Today P2/3 presented their powerpoints about a Viking God to the class. Primary 7 helped them to make these last week. Every group did a great job, and were able to answer questions and receive feedback when they were finished. It was very interesting to learn what everyone had managed to find out. Big well done to P2/3 and big thanks again to P7!
Throughout our topic, we have been keeping Viking diaries to demonstrate our learning. At the start of the term, we all created Viking characters, and every time we learn something new about Vikings, we write a diary entry about it! So far we have discussed leaving home, travelling in a long ship, living in a longhouse and today we wrote about our Viking jobs! We have been following our writing targets, and when we finish, we self-assess our writing using traffic lights. We have also been drawing pictures to go with our writing, and decorated the covers to make them look like Viking diaries!
After researching how the Romans built roads we built our own to demonstrate the layers of construction involved – with one key difference – ours are edible!
As our Viking topic comes to an end here is a selection of photos to show what the Primary 1 and 2 class have been busy doing. Â It includes our visit to Lerwick to see Up Helly Aa, helping to make our own Viking longship which Mrs Nicolson’s son built for us, visits from our very own Vikings and one called Thorfinn Sigurdsson, taking part in Aith Up Helly Aa with Primary 2/3 and making Viking longships and longhouses for our displays in class.
 
We love reading stories by Roald Dahl, he is one of our favourite authors. We all had the most scrumdiddlyumptious time celebrating RoaldDahl100!
Can you guess what some of our favourite books are? Here are some clues…Â 
 
 
 
On Wednesday we made Archimedes screws out of plastic bottles, tubes and wire. First we had to get a bottle and some wire and plastic hoops. We put the hoops onto the bottle to hold the wire. Then we tied the pipe onto the bottle with the wire in a spiral. Then we put baking soda and vinegar into the bottle to make them expand and tougher. We took them outside and tried them out using basins of water. We found that the water always went to the lowest point and towards the top.
Then we set up mirrors in a semi-circle to reflect the sun onto a thermometer that told us how hot is was getting. It got hotter and colder as the clouds came and went. We had to keep adjusting the mirrors. The hottest we could get it was 39.5 degrees. The coldest was 12 degrees. by primary 6 & 7
 
