P4 were drawing pictures of a gingerbread house and rudolph yesterday. – Joey

When we were drawing, Mrs Ferguson said have 8 stripes on the candy cane and colour 1/2 of them red. She also told us to have 4 buttons on the gingerbread man and colour 1/4 of the buttons blue. We were practising fractions. – Subhan

We also had to split our door into 3 sections to show 1/3. We coloured in 5 stairs and 1/5 of them had to be green, 1/5 was yellow, 1/5 was red and the other 2/5 could be any colour you wanted. – Ellis

P5 have a Christmas Carol evening coming up very soon!

The P5’s have been practising 6 Christmas songs. All the P5’s gathered in a classroom to practise the songs to get it perfect! We also learnt Makaton which is sign language to We Wish you a Merry Christmas. – Lily-Anne

We were also practising Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney, Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. 2 songs that we didn’t know that well were The Three Kings and Silent Night which we will be learning today and next week. – Arjun

This week is Book Week Scotland and we’ve been doing activities based on books. – Ellis

We have been reading a book called Look Up. It was about space and the Phoenix Meteor Shower. – Maddie

We were making meteors because the book was about meteor showers and this represented the book we were reading. – Roslyn and Alexander

We had a sheet of card and we cut it into 2 strips of different sizes, then we bent them in cylindrical shapes. After, we used art straws to connect them both together and taped the art straw to the card. – Finn

Before we put them into cylinder shapes, we decorated them with different colours and different shapes. After we made them all, we tested them with the lights on and off by throwing them and we were trying to see whose when the furthest and why. – Isaac

The meteors that went the furthest had longer cylinders. – Yujoe

As it is Book Week Scotland, we have had D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) where we drop everything and read our books as this gives us a time to read our books in class. – Lily-Anne

Today we were making wriggling worms because in George’s Marvellous Medicine, George’s Grandma liked eating slug and worms. – Joshua

We made a medicine with gummy jellies, baking soda and water. We put enough water in until the baking soda dissolved. – Carla

When we put the jellies in the cup of vinegar, it started to fizz and bubble a lot. There was a chemical reaction. – Sam

This week in Art we were creating climate change art. – Nicole

We were trying to create pictures to relate to climate change because COP26 is happening right now so it is very relevant. – Alexander

We tried to use at least 3 different medias. Media in art is the materials you would use and some are pens, pencils, acrylic paint and water colour paint. – Eilidh

Other materials we used were coloured pencils, tissue paper and fake leaves. – Roslyn

We could also choose to use crepe paper. – Isaac

My favourite media to use was the water colour paint. – Sam

My favourite media to use was a fine sharpie pen. – Lily-Anne

We had all had different opinions on our favourite medias to use but the majority really liked using acrylic paint.

In Art, we made clothes from paper, glue, feathers, string and cotton wool. – Matthew

We made clothes from different materials and we were trying to base the clothes on fashion through the 1900’s. – Ellis

Some people chose to do this in partners and some people were doing this themselves. – Isaac

My friend and I made the flapper dress and we used paper, feathers and cotton wool. We folded the paper like a fan to make the frills. We focused on fashion in the 1920’s. – Roslyn

Isaac and I were creating t-shirts from the 1980’s. To make it we both got big sheets of paper (I think A3) and we cut holes in the top of the sheets for our heads to go through. Then after we tested that they fitted us, we put them on the table and covered them in coloured feathers. – Finn

The art was based on our social studies topic in the 1900’s and we all made clothes from different decades in the 1900’s. I made a dress from the 1920’s with feathers at the bottom and little pieces of paper glues on to it. The bottom matched the top. – Lily-Anne

Amy and I were working on the 1940’s and we made a skirt and a t-shirt to go together. We put some feathers on it and hole punched the 2 sides at the front and back to put string round it to slide it on and off. – Carla

Here are some more pictures of some of us and our creations…