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.

We have been working co-operatively to create a group Power point and then present our work to the class using big clear voices and lots of eye contact.

We each chose a pastime of the Romans to research and create a few slides on.  We had to use our own words and add images to our slides.

We practised as a group so we knew the order we would be speaking in.

We worked cooperatively to read and sort instructions to make a Model of a Roman Catapult.  Then we made it using lollypop sticks, elastic bands and lots of patience.  It was very fiddly.

We had fun testing them.  Some of us discovered we had to make little changes to make the bowl spring more so the “boulder” went further.

We have been learning the history of Roman Numerals and what each numeral represents.

We did some problem solving activities to practise using Roman Numerals.