This week was all about poetry and presentation skills.

We were all very proud of ourselves and the winners and runners up are in the photos below.

We had a right gid Burns Supper to celebrate after and competed in a kahoot quiz about Scotland.

Well done to our winners and runners up. Well done to everyone who took part.

We used most of the same ingredients as our sedimentary rock to create this weeks metamorphic rock.  The sedimentary rock is squashed and heated under ground and turns into metamorphic rock eg lime stone becomes marble.

The end result was a dense, firm, shiny fudge with no grains or gaps like last weeks tray bake.

Metamorphic rock

INGREDIENTS

• 500 g of chocolate chips or chocolate pieces, milk chocolate and white chocolate
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• Dried fruit or other extra flavourings

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Add the chocolate, butter, vanilla extract, and sweetened condensed milk to your slow cooker.
2. Add in the dried fruit (or flavouring of your choice).
3. Heat on low for 2 hours stirring every 15 minutes.
4. Line a square baking dish with parchment paper.
5. Pour melted fudge into the lined baking dish.
6. Refrigerate until set.

Last week we wrote simile poems about our mums or dads. Today we translated them into Scots, using words that we liked the sound of!

P7A have been consolidating their knowledge about how to calculate Perimeter and Area.  Today we used the Measure App on our iPads to see how accurate it was in measuring lengths of rectangles around the classroom.  We then checked by measuring accurately with a ruler and completing the perimeter and area calculations. Although there were some discrepancies, on the whole the figures were mostly very accurate and we thought of lots of uses for the App in real life.

We have been exploring Scotland this week.

We have also been learning our Scots poems and working hard at adding actions and gestures because most of us know the words off by heart now.

We designed some tartan and we will keep working on this. We will share these photos with you in the whole school Scottish Afternoon video.

We have been learning about symmetry in Maths and have had so much fun with the interactive games on the Smartboard. These games have helped us with the language and they have also given us a deeper understanding about symmetry.

We are exploring some Scots words for animals and it has been fun trying to say these to our partners.

We have been reading our non-fiction books in class and we are now becoming quite skilled at reading about real facts and then talking about them in our groups. We are not finding reading non-fiction texts as challenging as we did at first.

Another week come and gone, with lots of learning.

Reading

Each PM reading group had a task tying in with their book.
One group’s book explored different houses and homes; they then built their own den home.

Another group’s book explored homes and the layouts and designs; they then designed their own homes.

The next group used iPads and notes to recreate their book Look at Me.

Maths

We continued exploring symmetry, making symmetrical pictures and exploring lines of symmetry.

Numeracy
We recapped using bridging and number lines with addition and subtraction

Scotland

This week we further explored Scot’s language, landmarks of Scotland and facts of Scotland. We rounded this off making tartan using card and thread.

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Writing

We are continuing with narrative and learnt how to plan a narrative text piece.

Wishing you a happy and fun filled weekend.

This week we continued to practise reciting our Scots Poems ‘Oor Wullie’ and ‘To a Mouse’.

We looked at the art by Scottish artist Steve Brown and make a collaborative colouring of one his his highland coo paintings.

We wrote simile poems about our mum or dad and will post some next week.

In maths we made 1 metre, half a metre and quarter of a metre paper strips and measured classroom objects using them.

We had our first session of the big drum adventure with Mat the Hat and we played as a band!
It was very exciting as we learned about instruments, body percussion and rhythms.