Week Beginning 25th October 2021

Welcome to this weeks blog!  Here are some photographs showcasing our learning this week!

Woodland

This week in Woodland, we went on an Autumn adventure and gathered lots of Autumn materials – Jude

We found different coloured leaves, some were brown, yellow and some were still green! – Matthew

We gathered Autumn items to help us with our writing on Thursday – Rose

We were writing an acrostic poem about Autumn – Freya

P.E

In P.E we played some games.  We played Chaos Tig, Halloween Corners and Halloween Tig – Sunny

With Mr McMillan, we played Basketball.  We practised dispossession, intercepting and dribbling – Ben

Numeracy and Mathematics

We were learning about what a right angle is – Lewis

We created a right angle checker and we used it to help us find right angles – Brooke

We searched our classroom and found lots of right angles – Lucy

 

Other

Haroon and I made a Cessna 172 engine.  It is a type of plane that is very very popular around the world – Calum

Inside the engine, we put some cogs in and we put a lever in so it went around.  We also added a propeller and a handle to turn it – Haroon

We made a haunted mansion for Halloween – Brooke and Freya

Happy Halloween and see you next week!

Week Beginning 18th October 2021

Welcome to this weeks blog.  Here are a couple of pictures demonstrating our fabulous learning this week!

Literacy

We were learning about Proper and Common Nouns – Brooke

We were sorting Proper Nouns and Common Nouns into different areas – Abby

With our whiteboards we searched for Common and Proper Nouns within our classroom – Jude

We were searching through books to identify Proper and Common Nouns – Rose

 

P.E

We were playing different games like, Chaos Tig and Rainbow Tig – Lewis

With Mr McMillan, we were learning basketball skills.  We practised dribbling and throwing the ball – Ben

 

IDL

We were learning how to draw an Egyptian pyramid – Abi

We shaded our pyramids on one side to make them look 3D and more realistic – Sunny

We were learning how to research on a Chromebook and we were trying to learn some interesting facts about Egyptian pyramids – Fynn

We learned that pyramids were made out of limestone, 3000 years ago – Rhys

We learned that most pyramids were made on the Western side of the River Nile – Haroon

They were built close to the River Nile as it was easier for them to get the blocks – Daniel

The Sphinx Pyramid stood in front of the other pyramids – Sadie

The Pyramids of Giza are the tallest pyramids in the world – Brooke

We were building pyramids and tombs out of bricks and Lego – Charlotte

We made people and climb up the pyramids steps and we designed our pyramid in the modern day and created tourists – Calum

We were making coffins for Egyptian people.  In the coffins we put gold and treasure in because Egyptians believed that they could take these items to the afterlife – Freya

On Thursday, Charlotte and Brooke had a dance that they wanted to show the class!  It was very good and we even sang along!

Have a great weekend, see you next week!

Week Beginning 4th October

Welcome to our class blog this week! We have been very busy this week before our October holidays!

P.E

We learned a new game called ‘Rainbow Tig’.  We all got a colour and when the teacher called our colour we had to run from one end of the MUGA to the other.  If the teacher called ‘Rainbow’ everyone ran across.  If you got caught, you became a tigger. – Brooke

 

Literacy

We were learning about adjectives and nouns – Finn

We went around the classroom, looking for nouns.  Nouns are names, places or things – Lewis

 

Play

We made a cable car.  We used Calum’s water bottle to make the cable car more secure and then we put some bricks in front of Calum’s water bottle so it didn’t fall forwards.  We tied the other end of the cable car to the whiteboard – Haroon

It was pretty hard but we managed to make it so I collected the bricks – Matthew

We made the cable car and my water bottle was a fuel tank for it and we attached a cable along it to create a real cable car.  Before we added the bottom, it looked like a pizza cutter – Calum

 

Woodland

We were learning about Venn Diagrams and for example, in a Venn Diagram you might have brown in one circle and leaf in the other.  In the middle you would put brown leaves – Ben

We were also given some free time at th end.

We were playing a game and being pandas.  I was a baby one and I was always hungry – Freya

We hope you enjoyed our blog, have a great October holiday! – All of Primary 3C

Week beginning 20th and 27th September 2021

Welcome to this weeks double blog!  Here are some pictures of our learning journey over the past 2 weeks!

Woodland

Me and Rose and Sunny were playing Koalas – Haroon

IDL

We were learning the difference between the way that the Ancient Egyptians wrote their letters and the way that we write.

      

We wrote our names in hieroglyphics.  After that we wrote what the symbols were in English- Finn

     

We made it colourful – Freya

Literacy

       

We were fixing sentences to make them better.  They weren’t write as they did not have capital letters and full stops in the correct place – Brooke

We were learning about what adjectives mean.  Adjectives make sentences exciting – Lewis

Adjectives are describing words – Matthew

 

P.E

We were playing a game called, ‘Dragons Den’ and we were in groups and we had to steal items from other groups when Miss MacInnes said we were allowed too.  We had to go 1 at a time – Charlotte

We were trying to collect all the objects on the ground and bring it to our groups – Arran

 

      

 

Numeracy

    

We were sorting all the coins into piles and then we ordered them from biggest to smallest – Jamie

We were answering questions with a partner and we pretended we were buying stuff at the shops and we used coins help us how much money we needed – Sunny

We were cutting out a 100 square and we had to pass it to the person next to us and then they had to work it out by putting it back together – Lucy

Have a look at some of our play-based creations this week!

We were making a model and me and Charlotte made dragons with people on it and little houses.  They had a kitchen and lots of other areas – Freya

By Calum, Rhys, Haroon and William

We were making a train station and we were trying to make a building for it and there was a train stop and people would go on to the train.  They would then go round in circles 2 times and then they arrived at their stop – Rhys

We made a car to go inside the train and the building was like a house – Calum

 

We hope that you enjoyed our awesome double blog!

Have a good weekend!