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Expressive Arts, Social Studies

Viking Clay Pottery

Fraser – It was VERY messy!

Joe – I had to put my thumb into the clay to make the hole for the pot. It felt weird!

Ben – It was fun!

Logan – We had to make pots out of clay.

Liam – It was fun and cool making Viking pots.

Jamie – We got our table messy! We got to roll the clay into a ball and then create our pot. We decorated the sides.

Sarah M – We had to write our name in Viking ruins and mould the clay to make a pot.

Zaid – We had to put our pot upside down and flatten it to make the pot.

Siona – It was fun making the pots.

Achievements, Collaborative, Community, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Literacy, Music, Social Studies

The Great Kapok Tree

A very big thank you to all our visitors who came to support Primary 3 in their rainforest performance. We hope you all had a good time. The children all worked very hard and enjoyed learning all of the songs and making up the actions to accompany them.

Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Uncategorized

World Book Day

Another fabulous World Book Day with lots of wonderful costumes. We all brought in our favourite books and showed them to the class. We read Silly Billy and all of his worries. We found out that Silly Billy told all his worries to a worry doll and that helped him to stop worrying. We all designed and made our own worry dolls out of pegs, wool and material. We took it home and the next day lots of us said we had told our worries to our worry doll and we had slept better.

Fraser – I am Kylo Ren out of Star Wars. I love Star Wars films and books.

James – I am Minecraft Steve. My favourite books are – The Survivors Book of Secrets and Lego Star Wars.

Thalia – I am Hermione out of Harry Potter. I like Harry Potter because I love that they have an invisible cloak.

Cara – I am Topsy out of Topsy and Tim.

Zaid – I am dressed as Christiano Ronaldo because I love football. My book is about him.

Joe – My favourite book is The Giant Book of Jokes and my favourite joke is – Why did the surfer stop surfing?                              Because the sea weed.

Mia – My favourite part in Matilda is when they have a food fight.

Marci – My favorite book is the Secret Garden.

Siona – My favourite book is Matilda because she likes to read books just like me.

Lucy – I am dressed up as Anne of Green Gables. I like her because she talks a lot and I like it in the book when her dad faints.

Olivia – I am the Queen of Hearts out of Alice in Wonderland.

Joseph – My favourite Harry Potter is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I like the funny villains.

Oliver – I am Thing 1 from The Cat in a Hat. My brother is Thing 2 and my sister is The Cat in the Hat.

Sophia – I am the Hungry Caterpillar. My favourite book is Lego Friends.

Blair – I am Ron out of Harry Potter because he is my favourite character.

Arlo – I am reading Harry Potter by myself.

Ben – My favourite book is The World of Football because I like playing football.

Jamie – My favourite book is The Pirates Next Door.

Liam – I like trying to find Wally in the Where’s Wally books.

Millie – I like Mary Poppins because she can do magic.

Oli – I like it in Matilda when a lizard scares Miss Trunchbull.

Sarah – I like Alice in Wonderland.

Daisy – I love stories about Mermaids.

Jessica – I like Sleeping Beauty because I like all the colours.

Sarah – My favourite book is Katie the Kitten Fairy.

Kenzie – I am dressed as Darth Vader because I like Start Wars.

Logan – My favourite book is Who Pooped on my House.

Finlay – I like Aircraft Jet Fighter magazines.

 
Joseph made the winning design for our classroom door.
Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Literacy, Problem Solving, Social Studies, Technology

Children from Other Lands

Having explored the landscape of my local area, I can describe the various ways in which land has been used. SOC 1-13a

By exploring climate zones around the world, I can compare and describe how climate affects living things. SOC 1-12b

So far this term we have been comparing our landscape and culture in Scotland with that of the Polar Lands.

We carried out research into Scottish food and drink, traditions, signs and symbols, famous people, sport, houses, schools, landscape and music.

We designed and made our own tartan kilts and pipers.

We  answered different types of questions about children that live in Scotland and also about Inuit children and found some similarities and differences about the way each live.

We carried out research, and took notes about Inuit children, polar bears and penguins and we sorted our information into bullet points.

Sophia was proud to show us her penguin she had made at home and was happy to show us how we could all make one.

We are now going to learn about the Rainforest and the people that live there.

Art and Design, Collaborative, Expressive Arts, Fun, Listening & Talking, Literacy

A Petrifying Poem

Primary 3.1 have been trying to use interesting words in their writing. This week we were using alliteration to write a Halloween Horror poem. We worked in groups to use alliteration in one line of the poem. We then put all the ideas together to make a class, spooky poem.

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Alliteration is when you have to use the same sound at the start of every word. – Siona

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We made haunted house pictures to accompany our class poem.

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We had to blend red and yellow for the sky. – Sophia
The house was hard to cut out. – Liam
It was fun printing the ghosts and drawing on funny faces. – Cara

Art and Design, Collaborative, Eco, Fun

PREPARING FOR THE PARALYMPICS!!!

Primary 3.1 used their experience of the Rio Olympics and Paralympics as a stimulus to create a collage. They were also being Eco friendly by using recycled paint and old containers.

They made silhouette paintings of a variety of sports from both the Olympics and Paralympics. Can you guess each sport?

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Siona – It was fun painting.
Jamie – I really liked the real Olympics.
Fraser – We kept getting the paint all over the table so we had to be careful.
Zaid – I liked painting.