It has been a very busy first week back at school after the holidays! In maths we have started doing a new starter task before each lesson. We now get a 'number talks' picture with questions to work out. We have also started our 'speedy skills' for the term which will be times tables. Over the term we will be playing different games and working with Miss Mann & Mrs Johnson to build and consolidate our knowledge. We have been writing poems this week about Halloween. We did an Acrostic poem and we did a rhyming poem where we had to add in the next line. Our Big Question this week has been about why we should choose Fairtrade products. We learned about what Fairtrade is and why it is important. We found out that it protects the rights of farmers who grow foods such as - sugar, cocoa and bananas. If a farmer is part of the Fairtrade organisation they will be paid fairly which will allow them to buy the things they need to live. We made posters about Fairtrade and the process of growing some of these foods. On Thursday we sorted products into Fairtrade and not Fairtrade groups. We also taste tested Fairtrade cookies, bananas and chocolate! :) Halloween fun! On Friday we did a few fun Halloween activities. We had a mini-figure scavenger hunt around the classroom to find ghosts, bats, spiders and pumpkins. We also heard Halloween jokes from p3/4 which we can use when we go guising. We also used our knowledge of volume to follow a recipe and accurately measure ingredients to make a 'Wizard potion'. We used frog juice, zombie acid, wizards powder, pumpkin juice and fairy dust to make a potion! It was very fizzy. On Friday morning/afternoon we had Eve from the Edinburgh Royal Botanics come in to teach us lots about different plants and flowers. We learned about the names of Scottish plants, stories behind them, tasted some different plants, created ‘Frankenstein’ plants and also thought about plants that held memories for us. We all had a super time and enjoyed learning about plants in a different way. Royal Botanics visit:
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