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On Friday we are performing Warriors, the Emperor’s Incredible Army to others. P5 s will be The Builders, P6 are the Soldiers and P7s are The Peasants. We will be performing alongside Scottish Opera singers. Roger came to work with us prior to the Easter holidays to improve our singing. We will be singing a variety of songs to tell the story about the emperor. The story is set in China 2000 years ago. Watch this space for further updates!

Today it was a dress down day at school because it was our fundraiser.  We have called this post banana-tastic because we have been learning about Fairtrade and that is one of the fairtrade foods we have been learning about.

Yesterday we had a visitor from the co-op to tell us all about fairtrade products and in the afternoon we made brownies using fairtrade ingredients.  We sold them at the bake sale today and they were so popular they ran out before some of us had a chance to buy one.  Also at the bake sale there was rocky road, marshmallow and banana kebabs, banana muffins, shredded wheat nests, top hats, chocolate chip cookies and banana loaf.  Each of the classes had made something to sell at the bake sale.

Tomorrow is a special day for us as we are raising our Green Flag for the first time.  The choir is going to be performing two songs and they are really looking forward to it. In the afternoon tomorrow we are getting the chance to watch The Lorax because it is an Eco themed film and it is a reward for all our hard work in getting the Green Flag.

For the past two weeks we have has a story writing task for homework.  We had to write an alternative fairytale.  Here are some of our titles…

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

The Ninja Princess

The Witch

Little Red Riding Hood Here is what we thought about the task:

Hannah – i liked the idea of imagination and the thought of a new thing

Cole – i liked making up funny twists .

Aimee – i liked doing my own story .

Keavie – i liked the twist in the tale .

kara – i liked doing my own as well .

lorna – choosing my own characters .

Lyall – i liked changing the words in my story .

Max – i liked that people were putting there best effort into it

 

BY RACHEL AND ABBI .

Today was the first time any of the pupils in our class had seen a solar eclipse.

When it got darker it got colder at the same time as well as a bit windy.  When we were walking round to the playground we saw a little bit coming through the clouds but it wasn’t there for long and was quite dull.  We used pinhole projectors to look at the eclipse but they didn’t work so well because there were thick clouds.

 

One of our pupils had special eclipse glasses and we had a shot of those too but because it was cloudy we couldn’t see much through them.

 

When we came back into class we watched some of the eclipse live on the internet.

Aimee – I liked on the webcam how the sun seemed to change colour at different points depending whether there were clouds or not.

Hannah – I liked going outside to see the eclipse.

Codi – I liked how it looked liked the sun had a big chunk out of it.

Jordan – I liked when we went outside and we just caught a glimpse of it coming through the clouds.

Cole – I liked how it felt like night time and the sky changed when we were outside.

Kali – I enjoyed seeing it getting dark outside.

Keavie – I enjoyed when it got darker and colder outside.

Taylor – I enjoyed how it wasn’t windy when we first went outside but then it started to get windy as the eclipse was happening.

Today we have been learning all about solar eclipses as part of our Space topic.  We have been doing this today as tomorrow there is due to be a solar eclipse where 95% of the sun will be blocked out by the moon!

here is what we know about eclipses…

Max – when an eclipse happens the light in the area covered by the eclipse will be blocked out but it will return when the moon comes out of alignment with the sun and the earth.

Hannah and Abbi – an eclipse is an accident of nature but it is natural and unusual.

Cole – it will take years for another big eclipse like this to happen in our country.

Brooke and Taylor – the moon is in between the sun and the earth during a solar eclipse

Aimee- It happens when the moon comes in between the earth and the sun.

Today we all had new reading books and we did a prior knowledge task about each of our books.

lewis-I found it straightforward to find the facts as I used the book blurb and cover to tell me what the story is going to be about.

We know that the Hundred Mile an Hour Dog will have characters call Trevor, Streaker and Charlie.  We also know that

dog is difficult to look after.

 

We know that Aliens stole my dog will have a bay who has lost his dog and maybe the Aliens have stolen him.

 

We know that the Butterfly Lion is about a lion from Africa and a boy called Bertie.  Part of the story will also happen in England.

Today it is Red Nose Day and p3’s assembly it was all about Chryston. At the end we sung “making funny faces”. We are going to tell you some favourite parts,

Hannah- the banana song.

Angus – The teachers/ p3’s acting

Aimee- 4 p3’s dressing up as teachers

Kara- liked the banana song

Cole- the banana song

Rachlel- p3’s actress for Mrs Woodward 

Taylor- Hannah dressed up as Mrs Woodward

Kali- sung the red nose

Abbi- banana song

Max- history of chryston

 

 

Today has been sad and fun. Its been sad because we have not got our fish to take care of any more and it has been fun because we got to share our topic with you in a fishy way! We will now share some thoughts with you about our fish.

Aimee: I thought that our fish were a really big part of our topic and i found it hard to release them in Bothlien Burn.

Lorna: I think the expirence was good to see the fish grow. I miss the sound from the air pumps the tank and the equiptment:(

Kara: I thought the experaince was great fun and i would like to do the hole thing again.

Lyall: I thought we all did really well at our assembly and i really enjoyed it.:)

by Aimee and Lorna 🙂

 

Here is a trailer for our assembly.