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?

Biodiversity and babies

As always, it's been a busy week.

In maths we're using money to solve problems and in real-life situations - like planning fictional parties.

In health we've been thinking about how we grow and change, and the different things we can do as we get older.

We spent some time discussing things that newborn babies can do, things that 10 month old babies can do, 3 year olds and what we can do now. We're also thinking about things we'll be able to do when we're older - like drive a car and vote in an election.

Mrs Wolanska brought Jan in to visit us. We were able to check whether we were correct about the things a newborn baby could do, as Jan is just 3 weeks old. Here he is with his Mum and proud big sisters.

It was sunny on Thursday, so we were able to do Show and Tell outside again. Sometimes the traffic was noisy, but everyone has got much more confident at speaking in front of an audience so we were able to hear everyone clearly.

We're still working on biodiversity. Now we're making PowerPoint slideshows about the biodiversity you find around Orkney's coasts. We're hoping to put them on the blog when they're finished and to show them to parents at the class assembly.

We're still working on the props for the class assembly - we have to work together to make things. We had our first full rehersal this week too.

Here we are in music, writing the music for our lifeboat song.

We're practising for sports day when we get the chance. The 3 legged race is hard!

Do you think we're having fun?

It's Christmas ...

We've been having lots of Christmas fun this week.

We've been healthy - we got some exercise and practised our co-ordination by dancing along with 'dancing Santa'.

We played some health games and we played in P3's healthy cafe. We were really happy they let us play there - it's fun. We served lots of healthy food.

In maths we had to estimate how many P4s would be the same length as an adult bottlenose dolphin. It took 3 P4s lying down to be the same length. We looked on P1's blog to find out how many P1s were the same length as a leatherback turtle.Two P1s were the same length as a turtle.

We decided to see how much a dolphin weighed. We couldn't weigh a real dolphin, but Rainbow, our toy dolphin (which we got because we are adopting Rainbow from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) has now arrived at Glaitness so we found out how many pens it took to balance the scales. One group then tried weighing a full water bottle. It was very difficult!

We practised our times tables by playing games. Do you think we enjoyed it?

Here is our Christmas maths grid.

We completed our class Olympics.

Here is the mini marathon.

The markers had to count how many laps their runner did. Some people used tally marks.

We had the long jump final too. Everyone helped people to remember where your feet had to start.

Bend the knees and use your arms!

We finished the javelin final too. Ewan's throw went so high up the wall that we had to use lots of different maths to work out how far it had gone and not just a measuring tape. We had to estimate how many bricks up it had hit, and measure one brick and then multiply to find out how high it had hit.

We're looking forward to the medal ceremony next week.

Here we are having some quiet time in the library.

In ICT we could choose to play a game or look at our class blog or another class blog.

We had our Christmas service in the Cathedral. Here we are rehearsing there in the afternoon. Mrs MacNab said we sang really well in front of all the parents in the evening, and the readers did very well too. They were very scared but they read clearly and fluently. Well done everyone!

Back in school we made Christmas cards. We used our painting with light Christmas pictures.

Do you like the cards?

On Friday afternoon we had our Christmas party with class 3. Some of the Mums came and helped. They served us jelly and ice cream and juice and we were very happy that they helped us. Thank you, Mrs Kemp and Mrs Smith.

We had lots of fun at the party. We danced and played games.

Mrs MacNab got her hair done specially for the party.

Do you like it?