We had a great visit to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Tuesday. We had amazing seats and enjoyed singing/dancing along to the two Scottish bands performing.
Celtic Connections
Titanic
When Mrs Whyte has worked with our class, she has been exploring the Titanic with us. We have loved learning about the features of the ship and are looking forward to investigating this further next week. One of our boys made this fabulous, detailed image at home using hama beads. Well done, E on this very creative piece of work!
Gastronomers Week 3
This week, half of us went to the kitchen to make apple and sultana crumble. We learning the technique ‘rubbing in’ where we had to rub butter into flour until it resembled breadcrumbs. Again, we showed fantastic team work, our weighing skills are amazing and our cleaning… wow! We used Scottish butter and Scottish oats in this recipe.
Back in the classroom, the other half of us were having a more in depth look at Scottish produce. We created fact files on strawberries, raspberries, oats, potatoes and dairy, learning when some of these are in season and what is involved in their growth/production.
Next week we will swap 🙂
Mearns Masters – Gastronomers
On Tuesday we started our new Mearns Masters pathway, Gastronomers. For this, we are focusing on the places our food comes from. Each week, half our class will go to the kitchen to make something which includes one type of Scottish produce whilst the rest of us stay in class to complete a research activity. The following week, we swap
This week in the kitchen we made blueberry and oat muffins, the oats were produced here in Scotland 🙂 We were amazing at getting ready to cook by washing our hands and ensuring we had all the kitchen equipment needed. We then followed the recipe well, using scales to measure quantities. Mrs Stephenson and our parent helper Mrs McLuckie, were amazed at our fantastic cleaning skills at the end. We have never seen dishes with such a sparkle!
In the classroom, the other half of us were learning about different types of Scottish produce and had to design a school dinner including one of these. Mrs Gray was thrilled with our super ideas!
Letters to Staff
Each of us were assigned a member of staff to write a letter to, wishing them a lovely Winter break. We loved going around the school to deliver these and the staff were very thankful.
As part of our letter writing focus, we have also now posted letters to new pen pals. These are the primary 3s at Netherlee Primary School and we are looking forward to receiving their responses.
It’s Party Time!
We all had a fabulous morning at our Christmas party with the rest of the P3s. We danced, we laughed and we played lots of fun games. We particularly loved ‘pass the parcel’ and ‘corners’!
Tis the Season!
Today we put up our Christmas tree to make our classroom festive ahead of our Winter Concert. The boys and girls loved doing this on their own. We also listened to some festive music and did a Christmas craft.
Look at our fabulous end product 🙂
Coding Challenge
Today Mr McKenna spent the morning in our class working on our coding skills. We were tasked with using digital technology to create something which could help the upcoming primary 1’s learn more about Mearns Primary. Some of us created informative cartoons on Scratch Jr while the rest used Spheros to map out directions (eg how to get to the gym hall, toilet, school office etc). This involved lots of trial and error to get the code right but we demonstrated determination to successfully reach our end product. Below is an example of a pair who created directions for the gym hall using their Sphero Indi.
We definitely want to use these again, they were lots of fun!
‘I can do it, you can too!’
We were so proud to watch A on CBeebies starring in the show ‘I can do it, you can too’ where she learned to tap dance. This was also then shown at assembly 🙂 A huge achievement, well done!
Coding- School Values
During our Coding pathway in Mearns Masters, we have been using Scratch Jr. Our first project has been to create a cartoon to teach Primary 1 children the meaning of our school values. On Scratch Jr, we can change backgrounds, create characters, make objects move, add voice overs, add text and so much more! Mrs Stephenson has been so impressed with how confident we are at working independently.
Today, we visited P1.2 and shared our creations. They loved the animations! When we arrived back in our class, we discussed what went well and what we could improve on.
