Week 7 - jellyfish and money

We love playing with technic lego in Golden Time. We create lots of different models and machines.

Some people enjoy doing craft in Golden Time. Can you guess what we're making?

We'll put photos on the blog of these when they're finished!

In maths we're still working on money. We're learning about the different coins and notes.

We're practising working out change.

We practise buying things and giving change in the smoothie shop or the P3 and P3/4 shop.

P4 have been problem solving with money. Some of us are very proud of how we did!

We're busy preparing for our class assembly. We've been researching lifeboats ...

... and building our own one.

Mrs MacNab has been really enjoying 'Coastal Show and Tell'. We've had some great things in - like these giant mermaid's purses...

... and Hector the hermit crab!

It's nearly time for the school sports day - so we've been practising. This is our trials for the relay race.

We're hoping we get good weather for sports day.

Learning outdoors

We've been making the most of the good weather, taking our learning outside as much as possible this week. As well as MADD5 when we went to Muddisdale, we also did some other lessons outside.

Here we are listening to and talking about the story of Persephone from Ancient Greece.

We went outside to write our blog entry about MADD5.

Our coastal show and tell was another thing that was good to do outside.

This is a seal's skull - some people thought it was great and some people thought it was horrible!

We planted some seeds for the 2010 Year of Biodiversity.

Some people go to Gardening Club. Here we are weeding and planting in the courtyard. We've planted lots of flowers and vegetables.

We're hoping for more good weather next week, especially for our trip to Birsay!

Almost half way through the term.

We spent some time researching lifeboats this week. We need this information for our class assembly. We found out that there are 3 lifeboats in Orkney - one each in Kirkwall, Stromness and Longhope on Hoy. The Kirkwall lifeboat is a Severn class boat.

 

We've been investigating how sand is formed. We made our own sand from stones and shells. We then looked at it using the microscope. We'll be adding some photos of what the sand looks like in the microscope.

We enjoy practising our spelling using different strategies. Here's 2 of them - back writing and newspaper search. It was quite difficult to find our spelling words in the Orcadian and Orkney Today - but we tried.

Mrs MacNab made some people do money problem solving in maths. It was really hard! We were very pleased when we finally managed to do it! We had to use 2 different problem solving strategies together to work it out.

We did a 'team memory' challenge. It was quite fun, and it's helped us to think about what information is important - and that we don't need to learn the exact words from books, we can just remember the important facts and put them into our own words.

We're still enjoying football. Mrs MacNab is very impressed with how good people are getting at dribbling the ball now, especially the people who had never played football before.

Can you guess what we're making here? It's something that lives in the sea. 

Mrs MacNab was very glad that nobody took a photo of her trying to blow up the balloons!

I wonder...

Working together, we wrote some 'I wonder' poems about the coast.

Do you know the answers?


I wonder...

Do crabs lay eggs under rocks?
How big is an adult whale?
What lives on cliffs?
How big is a puffin?
How are big cliffs made?
How many whales are there?


I wonder...

Why are rocks heavy?
How do fish swim?
What do jellyfish eat?
What do crab eggs look like?
How can jellyfish sting?
Who invented lighthouses?
How many people go to the beach?

 
 
I wonder...

Why is the sea salty?
Why do crabs hide?
How fast can sharks swim?
How are waves made?
What do fish eat?
How do dolphins jump?

Do whales lay eggs?
How heavy is a crab?
What is a mermaid’s purse?
What does a shark eat?
How are waves made?
Why are stones sometimes pink?

Coastal poetry

We've been writing poems about the coast and its wildlife. We hope you like them.

If you view the slideshow as full screen and then pause each slide you should be able to read our poems.
Here's the first 8 poems:
(Alanah, Abbie, Amy, James, Joe, Jessica, Ewan, Dani)


And here's the rest:
(Molly, Molly, Magnus, Kaitlyn, Lee, Reid)


Mrs MacNab says sorry about the quality but uploading them seems to change the quality settings so they're not as easy to read as they should be.

Storytelling

We've been doing some storytelling for our link school in Canada.  We've now got 3 stories put onto our wiki - we hope other people will listen to them too, and maybe even leave comments for us here.
You can find the link to the wiki in "Class 3/4's Links" on the right of this blog, or click here to be taken direct to the Orkney storytelling page.

We hope you enjoy listening to our stories.
 

Money, money, money

We're doing money in maths at the moment. Here we are playing money bingo.

We enjoy playing games on the whiteboard too.

Some people helped set up the shop. Now we'll be able to go shopping and practise buying things and giving change. We'll have to work out what we can afford to buy. We wonder how much money Mrs MacNab will let us spend.

We've done lots of other things this week too.

This isn't music (though we look like a choir) - it's actually drama.

Here we are practising our spelling words.

We're doing SRA reading comprehension. Most people love it!

We looked up information about coasts, watched some videos of waves creating coastal features like caves and found out what sand is made of. We started making our own sand too.

We practised our passing skills in football.

In Golden Time we had lots of fun!  What would you choose to do?

(We made these things and took all the photos ourselves too.)