P4, P5 and P4/5 were on a school trip to Cruickshank Gardens and Satrosphere in Aberdeen. At the gardens we had fun tasks to do like collecting flowers,bark and stems. At Satrosphere we learned about bugs and saw a science show. We all enjoyed the day very much.
maths work
P2 have been learning about counting in tens and counting bundles. We have been counting tens and units and we have been learning about counting up to 100. Most of us are finding it quite easy! We have been playing number bingo.
P3 have been learning about subtracting and adding hundreds and tens up to 1000. It is quite hard but we think were are getting the hang of it! We have been very successful. We played a game on the smartboard with 3 small penguins and one big penguin. We had to move the penguins to the right place. The small penguins were throwing snowballs at the big penguin. We had to put the penguins on the numbers up to 1000.
How to fill a bucket.
We have been reading the story of ‘Have you filled a bucket today?’. We learnt all about being nice to each other. We took photographs of us being nice and filling each others buckets. We wrote a ‘Bucket Note’ saying whose bucket we would like to fill and why. We also made buckets, we have been sharing the toys and giving out friendship tokens.
Mrs Paterson Primary 5
Project Work – we planted radishes to find out the effects of fertiliser on the seeds. Art Class with Ms Connell – we did Modiglioni Portraits.
We have been learning about how to classify living things – plants, mammals, reptiles etc. We are making an A – Z leaflet of plants and animals.
We are looking forward to our trip to Satrosphere and having a Bug Show and Tell also going to Cruickshank Botanic Gardens (Aberdeen University).
P3
Today we have been learning about friendship. We have talked about how to be a good friend to other people. We have been giving out friendship tokens to people who have been kind, helpful and shared with others.
We are excited to find out who has the most tokens!!
Today we did some peer assessment. We looked a partner’s Michel Keck picture and we thought of a star and a wish for it. We wrote it down on a piece of paper and stapled it on the top corner.
P4
P4 have been learning all about living things. We have been working on animals. We know about food chains and the five main vertebrate groups. We have just started plants and know the names of the different parts of a plant. On Wednesday we are going on a school trip to Satrosphere and Cruickshank Gardens.
What’s Been Going On in the Pupil Groups This Week
The Ellon Primary School Blog/Web Development Group have been interviewing people and taking pictures of all the other pupil groups this week. Here are some of the things they found out.
The Health Group are busy making posters for Fruity Friday.
Rory and Louise from the Library Group said, “We have been sorting the books out by their numbers, making posters for our do’s and don’ts, and we are thinking about painting the room too.” They also say it is very very FUN!!!
The Grounds Development Group was measuring the playground to plant plants and to plan a new playground. There is a lady coming in to help them.
We are still learning how to use the blog properly so watch this space for more news and hopefully some photos next time.
Michel Keck pictures by P3
We have been learning about Michel Keck who is a famous dog artist. We looked at some pictures of his work. They are very fancy and colourful!
We drew pictures of dogs in fine black pen and then we collaged different parts of our dog using patterned squares of paper.
Our pictures look phenomenal! You might even mistake them for the real thing…except our pictures have our own signatures at the bottom! Take a look at our pictures which we hope to upload soon to the blog.
Nintendogs P2
We have been learning all about how to look after a dog. First we adopted a nintendog pet in groups of 3 and we gave them a name. We feed, walk and clean our nintendog every couple of days.
We also really enjoyed looking at an artist who draws rainbow dogs. Have a look at his website, it is http://rainbowdog.net/gallery.html. We picked our favourite picture and copied it ourself! See our photograph. They are very colourful and brilliant.
We have made a pet shop in our classroom, it is just like a real pet shop. We have wrote shopping lists, made price lists and made signs on the computer. Come and see our Nintendog book with all our work in it!
Thanks for looking, from P2
Rocking P4/5
On Friday we drew a tomato plant. On Thursday a group of people went out into the garden and took some pictures of plants. On Tuesday we had art and we were making butterflies. It was great fun.
Dog Art
This week we have been learning about an artist called Michel Keck. He is a dog artist. He draws dogs and he puts on collage. We talked about the unusual pictures and thought they were very colourful and outstanding. We thought that you wouldn’t see them every day! Some of us didn’t like them. We tried to copy them and drew some dogs. We put lots of colours on and we stuck on some bits of paper. We put in lots of detail. The pictures we made were brilliant!!
News from P4/5
On Wednesday we had P.E with Mrs. Sanders. We played Criss-Cross relay. We also made butterfly pictures.
We wrote a story remembering to use good vocabulary, connectives and openers.
Nintendogs
We have heard about Nintendogs and played them on the DS. We had to look at dogs and then buy them. We had to teach them their names. Some people thought it was easy and some people thought it was hard! We had to teach them to sit but some were stubborn, wouldn’t listen and wouldn’t sit! We made some fabulous profiles for our pets. We have enjoyed playing with our faithful pets. We started making a dog animation on the computer. We had to work with a partner. We are thinking about making a pet shop in the corner of the classroom.
Team P3
We have just started our topic for this term- Nintendogs. We are just getting to know our puppies. We have named them and now we are trying to train them…although some are easier than others!
In ICT today we chose different fonts and designed our own lettering for ‘wow words’.
The Epic Eco Group at Ellon
We had our first meeting today. There are 16 members in the group. Everyone is happy to be here. We finished questionnaires about food, energy, litter and water. Water is the favourite topic to work on but we need to think about transport and waste. We also have to do litter every year. Our goal is to apply for the Green Flag award.
Bryan and Erin have said it needs to be planned and well-thought out so we will make an action plan next time after we decide what to do.
