Keeping Healthy

September 23, 2015 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

Our topic in health and wellbeing is keeping healthy so we have been looking at different ways in which we can stay healthy.

We have looked at the eat well plate and the different food groups: carbohydrates, protein, fats, dairy and fruit and vegetables. We discussed which foods and drinks are good for you and those that aren’t good for you.

We kept a diary of what we ate and how active we were for a week and discussed this in class. We are a very active class which is great!!

We are creating leaflets for:

keeping healthy
what food you should/shouldn’t eat
having a balanced diet
staying active

Some of the class are creating leaflets by folding paper into 3 and writing/drawing their information whilst the others are typing their information on the laptops. Miss Nicholson showed us how to create a leaflet using Microsoft Word, changing the paper, adding 3 columns and printing double sided so that when you print and fold it, the writing isn’t upside down.

We have been looking at keeping fit during PE with Miss Nicholson. We have been doing circuits, these are:

burpees
bench toe taps
shuttle runs
star jumps
sit ups
squats

We are keeping note of how many we do in the 1 minute and have noticed that we are getting better as the weeks go on! We enjoy doing this and created our own stations for the circuits last week. We came up with great ideas that really got us working.

Literacy and English, Myths and Legends, Technologies, Topic

Tingwall Times

September 23, 2015 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

We have been looking at newspapers and the features of a newspaper during literacy. We learned about:

Headlines,
Orientation,
Pictures and captions
The main text – has paragraphs, written in past tense and in columns
Reorientation

After spending time looking through newspapers and identifying the different features we planned our own newspaper reports. First we had to agree on a name for our newspaper! We came up with lots of ideas to begin with, before having a secret vote to decide on one. We all closed our eyes and put our hand up for which name we wanted. Tingwall Times was the winner!

Our report was about a Mythological creature being spotted in Tingwall/Shetland, we got to choose which creature we wanted to write about. Then after we had written our plan Miss Nicholson showed us how to use Microsoft Word to write a newspaper, using columns, adding a heading, making the font bold and adding a box for our picture and caption. Half the class used the laptops to type their reports whilst the other half wrote them on paper. We are creating a front cover for our Tingwall Times just now.

Myths and Legends, Topic

Topic – Legends

September 23, 2015 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

Along with the mythological creatures we read and discussed these legends as a class;

Pandoras box,
Theseus and the Minotaur,
Hercules,
King Midas,
Romulus and Remus,
Orpheus and Eurydice,
The story of Annigan – We created our own myth as to why there are different moon phases after reading this.
The Hero Twins and Atalanta and the Wild Boar – We created our own heroes/heroines after reading these legends. We thought about a name, their special skills, any weaknesses, a quest they had to go on and any difficult tasks they had to perform. Some of us drew a picture of what we thought our Hero/Heroine would look like.

Myths and Legends, Topic

Mythological Creatures

September 23, 2015 Miss Nicholson 1 Comment

Our topic this term is Myths and Legends.

We paired up and researched mythological creatures using different sources (books and the internet – although some pairs couldn’t find any information they were looking for in the books) The creatures we researched/discussed were:

gorgon
Cyclops
Phoenix
Trolls
Hydra
Griffon
Quetzacoatl
Medusa
Minotaur
Cerberus
Scylla
Harpies
Chimaera
Mermaids
Fairies
Leprechauns

After looking at all the different creatures and what they looked like, special features and weaknesses, we created our own. We drew a picture of what they looked like and wrote a little bit about them. They are currently on our wall for all to see.

Literacy and English, Personalisation and Choice

Ruby Duncan’s imaginative story

September 23, 2015 Ruby Kay 7 Comments

The Toilet Door

We get on the plane and go to our seats. It is very noisy because a baby is crying. I sit down in my seat. “Can I go to the toilet Mam before the plane takes off?” I ask Mam. “Yes” says Mam. So I walk up to the bathroom. I notice the door is sparkling and shining, flashing red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. I look around. No-one else seemed to notice it. I ask a lady sitting in one of the back seats. “Why is that door shining?” I ask. “It’s not shining! Don’t be silly!” Laughs the lady. Hmm. So it’s only me that can see it. I wonder about opening the door. I pull the handle. No it’s locked. But I see a gold glittery key lying on the ground. I pick it up and unlock the door. Just as I enter the bathroom I notice something. The toilet has grown eyes, a mouth, a nose and arms! I’m scared. Suddenly the toilet stretches out his arms. He pulls me into the toilet head first. I taste dirt. I hear air whooshing past. I feel terrified. I see green and blue and white. I smell different things. Suddenly there’s a huge BANG. I look around. There is dirt everywhere and it’s damp and it smells weird. I figure out I’m in the drain. I hear a little tapping noise. A yellow minion wearing dungarees stands next to me. “Ello!” Says the minion. “I Bob! Me Minion!” He squeaks. “I stuck! I stuck!” He yells. Then I see a huge black shadow approaching… “Bob hide!” I hiss. Bob runs behind a rock. The shadow is growing bigger. And bigger. AND BIGGER! I scream as I see what’s making the shadow. An old lady with white hair, golden glasses, wearing a knitted pink scarf and a red cardigan and a black skirt. I gasp. She is holding a tray of brownies which have a sign on them saying DO NOT EAT. “Would you like a brownie?” Asked the old lady. I wasn’t sure if I should eat one. They looked so good but they said DO NOT EAT on them… I took one. I tasted it. It was delicious. BANG. The lady was gone. Oh no… I think. BANG. I’m starting to shrink! I look at my hands. They’ve turned yellow! I’ve turned into a minion. “Bob!” I shout. “Look! I’m a minion!” Bob comes running towards me. “I know how to escape!” Yells Bob. He shows me a ladder going up out of the drain. The ladder is very tall and rusty but me and Bob climb up. But just as we’re nearly at the top… Bob slips! I catch him though and we escape out of the drain. We get on to the street. I spot a plane flying overhead. It must be the plane I was on! “We have to hurry Bob!” I say. But Bob has already run into a huge building. “Bob wait!” I shout. But he’d already run into the building. I wait for about ten minutes. People are starting to stare at me and they say “Oh look a minion!”. Just then Bob appeared again. He was holding two jet packs. We put them on. And we zoomed up to the plane. We went in. My parents didn’t even notice I’d gone. I had turned back into a human again! “Who’s this minion?” Asked Mam. “My pet Bob” I said. “OK” said Mam.

The end.

Sciences, Successful Learners

Science

September 22, 2015 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

We have been learning about friction with Mrs Spowart. We carried out an experiment, using our shoes, and discovered that the more friction there is, the more you need to pull to make something move. In this case, our shoes! We learnt that there are two types of friction. The friction between two things that aren’t moving is called ‘Static Friction’ and the friction between two moving objects is called ‘Dynamic Friction’.