Birsay!

We had a great trip to Birsay, studying the biodiversity of the coast there. We predicted that we would find different things to Scapa - and we were right. We didn't expect to find so many hermit crabs though - we found over 50 in one rockpool!

We did a Bag the Bruck. The beach looked clean but we still managed to find 52 pieces of bruck in 5 minutes!

How many different types of seaweed can you find?

Can you name them all?

Here's some pictures of the fun we had rockpooling.

Mrs MacNab paddled into a rockpool to photograph this sea anemone with the waterproof camera ...

... and her feet got wet! She had a hole in her wellies!

We had a great time.

The sun even came out and there was lots of blue sky.

The hermit crab in the pink top shell was most people's favourite.

This is the hermit crab that nipped Mrs MacNab!

We found lotd of interesting things like crabs, goose barnacles and sea hares.

We love rockpooling!

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.

The animated classroom

 Becky came back to see how we got on making our own animation so we showed her our video.

Becky shows us her animations.

We watched a new animation she had made with lots of different materials. She had made the sound effects from fabric, a sewing machine, poppers and a zip! Then we looked at some other films which she had found which used fruit and vegetables and even cupcakes!

This is one of our favourite animations by Becky.

Our link school has also made their own animations for a competition. We got some ideas from watching what they did. You can have a look at them here:

http://www.r2rfestival.org/node/1042


http://www.r2rfestival.org/node/953

http://www.r2rfestival.org/node/415

We made some flick books with Becky. Some of them are really work well and the fish looks like it is jumping or blowing bubbles. This is an easy and fun way to make your own animation.

Land Art at Birsay - please vote in our poll

When we were at Birsay beach we had a land art competition. Here are the things we made. Please vote (on the top right of this page) for which you think the winning piece of land art should be. The poll closes on 2nd June.

Everything was made with natural materials we found on the beach.

What would you make?

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!