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Wednesday 8th March

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Following further snowfall overnight, which has results in difficult road conditions, we have another day at home    It’s a great chance to get outside, in the fresh air and enjoy playing in the snow!

Here are some things we would like to try today: 

  • Practise the Up Helly Aa song in preparation for Friday  The following link will remind you of the tune and lyrics.  You only need the lyrics for the first minute  Up Helly Aa – The Up Helly Aa Song (with lyrics) – YouTube
  • Sumdog Maths Challenge 
  • Make your own comic strip about being home on a snow day.
  • Take time to snuggle up and read a book.
  • EUROQUIZ TEAM – Please try to use this time to study for your quiz, which is Tuesday 14th in Lerwick.  You could find out about the European Union and who that involves.  Also, use your little blue Europe books to study the culture,/traditions and food from each country,.  Ask a family member to quiz you on some facts.

 

I’m sure you will have lots of fun playing in the snow today.  Maybe you could…

  • Build a snow sculpture.  It doesn’t have to be a snowman!  Can you take a photo to share with us?
  • Go sledging – be safe!
  • Write words in the snow with a stick.  Can you think of words to describe the weather?
  • How deep is the snow at your house?  Take a ruler and put it in the snow to measure the depth.

Whatever you do, have fun and be safe!

If schools are open tomorrow, Mrs Smith will be there to help you all get ready for SMUHA.  “From grand old Viking centuries…”

 

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Our week so far…

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We did it again! Everyone has worked hard to earn pegs for their super effort, perseverance and kind actions.  This week we managed to reach our goal and have planned to have a disco on Monday 20th in the school hall as our class prize.

We have begun learning about Fairtrade and what it means.  We worked in groups to sequence the different stages of making a chocolate bar.  We were surprised by how long it takes to go from planting cocoa trees to buying chocolate in the shop!  We are finding out just how important it is that these farmers are given a fair price for their hard work.

On Wednesday, while we were getting ready to go home, we were treated to some fiddle tunes.  We love to hear music in P4/5/6!

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Monday 30th January

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Our class had fun exploring the human body with the visitors from The Glasgow Science Centre today.  In the morning we were given the chance to play with different interactive exhibits relating to different parts of the body.

The girls were looking to see if they could spot when this patient needed an x-ray.
These boys learned about the different organs in our bodies and where they are.
Putting the brain back together wasn’t very easy!
Can you see which parts of their bodies were the hottest?
All the images are in the correct order! Well done!
This memory game was very competitive! We had to remember the correct sequence of flashing lights and try to repeat it.

Later on we took part in a Disgusting Digestion interactive show.

It was great fun and we learned about the journey of food throughout our bodies.

We learned how long our intestines are…up to 7 or 8 metres long!
What is going on here? Can you have a guess based on their facial expressions?

Somehow, we also managed to squeeze in a session with a local musician today!  We were treated to some dialect singing and fiddle playing by Claire White.  She planned a busy session looking at some interesting local stories and how she managed to turn these into songs for people to remember.

Then we split into groups to write our own stories and eventually turn these into songs.  Some groups chose their own local stories to develop.  These included the St Ninian’s Isle treasure, The Queen opening our school in 1969 and the Braer Disaster.  It was a lot to do in the short space of time, so we didn’t quite manage to finish this today.   Next term we are looking at local history, so we will save what we have achieved for now and build on these again at a later date.   I look forward to seeing what we can produce!

Well done Draatsis!

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Tuesday 17th January

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Hello everyone!  I hope you have managed to enjoy the gorgeous snowy weather.  Have you been sledging?  Built a snowman?  Snuggled up and watched a film?  Read from your book?

As we have been working on our 5 sentences with correct punctuation in class, can you write down what you have been doing with your days at home?  Remember…5 sentences with capital letters and full stops/exclamation marks/question marks.

If you are not venturing outside today, I have set some Sumdog tasks online.

This week in Maths we are starting to look at Multiplication and Division, so the following websites could be used for practice.  We are looking at the 3x and 6x tables first, so this would be a good thing to work on at home.

Multiplication Miner – Mathsframe

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Dartboard Multiplication – 7-11 year olds – Topmarks – for some challenge!

We were planning to look at the next part of Mission 3 for The Children’s Parliament this week, so you could start thinking about this at home, in preparation for returning to school tomorrow.  Please note down your ideas to bring into school.

  • What does Fairness mean to you?  
  • What is Fairness in AI? (Artificial Intelligence)

Hope to see you all tomorrow!

Mrs Henderson

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Class Prize!

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We had our class prize today!  When our peg jar was approaching the finish line, we all voted for what we would like as our prize.  There was no clear winning idea, so we have enjoyed laptop time and crafts.  It has been a lovely, relaxed afternoon full of creativity and fun!

 

I wonder what everyone will vote for next time…?

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Sugar Crystals

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This week we have been exploring saturated sugar solutions to see if we can make some sugar crystals.

We can already see crystals forming in the jars and hope that some will form on the string dipped inside too!

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Class Prize Today!

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It was a perfect afternoon for our class prize!  On this wet and windy day, everyone was warm and snug wearing their pjs – including Mrs Henderson!

It was great to  see all of the much loved cuddly toys coming into school this morning.  They were the perfect companions for our film this afternoon!

After a vote, it was narrowed down to 2 films.  We decided to make use of both the classroom and the ICT room so that both films could be played at the same time.  This allowed for the children to have more choice over what they watched. Both groups were so engaged in the films shown and it was so lovely to celebrate the wonderful first term we have had together!  We all enjoyed a little snack whilst watching the film too!

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I wonder…

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Today we  got into groups to decide on our focus for our own dissolving investigations.  We spoke about making it a fair test, ensuring that we only change one thing so that we can see if that change had an impact.

One thing that every group chose to keep the same in their investigation was to use the same amount of water in each jar.   We had to make sure we measured it very carefully.

Some groups were keen to  find out what would happen if we mixed soluble substances and insoluble substances together in the water.  Most found that the flour just made the water cloudy so it was difficult to see if the salt or sugar dissolved.

Others wanted to find out if the water temperature would have an affect on the speed at which the substance dissolved.  One group tried to dissolve sugar in cold, warm and hot water.

I wonder if you can guess which jar contained the hot water…?

A couple of groups were keen to see if they could separate sugar and salt from the water once it had dissolved and how long this would take.   We won’t know the results of these investigations yet, but will keep you posted!

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Dissolving

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Our science focus this week has been investigating substances that will dissolve in water.  We had 4 substances to test – sugar, flour, salt and sand.

First, we made our predictions, then it was time to test!  We set up a fair test using the same amount of water for each jar, the same amount of each substance and we stirred each jar the same number of times.

We made some interesting discoveries and are already thinking about what we want to change about the investigation next week.

Some pupils want to see if the water temperature will affect how quickly a substance will dissolve.  Others want to try adding different amounts of water and some spoke about stirring the water for longer.

We are excited to test out our ideas next week!

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