In Art this week, we were painting our own designs or pictures using different colours  to show our emotions. – Nicole

The 2 colours that make me feel anxious and lonely (grey and aqua marine), I put to the edge of the paper so that you could still see them but not that much. I then put the bright colours (red, orange, yellow and green) that make me happy, in the middle. This represents that happiness can beat sadness. – Lily-Anne

On Thursday and Friday in Art, we are learning how to cross stitch.  To cross-stitch you need to have a piece of wood or felt with holes in it and weave the string through the holes. We were practising going through the holes diagonally and vertically. – Finn

This week we had out Christmas parties. We played some games and Maddie won one of the games. We also had crisps, sweeties and juice. It was fun and I was very tired after it. – Joshua

In Literacy, we read a poem called She Asked and it was about a snowman who wanted to read books and a girl brought him books and it made the snowman happy. The Evaluators were learning about characterisation. We used STEAL to help us. S means speech – we looked at what the characters were saying and if it meant anything to help us work out more about the character. – Arjun

T means thoughts and this is what the characters think and if it means anything about their personality. E stands for effects and it’s the effect of someone’s speech or actions on another characters. – Alexander

A stands for actions and this is what the characters do to one another and we were working out what this tells us about the character. L stands for looks and this is what a character’s appearance is like. – Carla

After they had finished filling out their STEAL sheet, the P5’s wrote an extension to the poem. We are going to try and record these being read aloud and post them on the blog or Google Classroom. – Amy

The Analysers and recorders drew out each event in the poem and put them in order to show the beginning, middle and end. – Maddie

On Wednesday, after school the P5’s sand some carols to lots of family and friends. My favourite was The 12 Days of Christmas because I liked that it had lots of quick phrases and was repeated. – Alexander

 

In Maths, The Flawless Fractions and the Dedicated Decimals have been learning about data handling and have created their own surveys. My survey was about favourite colours. Red, purple and green were the least favourites and the most popular colour was blue. – Eilidh

We have also learned that a line graph goes up in lines rather than bars.  There is an x axis and y axis and we learned that the x axis is horizontal and the y axis is vertical. We also have to include a title and label our graphs. – Arjun

This week, the Marvellous Multipliers have been learning about equivalent fractions. Equivalent means equal so the fractions have to be the same amount. Here are some examples:

1/2  = 2/4

5/7 = 15/ 21 – Roslyn

 

The P5’s have been practising their carol singing and have 8 songs they have learned. This week, the P4’s have been singing a Christmas Alphabet song. After we’ve practised a bit more we are going to record it on video. At the start everyone has a line each to say and then we sing the whole song altogether. – Joshua

 

Today (Friday) we saw P2C’s nativity on Hump the Camel. I think it was a really good show and they have put in a lot of effort. Well done P2! – Arjun

 

This week we were learning about St Andrew’s Day. He died 1000 years ago. – Lily and Amy

We played a game of Kahoot based on St Andrew’s Day and we learned that he died on an X shaped cross. – Matthew

He died on an X shaped cross because he didn’t think he was good enough to die on the same cross as Jesus. – Carla

We have learned that St Andrew’s Day is always celebrated on the 30th November. – Arjun

P4/5 watched a video that explained what happened to St Andrew  and what he was doing. – Maddie

He taught Christianity in Poland, Russia and Greece. – Joshua

Andrew was killed because he told people about Jesus and they didn’t like it. – Lily-Anne

 

 

In Social Studies, we were learning about interior design across the decades starting with the 1950’s. – Ellis

In the 1970’s people had a lot of fake plants and greenery. In the 1990’s a lot of people had space themed blankets, pillow covers, curtains and light shades. – Subhan

In the 1960’s they also had lava lamps which would match with the kaleidoscope patterned wallpaper. – Sam

In the 1980’s people decorated their homes with lots of vibrant and quirky colours and they liked turquoise, pink and purple. – Joshua

In the 1950’s they had a lot of pink and floral patterns on the chairs. This is because the men were at work and the women were at home so the women made the houses look a bit more ‘girly.’ – Roslyn

We turned shoe-boxes into rooms and we chose which decade that we would like to make. We used paper straws, paper bags and cardboard. – Sophie

A couple of people tried to make 2 floors with 2 boxes. – Arjun

 

Take a look at what we created!