Our new topic and a building team challenge

We started our new topic called 'Our Solar System' by writing down questions we want answered during the topic. Mrs MacNab said she was very impressed with our questions. There's so much we want to know we might not have time to find it all out this term, but Mrs MacNab is putting links to lots of space websites on our class learning links on this blog, so we can look some things up ourselves.

This is us looking at the tree octopus website.

Here we are learning about weighing things in maths.

On Thursday afternoon we did a team challenge. We had to make a stand that would hold a 1/2 kg weight for a minute without collapsing. Some people found it difficult to work in teams, but we are learning to listen to everyone's ideas and work together better. Mrs MacNab says we will be doing more challenges this term so we can practise working with lots of different people. We can work well with different people in PE but we find it much harder to do in the classroom!

Getting the materials we were allowed...

Good teamwork - helping each other.

All working hard on the task.

Nearly finished the stand and about to think about making it look good.

One team made a leaning stand! We couldn't believe it still managed to hold the 1/2 kg weight for a whole minute without falling over.

Mrs MacNab says that next time we do a challenge somebody in the group will be a quality checker so someone reminds everyone to check that the work is good quality.

Everyone managed to work well in a team by the end of the afternoon, and everyone's stand held the weight without falling over. At the end we all thought about the things we had done well and what we thought we could do better next time we have to work in a team. Hopefully the next challenge will be ever better!

The tree octopus

The tree octopus

On Thursday we got out the laptops and looked at a tree octopus website and found lots of information on it. Mrs MacNab asked us if we would like to adopt one. Most people said yes but James said it looked disgusting, Alanah said it too. There were lots of pictures and one of them had a tree octopus in a Christmas tree. Then Mrs MacNab told us it wasn’t real. We all felt so stupid!

by Molly Hay

 
The website was very realistic and I'm not surprised everyone thought it was real. Nobody was stupid! Everyone learned that not everything we read on websites is true.

Sometimes books are not true as well because they may be out-of-date. Sometimes things in newspapers are not true because people can write anything they want to persuade you that they are right. Mrs MacNab could write that P3/4 are a very bad class but that wouldn't mean it was true (it isn't true!).

We are learning to think about where information comes from.
 
by Mrs MacNab


The tree octopus lives in a tree. We do not know what they eat but do you know the tree octopus does not exist? People filmed real octopus and put them in trees or used pretend octopus toys.


by Dani