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For Scottish afternoon, we made scottish thistles to decorate the gym hall.  We had to follow instructions from a laminated card to help us to draw a thistle.  We practised several times before we drew our final one.  We then used black pen to outline our drawing and we then used small pieces of tissue paper to add the colour.  The picture above shows how we created the drawings.  The final designs can be seen on display on Scottish afternoon.

Today we started work on measuring Area.  We measured our tables using A4 pieces of paper.  First, we had lots of different answers then we realised we had to lay them out the same way and we discovered the tables measure 20 pieces of paper.

Welcome back to everyone after the holidays.  We hope you had a good time and are ready for a new start in 2015.

We have been very busy this week in our first week back.  We have started our new novel called Georges Marvellous Medicine.  We have attended our first committee meeting and the children from the Media Busters have been particularly helpful in helping to fix our class smart board.  We had our first assembly of 2015 and we discussed Children’s Rights and Responsibilities.

We have many different things to be looking forward to and we are excited about the year ahead.

The whole class have started reading George’s Marvellous Medicine.  Everyone is enjoying it so far and it has been good for P3 and P4 to work together for reading for a change.

We have so far looked at 3 different strategies to help us with our reading.  We looked at Prior Knowledge which involved thinking about what we already know about the book using the front cover and the back cover.  We then looked at tricky words in chapter 1 and used a dictionary to find out the meaning.  We also looked at visualisation to show different things we had found in the book that told us about Grandma.  We used Popplet on the iPads to make a mind map showing facts about grandma.  We divided the information into the categories of looks and personality.

On Friday we wrote about our own Grandmas.  Thankfully, nobody has a grandma like George!

We also have started to update our learning logs to show what we have been learning with this book.  We are looking forward to reading more.

We found out facts about Christmas around the world.  The countries we looked at were Greece, Germany, France and Austrailia.

We found out that in France they eat chicken for dinner.

In Germany they put shoes out and if they are good it will be filled with sweets.  If not, they will get sticks.

In Greece it is not traditional to get presents on Christmas Day but they give presents on the first of January.

In Austrailia it is summer time and they often celebrate on the beach.

Merry Christmas to everyone around the world.

Gregor – The ice-cream was the best.

Adrianna – I liked playing the party games.

Abby and Nieve were the winners of pass the parcel.

Hannah P – We had really good fun at our party.

Rishi – It was super fun.

We had party food in Miss McGregor’s classroom.

Leena – I loved the party.

Hannah M – The food was yummy scrummy.

Sarah – It was a wonderful party.

We did 3 different dances including the Gay Gordons, The Dashing White Sergeant and Strip the Willow.  We played musical arms, pass the parcel and corners.  Brodie was the winner of Corners. Some people thought it was the best party we have had.

Brodie – I thought everyone looked groovy!

Angus – I thought the party was the most fun I had ever had.

Ava – I really enjoyed the party.

Bethany – I liked the ice cream.

Josh – I thought the party was amazing.

Isla – I had great fun.