Everyone had a great time at the Christmas party. There was dancing, games and some food.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!
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The Windy Windfarm
I understand how technologies help provide for our needs and wants, and how they can affect the environment in which we live.
TCH 1-07a
I can explore the latest technologies and consider the ways in which they have developed.
TCH 1-05a
I can design and construct models and explain my solutions.
TCH 1-09a
We enjoyed our visit to Whitelee Windfarm.
We found out some facts –
Murray – The blades are made in Denmark.
Calum – Whitelee is the second biggest windfarm in Europe.
Natasha – There are some poisonous snakes and other animals in the windfarm.
Andrew – One wind turbine went on fire and exploded last year.
Jessica – There are 215 wind turbines.
Isla – There are snow poles along the paths that are even taller than us.
Zoe – When we got off the school bus we were taken into a room in the visitor centre and we did some science experiments. This helped us to understand how the wind makes electricity.
Josh – Doing the science experiments was my favourite part of the trip.
Calum – When you were under the wind turbine it looked like you were falling over but it was actually the clouds moving.
When we got back we made our own windmills. We had to measure and cut the wood. We made the top by cutting the shape and folding. We used a pin to attach it to the wood. We had to wear safety goggles and gloves to protect us.
Try a New Sport – Yoga and Karate
I am developing skills and techniques and improving my level of performance. HWB 1-22a
Jessica – I liked the yoga because Debs was from my yoga class that I do after school.
Erin – I liked playing Yoga Tig.
Grace – Simon Says was the best game.
Sylvie – Karate was my favourite sport this week.
Try a New Sport Week – Tennis
I am developing skills and techniques and improving my level of performance. HWB 1-22a
We had a tennis coach teaching us some skills. After a warm up we had to hide a ball behind our back then hold it out in our left or right hand. Our partner had to hit it as quickly as they could. We then got to use a racket to hit the ball to our partner.
Zoe – Tennis was my favourite sport this week. I liked hitting the ball with the racket. My partner threw the ball. I had to catch it and hit it back.
Isla – I liked it when we had to bounce and hit the ball. We had to keep the score in our head.
SUKKOT and HARVEST
I am developing an awareness of the ways in which followers of world religions celebrate different times of year and can relate these to my own life and community. RME 1-06b
We have been learning about the Christian festival of Harvest and also the Jewish festival of Sukkot. We designed and made our own Sukkahs.
Jewish people like to thank God for looking after them.
Sukkot is celebrated in the Autumn, it is similar to the Christian festival of Harvest.
It is a time to remember the time the Jewish people spent in the wilderness, being lead by Moses, when they escaped from Egypt.
To remember and celebrate Sukkot, Jews build a sukkah.
A sukkah is a special hut with a wooden frame. The roof is made from branches and leaves because the stars can still be seen through them.
It is nicely decorated with candles and fruit. People like to hang fruits from the roof and hang pictures and decorations on the walls.
During the Sukkot celebrations Jews like to spend as much time as they can in their sukkah. They will eat, sing, tell stories and even sleep in their Sukkah.
Sharing Our Learning
Primary 3.2 wrote a book called ‘The Day the Pencils Quit.’ As we had been using punctuation to help us read with expression, we invited P1 to hear our story. We used expression to read a page each.
Primary 1 then sang us some songs they had been learning.
Outdoor Angles
We went on a shape hunt in the playground. We found lots of 2D and 3D shapes, and we also found right angles.
The windows are rectangles and squares and they have right angles. – Albie.
I found a right angle on the Buddy Stop and it’s a rectangle. – Jessica
The corner of snakes and ladders is a right angle and it’s a square. – Zoe
The corner of the rectangle is a right angle. – Josh
OWL VISIT
We were very lucky to have a visit from Hoots Owls. We learned all about owls and got to hold Magic and Merlin. An owl flew over the top of us as we lay on the floor.
3D Shape Sorters
We have been identifying 3D shapes. We knew all of their names and correctly matched up each shape with it’s name.
Alex – Cuboids faces are made up of rectangles and squares.
Jessica – Cones have got a circle on the bottom.
Lauren –Cubes faces are all squares.
Albie – I spotted that a some of the pyramids had a square on the bottom but one had a triangle.
COPY AND PASTE
Over the last few weeks we have been opening a document, typing, copying and pasting and inserting Clip Art. We also had to resize the picture and save our document.
Andrew – I used Clip Art to put football pictures on my page.
Lauren – Resizing the picture was really hard.
Albie – I resized the picture all by myself.
