HWB: Resilience
We got a chance to put our resilience to the test yesterday. We had to build a house of cards. 
Means Masters -Coding
What we have been learning this week
This week in Numeracy and maths, we have been learning about bar graphs. We know that a good bar graph has a title, two axis with descriptions with bars that represent numbers.
We have also been talking about the COP26 conference in Glasgow and in particular we have been learning how climate change created poverty around the World.
This week, it is Remembrance Week and we have been thinking about all the people who served in the army particularly in World War I and II.
This week we worked with our French teacher, Mademoiselle McLaughlin and recapped all our French dialogue we have learned so far. We can now count up to 20 in french.
Soaperheroes
Last week we had a chance to check how important it is to wash our hands properly. After rubbing some Bug Potion on our hands, we have checked how germs would spread- our hands glowed under the UV light (nails were especially bad!). We then split into two groups to test what is more effective: washing hands with soap and water or hand sanitising. The results were clear… Wash your hands with soap and water whenever possible and remember to do it properly!
Electrical circuits
Today we were making electrical circuits using wires, batteries, switches, light bulbs, motors and buzzers. 
Spelling and estimating outdoors
We enjoyed a great warm up game today involving consonants, vowels and golden question marks. What great fun we had creating lots of words giggling and laughing the whole time too. 😂
After that we used ‘Sammy snakes’ to help us learn a bit more about estimating before taking our Sammy snakes exploring in our outdoor area searching for items that measure 1 metre.
Leaf observations and symmetry on National Outdoor Classroom Day
“Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. On two days of action each year, teachers take children outdoors to play and learn.”
We are so fortunate here in Mearns that part of our school improvement plan is encouraging teachers to take children out EVERY day!
Today we had a marvellous time observing and recording details about leaves that we found. We took part in some activities to help us understand the importance of recording clearly and observing closely.
We then enjoyed working in teams to produce some really creative symmetrical patterns. What a lot of learning went on as we worked together, chatting and excitedly creating them.
Marking maps
The weather held us back a bit today as we learned more about reading maps, using keys and orienteering, but we still had lots of fun! 😊
After the soggy map work, we created some amazing patterns using the array of beautifully coloured leaves we found at the back of the pitch.
We discovered some leaves which had what we think are little caterpillar eggs on them too. What an interesting and surprising discovery.
Analysing our pressed flowers
We are so pleased with our pressed flowers. After only two weeks in our hi tech flower presses the results were superb. What an interesting time we had this morning looking at our flowers and leaves on the light box.
