We have been writing recounts about being an astronaut and this week we had to describe what life is like living in space.  We watched a clip made by some real astronauts on the International Space Station and then got to try some freeze dried food, similar to things the astronauts might eat.

The food felt very light and powdery and didn’t have much smell.  Some of us were worried that it might not taste very nice but we were surprised when the ice-cream actually tasted like ice-cream and the cinnamon apple tasted just like an apple with cinnamon on it!

Doing this research was fun and helped us with our writing!

This week we continued to research the planets in our Solar System and we made a wall display. We are learning how to take notes as we listen, and this helps us to remember facts.

We used chalk pastels to make these planets pictures. We smudged the colours and used black and white to shade the dark and light sides.

Also on the theme of planets our classroom order arrived and it included these inflatable planets!

In writing we wrote a recount of a trip and in health and well-being we looked at changing emotions and then the rights of the child.

In maths we linked multiplication to division and noticed that a number family has 4 facts. We are still learning how to plot coordinates and draw symmetrical patterns.

Our drama time is all about preparing our mission to Space, and this week we worked in our teams to plan a training programme for astronauts.

Have a great long weekend for St. Andrew’s Day!

During book week we looked at the story The Last Wolf and discussed the effects of deforestation. We worked with p6/7 to create some art which showed the last forest surrounded by concrete and buildings. We enjoyed the story but thought it was quite sad that humans had destroyed the natural environment and the creatures who lived there.

We are learning about keeping connected as a Building Resilience strategy. We found out more about each other when we played a game called Find someone who…

For book week we read the special book The Last Wolf, shared by the whole school. It explores the sad theme of deforestation and extinction, but ends with hope. As we read it we charted our changing emotions by holding up our emotion face pictures. After we had talked about it we drew what we think would happen next, or far into the future.

Our writing is a recount and we planned and wrote about our first day at school. We remembered what we learned and drew, and about having lunch with p7s.

In maths we are learning times tables and why they are useful. We also continued symmetry and plotting shapes on grids.

Here are our poppy pictures from last weeks’ Remembrance Day.

Our spelling was long i, made in various ways.

We are learning about the planets and used our notebook to take short notes while watching a clip. This is a useful skill to help us remember what we’ve heard.

We used our iPads to sketch hedgehogs after working on the school book about Harry the Hedgehog.

And finally, the pheasant! It perched outside our window today, as it pecked around the playground looking for food.

We have been finding out about the Big Bang theory this week and loved creating collages to show how scientists think the universe began.