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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Flat Stanley visits Sensations
Flat Stanley visits Sensations.
On Wednesday we had a fun and educational day out at Sensations Science Centre. Click on the link to see our video.
Thanks to all the staff at the Centre who helped make it such a great day!
This week’s Superstars!
Wow! Look how many spelling superstars we have this week. Well done everyone!
Flat Stanley has a Spooky Adventure
We have written some spooky Halloween adventures. They are over on Flat Stanley’s blog but only have a look if you are very brave………………
Firework Art on Friday
As you may have noticed from previous posts, we always do an art lesson on Friday afternoons, before our Golden Time.
This week we are working on a class art project. We used a large sheet of black paper and took it in turns to throw kitchen roll soaked in fluorescent paint at it. The paint “splatted out” to look like fireworks. It is a work in progress as we will have to finish it next week, once the kitchen roll “splats” have dried.
We thought you might like to have a look at the fun we had making it in the meantime!
Healthy Activities at the Saltire
This morning we went to the Saltire Sports Centre to take part in a morning of sports and healthy eating activities organised by the sports coaching students at Angus College. It was a busy morning and we all had an energetic and fun time. Thank you to all the students and staff who organised this event.
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Magnetic Science
On Tuesday mornings Mr Robb comes to teach us science. At the moment our science topic is forces and we are learning about magnets. We have learned that a magnet has poles at either end and when the opposite poles pull together it is called attraction and when like poles meet they repel (push apart).
This Tuesday we made kites with a woollen tail, attached a paper clip and experimented to see if we could pull the kites up in the air with a magnet while the end of it’s tail was still touching the floor.
We are loving our science lessons!
Making Friends around the World
This year we are going to be penfriends with a fourth grade class (Primary 5) in America. Their school is in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. They wrote to us before the October holiday and we sent off our replies this week.
Through their teacher, Jennifer Colvin, we are also exchanging postcards with all the American States (all 50). We have already started receiving postcards. We are going to make our own and hope to start sending them soon.
We are also participating in some mini projects with an elementary class in Taiwan
They have written to us about the Chinese Moon festival. We learned about the legend of the festival and sequenced and illustrated the story.
Here is a video.
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We also watched a video about the making of mooncakes, which is a traditional delicacy eaten at this time. We thought they looked yummy!
In return, we learned about the traditions associated with Hogmanay in Scotland and we made posters and sent these to Taiwan along with some information about ourselves.
We are really looking forward to keeping in touch with our friends throughout the year.
Our Local Area with Flat Stanley
We have been investigating houses and homes in our local area with Flat Stanley. This week we went out with Mrs Campbell to take some photographs of houses around our school, made collages of our own homes and during our Walk on Wednesday we looked out for examples of street furniture and took more photographs.
We are also drawing maps of the route we walk from school to home. We are doing this for our homework this week. Flat Stanley was bit worried that he would forget how to get to our houses if he was ever invited back for tea!!
