how to improve our own work as well.

Our spelling strategy of the week is writing our words in alphabetical order. If we are good at that, we can write them out in reverse alphabetical order so the word that's last in the alphabet goes first.

In music we were doing experiments with the instruments we made. It was a scientist from Ancient Greece who discovered that the noise strings make changes when it is a different length or tighter. There is a Greek instrument called a bouzouki - we don't have one, but Frank let us look at his mandola which is a bit similar.

In PE we are doing dance with Mrs Cromarty. We were working on celebration dances in groups. With Mrs MacNab we are practising for our class Olympics.  This week we worked on standing long jump and running games.

Here we are helping each other with long jump - and reminding each other to bend our knees and use our arms.

We enjoy the dictionary challenge game.

We often use whiteboards to work on.

We were really pleased when one of our class got a Head Teacher's Award for a really good piece of work he did at home. Mrs Bleakley said he had brightened up her day.