Week 8 in Hoy Class

This week we have been busy finishing off our 'touch and feel' books before the end of term.  We are looking forward to sharing our learning on our senses with class 1 after the holidays.   

Once we had finished our books we looked through them and did a bit of peer and self evaluation.  We thought about how well we had worked as part of a group and evaluated ourselves against certain criteria.

We also evaluated our topic work from the whole term.  We linked it to the four capacities from Curriculum for Excellence and gave ourselves traffic lights on each statement.  We now know which things we need to work on in term 2.

We also thought about which activities we liked most and which activities we didn't like as much.  We used an arrow evaluation sheet which once complete gave us a shape.  We then compared the shapes with our friends to see if anyone had similar personalities or likes and dislikes.

We also completed a wordsearch on the human body which was a bit tricky. We had to remember the spellings of words and words which we have learnt during our human body topic. 

We have had a very busy first term and have done a lot of learning.  

Week 7 in Hoy Class

Class four enjoyed a trip to Kirkwall this week as part of the Human Body topic.  Our first visit was to the dentist.  While we were at the dentist we learnt how to brush our teeth properly and we were shown how all the equipment works in the dental surgery. 

We found out how some of the equipment worked.  We each had a turn of the water sprayer and the hoover!  It was quite amusing!

Then anybody who wanted to had a turn in the dentist chair.  We had to put on special glasses which help protect our eyes from the bright light. 

After we had been at the dentist we gathered all our things and walked down to the library.  Once we arrived at the library we were shown where the human body books were and chose some to have a look at. 

We enjoyed sharing the books with each other and reading different texts.

We then walked along to Tesco where we used the staff area to have our lunch.

We then took part in a fruit and vegetable taste session where we were able to taste different foods.  We were given a skewer and shown all the different types of fruit and vegetables.  We then had to pick our favourite food and put it at the bottom of the skewer.   We then placed the foods on the skewer so that the ones we hadn't tasted before were at the top and our favourites were at the bottom.  

Then the fun began...we all did really well to try lots of different fruits and vegetables.  Some were tasty....others were not!!

We also tried special candyfloss flavoured grapes!

We also took part in our last tag rugby session this week.  We  enjoyed playing games and learning how to defend the ball.

We have been busy learning about our sense of touch.  We have been working on touch and feel books which we hope to share with class 1 next week.  We have been learning about group work and how important it is that everyone participates within the group.

On Thursday class four received a visit from the Scottish SPCA.  We learnt about the work they do in Orkney and how important it was to look after animals.

We played a true or false game which taught us facts about animals.  We were quite surprised by some of the facts!