Sports Day - take 2

Friday afternoon was our 2nd attempt at Sports Day, after it was rained off last week. It was a bit too cold to have a picnic lunch outside, so we had it in the classroom instead, then went over to Picky for the races.

There was a cold wind, but the rain stayed off and we kept fairly warm as we were racing. We think our Mums and Dads might have been a bit cold watching us though!

Some people wrote on their faces to show their support for their house!

Some people wrote on their arms ....

... or their arms and legs!

How would you show your support for your team?

We took part in lots of races, earning points for our houses.

It was very close and all came down to the last race -  the relay.

We went over to the side of the track to shout for our teams.

Then the trophies were presented to the house captains of the winning team - Corse.

Well done everyone - everyone in P3/4 was very sporting and tried their best all of the time.

Almost the end of term...

We can't believe it's almost the end of the school year already. We'll soon be in P4/5! We met our new teacher this week - it was very exciting because she took us to see some chicks in her classroom. We saw one hatching, and another 2 that were eating food. They were cute.

We're still rehearsing hard for the class assembly.

We've been finding out about how different creatures develop.  We compared orcas, grey seals, bottlenose dolphins and humans.

Did you know that orca calves drink 230 litres of milk a day? We don't think even Reid could manage that!

Did you know that puffins can start having babies when they're only 3 years old?

Did you know that grey seals pups are left to look after themselves when they are only 3 weeks old?

Did you know that female orcas can live to 90 years old?

Did you know that a newborn orca calf puts on weight at rate of 4kg per hour (that’s about 10 tins of baked beans!). By the time a seal pup is 3-4 weeks old it will weigh about 3 times what it weighed when it was born. A human baby will take about a year to weigh about 3 times wat it weighed when it was born.

We found it really interesting that creatures all developed at different rates.

It was exciting at the start of the week because we received some PowerPoints from our link school in Canada. The pupils from Outma Sqilx Cultural School made them to teach us some of their language. It looked really funny and has different letters to English - we had no idea how to say the words but they had added sound files so we could hear them speaking too. Then at the end they gave all the translations.

 

Lim limpt, Outma school!

We've all learned how to say "We are Okanagan" in the Syilx language. Ask any of the pupils and they will teach you too.

We've got some more exciting news about our link with Canada - the Canadian Spirit Dancer canoe is coming to Glaitness to visit us next week. We had a competition to design a piece of artwork to go on the canoe, so that a piece of Orkney will go with the canoe wherever it goes in the world! We're going to paint it on to the canoe soon and will show you more then.

We had fun with parachute games in PE.

Here's the cat trying to catch the mice...

On Friday it was the auditions for "Glaitness Has Got Talent". It was VERY scary performing in front of the whole school. We are very proud that 2 people from our class got through to the final. There are only 8 people in the final, so they did very well. Well done Dani and Kaitlyn!

The final will be next week, so it looks like the last week of term will be another busy and exciting one!

Leaf Masks

Class 3/4 wearing their leaf masks.

We made leaf masks for the Woodland Trust camapaign 'More Trees More Good'.

Have a closer look!

Wonderful Walliwall - part 2

We had a great time at Walliwall. We did canoeing and lots of team challenges. Can you guess what the best bit was? You'll never guess......


Mrs MacNab couldn't guess either. It was when Neil (one of the instructors) put his hat behind his ears! It was so funny - he looked like an elf!

Here we are ready for canoeing. We wonder if the pupils in our link school have been out in a canoe or if they have to wait until they are old enough to join the canoe family?

We practised maths because we played 'What's the Time, Mr Wolf?'  It was really fun.

We had to collect coathanger fish.

No, she didn't fall in....

..... everyone had to put their head in the water to say hello to the fish.

This challenge was where we had to get a ball to go through the pipes without dropping it. It was hard!

We had to get the whole team across the lava and water (with crocodiles in it) using 5 crates and 2 planks of wood. Nobody got eaten by the crocodiles.

Here we are carrying the canoe over obstacles. We had to work together to manage it.

More challenges.

Building a shelter that had to be waterproof and windproof. How would you build yours?

Lunchtime - I think we've earned it....

This is the metal bar challenge - we had to get the metal bar down to the ground. It sounds easy but everyone's fingers had to be touching it the whole time. We had to work very well as a team to make it work. Mrs MacNab tried it when the teachers went to Walliwall - she thought it was difficult.

Here's a slideshow of all the photos from Walliwall. It's quite long!

Can you trust information from the internet?

We've learned a lot of interesting things from our coastal Show and Tell this term. Joe did a great talk about lighthouses this week and brought in lighthouse painting and model lighthouse he had made. That made us wonder how many lighthouses there were in Orkney. We looked it up on wikipedia and discovered there were 7 - but we're sure we can name more than 7!

We learned that you can't always trust information on the internet - just like when we looked at the tree octopus website.

We think there are lighthouses at Hoy High (Graemsay), Hoy Low (Graemsay), Westray, Sanday, North Ronaldsay, Copinsay, Brough of Birsay, Cantick Head (Hoy), Auskerry and Shapinsay. That's 10 that we can think of. Have we forgotten any?

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An active week

We've had a very active week, with Walliwall and Sports Day (despite the afternoon races being postponed to next week).

As well as those exciting events we had a visitor this week - Cara came to visit us! She's 10 months old, and we were able to see if our ideas about what a 10 month old baby can do were correct. She was cleverer than we had expected - and mischievious too. She enjoyed playing a game where we took turns at handing her a toy and then she threw it for us to pick up!

We were surprised that she could understand so much - when Mrs MacNab asked Cara for the toy,Cara held it out to her. Here she is with her proud big sister.

We did some problem solving with money. We were very pleased that we worked everything out correctly.

Can you estimate how many groattie buckies are in the bottle? They were all collected on North Ronaldsay.

How many do you think you could find?

We finished making our 'under the sea' corner in the classroom - we're hoping the parents will get to see it after the class assembly (on Tuesday 22nd June). Do you like the jellyfish and sea urchins?

Under the sea is a great place to work.

After sports day afternoon was cancelled, it was raining too hard to go outside to play at lunchtime, so we got the dressing up clothes out......

We had FUN!

We enjoyed taking photos of other people dressed up too.

What would you dress as?