This Week (By Blogger Eileen)

This week we have made healthy pizzas with toppings including : red, yellow and green peppers,smoked sausage,cheese,pineapple,mushroom,spinach and sweetcorn then created packaging for them.

I have learnt how to divide by 10 and 100 an how to create packaging that makes people really want to buy it.

I have enjoyed making the pizzas and creating the packages.

(Eileen)

Week 5 of Term 3

Already we have had an interesting week. In maths we are comparing and ordering fractions. We have been playing games to work on these skills.

In talking and listening, we discussed the film WALL-E and its characters and theme. We kept exploring WALL-E in our grammar focus, adjectives. We explored describing words and match them to either WALL-E, EVE or a sand storm. Later, we realised how important adjectives are when someone tried to describe a picture and others had to draw it! It was much easier when the person used lots of adjectives and descriptions.

Some of our adjective work: linking adjectives to WALL-E characters and drawing using adjectives

Today, we were visited by our community nurse, Vicky Anderson. She talked us through the Eat Well Plate and different types of food. We found out how much of different foods are good for us and what each type of food does to keep us healthy!

Playing food bingo!

Playing food bingo, it was very fun!

Adding food to the Eat Well plate.

Everyone got a turn to choose and add food to the plate. It was helpful to see how much of each food is healthy for us.

Vicky Anderson telling us about the different types of food.

In RME, we role played a quick Gurdwara service and discussed how people show respect when visiting a Gurdwara. We seem to really be enjoying our Sikh topic and learning a lot about respecting others' beliefs. 

This Week ( by blogger Abigail)

This week we have been preparing our assembly and have had some visits from Eileen's mum who is a doctor. 
I have learnt about fifths and tenths and about silkism.
I have enjoyed doing our assembly.

Bird Watching Survey!

Today, we were visited by Lindsey Taylor from the RSPB. She talked to us about the different types of birds in Orkney and around our school. We discovered that birds have very inventive ways of getting enough food!

Then we made fat balls full of seeds, porridge oats and raisins. We created bruised and soft apples, full of black sunflower seeds, that are perfect for hungry birds.

 

We are going to use these in our maths by taking a survey of what kinds of birds visit, then make graphs. It's a big project but we are ready for it.

Preparing a healthy meal: Fruit Salad

Our topic lesson today focused on preparing a healthy meal through cutting skills. We wee challenged to cut fruit for a fruit salad by using a bridge and with fingers facing away from the knife. When we could, we used the flat surfaces to steady the fruit.

We worked in pairs or small groups to create a healthy meal.

Aiden, Leigha and Owen kept their area very tidy throughout the session

The smell interested Mr McIntosh, who tasted group's fruit salads

This was the first time some pupils had tasted pomegrante, mango and passion fruit. The class LOVED pomegrante but that could be because it is so messy! To start the lesson we explored where the fruits we eat come from. Most of them come from places close to the equator. We placed fruit on the map where we thought they would come from and as a class we were very close!

This Week (By Blogger Lucy)

This week we have been writing poems.
I have learnt...to do fractions.
I have enjoyed...crunch and sip!

RME, Maths and Topic!

The biggest change from last term is that we take a short break to eat fruit and have a drink of water, this is called a Crunch&Sip break. We have really been enjoying the opportunity to eat different fruit and vegetables. Thank you for your support, parents!

Here are some thoughts about Crunch&Sip:

"Really good" Caity

"Cool because you get to choose what fruit you bring" Zoe

"You get to be healthy and eat fruit instead of junk" Dylan

"Really good because you get a break from work" Jorjalee

Thursday's Crunch&Sip tray

In RME, we have been learning about Sikhism. We have explored the area where the religion began and its first leaders... Gurus. We were given a Guru to research and produce a poster to share with the class. We released how important Gurus were to Sikhs today.

In Maths, we have been learning about fractions. We make fractions when we take the whole of something and split it into equal parts. We have been working on a half, quarter, fifths and tenths. 

We created a fraction wall which shows us what fractions look like beside other fractions: