Author: Lisa Cheyne Emslie

Theodore is my bunny.  I got him in the holidays from a house in Tingwall.

He normally eats stuff like peppers, cucumbers, melon, carrots, broccoli and rabbit food.

He stays at the top on my passage at home in a pink cage.

We sometimes put him on a purple lead and he goes crazy with it on!  He likes to run up and down the passage like really fast!

He makes me rally happy because he is jumpy and he licks my hand to show he likes me.  Sometimes he bites me but it doesn’t hurt because he has tiny teeth.

 

Erland – Area is how much space there is. In school we have the cosy corner area, classroom areas, playground area, dining hall area. We put on counters over the polar bear’s foot and it took a long time and it was too big to count how many there was!  Because the area of the foot print was big and the counters area were small.

Ollie – We measured how much newspaper could fit on the table. 6 could.  We measured how much normal paper could fit on.  19 could. Because the newspaper was bigger than the normal paper.

Dhilan – I used cubes to see how many could fill the area of a bit of paper.  It too a long time because the cubes are small.  Then I did the polar bear footprint and it was 10 cards because the cards are big.

This term our topic in Primary 1/2 is ‘Arctic Adventures’.

Yesterday afternoon we did some co-operative learning, with pupils thinking about what they already know about the Arctic and what they would like to find out about.  Everyone worked really well together – fantastic group work!

We have been having so much fun pretending to be witches and wizards making weird and wonderful potions!

I put gloopy stuff in mine and 1 blue feather and red bubbly blood. The magic word was ‘hocus pocus’ when you stirred it. It made you turn invisible!

I put in it a feather and some pink water and a butterfly. You say ‘bibbity bobbity boo’ and the potion gives you wings.

My potion turns you into a zombie. I put bugs and teeth and eyeballs in it!

My potion is a invisibility potion. It has orange bubbles and bugs and a witch’s finger in it!

We have been learning about Capacity in Maths.

Mason – Capacity is how much something can hold all the way to the top.

Lexie – We got tubs and filled them up with lentils. The yellow tub could hold 5 cups.

Jared – We filled up a jug. It could hold 5 cups of water.

Cian – We filled up a biscuit box. It could hold 18 full cups of water.

Today we did a Potions Experiment in class.  It was awesome and thankfully it was a success!!!

Jenny – We used a bottle, oil, water, green food colouring and fizzy medicine tablets.

Ruby – We put oil in the bottle. We put water in it too.

Dhilan – The water went down to the bottom and the oil went to the top. Because the little things (molecules) in the water are really squeezed together so it makes the water heavier.

Erland – We put the green food colouring in the potion and it looked like lots of bubbles.

Mason – We put in the white medicine stuff and it went really bubbly and it started foaming and it flooded out the bottle on the table.

In Maths, Primary 1/2 have been learning about measure.

Pupils have investigated the length of objects in our classroom and school.

Aimee – Length is about how long and small and short and tall stuff is. We put stuff in order from long to short. We measured things with our hands and with cubes.

They have also been investigating the weight of objects.

Cyrus – Weight is seeing how heavy and light stuff is. We measured a cube and a brush. I guessed the cube was heavier and I was right!

 

 

 

 

On 5th October, Primary 1/2 went on a trip to Tesco!

Trina took us upstairs to the ‘classroom’, where we put on our yellow vests and got our clipboards.

First we got a guided tour of ‘behind the scenes’, seeing where the food arrives off the big delivery trucks and where it is stored.  We were even inside the huge fridge! It was cold!

Then we visited the Fruit and Veg aisles.  We had to find red, green, yellow and purple fruit and vegetables and draw pictures of them on our worksheets.

We went back upstairs where we got samples of lots of yummy foods, like cheese, tatties , smoked sausage, tomatoes and celery.  Everyone tried most things!

Dhilan – The trip was good. We got to taste food and go upstairs to other bits we can’t go to on our own.

Cyrus – I liked the sausages and the cheese. I saw breadsticks and hummus that me and Granny eats. Eating fruit and veg keeps you healthy.

Ruby – It was really good.  We tried some food. I liked the smoked sausage. I saw fruit. Fruit keeps you healthy.

On Friday 30th September the Play Van came to Tingwall Hall.  Primary 1/2 enjoyed being able to play with Little Tikes and Primary 2/3.  Lots of fun was had by all and the class are already looking forward to it coming out again in Term 2!

The shipwreck is finished – hurray!  It looks absolutely fantastic 👏🏼 A big well done to Primary 1/2 who worked so hard on the model.  Everyone has enjoyed playing in it, pretending to be various ‘Under the Sea’ creatures, divers and pirates.

We used the shipwreck to come up with an imaginative story as a class.

Robbie – Our ship was called the Jolly Rodger. The captain is Red Beard and his parrot is called Scully. 300years ago the boat was going past Burra beach. It shipwrecked because of the big spikey rocks and the wind and rain. The treasure fell out the ship into the water. We found the treasure on the beach!!! It had gold and jewels and coins and crowns in it.