Term 3 Topic Work

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.

Time to go to show what happens when we go to the toilet!

 

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!

We tested to see if we needed the string to be loose or taut.

We’re not sure if the message was able to get passed on here!
Good vibrations…! We tested what happens to the vibrations when we made the ruler longer or shorter.

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.

 

A finished guitar, ready to be played!
An “electric” guitar with an amp and an acoustic guitar. Well done boys!
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Odd Socks Day!

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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SMUHA

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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World Book 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!

Stop by and have a look if you are passing our class!  😊

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Visitors to our class

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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An Active Week

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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Electricity

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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Children In Need Day

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.

https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/fundraising/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAA-EEEBKfXRD0H5mqr7m6t0AbYIoEh&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgtyKzN3eiQMV1aNQBh1-lAJuEAAYAiAAEgL4IPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Bart wasn’t happy about reading with his Dad today!

 

Remembrance Day

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGXTeiP5Nc

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Shared Learning Event

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.

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