What a bright and sunny start to the new term! We have been working outside on some problem-solving Maths games and learning about different mental strategies when adding.
We also began our Queen’s Jubilee entries for the Living Lerwick art competition. Everyone was asked to design a picture showing what the Queen might see or do if she came to Shetland for a visit.
It was lovely to see the children making choices about how they would present their picture, using pencils, pens, paint or collage.
I was so proud to hear so many supportive comments when confidence levels dipped amongst some pupils, believing their picture was not good enough. What an amazing team we have in our classroom! You can take the following quote with you the next time you need a confidence boost…
It’s been a beautiful day and what better way to start it than a walk to school! Our JRSOs have been working hard behind the scenes to organise the final activity in The Big Walk and Wheel Challenge. They’ve been encouraging all classes to be physically active during the day, especially when some pupils can’t manage to walk or wheel to school. Today, they helped organise the buses to drop everyone off at the football pitch to walk to school together. Some pupils even managed some laps of the pitch while they waited for the buses to arrive. The website tells us, we have logged 368 physical activities and we are in 295th position in the Uk for participation and 74th in Scotland!
For the rest of our day, we enjoyed time reading our own books, finishing our Easter cards, problem solving Maths using Tangram shapes, active time with P6/7 and Assembly time with Mrs Finch! Now time for a rest! Fingers crossed 🤞 for a holiday filled with weather like today!
In our class we have a Recognition Board with a class focus for the week. This is something that we all recognise as being an area for us to develop and improve.
This week we were trying hard to be organised and ready, making sure that we are back in the classroom promptly once we have hung up our belongings in the cloakroom.
Everyone tries very hard to achieve our weekly focus so that they can get their name on to the Recognition Board. When everyone’s name is on, we can receive our class prize.
The class voted to have time playing in the “forest” as their prize. Looking at the forecast, we decided that Tuesday would be our best chance, to avoid any snowy showers later in the week!
We had fun building dens, creating bug hotels, playing hide and seek and playing ball games.
Wednesday afternoon was spent in P1/2, sharing with them the electrical quiz boards that we made last term.
Each pair supported a couple of P1/2s to try out their quiz and gave them time to explore the electrical circuits used to the play the game. If they managed to match the question with the correct answer, the bulb lit up!
Everyone in P4/5/6 did so well to explain their quiz and how to use it. They showed patience and understanding when more time was needed for the pupil to find the right answer. We would like to thank the P1/2s for having us in their classroom, they listened so well to their buddies and were so enthusiastic about each game they played.
We have missed having these opportunities to mix with other classes and develop important communication and social skills. We hope to be able to do something like this again soon!
On Wednesday morning we looked at how sound can travel through solids, liquids and gases. We used the tuning forks again to create vibrations to make the rice dance on our “drums”.
Then we moved on to making some string telephones to see if sound could travel along the string. It was lovely to see everyone working as a team, helping each other to measure the string and build their phones. We developed our skills in tying knots and untying
knots (when the string got in a tangle). Lots of perseverance shown from everyone! Well done!
Our photographer Eilidh, took some great photos of everyone passing on a secret message to their partner.
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Dancing rice!
What is he saying Elle?
We had to make sure the string was tight and that we didn’t touch the string.
Our messages could travel the whole length of the hall!
We had some fun this afternoon learning about sound and vibrations.
It was very interesting listening to the different tuning forks vibrating, after we had tapped them on the floor. Some made a high pitched sound, some were quite low.
We could feel the vibrations in our hands too and when we touched the tip of the tuning fork, the vibrations and the sound stopped.
We all enjoyed being able to test them out in a container of water too…
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Taking turns to listen to the sound from the vibrating tuning fork.
What can you hear Jade?
I think Robbie was surprised by the sound he could hear from the vibrating tuning fork!
Leah and Jessie tapped their tuning forks, then dipped in the water to see what happened…
The vibrations caused the water to spray on to Leah’s nose!
To continue being active this week, we took a walk up to the shop to post our World Book Day author letters. We are hoping that, in time, we’ll get some replies! We took a detour on the way back to make our walk a bit longer. Thank you to John and Eilidh’s Mum for joining us. (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading...
This afternoon, for The BIg Walk and Wheel Challenge, organised by the JRSOs, P1-7 came together to play games in the playground. Such a great way to get active!
The P6 Playleaders got the chance to build on their recent training, leading the younger classes in a variety of games. Everyone did so well to listen to the instructions given by the P6 girls.
In the multicourt, Ms. Scanlan lead a game of dodgeball too with the P4/5/6 and P6/7 classes. We hope to continue with our active times together, as often as we can!
Finding out who would like to be a catcher for “Toilet Flush”.
For the next 2 weeks, the JRSOs are encouraging the whole school to keep active as part of a nationwide challenge called Walk and Wheel.
Not many of us can walk or cycle to school every day, so each class has been invited to try doing some sort of physical activity for about 20-30 minutes.
Today we spent part of the afternoon playing dodgeball with the P6/7s. It was great fun!
Today we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day by wearing odd socks!
Down syndrome occurs when an individual has an extra partial (or whole) copy of chromosome 21. It is not yet known why this syndrome occurs, but Down syndrome has always been a part of the human condition.
World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) , 21 March, is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012.
The date for WDSD being the 21st day of the 3rd month, was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down syndrome,
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