We have been preparing for SMUHA over the past couple of weeks. We started by creating our pictures for the hall. We drew Vikings on polystyrene, then used ink and rollers to add colour. They looked great!
Logan
This week we prepared our torches and helmets ready for the procession!
We are so lucky to have two beautiful galleys!
Two pupils were lucky enough to have their shield design chosen for our school galley and another pupil had her one on the main SMUHA galley! Congratulations!
The sun was shining today for our procession and burning. Well done to our P7 Squad who did us proud again! Everyone was in fine voice at the hall too! It’s been a g-r-e-a-t day!
On Thursday 6th March we celebrated World Book Day. We started off by listening to a snippet from Mrs Smith’s favourite childhood novel and then we did a fast and furious Speed Recommendation where we had one minute each to sell our favourite books!
Some pupils also spent time with Ms Stewart going through a sensory story for the, ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’ book.
After playtime, we looked at lots of novels and picture books and spent time talking about what makes a good book recommendation. We noticed that they often use good describing words, mention themes tackled in the story and what type or genre the book is. We also looked at who was commonly making the recommendations and why they were a good choice.
After lunch, we tried to write our own recommendations for our favourite books to be added to a class display. It was quite tricky to keep it short and remember that we weren’t describing the plot like in a report!
Here are some of our attempts…
“Thrills readers with a ride through a detailed world full of horrific, exciting and imaginative mysteries.” Archie, the number 1 fantasy fan.
If you like fantasy and animal stories this is the one for you! Leva a fan of Linda Chapman.
A hilarious book with a CRAZY family! If you like comedy books then this book is for you! Elsie Geldenhuys the biggest Roald Dahl and David Walliams fan!
This story is wonderfully enchanting, astonishingly adventurous and inspirational. The story will leave you in a joyful, courageous mood. Honor Johnstone 9 years old and fan of J.K. Rowling.
An adventurous and funny novel. And it’s by the great Roald Dahl. By Greg Leslie Fantastic Mr Fox Fan.
A disgusting and hilarious book about a family of Twits. A Roald Dahl Lover (Drewie)
An imaginative book, fabulous for a younger audience. It is very exciting and adventurous. Elska Ritch the Enid Blyton fan.
Last week, we started to prepare our World Book Day display by drawing us looking at our favourite books and we tried to think about what our expressions would look like while we are reading!
Bronagh
Willum
Callum
Lucy
Titus
Jeanne
Thea
Stop by and have a look if you are passing our class! 😊
At this time of year, it’s often difficult to get outside for our class P.E. sessions so this week, we were delighted to try two different sports with visitors to the school.
On Monday we had a table tennis taster session with Mrs Joan Smith and Chris Graham. This was very much enjoyed by all!
Today, we were lucky to have Charis Scott from Ability Shetland and Jennifer Thomson from Active Schools, visiting us with their new curling equipment. We watched curling in class beforehand and wondered how we’d manage it in the hall! Their stones were on wheels and were quite heavy to slide. It took us several tries to get used to how hard to send them off. We are really looking forward to another session next week!
We explored electricity by building circuits this afternoon. We worked in groups to try to light a bulb using the equipment we were given. After that we investigated how to add a switch so that we could stop the flow of electricity in the circuit so that we could switch off the bulb.
We made some predictions about materials which would conduct electricity and it was fun testing them all to see if we were right!
Lots of pupils came in fancy dress today as part of our Children In Need celebrations! It made for an interesting day! Thank you to the Pupil Council for organising our colouring competition and Pudsey Hunt. We really enjoyed it. Some pupils have a colouring sheet to finish at home this weekend before judging.
If you would like to donate this year, this can be done using the link below.
This week we have created our own poppies for a display to help us remember and appreciate all the soldiers who fought and are still fighting in wars today.
We listened to ‘The Poppy Story’ and took down notes that will be used in our writing time next week to retell how the poppy became the symbol of remembrance.
It was lovely to see so many parents and family members in class this week for our Shared Learning Event which, this time round, had a focus on Reading.
Activities to try included…
* creating our own first lines after reading the blurb on the back of books. This will be used next week as a follow up activity.
* sorting jumbled sentences to sequence a short story.
* deciphering a set of instructions taken from our class novel.
*a variety of reading and phonics games.
*cosy cushions to look at our ERIC books.
Thank you for coming and showing your support! Please let us know which activities you tried and enjoyed by leaving us a comment.
The end of Term 1 is almost upon us! Three of our pupils shared some exciting news with us this week, so we simply had to get a photo to celebrate their achievements.
We are lucky to have such an inviting and comfortable library in our school. What a lovely time we had on Tuesday, relaxing with our books. We hope that P4/5/6 continue to read over the holidays too!
Many of us enjoy being able to choose what we write about in class. It was lovely to see everyone working so hard to achieve their writing targets this week. We sat together on Wednesday afternoon and enjoyed sharing what we had written with everyone. It was fantastic to see how many children were excited to share their writing and give positive feedback to others.
Maths time on Wednesday morning was good fun, playing number games with our friends. We had to remember to take turns and listen carefully to each other.
In the afternoon we spent time building jigsaws in small groups. Some jigsaws were tricky and will need more time to complete, but I know that we have some determined pupils in P4/5/6 who will keep going , even when the task seems impossible!
Relaxing with a good book!
Our new library is a cosy space to enjoy our own choice of books.
What a busy writing lesson we had this week.
Well done to these 3 pupils who all won medals at a recent swimming competition!
A fun Maths game where we had a guess the chosen number. It was important to ask the right questions and listen carefully to the answer!
Did they guess the right number?
I wonder if they managed to guess the number in under 10 questions…?
This group were keen to keep the jigsaw as a floor mat!
Looking carefully for details helped to make this tricky jigsaw a little easier.
It was good to try our a range of different jigsaws – even 3D ones!
It’s been a busy day in class! We started off with our Music lesson with Ms Stewart before returning to class to work on measuring with the help of Miss Newbold. We’ve been measuring using metre sticks over the past few weeks but the children have been keen to work with smaller units of measurement too. Today we tried drawing lines of a given length using rulers. This is actually a tricky skill but one that they all picked up quickly. We enjoyed playing a game of ‘Measurement Tag’ to reinforce these skills.
There is much to think about. Which way do we hold the ruler?
We took turns rolling the dice to tell us how many centimetres to draw.
Try not to get caught!
We all worked with care and accuracy.
Today is also National Poetry Day so we listened to several poems during the day, including the Shetland dialect poem ‘Eence Apon A Time’ by Vagaland.
We then took this year’s theme of counting and tried to create a Harvest themed poem that rhymed. We worked in pairs to support each other with that as getting a line that makes sense and rhymes is tricky! We will continue with this on Friday!
The afternoon saw us enjoying some time outside while this beautiful weather holds!
Finally, we welcomed Michelle McAdoo into class and she talked us through what a Harvest festival in the Christian church would look like.
She told us about the importance of thanking God for everything he’s provided but also about how important it is to give and share.
We carried the food to be shared into the ‘service’.
We joined in with a prayer of thankfulness.
We had food at our tables but were mindful that we had to share with others so we all got something we like.
We had bread and juice together, just like they would in church.
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