Science – Food Chains
We have been learning to use google slides (adding a new slide, inserting pictures and shapes, changing the background colour, font size and more). We created a google slide to showcase everything we have learned about food chains.
Over the past couple of weeks we have been working hard to complete our Google slide so that we were ready to share with our peers. We gave each other feedback on our work by saying things that we liked and things our peer could do better next time. It is important that we know our next steps and use them in our next piece of work so that we are always improving.
Art – Colour and value – slot canyons
We wanted to learn about animals that live in the desert so we watched Planet Earth. It allowed us to virtually explore South America and we were very impressed by the slot canyons. This led us to try and make our own slot canyon art using crayons to create warmth and value.
Writing – Instruction Writing
We brought our instruction writing topic to an end and have already started our new topic of persuasive writing. During writing lessons we always make time to share our writing with peers, give peer feedback and also set our own writing targets. Our targets are always discussed with Miss McIver so we know what we need to do to progress.
Outdoor Learning – Litter picking, muddy movers and autumn nature hunt.
Linking to our mini plastic pollution topic we went on a litter pick to and took a note of what litter we could find in our playground. We found lots of plastic bottles, crisp packets, sweet wrappers, yoghurt pots and more. This led us to finding out about the word ‘biodegrade’ and how long different materials will take to completely break down to nothing. We were shocked to learn that plastic bottles can take up to 450 years to biodegrade!
We had fun with our peers exploring at muddy movers again and we will be going out the first Thursday of each month. A gentle reminder that it is our responsibility to look after our own water proofs and welly boots.
We went on an autumn nature hunt to find different types of leaves, birds, bugs, flowers, etc that we could find in our playground.
Scottish Farming Topic
We have been learning about arable, pastoral and dairy farming. We started by learning about arable farming and potatoes. We discovered that in the past the October Break was so that children could be off school to help pick all the potatoes from the farm! After that we found out about pastoral farming and the journey of an egg. We created a comic to showcase what we had learned about the journey of a potato or egg.
Then we spoke about dairy farming and worked in groups to name different dairy products. We already knew products like milk, cheese, cream, butter and ice cream. We watched a video on how we could make butter easily in the class – it was the perfect time to show off our note taking skills.
Once we were happy we knew the steps to successfully make butter we thought we would give it a go! Here we are having a dance party to motivate us to keep shaking the cream until it turned into butter:
After a quick look and a lot of shaking – we could see it had started to look like butter!
P.E – Basketball
In P.E we have been practising our dribbling, bounce pass, chest pass and shooting skills.
Team work
Some pictures of us working as a team to complete a jigsaw, drawing pictures or making origami foxes.
