Do something funny for money!

Group baking for Red Nose Day

More Red Nose Day cakes

Brothers in action!

Making his own chocolate chips!

Taste testers…just in case!

 

 

Today is Red Nose Day.

 

We have all come to school in our pyjamas (there is a picture of us all up at the top)! It is very strange coming to school in pyjamas – it seems like we have not got dressed and are being naughty! We”ve never had to put our wellies and waterproofs on over our pyjamas before! It was strange…

Later on today we are going to have a teddy bears’ picnic, everyone is invited but they don’t all have to wear their pyjamas! We have cakes and biscuits that we cooked on Wednesday at After School Club. We enjoyed baking and there are some pictures of us in action at the top of this page.

We made lemon fairy cakes (Edward is licking his lips!), nut porridgies (a bit like Katie Morag’s), chocolate chip cookies and flapjacks. We are looking forward to eating them and having our tea party. We are also going to be singing a few songs, Chocolate Molinillo (a Spanish song all about the whisk to make hot chocolate), Consider Yourself from Oliver which has lots of actions and lastly Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid.

We think it is going to be a very fun afternoon.

By Katy and Edward.

Homonyms…

Homonym art!

Homonyms are words with the same form (sound, spelling or both)

but a different meaning.

 

We studied words which sound the same but look different – these

are called homophones.
An example would be tale and tail.

 

We also looked at words which look the same but sound different -

these are homographs. Wind is an example of this – the thing that

blows and what you do with a watch!
Homophones and homographs are both types of homonym.

 

We drew pictures of our different homonyms.

 

We put our pictures into a bag of tricks. like the character in our

folk tale had. He was a con-man who was able to trick people.

Homonyms can be tricky so we put them in special “bags of

trickiness”!

Oliver – pen and pen

Edward-read and red

Archie-read and reed

Ben M-run and run

Katy-fly and fly

Alexander-wolf and wolf

Ben G-meet and meat

 

Homonyms

Homonyms sound the same, look the same but aren’t the same. I drew a pen and a pig pen. By Oliver.

Homonyms

I drew a man running and a chicken run. ‘Run’ is a Homonym. It looks the same but means something different. By Ben

A Landmark Letter!

Yesterday afternoon (Monday) we got a surprise letter from St. Ninian’s Primary School in Stirling. Their Primary 4 class are doing a project on Scotland and they want to have a display of different landmarks and scenery around Scotland.

They sent us a postcard with the letter. The postcard shows St. Ninian’s Kirk. Here is a picture of the kirk in Stirling which is one of the closest land mark to their school.

They asked us to send them a postcard and pictures of landmarks from where we live. They have sent these letters to lots of schools around Scotland.

We think we might show them pictures of the Ben (the highest point on the island), Horse Island (a small island off Muck), the craft shop (for nice tea and cakes!) or maybe Gallanach Beach which is a lovely place to spend your afternoon.

We wish them good luck with their project.

By Alexander and Katy.

Power points

Primary 4 to 7 have recently been making Power point presentations.  The little ones were amused and liked it lots. They liked the animations and were quite interested in the facts. I enjoyed doing it and would like to do it again.  My favourite slide is my Saturn one.

By Katy

Link to our world

If you want to read about the power points we watched last week go to:  http://ourtopics.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/our-power-points/

In the middle

This week at muck we have been doing  mesostics. You might ask yourself what on earth is a mesostic? I’ll tell you: mesostics are like acrostics but with the word in the middle. Here are some we made up.

the bumpiness of the rocks     

are the limpets clinging on?

we shelter in the shed

while the rain hammers on the roof

This mesostic is about the pier this next one is about the mainland

Mountains on the mainland

animals hide under their rugged peaks

the Mallaig lifeboat rescues people

the mainland is noisy

alien compared to Muck

you are always spending money

looks tiny in the distance

i’m glad I live here.

That’s all we made up. Hope you enjoyed reading.   Bye

Mesostic poems

Today we have been learning about Mesostic poems they are quite like Acrostic poems except you dont put the word at the side of the sheet you put it in the middle.

We walked down to the pier and thought about different words that relate to the mainland or the pier.I chose to do the pier. We all thought up totally different mesostics and they were all good and exciting here is an example for mainland by Ben G:

Mallaig is very busy,

It’s a bit too energetic,

The docking harbour noise,

The annoying dinging of  boats,

Liking the food is hard,

Going to the cinema is fun,

Curries are nice on the mainland,

But I would rather stay here.

This is one of my pier Mesostics

Sticking out pale alone

Rolling birds circle above

Trails of slime down the side

Ohh what a very sorry sight

By Alexander 

We are back!

Sorry we haven’t been giving you any information recently. But now we are so here’s what we have been doing  since we last gave you information; we have finished the weather project. We also started  the Victorians. First we had to make a family tree from now to the Victorian times and we all managed to do it. Some of us found people in our families who were born around 1750 WOW! Ancient.

After we had recovered from that shock we did and are still doing things about artwork and home decor.It is really interesting and we are learning a lot. One of the artists we have been focusing on is William Morris; he was an amazing artist. We have seen a lot of his designs, they were curtains,wallpaper,tiles etc. But we have not only been doing Victorian work we have also been doing  maths and language.

This is my William Morris style artwork. I did it with crayons. I think it would be a good design for a fireplace tile.

                                                     

   Bye From James