Kirkhill Primary (P3c.1 & P3c.2)
Welcome to our Class Blog. Our teachers are Miss Ali (P3c.1) & Miss MacArthur (P3c.2) :)
On Tuesday the 25th of June we will be having a Pyjama Party in P2c.
On this day you may:
Looking forward to seeing all those jazzy PJs!
Last Friday we went to a medieval banquet! Our kitchen staff made it all nice for us. Lorraine, Sharon and the other ladies worked so hard and we had an amazing time. They made the gym hall dark and we had candles. We had made crowns and swords and helmets and hats at home so we could pretend to be real people from the Middle Ages. Mrs Wallace, Ms Galt and Mr McKay dressed up too!
The kitchen staff made a big long table with a white tablecloth and we had bread, grapes, meat, cheese and pottage. Pottage is like very thick soup. In the Middle Ages poor people had pottage just made of vegetable that they grew themselves and also some herbs. (We are growing herbs in our classroom!) Rich people had meat as well as the vegetables in their pottage.
After we had our banquet, we had some entertainment. There was jousting, sword fighting, some jokes from the jesters and medieval dancing. It was so much fun and we learned a lot more about the Middle Ages by actually pretending to be there!
A huge thank you to Lorraine and her staff for helping us to have such a lovely time!
Primary 2 are celebrating the end of their mini-election this afternoon with a post-election party. (If the photo is a little fuzzy it is because we are very enthusiastic about our dancing!)
We formed parties with cool logos and slogans and decided what our policies would be. Then we created manifestos and elected party leaders by thinking very hard about the things we would most like to happen in Kirkhill Primary. Here are some of the children showing off the rosettes for their parties!
On Thursday we had a secret ballot to vote for our favourite candidates.
On Friday the results were in!
Ms Edmonstone came to announce the winners.  The Trusted Party from 2b won! Some of us really liked their manifesto so we voted for them.
We have all learned so much about elections. When we are old enough to vote we will know exactly what to do!
Some of us have been busy with Hama beads and Kapla in the atrium! How do you like our creations? (We took the photos by ourselves too!)
Although we don’t issue homework in June, we are posting a couple of high-frequency word lists because some parents had said that they would like to revise these over the holidays. Remember not to tackle too many words at once – it’s better to make sure that your child is completely confident about reading/writing one small set of words before you introduce any new ones.
Click here for a list of useful words.
Click here for words that can be cut up to make little cards.
Here is a link to a numeracy game that the children enjoy playing in class. They can choose the type of calculation to practise then have fun trying to improve their scores and times.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Click the links if you would like to see the Spelling words we will be working on in class this week.
Some of our parents have asked if we could help them find resources that would allow their children to practise forming letters correctly at home. This is a great idea because forming letters the right way help children write clearly and fluently. It also helps them get ready for joined-up writing which will be coming along very soon!
Jolly Phonics Letter Sounds is one app that allows children to form letters using a finger on a phone or a tablet. Apparently it is available for Apple or Android devices and costs about £5.  Let us know if you are aware of any other good handwriting apps and we’ll share your ideas on the blog.
We have also made handwriting paper which you can print out if you want your child to practise making letters exactly the right size and positioning them in exactly the right place! Click on the link below to download it.
Click here for handwriting paper.
Hope that helps!
Wednesday 15th of May was National Numeracy Day. To celebrate, 2c had some extra time to enjoy playing numeracy games.  We added, we subtracted, we multiplied and divided, we doubled and halved, we rounded, we explored tens and units… but most of all, we had fun using lots of the numeracy skills we have learnt!
Here is another link to the Maths homework grid in case anyone is having trouble finding the original one.
