We did Friday warm up, The songs were Tic-Toc, Viva Las Vegas and Monster Mash which most of us enjoyed. We had P.E. where we did Twinkling, which is a bit like French skipping, it was fun and we all enjoyed it.
We did reading and spelling tests. We redrafted our stories, we were allowed to do them in our best handwriting or type them on the computer, which was ok when we were doing that. Corey, Jenna, Kieren and Jonathan started making the city which they liked doing. We had Golden Time and after that it was Assembly.
The lesson the p1-3 class did first was handwriting which they liked doing. They did maths, which they didn’t like too much. Some of them did farm animal research, which they enjoyed.

In the morning we did 20 minutes of handwriting and Nicola thought it was boring. After that we peer assessed others stories and John-Frank liked it and Rachel liked kierens story about the Shetland sheep. After break we did maths Kieren found the maths challenging and the games fun and so did Jonathan. Rachel, Jenna, Hannah and Morgan’s group did an adding game it was fun. Rachel won the game. Hermione, Corey and Nicola’s group did division for the 8 times table and 9 times tables. After maths we read our new class novel “Around the back of the ice house” .We had lunch, and after lunch we planned our city of Skandwick. Jenna and Morgan won and Jenna enjoyed making it. After that we did looking at rocks and seeing if they were water-worn, bashed or crushed or weathered.

In the morning the Little class did a mixture of things p-3 did handwriting Lewis liked it and p-1-2 did maths, Emma liked the maths After brake they did animal fact files Lewis’s animal was a duck Emma’s animal was a Horse and Erin’s animal was a yew.
Then they did play block. Lewis played with kenex and made cars. Emma played with stickle bricks. Then they did they’re P.L.P. folders Lewis thought it was Okay. Lewis thought the day was good.

We started off the day as usual with handwriting. Then we did spellings; Hermione and Nicola really enjoyed it. Then we did our mental maths questions for the day and everyone got pretty good scores. Next we did maths the Randomly Royals did division in maths, they didn’t really like it. The Peerie Apples did addition, they thought it was ok. The eco hippie hippos did coordinates, they thought it was ok. Then the golden E’s did problem solving and they thought it was kind of hard.
In the afternoon we got in pairs and started designing the layout of our cities, on A3 paper, and we made a key for it too. Everyone enjoyed doing the city layout. Then it was the end of the day

P1-3 started off with handwriting, they all enjoyed it. After break they finished off their stories about The Selkie Wife, they had to write it on a sea animal, they all thought it was very hard. After dinner they did some research on an animal on a croft. They should have been going to the Cheese Factory, but it was cancelled.

On Thursday morning we started handwriting for 15 minutes then we tried finishing of our stories. Mine is about a Roman Invasion in France. After break we did some maths. The Eco Hippie Hippos did Coordinates, the Randomly Royals did division, the Golden E’s did Volume and Centilitres and the Perrie Apples did doubling numbers. Then it was time for lunch. In the afternoon Mr.Hewitt got out some crackers, fruit bars and some red icing. We were going to learn about Plate Tectonics and Rocks. We first got two fruit bars, which are to represent Oceanic plates and laid them on top of the icing, which is the mantle. We moved the Oceanic plates apart from each other and by doing that it made a rift valley. This is called a Divergent Plate boundary. The next one was with a cracker, which is a Continental plate and Oceanic plate. We laid them on the Mantle and pushed them together. The Oceanic plate went under the Continental plate and sank into the Mantle. This is called Continental Oceanic plate collision. After that one there was another one. It is called a Continent-Continent plate collision. The Continents crash into each other and form mountain ranges. The last one was Transform Plate boundaries where the plates slowly scrape each other and then a huge jolt comes and then a earthquake happens. After that we ate all the ingredients. At the end of the day we finished off our class novel called Cool. It was a funny and kind of sad book.

P1-3 knitted some more of their sheep then finished there selkie potions. In the afternoon we painted 6croft animals and had play block.

