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.

We are learning that fractions can be equivalent. We used Cuisenaire rods to find equivalent fractions, and the fractions wall on this website to see how they stack up.

https://mathsbot.com/manipulatives/fractionWall

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!

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.