We found out lots of facts about Canada and USA. We used these facts to create posters and label host cities. Emily researched the USA at home and shared these facts with the class and Alfie in p5/6 showed us his ice hockey equipment.
Our day was very different today as we transformed our classroom into a Victorian school room. We took on Victorian roles as pupils and teacher to re-enact a typical Victorian day.
9.15 Line up: Boys and Girls lines- single file
9.20 Inspection: uniform and hands
9.25 Drill: marching
9.30 Victorian Proverbs: Practice makes perfect
9.40 Handwriting: cursive script
9.55 Arithmetic : chanting times tables, addition and subtraction
10.15 Singing: My Bonnie lies over the ocean
10.25 Study of an object: A clothes peg
10.35 Break
10.55 Playground games: hop skotch, marbles, skipping, hoops
11. 45 Posture and Alignment
12 Copy writing of proverbs: Waste not, want not
12.15 Create peg dolls
Today we had a great visit to Dumfries House organised by RHET. We learnt about pigs, bees and honey, keeping livestock safe, countryside and dogs, yarn and felt making, Highland meat, rapeseed oil, being an auctioneer and dairy farming. We also saw and met pigs, cows, lambs, calves, geese, chickens, horses and chicks. A great fun packed learning experience.
Steven Fraser came in from RBS to teach us about money. We participated in a workshop working out costs, identifying needs and wants and how we can save, budget or donate money. We also learnt to play some new money games.
We participated in athletics activities outside in the field using hurdles, javelin and running. Then we went to the garden to replant our potatoes into pots.
We cleared the planters in the garden then planted carrots and flowers. We picked up lots of rubbish and tided up the garden. Great work P4/5!
Primary 7 demonstrated their leadership skills by setting up, organising and participating in PE activities for and with P4/5.
We joined an online RHET session with an Ayrshire Potato Farmer who told us all about the process of planting, growing and harvesting potatoes. We contributed questions online during the presentation to deepen our understanding then we completed a persuasive writing task to create a poster to persuade people about the goodness and benefits of potatoes.
Based on our topic of Australia we created Australian animals out of clay that are often part of the Aboriginal Dream Time stories.
When the sun was shining we took the opportunity to run the daily mile, play ball games, skip, build, create and play games together.
