January 2007
Wednesday 31st January
On Marratech we learned how to work on documents in each other's folders.
We are working hard to make sure we have a healthy diet. At lunch today, for the 4th time running we ate all the fruit salad that we had for pudding; Valdik took a picture of the empty bowl to mark the occasion!
Tuesday 30th January
Jennifer went to Up Helly Aa in Lerwick to watch her nephew in the Junior Jarl's Squad.
Monday 29th January
On Mondays, Donna, our Active Schools' Co-ordinator comes; we go to the Hall and try different activities.
Friday 26th January
Today Caron, our ICT technician, came with 5 new webcams for our laptops and downloaded Marratech onto all our laptops - she worked out how we can use it on the network so now we can "video conference" with each other from different rooms. When we get GLOW we will be to use it to work with children in other schools.
Monday 22nd January
Today we had the first real snow of the winter so we had a great time outside playing.
We are about to start a project about The Vikings. These are links to some of the local resources we shall use:
Shetland Museum
Shetland Tourism
Historic Shetland -Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Visit Shetland
Friday 19th January
Learning and Teaching Scotland have given the 3 Yell Schools a grant to help us get better at problem solving. Today we were starting using techcard in technology - we are having to use lots of different strategies!
The peerie ones are making lighthouses; they will need to remember what they learned about circuits before the holidays.
Wednesday 17th January
We are just finishing a topic about The Homefront during WW2. Today we did some wartime cooking with Mrs Underwood; Feionne found a recipe on the internet. Some people said they would eat them if there wasn't anything else but they didn't really like them, which is probably what children in wartime thought too.
Potato Pancakes
Ingredients
1 lb mashed potatoes
½ lb cooked carrots, milk, salt and pepperMethod
Whip mashed potatoes to a loose creamy consistency with a little milk.
Season well with salt and pepper.
Add diced carrots
Panfry slowly in very little fat until crisp and brown