The Beech class are learning about poverty as part of our ECO topic. This has lead us to learn about different countries in Africa. So far, we have explored where Africa is and some aspects of the different cultures. We used Google translate to hear what our names sound like in Swahili and Afrikaans, explored African music and dance, made our own version of the South African flag, culture and finally learned a bit about what life is like in parts of the world that don’t have technology.
We were very responsible trying to think about what aspects of life are represented in each photo taken in Africa. All of the photos represented an aspect of life without technology such as plumbing, TV, a cooker or a washing machine. 
Exploring African culture through a music listening exercise.
Our South African flag!
After learning about how African life is different to life in Scotland we decided to try to design our own toys, just like they do in Africa, using only natural or recycled materials. We made a boat and a car! We decided though that we much prefer having technology. we are very lucky!
Starting to make Maasai warrior shields for our boys while the girls explored African jewellery and dress!
We expored lots of different games and technology-based toys!
The girls really enjoyed practising our poritional language through the use of BeeBots.
A QR Code treasure hunt! 
Touch Tronic numeracy app on the iPad. 
These turtles have instructions recorded on them which instruct us to find another turtle with a different number on it.
We used a digital timer to record how many baskets we can shoot in one minute…
The boys played snakes and Ladders with digital dice!
We used a ‘Chatter Block’ as a talking dice that told us upon rolling it which number to find on the ground and then instructed us how to travel to it!
Exploring our sense of smell and taste…
Discovering how sound waves travel…
Colour changing flowers experiment…
We made music using cups filled with different volumes of water, we used glow sticks to make it more visual!
