Woodlands

On Thursday, we spent time out at the Woodlands. Mr Orr challenged us to make a Winter themed sculpture. Some people made a gingerbread man with sticks, mud and apples. Some built a slay for Santa and his reindeers using some logs, tyres and some wood. We also attempted to make houses and igloos but some failed. We also made a Christmas dinner, where we made mud blended Turkey, including a sofa to sit on. We had a lot of fun doing this and showed lots of creativity, resilience and teamwork.

A snowman

Decorating the Christmas tree

An igloo for “Mick the Brick”

Christmas dinner over an open fire….

… with apple pie for pudding!

This sleigh with reindeer took lots of teamwork (and some rebuilding)

 

Team work on house construction.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

We learned about a famous Scottish artist this week who influenced many designs around Glasgow., We drew roses in the style of his artwork and we learned about his life. Yesterday was actually the anniversary of his death! He was born in Glasgow in the 1800s and he went to Art School where he made his friends and wife and they eventually became ‘The Four’.

Christmas Robins

We have been designing Christmas jumpers for our Christmas Robin which is going to be entered into a competition. We all did nice designs which were very colourful, with some of our class adding in backgrounds.

 

Numeracy and Maths

Using place value, we have been multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.  We have also been developing skills in estimating and measuring accurately.  Everyone in the class was given a measuring stick and a sheet. We had to estimate items length within the class and use our own metre sticks to see if we were correct. We also had to convert measurements using metres and centimretres using games on the Chromebook.

 

Writing  

We have been continuing our learning on characterisation. We had plan continuing on a story called Black Beauty. We used STEAL (Speech, Thoughts, Effects on Others, Actions, Looks) and come up with our own version of Black Beauty, continuing the writing from the original extract. We used the same characters and developed them ourselves.  There are huge improvements in our Writing this term, as we use punctuation including speech marks more accurately; and work hard to uplevel our vocabulary.

 

Music

Now that we understand musical terms such as tempo, beat, rhythm and dynamics, we have been playing glockenspiels to the song “Happy”. It’s  important to ensure that we play at the same time to give the best performance.