Today saw P1/2 involved in lots more Viking activities! In the morning we listened to Stephen Renwick talk to us about Viking life. He told us about Viking clothing, weapons, money and trading and answered lots of our questions. P1/2 listened so well and answered questions really sensibly.
Then we went to see Esther Renwick who is an archaeologist. She talked to us about her job and told us about how we “know” about the Vikings. She showed as a pretend excavation site and how when you go down through the layers, you may come across things from the past, going further back in time the lower you dig.
In the afternoon, we talked about Viking runes and practised writing our names as we would have done years ago. P1/2 did this with ease! We wrote our names on foil and made Viking type pendants.
We were all surprised to find a Viking in the pool room!
Stephen talked to us about Viking warrior dress.
Jessica knew that the material would have been made of sheep’s wool. She felt the difference between the rough cloak and the softer tunic.
Innes tried on the glass beads. If a Viking had lots of beads on show, it meant that he was trying to show how well off he was.
Ruby tried on the heavy chain mail hood.
We were surprised to find a skeleton under the soil! The Viking had been buried with his money and weapons.
On Monday we began our busy week of Viking activities in preperation for SMUHA on Friday. We made Viking pictures with Mrs Leslie, learned some traditional dance with Maria Leask, made torches, shields and helmets in our classroom. What a busy couple of days it has been! Keep checking our page to see what else P1/2 get up to this week!
Today we have been learning about constellations. We listened to the story of Orion the Hunter and went outside to try and make our own Orions using shells and chalk on the playground.
However, it was a bit too windy today and some shells (and our paper copies of the constellation) were blowing away! Well done P1/2 for having a go and working well with friend to make Orion!
Jasmin chose the Fine Motor Skills “Moon Shoes” activity when playing today. She was very proud that she had tied the laces by herself, well done Jasmin! This is an excellent skill to learn and now you can be a helper for all those laces that become undone in P1/2!
Each week, when we do our handwriting lessons, we ask all the children to look carefully at their work and decide how well they felt they achieved what was being asked of them. This week, P2 worked together to check over the work completed by one of their peers. This made them work with great care from the outset! They looked at it together and spoke about what was good about the piece and picked out their best effort! They then picked out a few letters that could be improved and, most importantly, said why and how this could be better. They were very complimentary of each other and yet could identify sensible ways to improve! Good work P2.
Jessica points out her favourite letter to Arthur, telling him why it’s the best one!
Scott knew straight away that this letter was exactly what we were looking for!
Jessica had a few letters that she tried again after Innes spoke to her. Each time, she made them better. He also liked her colouring!
We made aliens today for our soft start activity. Later on we described them to a friend to see if they could draw the aliens without seeing them first. They only had our descriptions to go by! It was quite tricky but everyone did so well!
We used our fine motor skills to decorate our aliens with small items.
Now it’s time to compare our drawings with the real thing!
I was delighted to be called through to hear P1/2 sing, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and see them accompany the song using the bells. It took lots of concentration to follow the notes on the board and play the right note, at the right time! Mrs Inkster and I were so proud of everyone today!
This morning, we started the day by adding watercolour paint on to our wax resist, night time sky. Our pictures will accompany writing we’ll do based on the story, “The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark.” Everybody thoroughly enjoyed seeing the magical stars appear through the paint. Somebody even said, “I wish we could start everyday like this!” We look forward to experimenting with more colours as we finish our owl painting.
We were all very proud of the children who managed to fit the blocks back in the box at tidy up time (except for a few shapes that simply couldn’t fit in!) Well done everyone!
A big Titanic and a mini Titanic.
Good work boys! Brilliant team work!
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