Investigating the Early Settlers

We have had a busy week learning about the Stone Age.  On Monday we went to the museum and looked at all of the evidence.  We recorded what we found out in pictures and notes.  Then on Friday one of the rangers from Historic Scotland came and showed us lots of different replica artefacts. 

It was very interesting learning about life in Orkney 5000 years ago!

 

First few weeks of term four

This term our topic is called 'Early Settlers'.  We are very fortunate to have so many historical sites in our local community we can visit.  To help us think about the past we have been making our own timelines and examining different historical artefacts.

 

 

 We have also been doing some work on fractions.  We have played some games to help us think about how to make halves and quarters.

 

Easter time

Our first week back after the holidays was spent getting ready for Easter.  We read the Bible story and talked about how we celebrate the Christian festival.  Then we had some fun making cards and decorating eggs with Mrs Reid.

 

Building a shelter for Clyde

 

We received a challenge from Clyde, the Commonwealth Mascot to build a shelter which he can stand up in.  We only had a few materials to complete the task but we worked hard and built interesting constructions. 

Which one would you like to stay in?

 

The Construction Thinking Key

Our challenge, last week, was to work in teams to design and build a long bridge.  We had one sheet of newspaper and ten straws to build our structure.  Everyone had different ideas but tried hard to create a group bridge.

 

 

Orienteering in the playground

Last week we worked outside to learn some skills in orienteering. We hope the weather will be kind to us soon and we can go to Muddisdale and the Peedie Sea to do some more activities.

We began this task by working with our friends to read a map and simple key.

 

 

We had to remember what piece of equipment we needed and run to collect it from the containers.

 

Then we went further up the playground and put the object in the correct place.

After a short while and a few challenging moments,  we had all made different clown faces. 

Job well done!

Clyde the Commonwealth mascot visits class 2/3

We were very lucky to get a visit from Clyde the mascot last week.  Clyde is travelling all around Scotland to encourage people to support the Commonwealth Games.  We asked lots of questions about different things.  Clyde told us his favourite activity is weightlifting and he wears size 17 shoes, just like the number of sports in Glasgow 2014.