Braidbar Primary 7a Blog

This week we finished our topic Autumn Festivals.  We finished by learning more about Thanksgiving.

On Monday we learned all about the foods eaten at Thanksgiving.  On Thursday, as a wee treat, Miss Innes made us Pumpkin Pie to try because it is always eaten as part of the Thanksgiving feast.  Only five people liked it!!

We made ‘We Are Thankful Turkey’s’.  On the turkeys feathers we wrote what we were thankful for.  There is a picture below of our turkeys but we are also going to tell you what we are thankful for…

Muhammad Mu’aadh – my family.

Libby – my dog Missy and Miss Innes.

Danyal – my school and my family.

Joseph – my cat.

Nathan – chocolate.

Zach – my family and Church.

Harris – sausages and salt.

Cate – my horse and my Church.

Carla – my Mum and Dad.

Imaan – myself and my life.

Lucas – my health and my family.

Ibrahim – my school and chocolate cake.

Hamza – my teacher and my family.

Oliver – the world and health.

Zayaan – school and chocolate.

Zoe – my teacher and my cats.

Today we were busy learning about St. Andrew.  We created our very own tartan and listened to some music played on the bagpipes!  See the picture below of our tartan pictures!

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This week P3a have been learning about The Mayflower and Thanksgiving. 

The Mayflower was a really old ship that took 102 Pilgrims  from England to America 400 years ago.  A Pilgrim is somebody who travels because of religious reasons.   The trip took 65 days!

When the Pilgrims arrived in America they struggled to survive because there was little to eat and the weather was very cold.  In America they built a village called Pilmoth Village.  The Pilgrim children didn’t go to school, instead they would read The Bible.  The children would play with marbles for fun.  In America, the Pilgrims made friends with the Wampanoag Tribe.   The Pilgrims ate lots of sea food, their favourite sea food was mussels.  They also ate a lot of duck.

The Pilgrims had a big feast 400 years ago and this was the first Thanksgiving.  They had this feast because they had a successful harvest.  Americans now celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of every November to remember the Pilgrims and to give thanks to God for all the things in their lives.

We created our own Mayflower.  Everyone made their own Pilgrim  head using different materials.  There is a picture of our artwork below for you to see.

Primary 3a have been learning about The Gun Powder Plot.  Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up King James I when he was in the Houses of Parliament.  Just before he carried out his plan he was discovered with 36 barrels of gunpowder.  Guy Fawkes was captured.  He was tortured until he confessed and then he was hung.

We celebrate Guy Fawkes’ plan by lighting bonfires and setting off fireworks.  Sometimes we even put a model of Guy Fawkes on top of the bonfire.  We celebrate this day on the 5^th of November.

This week, we created a mind map of notes about Guy Fawkes.  Then we worked in groups and created information poster all about Guy Fawkes.

There is a picture below which shows our eye-catching posters.

 Remember, remember the 5^th of November!

 

This term we are learning about Autumn Festivals.  This week we have been learning all about Halloween.
We found out that the real name for Halloween is actually All Hallows Eve.  Halloween was started by the Celtic people who believed that the two worlds between the people who were alive and those who were dead would blur together. 

We brought in carved pumpkins and turnips.  We even had one Helicon Squash!  Check out all of our designs with the picture below!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

 

Primary 3A have been learning about Ancient Egypt.  We learned all about the Landscape of Egypt, God’s and Goddess’s, Hieroglyphics, Pharaohs, Pyramids, Mummies and the Afterlife.

We are going to tell you some interesting facts about all of the things that we learned.

The Landscape of Egypt

• The River Nile is 6 times longer than the whole of the UK.
• Egypt is mostly desert. 
• The Red Sea got its name from an algae which is red.

God’s and Goddess’s

• Ra is the God of the sun. Every time the sun goes down Ra dies.  In the morning when the sun rises he is reborn. 
• Gods were men and the Goddess’s were ladies.
• Osiris was God of the afterlife. 

 Hieroglyphics

• Hieroglyphics is the Ancient Egyptian’s alphabet.
• Hieroglyphics are pictures instead of letters.
• Hieroglyphics were discovered on the Rosetta Stone
• Hieroglyphics were often written on papyrus paper.

Pharaohs

• The most famous Pharaoh was Tutankhamen. 
• When Tutankhamen was discovered and removed from his tomb people claim that the pyramids begun to glow at night.
• Tutankhamen became a Pharaoh when he was only 9 years old.

Pyramids

• There were secret tombs discovered in the pyramids.
• One block that was used to build the pyramids was as heavy as a car.

Mummies

• Osiris was the first person to be mummified.
• When people were mummified they had to have their brain pulled out through their nose!
• Mummies were buried in sarcophaguses.
• The mummification process took 70 days to complete!

 The Afterlife

• The Afterlife was where the Ancient Egyptian people and animals went once they had been mummified and buried. 
• Their sarcophaguses were filled with jewels and other things they would need for the Afterlife.

 We also attached some pictures of our Egyptian wall display. 

We loved our topic on Ancient Egypt!