We had a great time last week learning about the journey food takes through our bodies. Everyone was surprised to learn that our small intestines are 6 metres long!
Later on we had fun exploring the different exhibits on offer. We tried out a thermal camera, a memory game, a multi tasking game, a body puzzle, an X-ray activity and much, much more! One exhibit even showed you what you might look like in 10 years time if you lived an unhealthy lifestyle! It was pretty scary!
Here is a pretend stomach full of food!We played a small intestine race. Each person had to squeeze the ball through the small intestine, acting like the muscles pushing real food through the body.
This exhibit showed what happens to your lungs if you smoke cigarettes. It was much harder to pump air into the black lung.It was great fun using this special magnifying camera.The multi tasking game.This machine let us listen to different people breathing. One person had asthma and we had to guess which one it was.The memory game involved pushing a sequence of colours in the order shiwn. A new colour was added each time it the sequence which made it it’s tricky!
Leighton and George worked as a team to put the body back together again.
Great fun was had by all with the thermal camera.The poor person in this X-ray had barbed wire stuck in their hands! Ouch!
Today, we were glad to see Mr Rose back in class to help us learn all about Forces. We have been learning that forces are all around us, all the time. We have been talking about gravity and the forces that we can apply to objects to make them move and change. We are looking forward to planning, testing and writing up our own experiment soon.
Without a force, our blu tac balls were going nowhere! It was quite dull!!
A little PUSH could make them roll away from us. We could also PULL them back.
When we PRESSED down hard on the blu tac, the force changed the shape.
Mr Rose introduced us to Stan the stunt guinea pig!
When an object was dropped above the see-saw, the force made Stan jump a little into the air.
When a bigger object was used and dropped from higher up, the greater force made Stan jump much higher.
It’s been a busy start to the term. We’re glad to welcome two new pupils into P1/2 and we’ve been enjoying getting to know them. Today we were lucky enough to be blessed with beautiful weather for our Voar Redd Up to the Croft House Museum. P1/2 did a super job cleaning up. We didn’t find too much bruck, which is a good thing!
All set to go!
What a beautiful day for a redd up!
Second place in the most unusual find of the day goes to Anders and his coffee cup!
Denley made friends with his first Shetland pony!
I think they were disappointed the bags had no food! Patting will have to do!
P1/2 have worked hard on the last day of term sequencing the main parts of the Easter story and noting down important words that would help them retell it later. In the afternoon, they deserved a run around the garden area having an Easter egg hunt. Happy Easter everyone! See you all on the 18th April.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our French afternoon on Wednesday. We had a busy morning drumming in assembly, but then got straight to work preparing the classroom for an afternoon with family and friends and of course some French treats too!
Ronan made a fantastic Eiffel Tower!
Lena’s Dad was determined to win the french colours dominoes game!
Leighton tries a game of colour dominoes. I wonder who won…?
Iona enjoyed sharing some treats with her Mum.
I wonder who can build The Eiffel Tower with spaghetti and play dough!
Bienvenue!
Brothers and sisters came to visit as well.
Thank you Mrs Sutherland for all your help on the day too!
Enjoying a french story together.
The Lego Eiffel Tower is underway…
Christina enjoyed having her little brother to visit.
A french version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Our classroom was a hive of activity!
A happy afternoon for all involved!
Looks like a nice picnic Kayla!
Leighton had fun building his Eiffel Tower.
Well done John for making all of those crepes all afternoon! Thank you!
Not much left now!
Not many chocolate croissants left!
Parents helped too!
This french number matching game was popular with children of all ages.
P1/2 have been using the laptops to research French food this term as part of their Food topic. Some food sounded really yummy – macarons, crepes, baguettes and tarte tatin just to name a few. Others were a bit surprising. Have you ever tried frogs legs and snails?!
We decided that we wanted to try making some of the yummy treats for family and friends to enjoy. Once we found some simple recipes, we wrote shopping lists and began the preparations for our French afternoon. Invitations were made and sent out. Then it was time to begin making and baking! We also made a milk chocolate tarte and a white chocolate tarte but forgot to take photos!!
Roma was busy making her own notes on French food.
Ryan and Elijah worked as a team to find out about baguettes and took notes to share with the class.
P2 were super helpers for the P1s. There was a lot of information to look through and they had to decide what was important to write down.
Conor carefully looked through the recipes to make sure he had included everything in his shopping list.
Elijah read out the ingredients for Freya to add to her shopping list.
Time to begin the first crepe mixture.
Everyone enjoys cracking the eggs! Watch out for egg shells!
Conor made sure Aiden poured just the right amount of milk.
Roma takes a break from beating her eggs to check the milk too!
Leo and Freya worked as a team to pour and measure the right amount of milk.
tap…tap…tap…
Everyone was busy pouring, measuring and mixing.
Iona begins mixing all of the ingredients together.
Freya’s turn next!
Next up…mini chocolate croissants.
Roll them up….
Roma seems happy with her croissant!
When the pupils finished each croissant, they added them to the tray.
Keep rolling…we need to make more!
Georgia and Elijah worked together to lightly brush some egg on top of each one.
P1/2 have been learning about money during Maths time and while at play. Our gallery of photos show some of the practical activities they’ve been doing.
Recognising the coins we need to use.
Matching, sorting and naming the coins.
Leighton thought the till was untidy. He sorted all the coins for us! Good work Leighton!
What a busy day we’ve had in P1/2! It started off with a drumming assembly with Joy Duncan. P1/2 were on first and what a brilliant opening act! Well done everyone for your enthusiasm and focus to play the correct rhythm.
Since World Book Day, P1/2 have been enjoying the challenges of reading all sorts of different texts at home and at school. They are enjoying reading alone, with a partner and in small groups. They have been really keen to share their reading with the class and have written book reviews at home to tell us all about their favourite stories. Please look through our gallery of photos. It is clear to see the enjoyment, concentration, peer support and potential for learning.
Ruben and Ryan reading and recording titles read.
World Book Day reading…Roma and Kayla the witch!
Christina dressed as Heidi concentrating so well!
Isla showing us how much her reading skills are developing.
Friends learning together.
P2 pupils make excellent reading partners.
Reading is fun when you share a book together!
Leo was engrossed in his story!
Conor recording and rating his story.
Christina revising her Tricky Words at the end of her story.
Isla and Leo shared their stories with the class.
Sounding words out together.
Kayla enjoying our ERIC time.
Having fun while we read!
Reading in small groups.
Working together.
Sharing our book reviews we wrote at home.
Elijah asks, “What would have made your story get five stars?”
We’ve had a splendid day! Beautiful weather for our procession to see the galley burning, squad acts that had us all giggling and topping the day off with the SMUHA Jarl Squad visit in the afternoon. Here are some of our photos from the day.
Running to throw in our torches!
Fivla burning. All that hard work!
Looking splendid in our helmets!
A big shield!
Aiden meets his first SMUHA Viking!
Isla looking fierce!
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