Tiling patterns

We have been fitting 2D shapes together to make tiling patterns. We understand that for shapes to tile together there must not be any gaps between shapes. We have worked hard to  make sure there are no gaps in our patterns by seeing which shapes fit together.

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SSPCA

We had a visit from Carol who works for the SSPCA in Orkney. She told us lots of interesting things about the animals the SSPCA care for and the different jobs they do. We saw some pictures of animals and heard how they were helped by the SSPCA.

Keeping healthy

We have been learning about what keeps us healthy and the importance of washing our hands to keep germs away.

First of all one person started with their hands covered in glitter; the glitter represented germs. That person shook hands with others and they shook hands with more people and so on. We understand how easily germs can be passed if we do not take care to wash our hands properly.

We then washed our hands following a set of instructions.

Turn on the warm tap and rinse your hands

Use soap and wash palm to palm

Between fingers

Thumbs

Back of hands

Fingertips on palms

Rinse off the soap

Turn off the tap

Shake off as much water as you can

Dry your hands

We are making posters to put up at the sinks to remind people to wash their hands properly.

Area

We are learning about area in maths.

We started by using different materials to work out the area of surfaces around our classroom.

We found out that it is much harder to work out the area of a shape or space that is circular.

We then played a game in groups where one person drew a shape and the other 2 people guessed how many cubes it would take to fill the space. The person with the closest guess got to draw the next shape.

The challenge at the construction area this week is to fill areas marked with masking tape to see what their area is in cubes, blocks or cups.

Sports day

What a super day we had for sports day! The weather was beautiful and so many families and friends came to join in the fun. I didn't get chance to take many photos but I know that there was lots of fun being had and I was very proud of the class for showing such good sportmanship at all times. Well done to the dolphins who were the overall winners. 

 

 

 

 

 

Taste test and touch test

To continue our learning about senses, we have been doing some tests using our senses. We had to taste different kinds of crisps to work out what flavour they were. We discussed that this would be more difficult if we did not have our sense of smell to help us. We also did a touch test and had to put our hands into envelopes to use our sense of touch to work out what was inside them.