Tag: IDL evidence

Pirates come in all different shapes and sizes, with many different looks.

The Asteroids were exploring sorting items into different categories using venn and carroll diagrams. When completing our special pirate themed venn diagram, we had to look carefully at different pirates and sort them into whether they had an eye patch or a peg leg or both. Completing our carroll diagram, we had to look and see whether the pirates were male or female and whether they wore an eye patch or not.

It could be quite tricky at times but we all managed with confidence to complete our sorting activities.

Great job!

As part of our topic this term, we watched the film Brave and carried out our own film review of it.

We answered questions on which was our favourite character, scene and whether we enjoyed the film or not.

 We have been working very hard this week on our IDL topic, Brave. Merida and her family stay in a castle and so, we have been exploring castles. We have been learning the names for parts of castles by looking at clips on the board, completing worksheets and we even designed and made our own cardboard box castle so we could decorate and label it.

Super work, Asteroids!

As part of our Brave theme, we have been looking at castles this week. We have enjoyed looking at castles on the board and finding out where there are castles in Scotland, Do you know there are over 1000 castles in Scotland?

We made our very own castle, using pictures to help our design. We chose which castle to try and copy and which box to use. We also decided which colours and materials to use to decorate it.

We were all very happy with the way it turned out!

Confident Individuals/Successful Learners

This afternoon, the Asteroids paid lots of attention to paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His portraits of people are painted using different fruit and vegetables. They enjoyed finding and naming the different foods used in his paintings. We tried our own fruit and veg portraits on the Promethean board and then we used pictures of ourselves and chose which food we wanted to use for our own facial features.

Don’t they look great?

The Asteroids did a super job of using potatoes to make and mash and create a potato autumnal hedgehog.

We all tried peeling our potatoes and chopping them into small pieces ready to cook. We also helped peel a carrot and then the teachers chopped them into small pieces to make eyes and noses. Next job was to chop our sausages into small pieces to make hedgehog prickles. We all enjoyed this job the best and some of us couldn’t resist a wee taste!

We used our mashers to mash the potato and enjoyed seeing the potato squeeze through the different shapes in the mashers!

When the mash was ready, we helped make a hedgehog shape then began to arrange our sausage slices to make prickles. Last job was to pop on the chopped carrot eyes and noses. Job done!

Don’t they look great? 

Some of us were confident individuals and tried them. Yum! The sausages were by far the favourite part.