Author: Mrs Mutch

Today we wrote out “The Selkirk Grace” by Robert Burns using an authentic quill pen.  We used food colouring mixed with a little water to get a variety of coloursto dip our quill into. We were really surprised at how strong the colours were and at how well our work looked.

We have learned a lot about different ways of gathering and displaying information. This week we have been learning about Venn diagrams. We really enjoyed sorting items using a Venn diagram and we were very good at it!

Check out the pictures of P3/4 having fun trying out their own adaptation of activities played at a typical Highland Games event.

Today was our Burns celebration and we all got the opportunity to taste a variety of Scottish food such as:

• Cock-a- leekie soup.
• Haggis, Neeps and Tatties.
• Cranachan.
• Cheese and Crackers.
• And Lees factory chocolate and macaroon

After this we created a tally chart of our favourite food. A great day was had by all.

Here we are playing a great game that helps us learn our phoneme words.

This week we discussed the different ways in which we use data.

We started by doing a survey on our favourite type of film. We gathered the information using a tally chart. Then we made a bar graph using the information from the tally chart.

We also had fun creating bar graphs using coloured cubes and we played interactive games on the smartboard and the iPad.

Check out our pictures below!

 

To finish off our topic on the 70’s we had a go at some of the games that were played during that era.

To warm up our muscles we played Britsh Bulldog and Farmer, Farmer.

We then had a go at skipping, using hula hoops, hopscotch (using shoes polish tins and cones as we couldn’t possible draw on the floor!!), a ball inside a sock which we almost demolished the school with and elastic ropes!!

Great fun!!

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The children have been learning about 2D shape and are beginning to identify some if the names of the many different 2D shapes.

In the pictures you can see them matching shapes with their names, recording the number of edges and vertices for each shape, identifying curved edges and straight edges, completing a cut and stick  activity and using ICT programs to create 2D shapes.

Smell will be the last of our senses for now, as we will cover hearing through another topic next year.

This topic has been fun and engaging for the children as you can see from our pictures. Today we had to use our sense of smell only (no looking) to identify a number of items – some food and some not. Safe to say all noses are working well!

I was very proud of their team work today – well done everyone.

Today we carried out a little investigation. We had to decide if the food we were tasting was sweet, sour, bitter or salty. We got a little mixed up with our sour and bitter taste, but identified our salty and sweet – no surprises there!!!