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Today, we presented our ExPLORE topic work to Primary 3A. ExPLORE stands for plan, locate, organise, report and evaluate. We chose many different ways to present our research about a Rainforest animal. Some of us chose to write fact files, others made power points and some children created models. All of us reported our findings in clear and confident, voices even although we were a little bit nervous. As a follow up task we wrote down four facts that we learned from another child’s presentation.
We would like to thank our mums and dads for all their help with our projects.

Here are some examples of our work.

An other busy week in Primary 3B. On Tuesday morning, along with P3A and P2 we went on a trip to Giffnock Library to meet the author and illustrator Nick Sherratt. He read some of his books to us and showed us how to make a story from illustrations. Katherine and Yasmin were chosen to draw some of the illustrations. We were very lucky because Mr. Sherratt read his latest story to us. It’s not even published yet, but he wanted to know if we enjoyed it our not. Guess what? We all loved it! We laughed a lot when he asked Miss Innes to choose an outfit from his book ‘Choose’ and then he drew an illustration of her. It was so funny! At the end of our visit Mr Sherratt picked three names out of an envelope and gave each of the children a signed copy of one of his books. Saman was chosen from P3B.

 

         Katherine drawing her ‘sock bunny’.

       Yasmin adding the finishing touches to an illustration.

          Miss Innes choosing a costume to wear!!!

     The finished result. Very beautiful if it had been Halloween.

Primary 3B had a wonderful learning experience today. We are not able to travel to the Amazon, so Mrs McNaught arranged for a little bit of the Rainforest to visit us in our class. We had a visit from ‘Zoolab’!!!  Rachel, the presenter, brought  some animals and insects which can be found in the different layers of the Rainforest. We had the opportunity to hold a snake, a rat called Ross, a cockroach, a millipede and a good look at a tarantula called Sophie (nobody wanted to hold her!!!)

Here are some of the facts we learned today.

Yasmin- The Howler Monkey likes to greet friends by throwing poo at them.  Lovely!!!

Rayyan – ” Cockroaches like to live in caves and eat bat poo.”

Katherine – ” Tarantulas are not any more deadly than a peanut.”

Alice – “The rat called Ross likes to crawl up your arm.”

Jack – ” Wherever bats go they just drop their poo.”

Rydha – ” When rats fall backwards they spin their tails to stop them hurting themselves.”

Zoha – ” I was so scared to hold the snake but then Rachel told me to hold it, because it wouldn’t hurt me. I liked it when George was curled on Rachel’s arm.”

Kieran – I liked it when George stuck out his tongue. His does this because he uses his tongue to smell.”

Aidan – “When Sam the snail touched my hand it felt slimy.”

Luc – “I learnt that snakes can curl round trees and come out at night to catch bats.  Some snakes squeeze their prey to death!’

Rory – ” I liked it when I got to hold Max the Millipede.  It felt very tickly.  They don’t have a million legs, they only have two hundred and fifty legs!!!

Isher – “I liked holding the snake.  It felt ticklish!”

Saman – “I liked when I touched the rat.  The fur felt really soft.”

Umair -“I liked holding the snail because it was smiling at me.  It has over 10,000 teeth on its tongue.”

Uzair – ” I liked holding the snake because it was very long.  It is cold blooded and it has very long lungs.”

This week has been busy with lots of new learning. The week began with learning about the ‘Convention on Rights of the Child’. We enjoyed playing the ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ activity where in groups we discussed the things we are entitled to compared with things we want.   We all made very good choices! We are learning a lot about the Rainforest and are looking forward to making a diorama.  Watch this space for some photographs!
Tuesday was Remembrance Day and we had a minute’s silence in respect of  people who died during the war. In the afternoon, we made poppies on crosses, which we hope you liked.

 

 Finally the day of our assembly had arrived!

We all felt a little anxious but also excited to be performing in front of so many people.  We would like to thank all the mums and dads for taking  time to come and see us. OUR MASSAI SHIELDS

Here are some of our thoughts about the day…

Yasmin – ” I felt really excited and liked it very much when we sang the ‘Bounce Back’  song.”

Laiba – ” I was feeling a little bit shy.”

Alice – “I felt I had butterflies in my tummy when I walked on the stage.”

Uzair – “I was nervous when we were singing ‘Bonjour C’est Moi’ because everybody was watching me.”

Katherine – “I really enjoyed when it was my turn to speak.”

Jack – “I was really nervous but enjoyed my part.”

Umair – “My hands were getting a bit tingly in case I would say something wrong because I was opposite my mum.”

Kieran- “I was excited because it was a big day and everyone was watching me.”

Zoha – “When I went on the stage, I felt my tummy was full of butterflies.”

Rory – “I felt very excited because I knew my lines and got them right!”

Isher – “I enjoyed performing in front of my mum.”

Saman – “I really enjoyed the assembly because I was saying my lines correctly.”

Luc – “I knew I was about to cry with joy because I knew it was my big day.”

Rayyan – “I was excited because it was a big day and my mum was watching me.”

Shazil – “I was excited because my dad was looking at me.  I think I said my lines correctly.”

Rydha -” I was really excited because when I said my part the whole school was watching me.”

We will keep you posted with more of our learning next week.

Primary 3b have had a very busy first term. We are going to be presenting at our class assembly on Friday 7th November. In the assembly we are going to let you know about some of our learning.  We are very excited about taking part and we will need to work hard to learn all of our lines. We hope you can manage to come along and look forward to seeing you in the audience.

We are looking forward to posting information very soon.