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Pupil Blog Entry

Mitzvah Day! By Talia Lovat

This year for Mitzvah Day, Primary Six decided to help out in the lunch hall.

Each day we went down in groups of three or four.  We chose who went down in order of the register.

I went on the Tuesday, I enjoyed it very much because I got to collect bands, serve lunches and check the plates to see if the children had eaten enough!

I was doing this with, Ben, Daniel Dotan and Ilya.  Daniel and Ilya were doing the same as me, but Ben was mostly giving out stickers!

I enjoyed mitzvah day this year very much!

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Swimming. By Ben Jackson

In swimming we have been doing front crawl, back crawl, breast stroke  and butterfly.

When we have been doing front crawl I thought that front crawl was my strongest swimming style because I understand it perfectly.

Back crawl is probably my weakest swimming style because I always think that I am always about to bump my head.

Breast stroke is quite hard when you start learning, but gets easier and easier because I am a good swimmer. I am ok at breast stroke.

Butterfly is supposed  to be really hard for most people but for me I am really good at it and I showed  all the swimming class how to do it.

It’s nice to be with my class in swimming lessons.

I hope you enjoyed my blog.

Swimming

 

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Fireworks Poem. By Abi Benshetrit

This week in the Primary Six writing lesson we did firework poems. Using our literary devices we made wonderful poems. Our literary devices were; Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Similes and Metaphors. As a class we decided that we wanted to show them at parents night so we did everything we could to try and up level them. Once we did that we typed them up on the computer and used our ICT skills to put little pictures of fireworks on them. Now they are up on the wall for parents night. All poems were great but Talia and Gideon’s really stood out and they are now going on the writing wall of fame. Every week Miss Orchant also chooses one piece of writing from the previous writing lesson and the star writer for our fireworks poems was Rachel McGhie. I peer assessed it and thought her poem was very good. We really enjoyed writing these poems.

 By Abi.

 

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School Photographs. By Ilya Gladkikh

We are all exited that this week is photo week. We are all happy that there is going to be another photo in the Calderwood Lodge family album. All school pupils are going to have to brush their hair and teeth and come in, in their best uniform.

When I was little, I honestly thought that school photos were really a big waste of time. As the majority of people now have phones with cameras, this, therefore allows parents to take pictures at the click of a button any time, anywhere. I wondered what the point was in spending money on an expensive photographer? But now, that I’ve grown up a bit, I understand that those class photos contribute to the framed memories, of children happily smiling, that families hang on the walls of their cosy homes. Not only that but, it also makes me proud to be a part of the school’s history, despite it just being a snapshot.

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My Week. By Saba Rehman

When we were with Mrs Kyle, we did an ice cream problem solving exercise on the board.  There were different ice cream flavours and we had coordinate to make one ice cream flavour with the other.  What I learnt was to make the biggest number of combinations you put one ice cream flavour with all of them and then do it in order.

 

Our class made a lot of things on Thursday we made shadows.  We went outside and found a partner we were in the sun and we made a shadow and our partner had to draw around it. I did Zainab’s shadow.  Then Miss Orchant did our full class and I learnt that when you make a shadow the sun gets blocked.

 

Throughout the last two weeks we did a science experiment with light.  We got a torch and shone it through different objects and some were transparent (light can pass through), translucent (some light can pass through) and opaque (no light can pass through).  I learnt that if you shine a torch through the inside of a jumper only some light can go through it so it is transparent.

By Saba Rehman

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My week. By Rachel McGhie

In class this week we said Loop Cards. Loop Cards are to test the place value knowledge you can do in your head, I found it a little bit challenging but it was fun.

On Thursday in our physical exercise with Miss Orchant we played a game called ‘Through the Gate’. Miss Orchant put about 36 bean bags in pairs on the floor and everyone got a basketball and had to dribble it through each pair. I got through 4 gates. But in that lesson I learnt how to dribble a ball.

On Tuesday, Mrs Kyle gave us a sheet about feminine and masculine animals and also in our French jotters we wrote 6 animals in 6 boxes and at the top what pet each of us had. This week we made a fruit smoothie with Miss Orchant and we used my friend Aisha’s instructions because she was the Star Writer.

