Primary 4 is studying a new project this term called Ancient Egyptians. We have been looking at farming long ago and how important the Nile was to the Egyptians. Did you know that the Egyptians only had three seasons? There was one when the Nile flooded, one when they grew crops and one when they harvested.
Friend ship
Friend ship is in porent
The Magic Bike stories, games, leaving
We wrote stories at Big Writing about a magic bike. Some of the stories were really long. We have enjoyed doing our stories for Big Writing.
We made board games because our topic is toys. It was really, really fun. Some of the games were hard to make. Then we had to make our counters and make dice. They were hard to make. We did them in our home building teams and we have 4 people in our teams. Most of the home building teams worked well. Today one of our class is leaving. She is happy and sad to be going.
Kindrogan P7 Visit
Day 4
In the morning we went on a bus ride to an old village which had been abandoned during the clearances. We dressed up as the people who used to live there. We learnt about their diet, way of life, their houses and why they left. It was very cold there so they must have been freezing when they lived there.
In the afternoon, we did the leap of faith which is a big jump. Then after that we did crate climbing. The leap of faith made some people scared but the crate climbing wasn’t as scary.
In the evening, we went on a night walk and it was snowing really hard. We also had a snow ball fight and we got ambushed!
See you all tomorrow about 3:30.
Published by Hayley, Jennifer and Ivy
Day 3
In the morning we did river dipping, and found what kinds of bugs live in it e.g water nymph or the great diving beetle (who ate the rest of our bugs).
Then in the afternoon we went pond dipping and found some killer beetles and fish but because they were not invertebrates (invertebrates are animals without a backbone) we had to let them go. Then we put them in a petri dish and looked at them from under a microscope. It was really scary because it made it look gigantic.
We learned about habitats, diversity, metamorphosis and adaptation. We found out that the river is more diverse because it has a bigger variety of animals in it.
In the evening Duncan’s group set traps for mammals and will find what they have caught in the morning.Rich’s group did the egg challenge but they all died. Last night Rich’s group caught a vole when they did mammal trapping.
Written by Hayley, Jennifer, Ivy and Sophie
Day 2
Tuesday was loads of fun(apart from wet socks).
First we built a National Park out of natural resources like twigs, stones, leaves, pine cones and snow. We all managed to make a brilliant National Park.
Next we learnt how to make a fire out of lichen, twigs, cotton wool and Vaseline. Most people got a flame using only a flint.
In the afternoon we all went on a walk up Kindrogan Hill in the snow, most people got wet but it was worth it . We got told ghost stories in a cemetery half way up. Near the top we made shelters out of logs.
After supper we did an egg challenge where you drop an egg out of a window. It was fun making a parachute out of newspaper. Some eggs cracked some never.
by Jodie and Jennifer
Here are some pictures:
Day 1
Everyone is having a great time and have already learned about orienteering, national parks, GPS and humane mammal traps.
After a slight hiccup on the journey down (locked public loos in Stonehaven) we made it through the sleet to a very warm and enthusiastic welcome from the Kindrogan staff.
We spent the remainder of the afternoon in the snow orienteering and doing the low ropes course.
After a really nice three course dinner we went out into the night to navigate by GPS and to trap small mammals for study tomorrow.
Watch this space for photos …
Red Nose Day, subtraction, story writing
We are doing lots of subtracting and some people are enjoying it! We have been stuck with a kind of take away – the one with the missing number at the start! Yesterday we played a game of subtraction bingo on the computer and a few people missed out some numbers!
We all came to school in red clothes and red hair because it is Red Nose Day. We also wore our red noses. All the red noses are dinosaur themed.
We have been writing stories about a magic paint brush. First we heard the story called The Magic Brush and it was a good story. Some of us have written really long ones! We had to follow a plan to write the stories.
Mother’s Day cards, verbs
We were making Mother’s Day cards for Mother’s Day. We enjoyed making the cards. We made hearts for the front of the cards and wrote in gel pens. Some of them were sparkly! We can’t wait to give them to the mums on Sunday!
We were learning how to play a game called Vigorous Verbs. To play Vigorous Verbs someone gave you a card. You weren’t allowed to look at the card until it was your turn. On your turn you would look at the card and if it was a verb. You would act it out in the middle and if it wasn’t you took another card. We drew our Vigorous Verbs.
Measuring, bath toys
The Primary 3s were measuring lots of things using metre sticks such as the door, the floor, the tables and windows. The Primary 2s were measuring things with their feet and spans. They also measured the tables and doors.
We designed our own bath toys for toddlers. We had to think about the safe materials to use. We had to do different drawings of the toys that we designed and we had to think about them being colourful and make sure they are not too sharp. We had to tell everyone about the toy we made and everyone had to write on a bit of paper how they thought they did.
