Primary 2 would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We have been thinking ahead to 2019 when we designed our night and day calendars. They are all so colourful and each one is different. We have enjoyed looking at each others lovely art work.

As part of our WW2 art, we designed and created our own WW2 Anderson Shelters. These were designed to look like the Anderson Shelters of the 1930s/40s and not withstand an actual blast as some of our materials are ‘just for looks’. We thought about the art techniques we could include to create the look we wanted. We would like to try and make a shelter to withstand a blast but we would need different materials.

Have a look at some of the shelters we created.

We have been practising different types of measuring in P7. We have been outside to measure trees and their circumference to calculate the age of the trees. We also did some Christmas measuring activities. We were weighing parcels and calculating the cost of posting them second class to somewhere in the UK. We were calculating the area of wrapping paper so we had enough for all our presents. We followed a special ‘Elf Mocktail’ recipe to measure out the correct volume in millilitres and litres.

Today we had a very special visitor to Primary 6. Abbie’s  Granddad who is an archaeologist came to tell us about his work in connection with the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was involved with bringing the Stone of Destiny back to Scotland and finding Robert the Bruce’s heart at Melrose Abbey. He brought us lots of artefacts which were secondary sources and we enjoyed handling these.

Thank you Mr Wilander- we enjoyed your talk.

Wow! Well done Rudi.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/05/m3_05_00_x.swf

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

P3B have been asking for homework. They are so keen to learn.

They love trying to beat the computer by placing their digit in a place to get the biggest HTU  number.

Have fun learning!

I enjoyed planning and making our Anderson Shelters – Freya

I enjoyed putting my Anderson Shelter together – Sylvie

I enjoyed finding out the formula to use when finding the area of a rectangle and triangle because it was challenging – Joey

Watching our music videos back was fun! Gregor

I have enjoyed rehearsing for my part in the Carols by Candlelight performance. I’m a bit nervous to perform on Monday! Murray

I enjoyed doing all the dances for our Christmas party – Bailey

I enjoyed going to Riverside House to sing for the residents – Hannah

I enjoyed painting the Anderson Shelters – Aimee

Preparing our crafts for the school fair was messy but enjoyable! Izzy

I enjoyed having an advent calendar in class and getting some chocolate. DJ

I liked rehearsing for my part in the Carols by Candlelight performance. I feel prepared for the performance on Monday. Evan

Earlier this week I learned how to calculate the area of a triangle using a special formula. Lottie

I enjoyed using all the skills i have learned in writing to create a story based on a journey. Abbie

I have enjoyed watching the progress of everyone’s Anderson Shelter. Beth

I liked making our class Sustainability pledge – Ruby

I liked selling our pompom wreaths at the Christmas fair. Jessica

Isaac – I liked when me and Samuel did the PPT about Alec Lucas

Shaun – I liked building our Anderson shelters because they were fun

Lola – I liked building the Anderson shelters even though mine went droopy

Mairi – I liked doing the area in maths because I was good at it

Samuel – I liked hearing the new class novel

Jennifer – I liked starting our class advent calendar because it was a different way than the other teachers do it

Mairi – I liked collecting mud, moss and grass to put on my Anderson shelter

Lola – I liked listening to the class novel and I wonder if he will find the elves

Caitlin – I liked doing the Anderson shelters because I liked sticking all the things onto the shelter

Zahara – I liked doing the presentation about Alec Lucas and I liked this because it helped us to know their sides of the stories about war

Esther – I liked practising for Carols for Candlelight with the poems and narrations

Connor – I liked making the war planes and adding them to our pictures

Calum A – I enjoyed starting the class novel ‘A Boy Called Christmas’ and it put me in the Christmas spirit

Aiden – I enjoyed practising our poems for Carols by Candlelight

Fergus – I enjoyed making the Anderson shelters because it was quite technical but fun

Ruby – I liked doing free writing because it is a time to make up stories and do how to draw instructions

Lucy – I enjoyed watching the videos on literacy shed and writing the different parts to help me understand the structure

Jack – I liked starting the new class novel because it is really exciting

Zak – I enjoyed making our Anderson shelters because you really have to take your time with the modelling

Ailsa – I liked doing the free writing because you are allowed to make your own stories and I find it really hard to stop

It was so fun to play with our buddy’s😉 my buddy was Robbie.