This time Eleanor visited us with Kapla blocks. We loved using these to build castles. We tried as best as we could to make them strong. They had to pass the test of being hit by a cannon ball! We had to go back and adapt our designs to make sure they passed!
After that we built drawbridges for our castle moats.
We got the chance to use the MTA kits again and this time we built towers. We have been learning about castles as part of our IDL project. We learned that castles had to be strong to defend against attacks. We also learned that they had to be tall, so that you can see for a long distance from the top. We all came up with such different ideas!
We were very lucky to have Eleanor from the UHI visit us with her MTA kits. These are large engineering kits. We used them to make lots of different shapes. We discovered that triangles are the most structurally strong shape. We adapted other shapes we had made to include triangles to stop them collapsing. We worked in groups and used our team work skills.
P4 made candles in hot colours using oil pastels and have contrasting background landscape creations using cold colours.
P4 have been learning how to draw a face. They have made self portraits and used collage to make the facial features, hair and clothes. Can you recognise who is who?
They made beautiful collages of poppies featured to the side of the display.
P4 have been working in small groups to make castle structures. They have drawn their creations.
This morning P4 took part in the Youth Music Festival 2024 for primary schools across Shetland. They did a fantastic job of singing their medley of songs and it was noted by the adjudicator, just how well they performed without a conductor and only the piano to follow!
They all did so well and I am incredibly proud of each and every one of them!
Thank you to Siobhan Pirie for the photo above and to Jen Williamson for the video recording below.
