Holywood Hullabaloo

Hello P4/5,

Join the Big Class Catch Up for P4/5 tomorrow at 2pm.

You get in the same way as the senior pupils but your Team has a BEE MEDAL as it’s logo.

See you on Teams!

Miss Dale

Noah worked hard to solve the teacup challenge.

Do you agree with his solution?

He also said it was fun!!  What?!?!  Learning fun…

Thanks Noah,

Miss Dale

 

Hi Everybody,

Today and yesterday I have been learning about the Inuit people. and how they live in the polar climate. Here is a picture of were some of the Inuit communities are. There are four different groups stretching across northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Did you know the word Eskimo might be an indigenous word meaning raw meat eaters given to them by people south of were the Inuit live but there are a few different theories.

Inuk means one Inuit person, Inuuk is the the word for two Inuit people  and Inuit describes the people who live in Canada and Alaska. The people in Greenland call themselves Kalaallit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have also learnt about there culture and traditions like an inukshuk here’s a picture. They are used to point the way home if your lost.

 

Now I haven’t learnt about the Inuit alphabet but I think it looks like star wars writing so I’ve included a picture.

See you, Joe

 

Hi everyone. This is my happy photo for today. My friend kindly bought me these beautiful flowers and I am enjoying looking at them as I am working at home. I hope you are all having a good week of home learning so far.

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.

Hi all, Caspian is back!

My happiness picture is of Idris in the woods today but she kept bouncing around so the picture is blurry. She is a really funny and cute dog and we always have a great time on our walks. We are still doing our mile a day challenge, we even did it in the rain at the weekend.

First this morning I did some algebra. Then my spelling today focussed on one word in particular. I can finally spell DISAPPEAR!!!!!!!! Mum gave me three challenges to help me remember the spelling. First I speed wrote disappear as many times as I could in one minute. Then I wrote five sentences with the word disappear. Finally, I created a wordograph.

Next I did the letter ink blots. Followed by French. The exercise with the animal sounds is wrong as it says pigs oink in French and also groin in French. The first French should have been English. Mum said I had a keen editorial eye. Also in the word search, I found that cheval stands for goats cheese. I finished on 5 a day. I had to do all my workings out as Mum realised my last lot were done with a calculator. Oops, I was caught, sorry!!

After Tanith’s calm club, Mark introduced us all to Mongolian tribal heavy metal music. Mum, Mark and me created a tribal dance to the beat of the music but Tanith didn’t like it so didn’t join in. It is nothing like the songs she writes or likes. I thought the heavy metal was cool and really different.

Ciao!

My Grandad & Grandma with mine and Niamh’s ears on

My Uncles Black German Shepherd, Max

Day 5 of home school learning today i done 1 hour of sumdog then i coloured half and colour quarter and done my mixed up 3 times table.  I tried to watch Zog and the Flying Doctor but it’s not working.  Instead i created a character i thought would be in the show.

Hello everyone, I went to the wood during my challenge walk. Mummy took a picture of me on the tree swing for my happy picture because it made me smile and laugh a lot to swing high.

In the morning, I did some maths partitions, a letter dot to dot and very neat curly writing in my spellings. For my picture news I read about people being kind to each other. I try to be kind by giving home made jam to our shopping delivery men and ladies. One man liked it so much that he asked for another jar when he saw us again. We also make cupcakes for our neighbours and write cards to old people homes and the hospitals.

I have done some fractions colouring in today. Quarters are difficult I think but Mark and Mummy have helped me. Dodger is a bit better. He had to be picked up by the vet lady again on Saturday as he was really poorly but he seems to be cheering up a bit now. He has a lot of medicine and some special food.

I set up a calm club today. Everyone had to sit with cross legs and follow what I said. We all imagined being small in a big world and riding on the back of lovely birds. It made us all smile a lot and we will do it every day.

Mark played us a  weird kind of music today. It was Mongolian heavy metal tribe music. I didn’t like it much but everyone else did a tribal dance around the woods when Mark played it on his phone.

Have fun, smile every day, be happy and see you soon. Lots of love from Tanith xxx