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?

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.

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!