Today we had a new challenge: to find out information from a book and share it with others. We remembered the information, wrote it in our own words and then read our sentence/s to the class.

We had great fun this afternoon decorating coat hangers to sell at our stall on Saturday. We used our knowledge of symmetry to create attractive patterns.

We will also have a lucky cup game. If you find a “jewel” hidden in the sand in your cup, you win a prize.

We are all looking forward to Saturday!

We looked at a painting showing shipbuilding and thought about the sights, noises and  smells that would have been experienced at a shipbuilding yard.

See the painting here:https://www.mcmanus.co.uk/content/collections/database/shipbuilding

We enjoyed looking at the whaling exhibits.

The weapons used to catch whales were huge and looked very heavy.

We saw bottles of whale oil, a whale eardrum, models of whaling ships, a narwhal tusk and pictures whalers made on whale’s teeth in their spare time.

Having seen all the heavy equipment on board HMS Unicorn , we were puzzled as to how it manged to float!!

We used our learning from class, that ships need to be a certain shape and have air in their design.

We took play dough and experimented making it into boat shapes which would float.

As part of our learning about shipbuilding we visited HMS Unicorn.

Although it wasn’t built in Dundee, it was built in a similar way to those built here. It has spent most of its life in Dundee.

It doesn’t have any sails as it has been used a s a training ship. If it had, it would have looked like this:

We saw the Unicorn figurehead:

And heard a ship’s bell:

We saw the captain’s room:

Learned about firing cannons:

Learned about all the things you might find below deck:

And we learned about how rocky it might have been:

Last week we were learning more about whaling in Dundee. We learned about the Tay Whale and Andrew went to learn more about it in a book. When he couldn’t find any information , he researched it on the internet and found it was 40 foot long. Mrs Taylor told him that a f ruler is a foot long and suggested he might like to measure the length in the corridor.

Mason helped him , but as we only have 33 rulers they soon ran out . They calculated that they would need another 7 rulers and borrowed these from P3 to finish their measuring.

It was fun to use our learning across the curriculum and we were all amazed at how long the whale was!

Today we saw the Tay whale at the Mc Manus galleries. It really is huge!

Find out more about the Tay whale here:https://www.mcmanus.co.uk/object-of-the-month

We selected toys to buy and found the correct coins for our purchases.

We listened to the story of the Good Shepherd and enjoyed making pictures to remind us of the story.

We enjoyed another play session with P5 who had been learning how to be play leaders. They had made up some games and were expert in explaining the games to us and helping their younger friends.

Thank you again P5!