Music

In music, we are exploring musical terms and the difference between rhythm and beat. We danced during our Music lesson to ‘Happy’. Mrs Hutchison told us that after every few beats, we had to repeat an action and these beats changed. It was fun!

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week, we have been enjoying taking part in the Daily Mile. We run from the top of the playground to the bottom to improve our fitness and have some fresh air in the afternoon.  We have also  learned a new game called ‘Silent Ball’, where we are not allowed to make any noise, but have to work as a team to throw a ball to score a goal. In Silent Ball, you get warnings for touching another player, or making noise or otherwise you are out. It’s amazing to see our silent teamworking and tactics!

In Health & Wellbeing this week, we have been learning about the different dietary requirements and food groups.We learned about Halal food, Vegetarian & Vegan food. We played Cook In Castle, which taught us how to plan balanced meals and to make them have less sugar. We designed our own menu for somebody with a dietary requirement, thinking  carefully about the ingredients that went into the meal.  Some of our classmates who have experiences of vegetarian, halal, gluten-free or nut-free diets were able to offer helpful advice.  It’s great to see how we can learn from each other.

Literacy

This Thursday, we were given new reading books for our homework. We are all excited to read these as we all feel they are interesting books. We will use these texts to further develop our skills in exploring authors’ word choice.

 

Mr Orr gave us the opportunity to choose what we wanted to learn. We were shown facts about different famous/influential Scottish people within history. We took a class survey, something we had been learning about in Maths and from this we chose Andy Murray and Queen Mary of Scots.

 

We learned when Andy Murray was born, about his family, We also watched an interview of Andy Murray where he taught children how to play Tennis.  We used our scanning skills in a new way to answer questions on a factfile about him.

 

Maths

We have been learning about Pie Charts with Mr Orr this week. We learned how to use fractions and shaded pie charts on our worksheets. We learned how to interpret the data displayed in Pie Charts and we created questions of our own relating to pie charts.

 

Heartstone 

We have been reading our Heartstone book each week, and we are beginning to meet new characters.  We really enjoy the very detailed descriptions of the characters and settings. Chandra, the main character is a beautiful dancer, so we practised some classical Indian dance hand gestures, including one for mouse for Hugbundle! We also learned that Chandra means “moon” in Sanskrit.  It looks like a new character called Smirkmuzzle might be about to cause some trouble…

 

 

 

 

We were very lucky to have 3 special weeks in one week!  Here are some examples of our learning this week.

Anti Bullying Week

We talked about the difference between bullying, being rude and being mean.  Being rude is accidental, being mean can be accidental or on purpose with actions or words, bullying takes place over a longer time and is on purpose. Bullying can sometimes be calling people names.  We created anti-bullying posters to show the things that we learned.

 

Road Safety Week

This’ year’s theme for Road Safety Week was “No Need to Speed”. We were working with Mr Orr to discuss Fair and Unfair statements about road safety and we sorted them out in pairs.  We debated each statement.  We talked about things like “Drivers should not use hands free phones”; “Parents should only walk to school with their children”;and “Kids should only cross the road with an adult”.

 

Book Week Scotland

We created our own blurbs using a website which asked questions about characters and adjectives and then we made fronts covers to match. Blurbs and front covers are very important because they tell us what the books are about.  The blurb gives you an idea of what happens in the book, but shouldn’t include any spoilers.

 

 

We played a listening game while Mrs Allan read a book, to do actions for verbs, characters name, adjectives and connectors. Then we played the game in pairs.

As the finale we all wore hats to school as a Mad Hatters Tea Party.  We heard part of the story of Alice in Wonderland over the tannoy on Monday. We think we look fabulous!!

 

French

In French, we practised out numbers to 20 and revised our French colours.  We played outside with Mr Orr to run and find a colour after he shouted the colour in French.

Le coleur est jaune.

 

Le coleur est rouge.

Apologies for the lack of photographs this week – the class camera was uncooperative!

 

 

In Numeracy and Maths we have been learning about bar graphs. We have been learning that all bar graphs must have a title , labelled axes and we have been using scales at the side to compare variables.

 

We have been exploring equivalent fractions too.  Did you know a half is the same as two quarters and that four eighths is the same as two quarters? We noticed patterns from our multiplication tables in the rows of our fraction walls. We have been shading and creating fractions, remembering to  look at the numerator and the denominator.

 

In Literacy, Mr Orr has worked with us on scanning. This is looking through a text for specific words.  We used this this new skill to answer questions and to find words in the dictionary. We started our Heartstone Odyssey book this week too and we’re excited to find out what is so special about the Bishop’s story. The whole class will read this book together, and discuss the themes raised, and explore the characters, setting and message through Expressive Arts.

As you might have been able to tell by the way we came home on Friday, we had a fabulous time in  our sponsored Mini Mudder!  We made some spider and ghost decorations to make it more spook-tastic. We were (very) muddy and wet thanks to the super soakers and water guns.  The final obstacle was a crawl under a net… we were VERY muddy by then. Some of us almost fell!

 

Our jotters have gone home with us today (Friday 6th November).  Please enjoy looking at them and send them back to school  on Monday 9th November.