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The Big Dance Pledge 2014

Primary 3 did The Big Dance Pledge today.  We did it in the hall at 1pm and all of the school was there to watch us.

The photographer from one of the local newspapers came in to take some photographs look out for Primary 3 in your local paper soon.  Before we started some of us were excited and some of us started to feel a bit nervous.

Once we started we felt better and everyone was watching us.  Half way through our dance they all started clapping along and once we finished we could tell they loved it because they gave a huge clap and we’re cheering.

Mrs Woodward surprised the school when she said “you are all sitting far too still” and everyone had a go at joining in.  We think that everyone did very well to join in with our dance but some of us felt like we were being bossy because they were copying everything we did.  Some of us thought we were going to laugh because it was so strange.

We are all surprised that we learned it so we’ll and we are feeling proud of ourselves.  Thank you to all the children and teachers who came along and who took part.  We’ll done to everyone!

Our Super School Trip

On Wednesday primary 3 went on their school trip to Amazonia and The Strathclyde Park.  We went to Amazonia and we seen all of the rainforest animals.  Our guide took us around to see all of the animals.  There were toucans, taranchulas, macaws, fish, frogs, nocturnal animals, snakes and butterflies all around us.

After that our guide took us into the handling room.  The first animal we got to meet was Wall-E the snake.  Some of us got to put him around our necks and some of us got to hold him or feel his scales.  We thought he was heavy and we were surprised that he wasn’t slimey.  Then we got to meet Bubbles.  He was a fat tailed Gecko.  We learned an interesting fact about Bubbles, he can make his tail fall off and then he can grow a new one.  The last animal that we met was a tarachula called Dave.  We thought this name was funny because it was a girl.  Lots of us were very brave and got to hold Dave.

The last activity we got to do was play games in the interactive room.  We got to play a game where we learned what it would be like to be in a thunder storm in the rainforest.  We also got to catch the pretend butterflies and we had our photograph taken in the jungle.

After we had our picnic lunch we walked around the Strathclyde Loch.  We walked around the Loch so that we could see all of the preparations that are taking place so that The Strathclyde Park is ready to hold the Triathlon as part of The Commonwealth Games.

We saw the finishing tower where the athletes will end the race.  We seen the red curtains and the SEPA bhoy that are helping to make sure that the water is safe for swimming part of the race.  There was a construction site with lots of tractors and workmen who were busy getting things ready for the race.  We were lucky enough to see the man building the pontoon where the swimmers will start the race.

We even had enough time to go and have a play in the park.  We all had great fun even although one of us fell in the mud.  There were two zip lines and a huge swing that lots of us could sit on at the same time.  The boys had a hard job pushing but the girls enjoyed swinging.  Primary 3 thought the trip was awesome!

Big Dance Pledge Rehearsals

On Friday the 16th of May Primary 3 will be taking part in the Big Dance pledge 2014.  The Big Dance Pledge is a dance that has been made up especially for The Commonwealth Games.  It is is dance that will be done by as many people as possible all over The Commonwealth at 1pm on the same day.

So far we have learned 4 sections of the dance.  There are 5 different sections to the dance including the body percussion section, the Bompe section which is inspired from countires all over The Commonwealth, the highland section because Scotland is hosting the games, the freestyle section and last but not least the last section is a party section.

Primary 3 feel really happy and astonished that we have learned the dance so quickly and so well.  We are really excited to do our performance for the rest of the school.  This dance is really good fun and we can’t wait to show it off.

We will see all of the other classes on Friday at 1 o’clock sharp.  We hope you are excited to see what we have been up to.

Primary 3

Our Class Rainforest

We have been learning about all the four different layers of a rainforest.  All four of the layers are the forest floor, the understory, the canopy and the emergent layer. All of the layers are different.

We used the iPads to look on the internet for all of our information and have been learning how to use key words to do internet searches.  We made our very own rainforest in the classroom.  We painted the trees.  We cut out all of the leaves using a stencil and to make the tree trunks we put little lines on them to make them look like wood.

By Primary 3

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