I liked making a telephone out of cups and string. Amalie

I liked making Dorothy’s ruby slippers glow. Robyn

It was amazing seeing the new born chick in the primary 7 class. Lochie

I liked watching the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy met the wizard in the Emerald city. Zack

I enjoyed making edible sparklers. Ailish

I liked it when we blew Dorothy’s house over the rainbow with the electric circuit. William

I have enjoyed making different electric circuits. John

I liked finding out about Alexander Graham Bell on the computers. Isaac

I liked painting the backgrounds for our castles. Elsie

On Friday  P7 went to the war memorial at the Burgh Chambers to remember those who died for us. We found out a lot of things about the war in the museum exhibition about Peebles and WW1 . Some of us found the name of the person who we carried the poppy for at the remembrance parade on Saturday . We also drew some sketches of the memorial, wreaths and remembrance displays that were there. Both classes had made a poppy book with a poppy of remembrance from each pupil that had a note to the fallen on it. 4 of our pupils laid these books at the memorial and we had a minutes silence.

P7 really enjoyed Friday and these important people will never be forgotten . We will research some of the names we saw on the memorial next week.

By Zahara

We were very excited coming into school this morning when we realised that one of our eggs had hatched over night!

Everyone poured into our room to take pictures and look at the chick for the first time.  After 21 days waiting, we finally got what we were hoping for.

It has been a busy and exciting day. Lots of us have being glued to the incubator watching the chick  get fluffier every hour. It has been amazing watching how it has acted towards the eggs we have left. It keeps jumping, knocking and pecking them. We think the chick is trying to help them break out of the shell.

We now have the difficult task of deciding on a name.  Some of the suggestions so far are:

Shelldon, Flash, Patch, Hulk, Tweeter

It’s a tough decision – please leave a comment with your favourite name.

By, Flynn and Ruaridh

Try these games to sharpen up your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes!

• http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/prefix.htm
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=english/spelling

https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/prefixes-and-suffixes

Today in P7b we were listening to our eggs chirp from inside the egg! Then when one of the class members went up to hear the eggs and it was shaking and little crack appeared! All of the class were so excited! After break the egg had cracked more and it was moving, this is called the ‘pip stage’. Then after lunch the chick made a little hole that it peeked its beak through. When we found out we were so amazed.  We can’t wait to come into school tomorrow and hopefully see some chicks! By, Beth, Ruby and Abbie

Primary 6a have had a busy start to block 2. They have chosen to look at the Scottish Wars of Independence and have enjoyed looking at Primary and Secondary sources to think about what we can find out about William Wallace.

In writing the class have chosen to write ghost stories. Mrs Harrison has so enjoyed reading everybody’s story and has at times been terrified!

For homework the class had a choice of different activities and they enjoyed sharing them with each other.

P7 really enjoyed it. Thank you for inviting us.

Something EGGciting has been going on in P7b. We are having an EGGsperience of a lifetime.

P7b have been looking after chicken eggs that we have kept in an incubator. We have learnt so much already…

• The eggs have to be incubated for exactly 21 days.
• We won’t know what gender they will be until they are 6 months old.
• We have to turn the eggs three times a day while they are in the incubator.
• The incubator has to be at exactly 38 degrees.

In the first week of looking after the eggs , we had  to do something called candling. Candling is when you go into a pitch black room then you shine a torch onto the egg to see if it is developing properly. Unfortunately 2 of our eggs weren’t developing. We are hoping that the 8 we have left will stay healthy and will hatch!

Stay tuned for some more updates.

This is going to be P7b’s greatest EGGventure!

Written by Abbie, Lois and Cooper.

TASK: Pick a setting from the images below. Write a detailed description of the setting using the senses (minimum 200 words). Remember to show not tell. Your reader should feel as if they are standing in the middle of the setting! Post your description as a comment to this post.

On Friday we had lots of fun at our Halloween party with our P7 buddies. We played games and took part in a range of Halloween themed activities. We particularly enjoyed counting spiders, pumpkin printing and making tissue ghosts!