Last week we started learning about the Victorians. We began learning about Queen Victoria and went on to learn about the life of the Victorian people.
We did a Big Talk about the workhouse and spoke about the jobs, the conditions, the food and how we would feel if we had to live there. Then, we wrote a diary entry about a day in the life of a Victorian child in the workhouse.
This week, we started doing some art work related to the Victorians. We have painted some cityscapes which are the outlines of Victorian rooftops with chimneys and a chimney sweep. We looked at different shades of blues and oranges and mixed the paints to create different shades for each layer of rooftops.
Beth S brought in some Victorian artifacts for us to look at and discuss. Some of the items were:
- Wash board
- Iron
- Tea pot
- Money
- Fountain pens
- Jelly pan
- Hot water bottle
It was fascinating to see that these were real Victorian objects and how different the same objects are today.
Today we went to the polling station in our school and voted for who we wanted to be our representative for the Pupil Council, Eco Committee and the Rights Respecting Group.
Our Candidates for the elections were:
Jessica
Renaska
Laurie
Tyler
Beth M
Olivia
Callum
In the voting room there were two election booths and a voting card with each of the candidates for us to vote. When we had voted we put our votes into the ballot box.
We can’t wait to find out who will win each of the elections!
In writing we focussed on learning about the features of a Newspaper report. These are :- writing in columns, catchy headline, a picture with a caption and a quotation.
We linked our writing to Social studies and wrote reports on aspects of the Scottish Wars of Independence e.g. the battle of Stirling Bridge, the battle of Bannockburn , the death of William Wallace.
Taylor – I enjoyed writing in columns because it was a different way to lay out our writing.
Beth – I liked the research aspect of collecting information from texts and the internet.
We worked collaboratively to research a variety of Paralympic events. We made posters which included a title, facts and interesting graphics. When we had finished, we shared our learning with the rest of the class by presenting our posters to them.
Primary 4 have looked at The Olympic games in Rio. They have researched some interesting facts. In RME they have also been looking at inspirational people in the world. This linked very nicely with the Olympics and as you can see from Callum’s writing he has been inspired by Usain Bolt.
Pr. 3 took part in an assembly about Numeracy and Maths. We spoke about the different ways in which we used our maths skills. Through our Social Studies topic on the Rainforest we measured the length of a typical rainforest tree, we made symmetrical butterflies and we located rainforest animals in the playground using map grid references. We were GGGRRREAT and the assembly was enjoyed by all.
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