After reading the lovely story of ‘Coming Home’, p4 thought we should help out any wee birds that might find it hard to find food just now because of the wintry weather. So we got REALLY messy and made these yummy (for birds) hanging food balls. They are packed with things like digestive biscuits, sunflower seeds and lard to help birds stay strong in Winter. We put them out in
Take a look at the brilliant art work that’s now up in our hall for the nativity! We have been very busy doing lots of drawing and painting the props and background! Good luck p1s, we can’t wait to sing along with you at the Nativity this week!
We have been learning about how different religions celebrate and think about light. We explored the Hindu story of Rama & Sita, how everyone lay lamps and candles to show them the way home. We made these amazing clay divas that Hindus light during Diwali to remind them of this story. Hindus also get dressed up, have fireworks and paint henna patterns on their hands: We also looked at the
We went to see Duncan and the rest of the RSNO playing at the Royal Concert Hall. They played some new tunes and some that we’ve been learning about like Hall of the Mountain King and The Aquarium We had lots of fun playing minecraft there, looking out for a run-away creeper and watching all the different musicians play together. At the end, Duncan cameup to high five us and
We have been learning about different ways to show information like Carroll Diagrams and bar charts. We even made a human Carroll diagram: We chose where to stand depending on whether we were a boy/girl and aged 7/aged 8 Bar charts are tricky so we are trying different ones to get some practice, even smarties can be organised in a graph!!
Have a look at what we’ve been getting up to. We were practicing how to draw snow in a winter picture. I think you’ll agree we’ve got the hang of it now!
What a lot of talented, creative kids we have at Balornock. We had a great time at the first art club this year! Here’s what we were up to: We got nice and messy shading with chalk pastels to make our snowmen look cold and 3D. They look amazing!!! Well done Art Club! Can’t wait for next week!
We have been learning about Camille Saint-Saens. He is a composer which is like an author but for music. He wrote music about different animals called Carnival of the Animals. We had a go too: Guess what animal our sound story is about… 1 2 3 4 5 6 We chose our instruments and worked really well in our groups even though it was a
This week we had a visitor to our class. His name was Duncan. He plays the clarinet in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He taught us about the vibrations that instruments make. We learned about the different parts of the orchestra like woodwind, strings, percussion and brass. We’re going to see Duncan play in a concert next week! We can’t wait to hear the different songs. We’re going to cheer
Here’s what we learned this week….. Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican festival starting on Halloween. It means day of the Dead!!!! We made masks to celebrate it. Mexicans dress up too. They put out things that the people who have died liked when they were alive. The spirits visit. The children come back on the first day, the adults , the next day. Mexicans leave food out for them
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