We made bird feeders out of cheerios with Mrs More.    It  was too wet to go out that day so we went out the next day with Mrs Petrie to put them on the trees.

It is important to feed the birds in winter because they can’t get food because it is too cold, there are no insects and nothing is growing.

We are going to try and remember to feed the birds in our garden this winter.

We are doing assessments because Mrs Petrie needs to check what we know and what we have learned.   This telles her what she needs to do next.

We made posters about bridges so we could show what we had learned.  We presented our posters and everyone said something about their bridge.

Here are the pictures.

We also did our big writing assessment.

We are off to hang out our bird feeders in our school orchard.  We will take photos and show you them next week.

This week we made suspension bridges in groups using chairs, ropes, string and a wooden plank.  We got  two chairs and put them apart from each other.  They were meant to be the towers of the bridge.  Then we got ropes and tied them onto the chairs, these were meant to be the cables.  We had to pull them tight and hold them.  In a real bridge they would be anchored to the ground.  We tied string onto the ropes and tried to get the string all at the same level.  We balanced the wooden plank onto the string and we sat a car on there to see if it would balance.  We had to adjust the strings to get our car to stay on the wooden plank.  In a real bridge the roadway would sway back and forth in a high wind because it is not fixed to the ground it is being held up by the cables.

There is a suspension bridge near Clackmannan called the Forth Road Bridge.  You have to go over it on the way to Edinburgh.

Here are our photos.

We chose a poppy on the lochside on the poppyscotland website.  Please go and find it and look for our special message.

The Jacobite  has reached the Glenfinnan Viaduct.

Mrs Petrie says ‘What is a viaduct’?

‘Its a bridge with lots of arches’, said Holly.    ‘Its got a long span’ said Ella

‘Its made of stone and bricks’ said Mackenzie      ‘It carries cars and trains across valleys’ sais Ross Sutherland.

We have also talked about swing bridges.  Ava says ‘Kincardeine Bridge is a swing bridge’.

We have talked about cantilever and suspension bridges.  We will talk more about them next week.  We are also going to make a model of a suspension bridge next week.

This week we invited our family and friends to look around our classroom.  We all had places to stand so we could tell our visitors what we had been doing and what a display was all about.

Here we are in our positions.

S and C were telling the visitors about Jog Scotland.

R and M were telling visitors about our golden time stars.

A, E, E and E were at our maths wall and our maths checkout wall.

E and L were at the class timetable and our information board.

R and D  were at the phonics and spelling wall.E and K were at our class charter and the rights wall.

C was at our posters about scottish wildlife.

H was telling people about red deer and how the passengers on the jacobite may have seen red deer from the windows.

H and L were at Stevenson’s rocket telling our visitors facts about this train.

A and J were at the VCOP wall telling people how we use this wall.

C and J were at the boats on the caledonian canal.

B was also at the red deer and he handed out tickets to the visitors with Harris.

We all enjoyed ourselves and we would like to say thank you to everyone who came to our classroom.

We have been looking at puffins, redsquirrels, red deer, otters, ospreys and pine martens.  We have been learning about where they live in Scotland and what they eat.

Keeley says that red squirrels live in pine forests.   Ella says red deer live in the hills and mountains.  Harris says ospreys favourite food is fish and they are very good at catching them.  Emma says otters live in the sea or in the rivers.  Barry says puffins can carry about 80 small fish in their beaks. 

We have made posters and we are making a book about Scottish Wildlife.

We want to do pictures to put up because we think we could see these animals on our train journey.

We have fantastic costumes on for Halloween.  Can you guess who we are?

This week we made vegetable soup.  We used vegetables that grow in Scotland.  We used turnip, potatoes, carrots and leeks.  We chopped the vegetables and we only had 3 cut fingers.  We had to remember to keep the knife far away from our fingers.  The next day Mrs Birrell cooked the soup for us on her stove in the kitchen.  While the soup was cooking we made healthy wholemeal bread to eat with the soup.  After playtime we went along to the dining room and we ate the soup with our bread.  Emma thought it was amazing.  Ross Millar thought it was great.  Hollie thought it was delicious.  After we had eaten the soup some of us wrote an advert using lots of adjectives to describe our soup.  Some of us wrote down what we did making sure we had everyhting in the correct order. 

On Thursday Mrs More read us a story called Mr Wolf’s Turnip and we wrote our own stories on a story strip.  Then we printed with potatoes.  That was fun!

This week we made a ticket collector for our railway.  We gave a watch and a hat with a badge on it and we hung him up in our classroom and on our door.

On Thursday we wrote a story about the ticket collector.  We thought of good adjectives to describe him:

friendly      clever     hard-working      busy      helpful      tall      tired       happy

We put these words in our stories.  Come and see our ticket collectors!