Nativity

Today, we were lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the nativity performance at their dress rehearsal.  Here are a few of our thoughts …..

Isla – I liked all the songs.

Angus – It was fantastic and my favourite character was the sleepy shepherd.

Bethany – I thought the show was “cracking”.  I really liked Mary.

Evan – I bet the P1-3s will do a great performance this week.

James – I enjoyed the part at the end where the compere introduced all the stars of the show.

Josh – My favourite character was the sleepy shepherd because he was funny,

Ava – I really enjoyed the nativity.

Brodie – I thought it was splendid.

Good luck for the rest of your performances.

Christmas Jumper Day

Today was Christmas Jumper Day.  We have been doing lots of fun activities.  We have had really good fun.  Everyone has paid £1 and all the money is going to the charity Save the Children.

Santa made an appearance in our classroom today.  Can you spot him in the photo?  He also brought his 2 elves to visit.

Hannah M thought we all looked “groovy” in our jumpers.

Someone is rocking around the Christmas tree.  Can you find him?

One of our classmates was very busy decorating their own jumper.  Can you spot the designer?

Santa also brought his reindeer.  How many can you see in the pictures?

We have some festive animals also.  How many different ones can you see?

Merry Christmas from everyone in P3/4!

Paper Chains

We have been making paper chains to decorate our classroom for Christmas.  We had a choice of different coloured paper between red, purple and blue.  We cut out strips and then joined them together in loops through each other.  We had to measure the strips so that they were 4cm in width.  Then we had to make sure they were joined together in a pattern.  We attached them to tables, doors and the chalkboard.

Rounding Up in Maths

We have been doing a thing called ‘Rounding Up’ in Maths.

This means if you have a number that ends with 1, 2, 3 or 4 you round down to the nearest 10 eg if you were rounding 53, you would round it down to 50.

If you have a number that ends with 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 you round it up to the next 10 eg if you were rounding  56, you would round it up to 60.

We have had fun doing it and we played a great game called the ‘Up and Down ‘ game.

You can also round up and down in 100s and all the other numbers you can think of. We have not yet managed to round up or down in millions…..that is for next week!!

Literacy/Art Week

This week we have been focusing on Literacy and Art in class.  We were focusing on the artist Georgia O’Keeffe and one of her paintings based on a skyscraper.

We used paint and shapes to paint a skyscraper.  We used the shapes to print the windows and we mixed yellow and white paint to get different colours of light for the windows.

We also made fireworks pictures with pastels.

We wrote autobiographies to display with our paintings in the art show and we also wrote biographies about Georgia O’Keeffe.  We used the iPads to research about the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.

We also used the iPads to research about skyscrapers and find out how tall they are and when they were built.

We found doing the fireworks pictures fun and messy.  We also enjoyed doing the skyscraper paintings.

Our Topic-Life in the 1970s

We have been doing some research on the I-pads to find out about the 1970s.  We have found out that lots of things were different in this decade. We found out about different singers, toys, clothes, shops, famous people and all sorts of different facts.  One of the facts we found out was that in 1971 Lego had a 40th anniversary.  We collected different facts about each the years and gathered them together with pictures on a poster.  We also found out about different hairstyles that were popular at this time.  One of them was the punk style.  In 1979 mobile phones were introduced.  Also, in this decade, the walkman was released.  We are looking forward to finding out some more information about this decade.

The Vikings

We have been learning about the Vikings and have found out lots of interesting facts. Did you know they first invaded Britain in 793?  We have enjoyed learning about Viking homelife,  in particular what they wore and what foods they ate. We investigated the Viking alphabet and we made Viking runes using clay and carved our names on them.

Viking Ships

Our favourite part has been learning about Viking ships. There were different sizes of ships and they could carry between 30 and 60 people.  They built their ships in a very skilled way so they could sail up narrow rivers and survive in the oceans.  Therefore, the Vikings

were excellent carpenters and engineers as well as invaders.

In class we researched the true measurements of a Viking ship then we went outside and used chalk to draw it on the ground.  We made detailed drawings. For our homework task we made 3D models of Viking ships.

A busy week!

On our school trip, we went to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.  We learned a lot about the rainforest and we had fun.

We learnt that up to 15 people can make up to the length of an anaconda.

We also saw some of the displays, like Charles Rennie

Mackintosh and more.

On Wednesday we cooked cheese scones.  We used egg butter and flour to bake them.  After we put the cheese scones in the oven, we had a taste of them and they were really good.

On Thursday it was gardening day.  All the outdoor learners went to plant some of our new plants so they could grow. We got dirty on our knees and shoes but sometimes on our hands and feet.

On Thursday 10 girls from P4 went to an all girl’s festival.  We did Judo, hunger games and fitness activities.  We had so much fun.  It’s in the Tryst at Cumbernauld.  We also had fun driving there too because we were laughing all the way and we called it the banana bus.

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