EWHCF Class of 2023

We’ve had a busy week in P4a! Here are some of the things that we’ve been doing…

“I’ve learned about the polar climate. Sometimes it ends up being minus 55 degrees!” (Harry Jefferson)

“We’ve learned about Venn diagrams, Carroll diagram and bar charts. We decided what we wanted to vote for and I chose animals.” (Ben Fishlock)

“We were learning about how to use Carroll diagrams, how we can get the whole class in separate groups. We chose boys and girls and lighter and darker hair. We went outside and went into groups and had to figure out so that everyone in the class had a space in our Carroll diagram.” (Jessica Urquhart)

“In PE we were playing Tail Take. It’s where you put a bib into your shirt and run around and try and snatch the bib off people and when the person blows the whistle you come in and see how many bibs you’ve got.” (Bruce McLellan)

“In science we were seeing how plants grow and parts of the flower. We learned about the petals; they make the flower look pretty.” (Emilia Pugh)

Today we were learning to sort animals into a Carroll Diagram under Arid, Polar, Endangered and Non-endangered criteria.  Sand Viper Snakes live in the Arid climate zone and are non-endangered and the Arctic fox lives in the Polar climate zone and is also non-endangered.  One of the Polar endangered animals is the Polar Bear because there’s not that much ice left. An example of an endangered animal in the Arid climate zone is the antelope because they are being hunted.

In French on Thursday we were making a calendar.  We made the calendar so that we could put our birthdays on it and so we could practise the months of the year, days of the week and numbers for the date.  We did a month in pairs or trios and one person designed the ‘month’ page with pictures and the French name for that month whilst the other people in the group completed the calendar.

In Science we have been learning about plants.  We are going to learn about whether plants will grow in sand and soil in the dark and in the light.  Before our experiment next week, we wrote up our hypothesis which is our prediction.  Some of us think that the plant tht is grown in the soil will grow and then decompose quickly in the dark.  Some of us think that the seed in the sand will grow in the light and not decompose initially but will die slowly.

In Social Studies, we have been learning about Climate Zones.  The 4 new Climate Zones we have been learning about are Polar, Temperate, Arid and Tropical. It is freezing in the Polar Climate Zone so not many people or animals live there.  We would see snow and ice in a Polar Climate Zone. In a Temperate Climate Zone it can be rainy and warm at the same time.  It is not super hot or super cold, it is somewhere in the middle. An Arid Climate Zone is very hot and usually a sandy desert area. An example of a desert is the Sahara Desert in Africa.  In a Tropical Climate Zone there are 2 seasons: long, wet and warm and short, dry and warm.

This week we have been drawing the world through our eyes by drawing what is good and what is bad to us in the world.  We drew what we do like in the world on the land and what we don’t like on the sea.

We have also been drawing ROBLOX characters for our class charter. We discussed our Children’s Rights by looking at a picture which included a child who got the blame for stealing but it wasn’t him that was the thief.  We linked this to the right to be listened to and believed.  We also worked with a partner to write our own Rights linked SHANARRI.

The class had the opportunity to play maths games and in their groups did mental maths with Miss Murchie.  One of the games was Mathopoly which included Chance and Challenge cards which gave you an instruction to follow.  We had to roll the dice and move our counter onto that space which had a multiplication calculation on it.  If you got it correct, you got points.  Another task was a number search, scanning for numbers next to each other which show a multiplication calculation ( 6  6  36).

On Friday, we voted for who was going to be representative for The Rights Respecting group, Sports Committee, Eco Committee, Pupil Council and Pupil Leaders.  Every candidate gave an excellent presentation and one pupil was chosen for each.

This week, we have been writing poems about characters that we have made up! We have been thinking hard about what the characters might say, and we have been learning about how we can use similes to describe our characters.

Some of the characters that we made up were…
Baboon, who says, “you’re a buffoon!” (Harris)
Wicky the Witch, who says, “Get my cauldron!” (Aisha)
Loud Octopus, who says, “I love snapping and cracking wood!” (Zara)
Andy Curry, who says, ” Get my curry!” (Ross)
Sunshine, who says, “Do you need help?” (Ella)

Some of our favourite similes are…
As rich as Lionel Messi (Cameron)
As loud as an elephant (Myra)
As kind as a nurse (Charlotte)
As gross as slime (Lucy)
As cheeky as a monkey (Edward)
As sweet as sugar (Rosie)

P3A really enjoyed Book Day on Thursday.

