Health Week - 4 & 5 February 2013

It seems a long time ago now but we had a special two days earlier this term, where all the classes were mixed up and spent time in different classes.  Primaries 2, 3 and 4 were mixed up so Mrs Kirkness, Mrs Dass and Ms Rendall had completely different classes!  The theme of the two days was friendship and we did a variety of activities to help us understand this better.  It was fun to have everyone working together and helping each other.  Some of the activities we did were:

• working in groups to make our own Punch and Judy show where Punch and Judy had a fight and someone helped them become friends again;
• everyone writing one nice thing about everyone else which meant we all had a very long list of nice things about ourselves;
• working together in small groups to solve problems, for example we all closed our eyes and held hands and then had to work together to untangle ourselves and make a circle.

Click on the link to see our slide show which will let you see some of the things were were doing:

Slideshow - Health Week 2013

Football training

We have been lucky this term to have football training for 6 weeks.  We have been learning lots of new skills including dribbling, passing, controlling the ball and shooting.  It is very tricky to keep control of the ball!  We had to play football outside on Tuesday this week because the stage is set up in the hall - it was VERY cold!

Please take a look at our photos to see what we have been doing:

Slideshow - Football fun

Rubgy in all weather!

Bruce has been coming to St Andrews every week for the past 5 weeks to teach us how to play tag rugby.  It is a lot of fun and we have to go out in all different weathers - even if it is snowing!  We have been learning about passing, defending, swerving, diving, dodging, side-stepping, catching and holding the ball, scoring a try, rolling passes, tagging each otherand running onto the ball when someone passes to you.  There is lots to remember!  Please check out our slide show to see us in action:

Slideshow - Rugby

Symmetry

We have been learning about symmetry this term.  Symmetry is when you half a picture and both halves of the picture are identical.  You can use mirrors to help you figure out if a shape is symmetrical or not.

  

We all designed half of a picture for someone else to complete.  Some of the pictures we designed were very tricky!

Some of us used the light from the windows to trace the pictures - this made it a little easier. 

  

3D shape investigations

We have been investigating 3D shapes this week.  We have been learning more about cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, prisms and pyramids.  We have been learning about the edges, faces and corners of these shapes, and were able to use what we had learned to build our own 3D shapes.

                                      

It was tricky to get our shapes exactly right but we managed it!  Now we know much more about 3D shapes.