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.

Last week we read the book ‘Friends beyond measure’ by Lalena Fisher. It had lots of ideas linked to directions and data handling.
First we learned about how to give directions using the words turn right, turn left and forwards. We practised using a few games before heading outside with a partner who we pretended was our robot that we had to give directions to:
Then we headed back inside to create our own town map. We created a character to move around the map and give directions to:

Next we learned about tally marks and pictographs. We created our own surveys and collected the data before presenting it in a table or pictograph:

After that, we took inspiration from the artist Sonia Delaunay. We created our own shape art using different sizes of circles. We decided to stick our art work on the window to brightness up the classroom:

Lots of our learning last month linked to our science topic – food chains!

We started by learning about animals in Antarctica. We loved watching parts of blue planet to discover what animals live there and who eats who! We made a cover page of Antarctica in our jotters and worked together to build some food chains:

Next we created some art work of Antarctica and learned a little bit about the Southern lights. For the Southern lights,  we smudged oil pastels onto black paper:

For the mountains in Antarctica, we learned about value and how we can mix a colour with black to create a shade or mix a colour with white to create a tint:

After that, we learned how to use google drawing to create a digital picture of a penguin:

Our writing topic at the moment is instructions. We have been learning lots about bossy verbs, adverbs and time connectives. We worked with a partner to create a silly 5 sentence story:

Also, we have made posters to help us remember some important vocabulary:

 

We have settled into our new class in Primary 3. Our Flat Stanley mini topic has linked to lots of our learning so far.

In literacy we have been learning to track character emotion  and to identify cause and effect.
In writing we are learning to write a report. We are currently coming up with our own news report ideas linked to Flat Stanley.

In Social Studies we have been discussing our rights and responsibilities. We are currently creating our class charter to show how we are going to access our right to education, to play, to privacy and to share our views.

In health and well-being we have been discussing jealousy, it’s ok to be different and showing respect. We have enjoyed role playing different scenarios and emotions through drama.