Braidbar Primary 7b Blog

We have really enjoyed learning about  Ancient Egypt.  We were set a challenge to  design and build a Shaduf.  A shaduf was used in Ancient Egyptian times to  collect water.  The water was taken from the River Nile and was used for a variety of purposes such as cooking, drinking and watering the crops.  It was lovely to see all our different ideas and the recyclable materials that we used in our designs.

 

Shazil – I used tinfoil, thread, kebab sticks and the inside of a used toilet roll.

 Alice – I used stones, plant pot, sticks, string, yoghurt pot and a bag of stones for the weight.

 Isher – I used sticks, clay, string and a medicine cup for the bucket.

  Aidan – I used a shoe box, some canes for the ground and tissue paper to represent the River Nile.

 Umair – I used a blue carrier bag for the River Nile, the middle of a toilet roll for the bucket, stones to make a bridge and leaves for the grass.

 Jack – I used lego and string to attach the balance.

 Katherine – I used the bottom of a bottle, string, a pencil grip and some straws.

 Luc – I used sticks, a leaf, plasticene, a spoon and a stone.

 Kieran – I used sticks, blu tack, a box from Nana, gold tissue paper for the sand and the bottom of a washing up bottle for the bucket .

 Saman – I used sticks, super glue, a old cardboard box,  a little box and some tissue paper.

 Laiba –  I used sticks, an old plastic cup, a cereal box, blue and yellow paper.

 Rory – I used lego to build my shaduf.  I also built a pyramid and the sphinx.

 Rayyan – I used sticks and stones from the garden and an empty yoghurt pot.

 Uzair –  I used chocolate box lid, some sticks, pieces of paper to make the trees and the lid from a spray can.

 Yasmin – I used a cardboard box, modelling clay to make the land and River Nile.  I tied sticks together, put a ball of clay on one end for the weight and at the other end I tied a yoghurt pot on to make the bucket.

 Zoha – I used blu tack, a plastic cup, wood for the base, paint and thread to attach the cup.

Rydha – I used cardboard, blu tack, sticks to make the stand and made the bucket from paper.

On Friday we celebrated Red Nose day.  We all enjoyed wearing our red noses and we brought in donations for charity to help children less fortunate than us.  Lots of the teachers painted their faces.  We think Mrs Brown should win a prize for the funniest face!

Mrs Brown and Miss Kearney

We also had a visit from the Scottish S.P.C.A.  They told us lots of information about helping animals that might be in danger. Alan showed many of the pieces of equipment he  uses in his job.  We were surprised to find out the piece of equipment he uses most is a towel or a blanket.

After attending the Pupil Council meeting Jack reported back to the class about the plans for the new playground activities.  He showed us a photograph of where everything will be.  We are really looking forward to trying them out when we come back to school after the Spring break.

Here is a photograph of our new playground.

 

 

Jack was delighted this morning to announce the birth of a baby sister.  She has been named Ava and weighs eight pounds.   Baby Ava and her mum are both very well and we are sure Jack will be a wonderful big brother.  We are all very excited about this lovely news and are looking forward to meeting her soon.

 

Our science topic this term has been magnets.  We have really enjoyed learning all about them.  We investigated magnets at home and found lots of places where magnets are used.  It has been a really good topic because we have been able to do lots of activities and investigations.  We made a magnetic fishing game, investigated which poles attract and which ones repel, made a compass to show north and this week we experimented the force of different magnets.

It was fun doing the repelling and attracting activity.  We learned that if two poles the same they repel and if they are different they attract.

Kieran, Luc and Rory

We liked making a homemade compass.  Very useful if you get lost!

Jack, Shazil and Uzair

We found out all the magnets had different strengths.
Zoha, Rydha and Saman

On Thursday we went with our friends in Primary 3B on a trip to the Burrell Collection in Pollock Park.

We learned that Sir William Burrell was a very wealthy shipping tycoon who loved to collect artefacts from all over the World.  He began his collection when he was only a teenager and when he died, he gifted all his possessions to the City of Glasgow so that everyone could come and see them.

We were there to see his Egyptian collection and we were met by Greig who told us lots of interesting fact about things we have not learned about yet.  The best bit was learning about mummification.  We are looking forward to learning even more about it from Mrs McNaught and from doing our own research.

After that, Greig took us to a workshop where we were able to handle objects from over three thousand years ago.  We had to wear gloves so that the oil and acid from our fingers did not ruin the artefacts.   It was funny to think that a rich Egyptian lady had actually worn the necklace we were holding.

We are looking forward to learning even more about this very clever, ancient civilization.

 

Carrying out research.

 

Ancient Egyptians didn’t just mummify people!

A sarcophagus.

 

 

 

To celebrate the birth of Robert Burns, we all dressed up in something tartan. We were really looking forward to the school assembly.
Mr. Ross ( Kristin and Nathan’s Grandfather) played the accordion to welcome us into the hall. We sang a lot of Scottish songs together and our favourite was ‘Three Craws’.  After that, Miss Innes danced the ‘Highland Fling’. She looked amazing in her kilt. She has very kindly offered to run a Highland Dance class after school.

 

Primary Three would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.  We really enjoyed our Christmas holidays and are back feeling refreshed and ready for lots of new learning.  As a conclusion to our last topic, we have made a diorama showing the different layers of the ‘Rainforest’.  Our new IDL topic is ‘Ancient Egyptians’.  Mrs McNaught has organised a trip to the Burrell where we will be able to look and hold many artefacts from Egyptian times. We will take lots of photographs to show you!

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.”