Today we put together a clock run by potato power.  
We had to listen really carefully as the instructions were read out.  
It worked...now we are going to find out how and why!

Yes we know that's not spelt right!!!!
We followed the instructions and put together a new easel by ourselves.  Apparently we are all artists....watch this space.

Good work lads!

We are trying to improve our fitness over the next few months.  This week we did as many laps as we could of school in 30 minutes.  We could walk or jog.  Some of us managed 11 laps and others 6.  We all did our best.  Hopefully we will all improve our fitness by January!  We'll keep you posted.

Today we had a challenge...
We all got a sheet of 60 scrabble tiles.....first we had to find the longest word, we could use dictionaries.  Then we had to find the highest scoring word we could.  Next we had to work out how much our full name was worth in scrabble.  Last of all we had to try and use as many of the tiles as possible to make a crossword.  This was harder than it sounds.  It was great fun and we did really well.  Some of us got 13 letter words!

Look what we worked out! Using 7 number 5's only once and + - % and x.  Mrs P asked us to see if we could get the answer 24!!  We did it!

P6 and 7 had a real treat today when we visited AHS and met Barry Huchison, author of loads of great kids books.  He read us some of his new book The 13th Horseman and we made Mrs P order it straight away!  We can't wait to read it next week.  We are following Barry on twitter now so that we can ask him any questions we want to and so we are the first to know of any new books he writes.  We could have stayed all day chatting with him.  Thank you Barry it was brilliant!

We have been learning how to use fractions.  We also had to measure accurately, this bit was quite tricky.

We are trying different recipes to see which we like best.  The bakers also have to wash up and tidy and choose who they will teach the next day.  Then at the end of the day we serve the rest of the class and share our bread.

We are making bread every day for the next 2 weeks.  On Monday Mrs P taught Hector and Zack how to make it, on Tuesday Zack and Hector taught Herbie and Leah, on Wednesday Leah and Herbie taught Liam and Leon and tomorrow they have chosen to teach Jonny and Christina.  We are going to try lots of different recipes and see which one we like the most.

The Gaelic Nursery children joined us in the hall at the end of P.E. and taught us how to play Duck, Duck, Goose in Gaelic!!  It was great fun but we did have to slow down a bit so we didn't scare them. 

I worked out very quickly all the different number problems we were given, using my Smarties.  We practised multiplication, division, fractions, adding, taking away and remainders! 

We got quicker and quicker at working things out.  I think Mrs P was impressed.