We went to the Book Nook where we read our favourite books. I brought in a book about World War 11.   ( Luca Fi)

I enjoyed the Book Nook. I read a book called Horrid Henry’s Stink Bomb.          ( Luca Fr)

I liked the Book Nook because it is really cosy and it was a relaxing place to read my book. I read Gangsta Granny. (Harry)

The book Nook had bean bags and a comfy couch. We really enjoyed reading there. (Kyle)

I enjoyed the Book Nook especially sitting on the sofa and reading Dark Diaries Puppy Love    (Emilia)

I like David Walliam books and Diaries of a Wimpy Kid because they are both like comics. Ayyan

I went to Brownies with Isla to meet the author Ross McKenzie and get a book signed by him.    (Beth)

Me and my friend met an author called Ross McKenzie. He wrote a book called The Nowhere Emporium. The book is about a shop that has never been there before!    (Isla)

 

Yesterday, we celebrated World Book Day. We listened to a lot of different short stories and we made finger puppets to create our own stories with. We had a surprise visitor (Mrs McKim!) who read a story to us and we visited the P7 classes to read some books together. Jenny read The BFG with her reading buddy, Habiba read Winnie Flies Again, Mac read Captain Underpants and Ella read Lilo and Stitch. We’re looking forward to visiting the book nook later today.

Edward said, “There were lots of tricky words but I gave it my best go.”

Zara said, “On World Book Day, I was very excited!”

Lucy said, “I wish World Book Day would happen again!”

We’re looking forward to next year’s celebrations.

 

We have had another very busy week!

• Miss McKendrick has been helping us in class and has been teaching us Science, French, RME and Art.
• We’ve been drawing a picture by Claude Monet called The Waterlily Pond. (Luca)
• We are doing the register in different languages like French, Spanish and Italian. (Molly)
• We have been learning colours in French and discussed these as part of our painting lesson (Dylan).
• In outdoor PE we were doing different outdoor games, one of them was similar to netball but you are not allowed to run with the ball, you must pass it where you are (Sam). During indoor PE, we have been taking a note of our fitness scores. Our scores are improving as we are getting fitter (Nathan).
• Lots of the children have been doing personal research at home into our class topic, and have brought in books from home about the body.
• We have been learning about different parts of the eye in science (Warren).
• We have been learning songs for our class show, ‘There’s a Sunflower in my Supper!’ We have all been given a part in the show. We will be acting, singing and dancing.
• We have been learning about Jesus and his parables and continuing with our Buddhism topic in RME. (Eleanor)
• In ICT we have been using To Do It Yourself to make a computer game (Molly).

Last Friday, before lunch we all took part in Mini Mudder! Before, some of us felt very nervous. Olivia said “I thought I would get wet and I don’t like getting wet.”

When we got to the course, we saw all of the different obstacles. There were tyres that you had to go in and out of, there were tunnels and you had to crawl under a big blue sheet. Ava said she felt a bit nauseous when she saw it! We all completed the course, and some of us did it a lot of times.

Afterwards we needed to get cleaned up because we were very muddy. Daryn said “the mud was on my forehead and my hair and clothes!” It took a long time to get everybody clean and ready for lunch! Jenny said she was looking forward to doing it again, but Charlotte said she wouldn’t want to try again!

Ross said “I felt so happy after it because I got to peel the mud off my legs!”
Rosie said “I was really wet after it because I got sprayed a thousand times!”
Ava said “Miss Evans squirted me!”
Edward said “When I went under the tunnel I thought I saw a spider crawl on me!”

 

P3a Class Blog 15/02/19

 

 

 

In science we learned that the heart pumps blood around our bodies. We also learned that the heart is a muscle which is about the size of a fist and it pumps 100,000 times per day. We enjoyed making a fact file about the heart.

 

This week we learned what it is like to be in high school as we were doing our comprehension challenges.

 

We also liked playing playground games in the MUGA for P.E.