Rachel

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My week. By Aisha Qayyum

Throughout this week what I said is Loop Cards. We all got cards and some people got 2 cards like me. On the loop card there was a number, if someone had said that number, and it was yours, you’d read out your number and the next one you were looking for. I found that slot very fun. In class the red group are reading a book called ‘Insiders’. Miss Orchant had written a few tricky words on the board, and we had to find the word in the book and work out what it meant by reading the sentences around it. We made a fruit smoothie. This week I was the STAR WRITER. I was surprised when I saw it on my jotter. We needed blueberries, raspberries, an apple, a cup of apple juice and a banana. After we had made it I was the first one to try it. Mmmm it was very yummy! Then we all tried it and we gave some to Mr Robson.

Aisha

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Welcome to our class

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After the holidays, Primary 5 welcomed to the class a brand new Pupil, Kshitij Verma. This has been a lovely time for our class, getting to know Calderwood Lodge’s most recent addition. We thought it would be nice if everyone else in the school and all of our Blog followers, got the chance to get to know Kshitij a little bit better as well. We took on the role of journalists and we asked Kshitij some questions we thought you might all be interested in hearing.

• Kshitij, what school were you at before you joined us at Calderwood Lodge?

Blackfriars Primary School, Govan.

• How old were you when you learned to speak English?

Kshitij learnt to speak English at the age of 4.

• What are your hobbies?

I like running and swimming.

• Where were you born?

I was born in Delhi, India.

• What is your favourite book?

Diary of a wimpy kid.

• What do you want to be when you grow up?

I would like to be in the Police Department, hopefully C.I.D.

• Do you have a favourite memory you would like to share with us?

Probably when I went to Blackpool, that was a great memory.

• Do you have a favourite subject in school?

Maths.

Kshitij is a really kind boy and he is fitting in very well at Calderwood Lodge.

Welcome to Calderwood Lodge!

By Daniel and Talia.

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Learning about The Human Body

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Our new topic, that links Science with Health and Wellbeing, is The Human Body. We have been exploring the Experiences and Outcomes to see what we want to achieve and then we have voted on what our preferences would be on how our class should go about meeting these.

Before the holidays, everyone did a project on a different part of the human body. We had to make it into a solo presentation and some people choose to do a power point while others made models and amazing information posters. There were lots of quizzes and mostly everybody walked out the door with a prize, so that goes to show how interested we all were and how much we learned!

It seems a shame that only Primary 5 benefited from all these facts. So for all of our readers, here are some fun facts we learned along the way:

FUN FACTS!

  • The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
  • Your heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
  • Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.
  • Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square metres!
  • The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear.
  • Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.
  • As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.
  • The left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain while the right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain.
  • It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
  • Your sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.

By Lana and Izzy

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Primary 5 Class Novel

On Monday we started our class novel. The book is called, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts. This novel was written by Lari Don. Lari Don was born in Chile but moved to Scotland and went to school in Aberlour. She then went on to study at Glasgow Univeristy and now lives in Edinburgh.

We started reading this novel as a whole class a few months ago. Now we each have our own copy and it is now our Primary 5 Novel Study. First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts is a fiction text (we hope!) and is set in Scotland. The main character is called Helen. Helen encounters a whole other world and is drawn into it to help a team of fabled beasts in need.

So far, the whole class have been really enjoying this novel. It actually won the Royal Mail Award in 2009, a year after it was published.

We will be reading this in class and taking it home to read chapters in our own time too. We will be doing lots of follow up work on what the book is about .

So far, one of my favourite characters (Abi) is called Rona. She is a selkie (a seal when in water and a human on land). She is my favourite because she loves to sing and I think we have a lot in common (except perhaps for the seal part!).

Once we have finished this novel, we will hopefully move straight on to Lari’s next book, called Wolf Notes. This will keep us up to date with what Helen and all of her magical friends are up to.

Abi and Daniel

 

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