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Group work, Literacy and English, Myths and Legends, Social Studies, Technologies, Topic

Myths and Legends around the world

September 23, 2015 Miss Nicholson 1 Comment

Today we got into groups of 3 and 4 to begin researching different myths and legends around the world. We are gong to present our findings to the rest of the class next week. Each group was given a different country to look at and we have to find at least 3 different myths/legends that belong to that country. We decided in our groups how we were going to present our findings, most of the groups decided to make Power-points but there are a few posters being made. We have been looking through books and searching the internet to find our information. We discussed copyright and now know how to narrow our search on Google images to know which photos we can use and which ones we cannot.

Literacy and English

Story Tellers

September 23, 2015 Miss Nicholson 4 Comments

We have been lucky to have had storytellers come to visit us.

Renita Bayer, an American lady came in to tell us different stories on the 9th of September. Primary 6-7 joined us too. We had lots of fun! She had us join in: standing up, sitting down, singing and doing different actions. She had a nice loud voice so everyone could hear and used lots of expression. She put a lot of effort into the stories and even though she only had 45 minutes with us she told us lots of different ones! We would love to have her again!

On the 15th of September we had a different kind of storytelling. This time it was in dialect! Brenda and Laureen came to read us a Shetland dialect book called ‘Mystery at da Lairds Haa’ We really enjoyed this too! They were really nice and gave us all a book each to take home! They showed us a website that we could go on and listen to the story and there were games too. We wished they could have stayed longer and read more but we have been enjoying reading the book ourselves.

Health and Wellbeing

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.

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’.