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Good morning everyone!
You might remember looking at the picture or video about the parka that came from the Arctic. That was from the British Museum’s Arctic Exhibition. A while ago I contacted the British Museum to ask if anyone was available from the Arctic Exhibition to do a live chat with Holywood Primary, but unfortunately many staff at the museum have been furloughed or are working from home due to Covid restrictions, so that is not possible.
However… the museum has said that if we would like to send any questions about the Arctic to the museum experts they will try and answer your questions. They will either reply by email, or if they can record a video answer they will do that. What a great opportunity to find out more about the Arctic from the experts!
In case you’d like a reminder about the parka, and if you would like to see the rest of the Arctic Exhibition at the British Museum, here is a link to the Exhibition web page:
Arctic: culture and climate | British Museum
Here’s your chance! Reply to this blog post with any questions you have about the Arctic for the British Museum experts, by Friday, and I will email your questions to the museum and let you have any answers as they come back to me. They did say there may be a slight delay to the Covid situation, but they will answer your questions as best they can.
Lots of maths and literacy done in the hub today. Special mentions to …
…Carlay, who worked hard on her number order and checked that her numbers were the right way round.
…James, who worked very hard on his addition.
…Olivia, who coached a younger child to upload a photo onto the blog.
…Olly, who tried something he thought was a challenge, persevered and was SUCCESSFUL!
…Brooke, who drew and labelled a traditional Inuit parka and compared it to modern clothing that would be worn in the Arctic.
…Daniel, who independently completed the Venn diagram task for The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.
More clay polar bears have been begun and some have been painted and finished.
Some children have been using their typography skills to make lettering for our Arctic display.
Lovely to see some P4s and P5s (and their pets) on the Teams meet up, today!
Click on the link to see Rhys’ PowerPoint presentation for an Arctic holiday.
The pdf for the BIG Thursday STEM extension isn’t working, so here is a link that should work!
The hovercraft Lego challenge created lots of interest. Olly and Bailey even checked theirs on land and water to see if the models would float. Great idea to check it out, boys!
More work was done on Arctic posters, Sumdog, Epic and spellings. We had a little spare time, so we had a game of wink murder in the hall.
The life size polar bear is coming along nicely…it’s just needing more covering for the bones.
The P4s and P5s enjoyed seeing their classmates on Teams, this afternoon.
We made Scottish and Eskimo ice cream recipes. Some children didn’t like berries so we left those out of both recipes. Freddie said he was expecting the Eskimo ice cream to taste bad, but it was better than he thought it would be! Findlay said that both ice creams smelled the same. Even Bailey enjoyed one of the ice creams! The winner of the taste test in school was the Scottish recipe, but if you are at home don’t take our word for it – try it! The Eskimo recipe was said to be less creamy and without taste, so maybe the berries would have helped!
Good morning, hope everyone is well.
I read Caspian’s last blog post with interest as I had not heard of Mongolian heavy metal. So I looked it up and played some for my family and one of my boys said, “Isn’t that The HU?” Apparently he is already quite keen on Mongolian heavy metal, I just didn’t know! The HU is a Mongolian heavy metal band.
Anyway, the reason I wanted to look it up (apart from Caspian’s recommendation) was because as I have been learning about the Arctic I have learnt that some tribes from the Arctic also use the throat singing, or growling, method. This is not compulsory to watch, but if you are interested this video tells you how to do the throat singing and also mentions the drums which are used. Drumming and dancing is popular with the Arctic people.
Inuit throat-singing sisters from Canada – YouTube
Thanks for taking our learning further, Caspian. I have to say, like Tanith, the heavy metal is not all to my taste, but the throat singing is interesting how it mirrors the sounds of nature.
Hello everyone. I would like to share my happy photo for today. This is where I have been for a lot of today – checking the blog. It has made me mightily happy to see so many of Team Holywood children taking part and posting their news and work. There have been some super quality work posts, that the children should feel proud of (and the parents and grandparents who have supported the children!).
(The other part of this photo that has made me happy is that I have moved one of my bird feeders closer to the window, so I can see them while I am working. Which is cool, but not as exciting as the blog posts!)
Hope you all have a happy weekend, from Mrs Armstrong.
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