Storytelling

We've been doing some storytelling for our link school in Canada. We've finished the first story - Tam Bichan. You can hear it on the wiki we created to give the pupils in Outma Sqilx's Cultural School information about Orkney.

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 story.

We're hoping to add more stories as we get them recorded.

Our box has arrived in Canada!

Our box has arrived in our link school in the Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada. The pupils have opened it and they liked all the things inside it. They left a message for us on our blog here.

They sent us some letters too and we enjoyed reading them. We're hoping to reply to them soon. We found out that they like a lot of the same things as us, but the wildlife they see is very different. They have bears and rattlesnakes!

Did you know they're getting a new school built? We saw photos of the place where the new school will be built. There's wild horses there just now.

World Maths Day

It's World Maths Day on Wednesday 3rd March. We've all got logins for the World Maths Day website (it's linked on the sidebar here too). The website is running now so we can practise - on Wednesday there will be real competitions on it all day.

Today we were practising and we played against other children all over the world. You have to answer as many questions as you can in a minute - so you need to think fast! We played people in Canada, America, Ecuador, Japan, China, Germany and more countries. The website shows you a map of the world so you can see where the people you are playing against come from.

Lots of people are planning to use the website at home while it's live for the next week. It's fun playing against children in other countries!

Good luck everyone.

Our Solar System and PE

Here's the constellation some of us created this week. We wrote a myth about it too - that will be appearing on the blog in a few weeks when the other groups have done theirs.

Abbie got a planetarium and brought it in for us all to see. We enjoyed watching the planets orbiting the sun and we discovered that they stay in the same order so Mercury is always the planet closest to the sun.

The first day the classroom wasn't dark enough to see the constellations on the ceiling, but Mrs Scot held a big piece of paper for us to see the constellations on. Then we got some curtains and put them up and shut the blinds and we were able to see the constellations faintly on the ceiling.

Can you find any constellations in the sky?

We're still trying to look at the moom every night. What shape is it tonight?

Here are P4 writing newspaper articles about the space shuttle. They watched some interviews with astronuats and took notes first. Taking notes was hard!

Here we are doing tennis in PE. We learned how to play tennis rounders!

In RME we've been learning about Hinduism. This week we learned about reincarnation and karma and we made a game. Do you know what karma is?

This was our last week of gymnastics with Mr Berry and we were showing off how much we have improved, especially at balances.

In Golden Time some people were making aliens, others were using the techno lego to build things. We're hoping we get to use techno lego again next week.

Do you like our models?

What would you make?