Another Active Week

Last week in maths we played ice-cream addition.

It was a good way to secure our knowledge of number bonds.

We were entertained by a folk group - they were good.

 





The whole school danced a celidh.

In Plan Do and Review we made boats out of junk boxes.

We then tested them in water to see if they would float or sink.

We also predicted whether a number of other objects would sink or float.

 

Our model of Stromness as seen from our classroom window is looking great - we have worked really hard on it.



Brinkie's Brae

 As part of our Welly Wednesday we had a walk around Brinkie's Brae to gather inspiration to write about our Brinkie's Brae Trow.

It was a long way up to the top but we had great views of Stromness.

Although the clouds srarted turning black we were lucky that it only started raining when we got back into school.

We drew pictures of what we could see.

We also picked materials to look at under our digital microscope.

We talked about what our Trow would be doing up at the top of Brinkie's Brae and where would he live.

We gathered lots of inspiration for our writing.

Welly Wednesday

We are having great fun exploring our environment on our Welly Wednesdays.

 

Our challenge was to find different colours of materials/objects in nature and record these on our colour palette..

Our first trip was to the Market Green, it was cold and wet but...



...we found lots of different colours in the environment around us as well as some great items to look at under our microscope.

Ms Stokes was so impressed with our learning that she took our work to Dunfermline to show other teachers.

Where was the photograph taken?

Have a look at the following 4 pictures and identify whether the photograph was taken from the front of the school, the back of the school or the side.

Picture 1.

                                              
                                             
                                                                          Picture 2

                                                                           Picture 3

         
                                                                       Picture 4

My Home Town Stromness

We have had a great start to our topic this term 'My Home Town Stromness'.

 

We are making a model of the view from our classroom.

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We started by building the hills of Hoy from paper mache.

Once we had painted these we built Graemsay and started to build Stromness harbour.

We all worked together throughout the week. Next week we will be starting to make peedie boats and houses.

We also planted lettuce and herbs, as it has been a cold week we have planted them inside.

 We have also been looking in non-fiction books to find out interesting facts for our class scrap book on Stromness.

We need lots more interesting facts so if you have any facts or memories that you would like to share with us please do.