Primary 3 collected information on our favourite rainforest animals. We then entered this information into a spreadsheet and created a bar graph. What were our favourite animals ?
Klimt Winter Trees Art
We were inspired by the artwork of Gustav Klimt to create these Winter Trees. We were able to use the elements of line, pattern and form to draw the shape of the branches and twigs.
Senses Walk Poetry
We used our senses on a walk in the playground to describe what we saw, heard, smelled and felt. We then created these poems about our walk.
Handwriting
We have been learning to use linked script to improve our handwriting skills. We have been learning how to join letters together without taking our pencil off of the page. Many of us enjoy handwriting and are beginning to use these lovely joins in our day to day class work.
Making an Ancient Map
We have been learning to create an ancient map showing the location of Scotland and Egypt. We made our map look ancient by crunching it up, tearing the edges and staining it with teabags. We needed to watch and listen carefully while our teacher demonstrated this technique. We could use this technique in the future to make other documents look ancient.
King Tut – Big Art
We worked together to create a giant image of King Tut. We made the outline by tracing around a picture on the interactive white board. We then worked in groups to paint the image using gold and blue paint. We all loved taking part in this activity because it was fun. We would like to use this approach for different art projects in the future.
Rainforest Art
Bounce Back
As part of their Health and Wellbeing learning, the children have been thinking about resilience and helpful thought processes when things go wrong. Bounce Back is an acrostic to help us all remember these strategies.
During their Golden Time, the children who chose ICT created a Bounce Back movie. They animated bouncing balls and filmed each other saying the strategies. The film is below (with a special effect to keep our children’s images private).
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/SpringhillandAuchenback/files/2016/02/Bounce-Back-special.wmv
Pr. 3 Assembly
Pr. 3 took part in an assembly about Numeracy and Maths. We spoke about the different ways in which we used our maths skills. Through our Social Studies topic on the Rainforest we measured the length of a typical rainforest tree, we made symmetrical butterflies and we located rainforest animals in the playground using map grid references. We were GGGRRREAT and the assembly was enjoyed by all.
Life on the Ocean Wave
We have been learning about ‘Life on the Ocean Wave’. In science we have been learning about some of the creatures who live under the sea and in Social Studies we have been learning to compare some aspects of our lives today with the lives of pirates who lived in the past. Here are some photographs of our classroom displays.
