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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Some great drumming today with Mat and a huge ‘Well done!’ to Sadie for being drummer of the week.

A huge thank you to all the kind people who donate rocks and fossils for our geology corner. We have loved finding out about the rock cycle and how the different rocks were formed.

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 have been learning about different food groups and the journeys that some of our foods make. Bananas can travel over 4000 miles to get here! We made tattie scones and butter using products that all come from Scotland.

Tattie scones

INGREDIENTS

• 500g Potatoes
• 25g Butter or Margarine
• 125g plain Flour

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Peel your potatoes and cut into even sized halves/quarters. Place in a pan with enough cold water to cover and bring to the boil. Boil gently for 15 to 20 minutes or until potatoes break apart easily when pierced with fork.
2. Remove the pan from the heat and drain the water. Allow your potatoes to air dry for a few minutes before mashing them with a potato masher. Add the butter/margarine and mash through the potatoes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
3. Transfer the potatoes to a large bowl. Add the flour to the bowl and using a wooden spoon, mix the flour through to potatoes to create a dough. You may need more/less flour depending on how moist your potatoes are.
4. Once you have a dough-like consistency, tip your potato mixture onto a well floured surface and gently knead it briefly, before dividing the dough into 3 even sized balls.
5. Warm a non-stick frying panover a medium-high heat (with no oil/butter). Roll your first ball into a circle about 20cm diameter and 5mm thickness, using lots of flour on your surface and rolling pin so they don’t stick. Using your rolling pin or a large spatula, transfer the potato circle to your hot [dry] frying pan. Score the top of the circle with two lines evenly down the middle, two create 4 triangular shapes.

(Alternatively, cut the circle into the 4 triangles before transferring to the frying pan, if you find moving the circle to be too tricky).

6. Allow the potato scones to cook, checking the underside every few minutes. Once the underside has a good colour to it, flip the potato scones to cook the other side too. It is usually easier to divide the potato scones into it’s triangles at this point, if you haven’t already..
7. Once our potato scones have a good colour on both side, remove from the heat and place on a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with your remaining potato balls.
8. Enjoy warm with a slathering of butter, alongside your cooked breakfast, or in a roll with some sausages/bacon and sauce!

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.

We are working on playing the instruments properly, following and keeping a rhythm and listening to instructions and each other.  We also love all of Mat’s warm up games!

Congratulations to this weeks drummer of the week, Tommy!