Ancient Greece and lots of maths

We seem to have linked almost all our work to Ancient Greece and maths this week.

We had a Greek food tasting on Tuesday. Most people tried something new and got a sticker. One pupil tried everything! Mrs MacNab was very impressed.

Some people really didn't like some of the food, especially the octopus and olives. Mrs MacNab didn't like the octopus either! Mrs Stanger said the olives were the worst.

We had bread, white grape juice, red grape juice, black olives, green olives, figs, octopus, goat and sheep's milk cheese (feta cheese), Greek butter beans, loukamis (like Turkish delight but very very sweet) and honey sesame seed snaps.

Do you think they are enjoying the food?

In Drama we worked in groups. We used props to help us make up stories. The props all became characters - like a Scottish person (kilt), dragon (wings) and lots more and then we made up a story using all of our characters. It was fun.

Here we are hard at work writing.


In maths we have been learning about length. P3 have been estimating and measuring in metres and finding out if things (or people) are longer than about a metre, about a metre or shorter than a metre.

P4 have been measuring in centimetres and measuring objects with curved sides.

We did Ancient Greek maths and helped Pythagoras, a mathematician from Ancient Greece, prove his theory about right angles triangles.

In PE we are still practising for the class Olympics. We did javelin and Boccia this week. We had to measure how far the javelin went - so that was maths too!

We measured using a very long measuring tape.

Can you see what we are measuring with here?

P4 made the fish and they are all about a metre long so we could use them to measure the javelin throws.

 We used a measuring tape to see whose balls were nearer the jack (white ball) in Boccia.

P4 have been learning the 6x table - here we are practising it and testing each other (using timers).

We used Greek water clocks this week to time our talks (that's in a different blog entry). Abbie thinks we should use the 5 minute water clock if anyone loses 5 minutes of Golden Time next week. Mrs MacNab hopes we don't have to use the clock!

Here are some pupils using timers to test to see if the Greek water clocks are accurate (correct).

Would you like to use a Greek water clock instead of a watch?

Games galore and painting with light.

It's been another busy week in P3/4.

In Drama we were exploring using our bodies. Here is a sculptor putting the final touches to his scuplture of the Statue of Liberty.

Here is a state of a ballet dancer. People are touring the gallery looking at the scupltures.

In PE we learned a new game called Boccia. It's pronouced 'Botcha' and is a throwing game. The Ancient Greeks invented it.

We did some running too - this is us trying different starting positions like kneeling and lying down.

Here we are in the library. We go there every week to borrow books.

This is P3 working on problem solving in maths. Everyone said it was a really hard problem this week.

Some P4s made a game to practise telling the time in different ways. They made a box for it, typed out the rules and then played it with other pupils.

We sorted times into order and were very pleased we managed it with both digital clocks and analogue clocks.

We got a new game for the whiteboard to help us with telling the time.

This is us doing health - we were writing all the things a good friend should be. Some people were allowed to go and steal ideas from other groups!

Here we are researching Greek gods.

In Golden Time some people painted these pictures. Do you know what they painted them with?