We had fun in the sun this afternoon during our Playful Minutes time. There were burritos being made in the mud kitchen, balancing and hula hooping skills being developed and of course a game of football being played!
Some chose to stay indoors and play in their restaurant, making us all yummy things to eat as we were playing. I wonder what will be on the menu next week…
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We had a lovely time, out and about for Da Voar Redd Up on Wednesday afternoon. The main thing we found were plastic bags and food wrappers.
Thank you to all of the adult helpers with us on the day!
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Bones
“This term we have been learning about the human body. We learned about our hands and the tendons used to make them move.
We made hands with string and straws. We drew around our hands, then taped straws to it and threaded string through so that they could move.” Elska P4
The Digestive System
“We put crackers, bananas and juice in a bag and mixed it up by squeezing the bag. This was supposed to mimic the stomach. Then we put some tights over a paper cup and poured in the mixture. Then we squeezed the mixture in the tights.” Elska P4
The tights acts like the small intestines, squeezing out all the nutrients that the body needs and passing on what our bodies don’t need to the large intestine. At the end of the task, we emptied the remaining food in the tights into a cup where it was then pushed out as waste. Some children were delighted to be part of this messy activity, whilst others were glad that it was over!! It was a great way to visualize what is happening inside our bodies when we eat food.
Sound
We have been learning about how sound is made through vibrations and how it travels to our ears so that we can hear it. It was great fun making string telephones to speak with our friends!
On the last day of term we had fun making instruments to show our understanding of vibrations and how to change the pitch of sound.
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Today we celebrated Down Syndrome Awareness day by donning our brightest, odd socks!
Yesterday, we watched a video that explains what Down Syndrome is and there were many really thoughtful questions raised following this. If you want to watch the video at home, the link is below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_2rmDYfz4
We have one very special classmate that we like to celebrate on Odd Socks Day! This year, we wrote 21 things we love about her. Ask your child at home why we chose the number 21!
To round off what was a great day, we managed to squeeze in one final session of Curling! This has been a real HIT with all the pupils, with grateful thanks to Charis at Ability Shetland!
Have a happy weekend everyone!
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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!
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!
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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!
Stop by and have a look if you are passing our class! 😊
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We were delighted to have a visit for some cute and cuddly guests last Monday. Leva’s Mum took in their new baby rabbits for us to see.
We all had fun stroking, cuddling and feeding them. It was very difficult to say cheerio at home time!
Thanks again to Leva and her Mum for taking them in!
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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!
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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!
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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.
