Recycled Bottle Fish

April 13, 2011 User deactivated 5 Comments

We are on holiday at the moment but before we came off we were working on recycling some of the bottles we had collected into these fantastic fish.

First we covered the bottle with a layer of newspaper and a layer of paper towel. Then we added another layer of tissue paper and glue to make them really colourful. We made eyes by taping on some recycled bottle tops. We also covered these with tissue. Finally, we made tails and fins from coloured card and added some sparkles. We have also added a hook and some string so we can hang them up. Don’t they look fantastic?

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Mother’s Day

April 3, 2011 User deactivated 8 Comments

We have been busy this week preparing special treats for our lovely mums. We couldn’t post until today as we didn’t want to spoil the surprises!!

We painted our mum’s portrait, wrote poems and made cards.

Some of the Superstars wanted to share their poems with you.

Happy Mother’s Day to all mums – we hope you have a very special day!

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More about recycling

March 28, 2011 User deactivated Leave a comment

Today a small group of us went to visit the recycling centre in Arbroath.

This is where all our recycled items go once they have been picked up by the kerbside collection vans.

It was very interesting and we are going to report back to the rest of the class tomorrow.

Thank you to Charlie for showing us around.

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Superstars 25.3.11

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Postcard Project

March 24, 2011 User deactivated 9 Comments

021_opt — A walk in the sunshine to post our cards.

We have joined a new postcard project where we can send and receive postcards all around the world.

It was started By Mrs Leakey and her class in New Zealand. Click here to go to her class blog and read more about it.

We started receiving postcards very quickly after we had joined the project. So far, we have had postcards from our friends at Burravoe PS in Shetland, Hawaii and other American states, Canada and Australia.

Today, we posted cards back to all these classes and some more to those on the list such as Russia and New Zealand.

032_opt — Some of the postcards we have been sent.

We used all this postcard activity to discuss the ways in which postcards differ from letters and looked at the layout and features of a postcard. We practised writing postcards to tell people all about Arbroath.

015_opt — This postcard was to the band AC/DC.

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Skittle Graphing

March 24, 2011 User deactivated 4 Comments

We continued practising our maths and graphing skills by counting the contents of a packet of skittles.

We worked in pairs to sort the skittles by colour and put the results into a table. We then drew a graph, using everything we had learned about drawing a graph correctly such as labelling it correctly.

When we had finished, we got to eat the skittles!

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RNLI Assembly Video

March 22, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

Here is a video of our assembly. We had “technical difficulties” with the first video so this video was filmed without an audience, or Allan or Tommy from the RNLI but we are sure you will still enjoy it!!

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Odd and Even Problem Solving

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We have been learning about problem solving with number patterns with Mr Robb. Yesterday we were looking at oddd and even numbers. Here is a clip from the BBC that will help use remember what we have learned.

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RNLI Assembly

March 19, 2011 User deactivated 2 Comments

It was our turn to present an assembly on Friday. At the start of the school year we took Flat Stanley to visit the lifeboats. We had a really great trip and having learned that the RNLI is a charity, we decided then that we would like to raise some money for them.

Fast forward to January and we tool part in the RNLI’s SOS day, through having a sponsored spell and inviting parents to a Scottish afternoon, during which we collected donations.

During our assembly we took the parts of newsreaders, reporters, lifeguards and people at the beach to report on what we had been learning about the RNLI, how to stay safe at the beach, and to tell the whole school about our fundraising efforts.

We raised a total of £267.37 which we are amazingly proud of.

Allan and Tommy, who are both part of the Arbroath Lifeboat Crew, kindly came along to watch our assembly and to let us present our cheque to them.

We all worked very hard to learn our parts and Mrs Stewart thinks we did an fantastic job.

We are hoping to be able to show you a video of our assembly soon. Here are some pictures in the meantime.