For writing this week we were writing an imaganitave piece about being trapped in a snow globe. We also created some fun art to go with our writing. Keep an eye on our blog to see how our snow globe writing and art turns out. To our surprise, whilst we were redrafting our writing, it started to snow! We were so excited so ofcourse we had to go out and play in the snow for a while.
Look at our snow photos below. 🥶❄️⛄️
Wishing all of our friends and family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope you have a relaxing break. ❤️🎄⭐️🎅🏼
Below are some photos from our Christmas Party day. We loved watching the pantomime online, wearing our own clothes and playing lots of fun games at our class Christmas party. Our favourite games were musical arms and the Mars bar game.🎉🥳🎊
As part of our learning about fractions, we used pizza toppings to create pizzas representing different fractions. We enjoyed using the order slips to take one another’s orders and making customised pizzas whilst learning maths. 🍕
We had a great afternoon making hot chocolate reindeer cones for our Christmas craft this year. These were really simple yet fun to make. ☕️🔴
We used the following resources:
We also decorated Christmas bags for our crafts whilst listening to Christmas music. 🎄🎶
This weeks stem challenge was to build a house which would withstand strong winds. This was part of our learning about climate change. We discussed how heavy rainfall, flooding and strong winds are some of the effects of climate change and we looked at real photographs of how these have destroyed people’s homes.
We worked in groups using a variety of materials including cardboard, straws, lollipop sticks, string, polystyrene, scissors and sellotape.
Once we finished building our homes we tested if they could withstand the wind created by a hair dryer. 💨🏚🌧
As part of our Scotland topic, we studied the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and sculptor. We followed step by step instructions to draw and colours his famous ‘Makintosh Rose.’ We love how these turned out to look.🌹👨🏼🎨
On Friday the 19th of November, our school took part in Children in Need’s Pudsey Day. We wore yellow or Pudsey themed clothes to school, had a toy and book sale and played games and sports. We raised lots of money to donate to Children in Need. The Children in Need charity aims to help ensure every child in the UK is safe, happy, secure and has the opportunities they need to reach their potential. ⭐️🐻💛
This week we worked in groups to complete different STEM challenges. We discussed the importance of team work, communication, problem solving and creativity before completing each activity.
Challenge 1: What is the strongest boat you can make using kitchen foil and no other materials? We enjoyed testing how many marbles our boats could hold before they sank. ⛵️
Challenge 2: Using a water dropper, how many drops of water can you fit on different coins? 🪙
Challenge 3: What is the tallest tower you can make with one pack of cards? 🃏♣️This was definitely the most challenging of them all!
Challenge 4: How long can you make a paper chain using only one sheet of paper, scissors and glue? 📄🖇
On Friday we were invited to attend a Judo session organised by Sporting Judo Barrhead at the Barrhead Foundry. We weren’t too sure what to expect as most of us had never taken part in judo before but we absolutely loved it! We enjoyed watching the instructors demonstrate some judo movements and then carrying them out with our partners. We also learned the Japanese terms for start, go and stop. We are looking forward to session two later on this week.🥋
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