Christmas!

We were very busy this afternoon, preparing for Christmas.  We were practising songs, painting snowmen for one of the friezes to go in the hall, making Christmas cards and cutting out tiny, tiny snowflakes.  It was a very productive afternoon. 🙂

Romans Trip

We went to Motherwell Heritage Centre to learn more about our Romans topic. Our guide, Hugh taught us a lot about the Romans in Britain and the many things they introduced which are still in use today. We also learned about how they bathed, ate and lived. Did you know?….there are remains of Roman baths at Strathclyde Park and that Hadrians wall was built by the Romans!? In the afternoon

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Italy

Bonjourno! We are enjoyoying our topic of Italy and have been learning lots about some of their famous cities. One of the cities we have looked closely at is Venice as this is the setting for our current book, ‘The Theif Lord.’  We created tourist information leaflets on Venice so if you ever want to visit, just as us what you should do there! We also learned how to use

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Japanese Day

On Thursday 15 December, we had a Japanese Day in class. Alicia is really interested in Japanese culture so she and Miss Slimmon planned a Japanese Day together for the rest of the class. First, everyone researched Japanese food, culture, fashion, geography etc and made an information booklet. Next, Holly and Alicia taught the class how to count to 10 in Japanese and we played a game in the hall.

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French Christmas Cards

For French we learned about some of the ways that people celebrate Christmas in France. We learned how to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year – Joyeux Noël Bonne Année We also made Christmas cards. Take a look here –

Seekers

Our reading group started reading the Seekers. Our teacher asked us to make a display for the wall so we all came together and made a wonderful display.