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Sylvie – I enjoyed creating our reports on tectonic plates.

Joey – I learned about what tectonic plates are.

Ruaridh – I learned that tectonic plates float on molten rock – pretty impressive!

Emma – I found peer assessing the other class’s work really helpful because it let me see what level of work they are doing and gave me feedback for my report next week.

Izzy – I enjoyed playing basketball in PE.

Aimee – I am finding it interesting learning about different types of natural disasters.

Gregor – I like reciting and listening to Tam O’Shanter

Abbie – I enjoyed reading my poem to the class.

Aimee – I liked paining our rural v city landscapes.

Emma – I enjoyed taking our learning outside when we measured angles in nature and angles that were man-made.

DJ – I have enjoyed doing painting.

Jessica – I liked doing outdoor learning.

Last week P3A and P3B had a visitor come in to talk to us about bones. We held a 3D print of a whale’s ear bone and looked at a tiny skeleton of a mouse in a test tube.  We had lots of questions to ask because we love bones. Some of us want to be scientists when we grow up!

Both classes had an interesting talk from Mrs Forsyth this morning learning about how meat arrives in the shop.

The children have been challenged to help make a meal from scratch at home and provide photographic evidence.  Closing date Monday 28th January 2019.

The children have a chance to win a lovely apron to keep them clean while cooking in future.

Welcome back everyone! We are all pleased to be back at ELC and we welcome some new boys and girls this term too!

This term we are going to be learning about, rhyming words and patterns. We are going to do this through talking about Scotland and learning a Scottish rhyme.

 

We will also be learning about foods which are healthy and unhealthy and recycling.

 

 

We were so busy in December! We did lots of Christmas crafts, decorated our Christmas tree, performed our nativity show, made cards and gifts to take home, had lots of visits from Elf on the shelf and had a party with a special visitor!

 

Primary One Scottish Celebration

Every January we look at some songs and poetry written in Scots language for a whole school celebration later in the month. Each class holds a competition to choose one winner who will recite their poem at this event.

Primary One are invited to try to learn either the Jack and Jill poem or at least one verse of the Katie Bairdie song to perform to the class the week beginning 21st January (although they can do both). We will be learning and rehearsing these in class but you may wish to practise at home too.  Entering the competition is voluntary but we would all like to be able to sing the song together.

Please see the words to our song and poem below:

Katie Bairdie (Traditional)

Katie Bairdie had a coo,

Black and white aboot the mou.

Wasnae that a dainty coo?

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

CHORUS

Diddley di del diddle dum (x3)

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

Katie Bairdie had a hen,

Toddled but and toddled ben.

Wasnae that a dainty hen?

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

Katie Bairdie had a pig,

No she didnae! Aye she did!

Wasnae that a dainty pig?

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

Katie Bairdie had a cat,

It would chase both mouse and rat.

Wasnae that a hungry cat?

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

Katie Bairdie had a duck,

It would have the best of luck.

Wasnae that a lucky duck?

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

Katie had a crocodile,

Havenae seen her in a while…

(snapping crocodile sounds)

Dance Katie Bairdie.

 

Link to the music for Katie Bairdie: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug/bookbug-song-and-rhyme-library/katie-bairdie

 

Jack and Jill (Anonymous)

Twa wee birdies,
Sittin on a hill,
Ane ca’d Jack,
And anither ca’d Jill.
Flee awa Jack,
Flee awa Jill,
Come back Jack,
Come back Jill.

 

It’s been nice to catch up with all my friends again. Evan

Painting our ‘pop art’ inspired volcanic eruptions was good fun. Hannah

Outdoor learning was enjoyable this week where we had to search for different types of angles. Freya

I enjoyed doing basketball in PE. Abbie

I liked translating our Scottish poem Tam O’Shanter into English. It was cool to see all the different words in English. Joey

I enjoyed getting our Scottish poem because this will be our final year of taking part in the Scottish Afternoon. Ruby

I enjoyed doing the general knowledge quiz in preparation for the Rotary competition. Patrick

I liked learning a ‘lay-up shot’ in basketball. Emma

I liked revisiting my knowledge of classifying angles. Izzy

I liked doing our display for our learning wall linked to Natural Disasters. Lois

I enjoyed making an advert for someone to be me for the day. Lottie

I now know what the word personification means. Evan

Learning about the Oceans and Continents of the World was fun. Freya

I learned some facts about Tsunamis when we watched Newsround. DJ

Setting up our jotter with our topic title page for natural disasters was enjoyable and fun. Gregor

I now know what the word drunk means in Scots. Ruaridh

Taking notes about oceans and continents of the world was interesting. Rosie

I know how to translate words from Scots to English using a glossary. Cooper

I enjoyed making our natural disasters display. I helped to make the volcano. Lewis

Jennifer – I liked doing the volcano art because it was fun to mix the colours

Maisie – I liked learning about the tectonic plates and what damage they can do

Ruby – I liked taking notes about the tectonic plates

Zahara – I liked doing basketball for PE and we learnt lots of skills

Zak – I liked doing the volcano art because you had to really take your time to see if the colours came together and what was light and what was dark

Esther – I liked the All Around the World song because it was quite fun

Lucy – I liked doing the quiz because it was really random questions and it was different

Mairi – I liked working on the note taking skills

Jack – I liked doing the basketball and practising the skills

Ailsa – I liked watching Isaac’s video because it is cool to see how he has taken a real experience and made it into something his own

Isaac – I liked making the volcano art because you had to use all different colours and mix them

Andrew M – I enjoyed the spelling test because it was good to see how many words I could answer

Elena – I liked doing the general knowledge quiz because it was fun

Caitlin – I liked doing basketball and learning lots of new skills

Aiden – I enjoyed doing basketball and playing mini games

Mairi – I liked doing the reading comprehension and working with my partner

Lola – I liked doing the general knowledge quiz because it will be good to know who gets into the team

Layla – I enjoyed learning about different natural disasters

Primary 2 have been working very hard in class this week and they have been learning 2 Scots poems.

They have tried to work out what the Scots words mean.

Everybody will choose one of the poems to learn and add actions to it.