Space Shuttle launch

We are learning about the Solar System. We found out this week that there is a space shuttle being launched next week. It is called Endeavour and it will be going to the International Space Station.

There is a countdown clock on the NASA website showing how many days, hours, minutes and seconds it is until Endeavour is launched. You can see it here.

Sending our box to Canada.

We've been collecting things to send to our link school in Canada, the Outma Sqilx'w Cultural School. We put in lots of things we thought the pupils there would find interesting or useful.

Our link class is Class 2/3/4. They have 18 pupils in the class (we have 17) and they are aged 7, 8 and 9 just like us. We're really excited about it!

We hope they like the box. We won't write about what's in it as we don't want to spoil the surprise when they get it. We put in a peedie puffin and seal for them. The puffin is called Peter and the seal is called Sammy.

A photographer came from the Orkney Today so our photo should be in the paper next week!

Here we are putting Peter and Sammy into the box.

"To Canada"

We weighed the box before we sent it. Mrs MacNab was very pleased that everyone could tell her the weight using grams and kilograms.

Here is Gary in the school office getting the parcel to post for us. Thank you, Gary!

We really hope that the pupils in Outma are excited too!

"It's like an art gallery in here at the minute"

In Art of the Week on Friday afternoon as looked at 'land art'. All the pictures we looked at were of things made by a man called Richard Shilling.

Some people thought at first that it wasn't art because it was photographs and not "created by a hand" but the rest of the pupils persuaded them that it was art.

We liked them and thought it would be fun to make our own land art. Mrs MacNab said maybe we could make some when we go to the beach next term.

We thought some of the things must have been very difficult to make and must have taken hours!