We had a wonderful Activity day to celebrate all the hard work pupils have done in P4.

We started off with an Inflatable in the games halls while we listened to our favorite songs.

Then we went to the Scalloway Museum to visit, have a tour and learn about the Scalloway Castle.  We also learnt more about the Shetland Bus and Kaare Iverson.

Then we went to Fraser Park before returning to school.

Lachlan made a power point presentation about his Great Grandad, Kaare Iverson.

He showed us the book he wrote and lots of photos of his grandad.

The class loved hearing about the amazing story of the Shetland Bus.

We have been learning about Measure this week in maths.

We have had experience of estimating, weighing and reading scales.

Homework:  Amelia made a model of the Loch Ness Monster.

Sophie made a model of the Wallace Monument.

Erin brought her Fiddle in for Show and Tell.  She played us the tunes she was playing at the Young Fiddler Competition.

We have started our new Topic, Scotland.

We have been learning about the Loch Ness Monster.  We made models of what we think the Loch Ness Monster looks like.

We are continuing to practise our Spelling little and often through the week so we can become more confident.  We played Spelling Snakes and Ladders in small groups.

Primary 4 had a lovely morning making and eating pancakes for Pancake day!

We developed our measuring skills.   We weighed the ingredients using grams and millilitres.

We cracked eggs, whisked, cooked and flipped our pancakes.  Then we chose our favourite toppings and enjoyed eating them together in the homework.

Later we wrote recipes.  We had to remember what we did and make sure our recipe was in the right order.

In maths, we learnt how to collect, sort and organise data.

We each created a survey and choose a group of people to ask. We used Tally marks to collect and organise our data.   Them we made bar graphs using Excel.

We have been improving our spelling by doing a daily practise to build our confidence.

We’ve been playing games and using Say Look Cover Write Check strategy.

We enjoyed a visit from Michael and Echo from “Dogs against Drugs”.  Michael told us about his important job and let us try on some police equipment.

We also got to meet Echo who is just beginning his training in becoming a sniffer dog.

We have been learning about Fitness in PE.  We took part in different activities to improve our fitness.  We kept a record of our results to compare how we did in week 1 with week 4.

We enjoyed a visit from the Jarl Squad.  Some of us got to speak to the vikings and try on their helmets, shields and axes!

In ICT we have been learning about how Computers work.  We have been using algorithms to code microbits.

It has been lots of fun seeing our microbits work.

We have been learning about services and goods in Scalloway.   We learnt that businesses  sell things to make a profit.  This gave us ideas to make our own business.

We made a model of Scalloway showing the different shops, services and food providers.

We decided to make and sell Reindeer food at the Christmas concert.   There were lots of things to think about.  We had to design the packaging, choose the best materials within our budget.  We also had to write a rhyme.  We worked together to share ideas and make changes.