Today was a special day in Woodlands and around the country.   P7 led a special Remembrance Day assembly this morning which was very interesting. The whole school also took part in a 2 minute silence at 11am.

In addition we tried a new fun way to practise our spelling words. Why don’t you try it at home? We also painted our Thor’s hammers and wrote book reviews for our reading corner.

P4  completed their Viking god posters and presented their findings to the class.  We rounded up our Viking topic by recording the ways in which our lives today are different from if we had been alive in Viking times.  This afternoon we had a visit from  some experts who gave us a taster session of Tae Kwon Do. 

This morning we researched and took notes about Norse Gods such as Odin, Freya, Thor and Loki.  We used these notes to create large presentation boards in groups. We will finish them and present our findings to the rest of the class tomorrow.

The Viking theme continues…

This morning we made oatcakes in class. Although Vikings would have ground the oats using a quern and cooked them over a fire, we had our oats ground in a food processor and cooked in an electric oven. We did shape them by hand and enjoyed tasting them with strawberry jam. Delicious!!  Check out the photos to follow our recipe and make them at home.  Our recipe makes 8 oatcakes.  This afternoon we used clay to make replica Thor’s Hammers.

We started our reading challenge booklet and will keep them in school. Pupils can choose a book from home to bring in as a personal reader or choose one from the class library. Check out the website www.readingchallenge.scot to get ideas and recommendations on books to read.

This afternoon we assembled our Viking weapons and added details to them.  Be afraid, be very afraid!

In P.E. we were working in teams to demonstrate our throwing and catching skills. Afterwards the teams discussed what went well  and what they could have done to be even more successful.

Today, we were thinking about onomatopoeia. We used our senses to think of the sounds associated with bonfires and fireworks which are imitated by the words.

We used a brilliant site to demonstrate our learning.  Here is the site:   www.iboard.co.uk/iweb/Shape-Poem-Maker-Fireworks-1539. You may have to sign up to a 30 day free trial to access the site! Have fun over the weekend.

Today we had fun making challah bread which is traditionally eaten at a Jewish Shabbat meal. Look at the different stages in the baking process:

We all enjoyed being involved in the process and tasting the bread together.  If you want to have a go at home, there are different recipes- I tried one at the weekend using honey, but the dough was very sticky (the bread tastes delicious though),

We’ve had another busy day in P4.

We started on the next chapter in our reading books.  We listened to each other read and completed peer assessments.  We will be starting the First Minister’s Reading Challenge soon and will choose books from the class library or from home.  You’ll hear all about this later.

We had more fun with grid references, finding and describing positions on a grid.  In the afternoon we had a visitor and also visited the book fair.

We’re looking forward to seeing parents on Thursday and showing them the work we have been doing in our jotters and around the walls.

One of our pupils made this brilliant pop up card for Halloween- isn’t  it great?

Today we were starting to think about writing our own Learning Logs. It is a bit tricky, but we will get the hang of it with practice.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone , and be safe and careful if you go out “Trick or Treating”! See you next Wednesday.

During our P.E. lesson we were learning the skills to enable us to shoot at the netball goals.

As you can see, we were really thinking about our throw, direction and power. Several children got goals “because I concentrated”!

We practised using Elkonin boxes as a strategy to help us remember spellings by thinking about the sounds.

This afternoon, we were learning about some of the jobs which Jews are not allowed to do on Shabbat. We compared Shabbat with the Sabbath which some Christians might enjoy and then we thought about ways that we spend our time on Sundays. We learnt that a lot of preparation is neede before Shabbat so that the rules can be followed.