Wednesday
We were busy making Halloween decorations for the Halloween party in the hall at the weekend. We had great fun making lots of different things. Miss Nicholson had lots of activities for us to choose from, she put all the choices on the board and we chose 2 we wanted to do. We could make hanging bats, paper chain ghosts, ghost garlands, witches, spider webs, hanging ghosts and lots more. We tried to make the spiders web out of black bags but they didn’t work so we chose other things. We really liked making the paper chain ghost.
Thursday
We learned French words for a witch, a pumpkin, a ghost, a black cat, a pointy hat, a spider and a skeleton:
See if you can work them out!
- Une sorcièr
- Un chat noir
- Une araignée
- Une citrouille
- Un fantôme
- Un chapeau pointu
- Un squelette
Miss Nicholson put pictures of these things around the room, she would say one of them and we would have to stand next to the picture we thought it was. The first time we did this a few of us got a bit mixed up but once she tried it again we all got them right.
We also got to play a quick game of heads down, thumbs up but in french. Instead you would say: “tête baissée, pouces levés” and to say put your head up is “levez la tête”
After French Miss Nicholson split the class into two groups and gave us the bones of a skeleton and asked us to try and put it back together. We worked really well as a team and it didn’t take us long to put him together again. Both groups did make 1 mistake but it wasn’t a big one. We thought this was fun!
Friday
Today after we watched newsround we took the Halloween quiz. Did you know that the old name for Halloween is Samhain and that people in the middle ages were suspicious of black cats because they thought they were witches?! Hundreds of years ago people thought that ghosts would try to return to their old homes on Halloween so to avoid being recognized by theses ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for other spirits. So this is why we dress up!
We used words associated with Halloween for our spelling activities. We all brainstormed and came up with one to put on the board.
During golden time Miss Nicholson brought in a couple of pumpkins for us to carve. A few of us stayed in the classroom to help. We had great fun working together to create these! Everyone had a shot at scooping out the insides. It was very messy but great! When we were waiting for our turn we designed a face for the pumpkin. Once everyone had drawn something we put them on the floor and we chose 2 that we wanted. Miss Nicholson counted up the votes before she carved them for us. She said a couple of us could take them home if we wanted so we put up our hands to see who wanted them and then used lolly sticks to chose 2 people. This was the fairest way. Colvin and Lucy were the 2 chosen to take them home. 🙂
Miss Nicholson
We had a brainstorming session about the Shetland Islands in class today. We came up with some questions:
These are from Catherine.
– Do you have any Fast Food Shops on the Shetland Islands?
– What are some types of food you regularly eat?
– Do many of you own Shetland Ponies as pets?
– What is the biggest School on the Shetland Islands and how many students go there?
– How many Primary Schools are there in Shetland Islands?
Catherine, Room Three, Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand
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Miss Nicholson
Well look at this awesome post tomorrow in class. Harry from our class wanted to ask the following questions about the Shetland Islands:
– How many Islands make up the Shetland Islands?
– What language do you speak and learn?
– How do you get to Scotland?
– What native animals do you have in Shetland Islands?
– How many main towns are they?
– How many kids go to your School?
– Has anyone been to New Zealand? Do you know anything about New Zealand?
– Do you farm animals where you live? If you do what kind of Farm Animals are they?
Harry, Room three, Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand
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Lots of great questions from Room three, thank you for these! My class are going to a drumming workshop tomorrow so it might only be Wednesday afternoon/Thursday before we have a chance to look at these but we will try to get back to you as soon as possible with the answers.
Miss Nicholson, Primary 4/5, Tingwall Primary School, Shetland. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sh/tingwallp45/
We didn’t have time for the children to log in and comment before the end of the day so I said I would post their comments for them:
We have 2 fast food shops in Shetland – Mr T’s and Paparazzi.
Here are a few examples of what we eat in Shetland: mutton, fish, mince and tatties, tattie soup, reested mutton and salt fish.
Out of the 25 pupils in the class 4 people have Shetland ponies as pets.
The biggest school in Shetland is the Anderson high school – they have 800-900 pupils aged 11-18 with 80 members of staff.
There are 24 primary schools – some of these are junior highs and some schools are quiet small – one having 5 pupils in it!!
We have 80 pupils in our school – 4 classes: P1, P2/3, our class and P6/7
There are about 100 islands that make up the Shetland Islands.
We can either fly to Aberdeen which takes about an hour (you can fly to other places too) or we take the boat – this takes 12-14 hours though (12 straight through, 14 if it goes through Orkney) You get the boat at either half 5 or 7 o’clock at night and arrive in Aberdeen at 7 the next morning. If you search Northlink ferries on the internet you will see what it’s like.
We have our own dialect but we learn English at school and mostly talk a mixture of English and Shetland words added in. For example we say peerie for little and muckle for big. We are hoping to make a small Shetland dictionary during the term so we could share this with you to teach you a few of our words.
We have sheep, otters, puffins (we call them tammie norries), cows ponies.
We mainly farm sheep and cows although we don’t call ourselves farmers but crofters. People do keep pigs and hens but not a large scale like some farms.
The capital is Lerwick, we call this the town but other places are more like villages and little communities.
No one has been to New Zealand but a few of us have family that live there. We know very little about New Zealand except that the temperature can be quite hot. Is that right?
Thank you for the questions Catherine and Harry we enjoyed answering them.
Miss Nicholson and Primary 4/5 from Tingwall Primary School, Shetland.
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