We played games and rhythms and learned about a Brazilian instrument.  Each week we are improving concentration, following instruments and, most of all, playing together as a band.

Congratulations Orla, for being drummer of the week.

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Maths

We have been practising adding decimals, and learning about metres and kilometres.

Writing

We wrote a cinquain poem, with 5 lines and a distinctive shape.

Here are some of our cinquain poems.

Art. For Valentine’s Day we drew geometric shapes inside a heart, by joining carefully placed dots. We painted them in warm, pastel shades.

Drumming

We are enjoying drumming with Mat the Hat and have been set the challenge of coming up with a band name.
The drummer of the week was Ruby, well done!

As part of our Building Resilience lessons on ‘respect yourself’ we listened to the story ‘Only one you’ by Linda Kranz.

We then added our own page to the book with a message to remind ourselves that we are unique and we should respect ourselves.

Here is our book. We hope you enjoy it. Best viewed on a tablet.

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Our writing this block is poetry, so we are becoming collectors of words!

We have written poems in different styles and his week it was Haikus and limericks. Both of these poetry types have a specific length, rhythm and number of syllables.

Haikus are mainly about nature, and limericks are usually nonsense!

In maths we learned about tenths and hundredths, and how to write tenths as a decimal. This helped us in a measure task, as we measured tenths of a metre strip and marked the tenths as decimals.

Our topic is about the surface of the Earth and we learned how tectonic plates converge to form mountains. This happens over millions of years.

Our Skipper topic, ‘respect yourself’ teaches us that we are unique and shouldn’t try to be somebody else. We listened to a story in which the mouse realised he didn’t need to have a lion’s roar to be brave and use his voice.

We watched the school Scots celebration yesterday and were really impressed by the poetry, dancing, singing, art and bagpipe playing. It was braw. Well done to everyone involved.
Thanks to Mrs Clyde for the delicious Scottie dog shortbread!

We are learning about the surface of the Earth and today we observed how plates move on the magma layer under the plates. There are 7 main tectonic plates and several small ones. They move very slowly, and there are three ways in which they move.

1. away from each other- divergent boundary

2. towards each other – convergent boundary

3. slide side by side – transform boundary

We made these movements using corn flour with food colouring for the magma, and crackers for the plates. We described each movement as we moved the crackers.

Today we wrote a traditional Japanese poem, a Haiku.
A haiku has three lines, and the syllables for each line are 5, 7, 5.

Haikus are often written about the seasons and nature.

Here are our poems.

What we have learned so far…

if you can say it you can play it,

jembe drums are from Brazil

pandeiro tambourines are portable and can sound like many instruments

how to sit and hold the instruments

being in a band is great fun!

After looking at the painting ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ by Sir Edwin Landseer we sketched our own deer.