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Daffodil Tea
The Grounds Dvelopment Group will be holding a tea / coffee morning in aid of funds for planting around the school on Wednesday 27th February 2013. They have been busy planting daffodils for sale, making cards and friendship bracelets. 
P2/3 blog
Dear Mrs.Beaton,I was reading the blogs we done with you! They were wonderful! I feel like reading them again! But I was late for bedtime because I was a bit of a handful to mum…mmm.BUT anyway I kind found it quiet hard to log in to Glow and took to much time on my mum/dad’s i pod or i pad. “YAWN!””I’m so tired which means…BEDTIME”! Goodnight.Oops…I meant “Good-morning”!I’ll miss p2/3!”I’m missing you”!Naomi and somebody else suggested “Pen-pals”. “WHAT AN EARTH IS THAT”!?I’m puzzled.
P4
This term we have a new topic called Do You Live Around Here? We went for a walk in the woods to look for animal homes. We have designed our ideal homes. We designed our own rug too. We also made our own mood board. We were mapping continents and looking at climate around the world. We made our own garden on the computer.
Assembly, Toy Shop
We made posters and one group got to go up and tell everyone all about it. They told us about feelings – feeling happy, sad and excited. The P1s posters were about happy and sad. All the posters were brilliant.
We drew pictures of a toy shop and we had each square with toys from different years. We looked at The Toy Shop picture painted by Peter Blake. The Toy Shop is an olden days one. We are getting on great with them.
The Magic Toy Maker, drawing, toy talks
The Toymaker gave us 3 letters. The first one was about making toys out of junk, the second one was to say that we did use our imagination to make a toy. The third one was that he had run out of ideas and he wants us to help. We made toys out of junk which were fantastic! We drew pictures of toys like Noah’s Ark, a fire engine, a fire station, a farm and a car park. We are in the middle of talks about our toys. We had to take in one of our favourite toys and we had to talk all about it to the rest of the class. The class had some questions to ask at the end of every talk. The talks are excellent.
Cinderella and Rockerfella Rock Ellon
Parents were treated to a really special Christmas present yesterday when they came to see the P6, P7/6 and P7 Panto, Cinderella and Rockerfella. The show was fantastic. Parents and staff were very proud of the whole team effort and were amazed at the talents shown by the children. Both performances had a great atmosphere and all parents came out with big smiles on their faces.
The children also showed off their creative talents with a display of Cinderella models they had made. They chose to make either a shoe, a palace or a means of transport to the ball. The models were made with recycled material and showed inventiveness and creativity.
BAKING BUDDIES – Christmas treats to share
Over the last three weeks the baking buddies have been getting into the spirit of Christmas by making a variety of festive goodies to take home and share with their families.Following each Christmas baking sessions the children have discussed Christmas and shared stories. Some of the buddies have then had the opportunity to create craft related to those discussions. All the results can be seen in the photo selection below.
Christmas Tarts
One of our buddies had requested that we bake jam tarts. To give these a more festive feel we adapted the recipe and filled our tarts with mincemeat and decorated them with a star. The children made their own short crust pastry and used cutters to make the tart base and cutters for the star shaped decoration.
Cinnamon and Vanilla Stars
This recipe was for a basic biscuit recipe that we adapted slightly by adding cinnamon and vanilla to the ingredients.
When we introduce our recipe each week we spend time looking at all the ingredients and talking about them. The children are encouraged to smell the ingredients before we use them describing what they notice or if they like it. Some of the buddies recognised the smell of vanilla from ice cream and sweets they had before.
As we made star shapes we discussed where we see the star and how relates to Christmas. This week we were very lucky to get invited along to see the nursery nativity as our biscuits cooked in the oven.
Reindeer Cake Pops
This recipe is called a cake pop because a lollipop stick is used to stick onto the end of a ball of cake to create a lollipop cake. The buddies decorated the cake pops with melted chocolate and cake decorations to make a reindeers face.
For this recipe the children had to crumble up a ready bought Christmas cake. We added a vanilla flavoured butter icing which is mixed in together and dough is made. The buddies rolled the dough into smaller balls and they were put in the freezer to harden slightly. The cake pops were then dipped into the chocolate and decorations added.
Snowmen
Whilst we waited for the cake pops to harden in the freezer the children used a selection of marshmallows, melted chocolate, fruit string chews and cake decorations to make their own snowmen lollipops.
Primary 4
We have been learning about the Jacobite advance. They managed to get all the way to Derby but not to London. They battled at Culloden with the Redcoats and lost. We have been learning about the Highland Clearances too.
We have enjoyed practising for our play called The Christmas Story. Our voices have improved a lot over the last few weeks. We hope mums and dads enjoyed it.
Merry Christmas from P4!
