Author: Mrs Armstrong

Here are some of the plans and costumes made by the children in the hub yesterday.

My plan and Book Day costume.

By Brooke

This is some of the photos we took on  march the 1st. We went on a big walk and saw some really interesting and fascinating things. The names of the flowers are snowdrops and a crocus and the lambs had just been born.

Bye Olivia!

Hi Everyone,

At today’s Big Book Blether Mrs Jardine asked if I knew any good books with settings from around the world, so here are my recommendations:

Early Level:

Hug and other Bobo Stories by Jez Alborough

Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne

Lots by Marc Martin

The Tiger Child – Joanna Troughton

First Level:

Chinese Children’s Favourite Stories by Mingmei Yip

Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales

The Cat Who Walked Across France by Kate Banks

Three samurai cats : a story from Japan  by Eric A. Kimmel

Second Level:

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah

(Would recommend the last two books for P7 upwards)

 

Finally, here is an extra recommendation for 1st/2nd level, it’s set in London, England, but so many children have been saying on the blog and in the  hub about how we should not drop litter and we should recycle more, so I thought a few of you might enjoy The Wombles series, by Elisabeth Beresford.

Hope you find a story that you enjoy!

Lots of literacy this morning, with lots of concentration on cursive writing.  Maths was mainly about angles. Everyone had to look for angles and take photos, then sort angles into groups – obtuse,  acute, or right angles. (There were so many photos of angles we couldn’t post them all!) The second level children also practised measuring angles with protractors. This afternoon we had some time in the forest, did some Arctic work and the Lego challenge.

I  crushed  ice into       little  pieces  so i    could  make  an  ice  globe.

BY KYE

There was lots of writing this morning in the hub, which the children chose to extend after break time, so only a small amount of number work done this morning. Then a walk in the woods this afternoon, with some trust games in the park, followed by the Lego challenge. In the woods we saw a woodpecker by following its tapping sound.

Ella wrote about her holiday. This is a great picture of the wasp she saw.

Hello, Here is a message for anyone who has had a shot at making their own ice core this week.

What to look out for:

• If you have a thinner layer this represents a year with less snow.
• If you have a layer with cracks in it this represents a year that was warmer – the cracks happen when the weather warms up and cools down.
• If you have a layer with something in it… it could be volcano debris that has blown across the Arctic. Or it could be pollution of some kind.

Now you can see how the ice cores help the researchers find out what it was like in previous years in the Arctic.

Show us your ice cores on the blog!