John Rae Week Begins...

We kicked off John Rae week with a visit to Stromness Museum to have a look around the exhibition about John Rae's life.  We got to see lots of things that he used and things that he owned and was interested in.  We also really enjoyed having a look around the rest of the museum! On our way there we stopped at the Statue of John Rae.  We saw that he was carrying a gun and a knife for hunting.  We are looking forward to finding out lots more about his life and why he is important to Orkney.

All Things Owl!

Last Wednesday we had a visit from RSPB Field Teacher Amy Malcolm.  She came to tell us all about animals that come out at night - nocturnal animals.  We learned about different kinds of nocturnal animals and how they use their senses to help them find their way around in the dark.  We were most interested in Owls and Amy took in some owl pellets to dissect.  We found out that Owl eat their food whole and then cough up the bones and fur in a pellet.  We used cocktail sticks to dissect the pellets and we took out all the little bones.  It was a little bit yucky but once we started to find all the bones we got very excited.  We all found loads of bones in our little pellets and we got a sheet to see if we could find out what animal the bones were from.  It was lots of fun and we really enjoyed being bone detectives!  We also got to make clay owls which we are going to decorate and take home with us before the holidays.  Here are some pictures of us hard at the dissecting!  Don't look too closely if you are squeamish! 

Magical Moondust!

In writing last week we were learning about creating a setting for our stories.  We decided to set our story on the moon but we had a little problem - none of us know exactly what the moon is like!  We looked at pictures, listened to some moon music and we also played with some moon dust to make craters like the surface of the moon!  Some of us even made copies of Neil Armstrong's footprints!  We had lots of fun and it gave us some really good ideas for our writing although we only just started our stories - we are going to finish them off this week and then Miss Shearer will put them on the Blog! Until then here are some photos of us seeing what moon dust is like!

 

Planning, doing and reviewing!

We had our second week of plan do review last week and it was a big success!  We all planned something to do and then we used all the different materials in the classroom to help us do and create it!  Some people made small things and some people made big things!  We are still working on most of the things so we will post photos of them when they are finished in our plan do review display but until then here are some photos of works in progress!

Dramatic Stars and Planets.

Last week in Drama we were doing lots of pretending!  We were pretending to be the sun, moon and earth and worked together to make a dance showing how they move around each other.  We used a starry piece of music to help us.  We all came up with some different moves in our groups and they were really good!  We are going to work on them this week and make them a little bit longer and maybe even introduce some other stars or planets!  You can see us spinning around in the photos.  Can you work out who is the moon, sun and earth?

Barnie the Beaver

This week P2 wrote about Barnie the Beaver's adventures!  Barnie is our class Beaver and P2 had great fun thinking up all the different adventures he had been on!  He travelled the world, ate ice cream and even went to see the Queen!  We all worked really hard to make our stories exciting and some people even managed to draw a picture to go with their story!  Here are our stories!

 

 Annie's Story

 

 

 

Ashley's Story

 

 

Damon's Story

 

 

Daniel's Story

 

 

Erin's Story

 

 

Ewan's Story

 

Fraser's Story

 

 

Gracie's Story

 

 

Jack's Story

 

 

James' Story

 

 

 

Katy's Story

 

 

 

Kyle's Story

 

 

Libby's Story

 

 

Mia's Story

 

 

Noah's Story

 

Sarah's Story

 

Shannyn's Story

 

 

Stella's Story

 

 

Tara's Story

 

Taylor's Story

 





Tom's Story

 

Will's Story

 





 

 



Energetic Gym Circuits

Today in Class Gym we were busy working around different circuits.  We worked in pairs and counted how many of each thing people could do at the stations.  We had to do star jumps, crazy running, squats, skipping, bean bag throwing and shuttle runs.  We also had a rest station to give everyone a chance to get their breath back!  We worked really well together and moved around the circuits safely and sensibly.  We worked hard at improving our fitness levels and cooperation skills. We also had lots of fun! Here are some pictures of our work.

 

Tasty Tatties!

In Primary 1 we planted some tatties in a barrel with Mr MacLeod.  Last week we decided to empty the barrel and see how many tatties had grown.  We only started with 3 tatties and we ended up with lots and lots!  We weighed them and we had 2.1 kg of tatties!  We cleaned them and boiled them and ate them with butter.  They were delicious!  Some people mashed them, some people took the skins off and some people ate them just as they were.  Mr Taylor thought they were the best tatties he had tasted!  The slideshow to the right shows the whole process!