This month we began learning about the Romans. We’ve been learning all about the Colosseum and we are making tourist information leaflets to show what we know about the Colosseum. We’ve also enjoyed learning about the Roman gods. We learned that most gods carry weapons and have animals that represent them. The planets in our solar system were named after Roman gods. There was a Roman god for just about anything, there was even a god of sewers! Then we had a go at designing our own gods. We also learned about what the soldiers wear and practiced our note taking skills too. We’ve also learned about Roman art and are creating our own Roman pots.
We’ve been exploring the upper forest in our outdoor learning this month and have been learning about ways that animals protect themselves from predators. We have pretended to be predators and birds in a few different games, to practice being still and silent and even try to keep ourselves camouflaged. We even made a nest for eggs and some of us had the extra challenge of having to use pegs just like birds can only use their beaks. We have learned to think about shine, shape and shadow when hiding, this includes prey hiding from predators and us hiding from each other in hide and seek!
We have been continuing to use Chromebooks to help us with our numeracy work by completing activities on Education City and playing games on Sumdog and practice typing too. We have also started learning about coding through playing a fun little game called Lightbot. We have to put in commands to make the little robot light up all the blue squares. It’s good fun but challenging too, we need to work together and use problem solving skills to figure out the right pattern of commands to make the code work.
This month we have been creating imaginative stories in our writing. One of our favourite tasks was ‘The Mysterious Box’ where we had to write ourselves into a story we knew well and imagine what we might have done then how that might have changed the story. We also wrote a book review during Scottish book week too.
At the beginning of the month we completed our Hinduism topic in RE by learning about the story of Rama and Sita and why Hindus celebrate Diwali, we created comic strips to show our understanding of the story. More recently we’ve been learning about St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. His feast day is on the 30th of November and is celebrated all across Scotland. We have created fact files to demonstrate our knowledge of St Andrew. Happy St Andrew’s Day everyone!
