Colour Run

We had excellent fun raising money for the school. These are photos immediately after we stopped running! They are a mixture of shock and awe but as you can see, everyone had great fun.

More to come.

Windfarm Trip

Mrs Dougall organised a trip to Whitelee Windfarm. We learned about different renewable energies, the importance of peat bogs and just what it takes to run a wind farm. Our bus tour guide said we could hug the wind turbine to hear the electricity being made.

Coding/TWMTDW

We used our expert knowledge of Shero robots to code a pathway. We used angles to know which way to go. If it went to far, we had to change the speed and time (This is called debugging – Mr C)

We added sounds to each section of our block code. Listen…

Coding with Spheros

We used block programming and angles to code a journey for our Sphero robots. We used our TWMTDW skills. Then we played a driving game which was very fun.

Graffiti Spelling

One of our tasks this week was Graffiti Spelling. It helped us remember our sounds.  We used the corridor because it was so quiet!

Storytelling

We have been learning a new story this week – The Freedom Bird.  We used our Teamwork Makes the Dream Work skills to make life sized hunters (a story character) and decided what a fierce, strong hunter might look like and act like. We used the ideas in our writing.

Phonics

Some of our groups are practising spelling, reading and blending words using SMBBRW (Say, make, break, blend, read, write!)

We are great at it.

 

TWMTDW

We used technology to control the school’s Sphero robots. We were getting the hang of controlling them manually before we start using draw coding and block coding to make them do tasks.

Numeracy

We were using beadstrings to see the connections between the 2, 4 and 8 times tables.

Literacy

We were learning about Elkonin boxes and how to fit our spelling words into them. We played games with them.

Teamwork Makes The Dream Work

We worked on our skills and used Lego to play creationary, hurdles and tricky towers. Here we are testing that our hurdles can be hurdled.

Storytelling

Here we are working on a group writing version of this week’s story – Monkey Sees, Monkey Does. We wrote better, awesome and amazing versions of Mr Chrystal’s boring version. We wrote possibly the best version of the story in the world as a class!