First of all we did hand writing as usual, then we did are city we make it out of junk modelling and paper cut outs with glue on tabs and carried on after brake. After dinner we had golf, after that we did are ten questions of mental maths, Mr Hewitt took out some groups for maths, the group played a connect 4 games on the board that involved doubling numbers, they really enjoyed it. The rest of the class did language doing storeys that had less than 500 words. We read a bit of are class novel, which is getting really good, then went home.

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The p1-3s read a story The Selkie Wife which is a Shetland legend about an evil sea queen who turns all the nice sea children into selkie’s with a potion and then one day a year they are aloud to go into there human skins again but one day a girls selkie skin gets left behind. A fisher man hid it and was married to the girl and then after a long while she finds the selkie skin again and she puts it on to go and play with her brothers and sisters but the same she comes out of the water and into her human skin again to see her family.

First of all we did hand writing as usual, then we did are city we make it out of junk modelling and paper cut outs with glue on tabs and carried on after brake after dinner we had golf, after that we did are ten questions of mental maths, Mr Hewitt tacked out some groups for maths, the rest of the class did language doing storeys that had less than 500 words. We read a bit of are class novel then went home.

24.5.11

In the p4-7 class we did handwriting as usual first thing then we did mental maths witch was 10 questions of different sums of adding dividing and more. Next it was breaktime for fifteen minutes.
Then it was reading to our selves, also we read the stories called Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust by someone aged 11 it was set in World War 2 and told by a mouse. Another was called Workshy Will and the Cross Eyed Machine it was written by an 8 year old it was about a teacher who hated William and wrote lies about him so he made a machine to help him get awards. We discussed the stories and said what we thought was good about them. The Plug War was another one that I did not read. Also we wrote some stories my one was about Merlin with king Arthur and the black knight it was about when king Arthur was being attacked by the black knight and he was getting some soldiers to fight with the black knight to stop them crushing Camelot
In the afternoon we did junk models of houses my one was made from paper.
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First thing the little class did reading and comprehension and the spelling sheet.
They also had fruit before break time. Then they carried on with the food game. After that they did knitting they were making sheep then at the end of the day they did maths.

First of all we did weekend news where we told Mr Hewitt and the rest of he class what we did. Then we did hand writing for 15 minutes and then spelling up to break. After break we did mental maths and then moved on to maths. After maths we all did our project on rocks, which is part of our “River deep, mountain high” project we needed to take out the rocks and describe the colour smell and feeling. After dinner we did art and continued with the scraperboards. We were making mountain scene pictures. In PE we did running games and circuits.

On Friday we started the day with a Friday warm up. After that we had gym with Mrs Hobbin and we had to do running exercises, some of them were easy but their was one game where you had to run around in a circle so that you knew how to turn when your running, which was quite challenging. Next we had our spelling tests and when we were doing them were reading our reading books. Then we had to do some project work on comparing a rural area and an urban area, which wasn’t that hard. After that we had golden time and finally we had our awards assembly.

First we did handwriting for 15 minutes and class blog. Next we did some maths: The peerie apples were working out the difference of fractions, the Golden E’s did scale drawings and three figure bearings, the Randomly Royals did some work on times tables and the Eco Hippy Hippo’s did algebra. After maths we worked on our poems its great fun writing it out in a good copy and making a boarder to go around it. Then we all worked on our 5 pillers of Islam posters. For one hour, in the wind, we had to do golf and the ball was going everywhere it was great fun. Then the little class came in and joined to look at the pictures from the swam then we paired up with our buddies and wrote a small paragraph about what our favourite piece was and were we went and what we did. Whatever piece of writing was the best gets to go into the Westside news.

The primary 1-3 class made healthy eating games, they said they enjoyed that a lot. After that they did real life animation they said it was great fun the real name for it is stop-go animation they had to do it with real people they had to small jerky movements. Next they were thinking of all the things they did last term, they had done a lot of things. Then they made clay animals to go with their clay croft houses. Then they joined us, like I said before, they had fun working with us. Their favourite piece of the day was making farm animals to go with their croft houses.