Scottish Folktales

We've been busy developing our confidence and skills in skipping and we've been sharing lots of good tips.

This week we have been exploring traditional Scottish folktales and finding out about all the mythical creatures in them.

We've been creating our own folktale and acting out well known folktales to the rest of the class.

Mindful learning

We've been working hard developing our use of descriptive words and phrases.  On Wednesday we worked in pairs and had to describe people from photographs in as much detail as possible.  Our partner covered their eyes and used the descriptions to imagine the person in the photograph.  This was tricky but lots of fun.

As part of our learning on mindfulness, we explored how our brain reacts in times of stress.  We found out about three important parts of our brains.  Then we created our own brain by adding sand, glitter, confetti and water to a bottle.  We shook the bottle as hard as we could and this represented our brain handling stress, with lots of thoughts and feelings flying around.  We then placed the bottle on the table and the sand, glitter and confetti began to settle at the bottom.  This represented how our brain calms us down and allows us to respond to stressful situations appropriately.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Welcome to P4!

We've had a busy start to the new term in P4 and we're all settling in well.

So far we've been lucky enough to have a visit from Dynamic Earth with an excellent workshop called 'Destination Space' where we discovered what is was really like to be an astronaut.  We found out how to filter water, what to wear and how to sleep in space along with lots of other information.

Last week we visited Glaitness to watch a National Theatre of Scotland production called 'Martha'.  We all really enjoyed the performance and had to think about what friendship means to us.