Primary 5 were writing letters in Block 3.  One letter was to be written to our favourite author.  Today there was a flurry of great excitement as three letters arrived in school.  One from J K Rowling to William with two excellent stamps on the envelope.  The other  letters were from Laura James the author of the Pug books answering Tara and Freya’s questions.

The children read out their letters and the whole class loved hearing from these authors.

Let’s hope that we have more replies.  Primary 5 are waiting with anticipation.

Andrew was the lucky winner of the Golden Ticket in Primary 5.  It was found in a Jacqueline Wilson book – Double Act.   Andrew was very happy and surprised when he opened the book today.  Andrew will meet with all the other winners tomorrow at the Book Fair for a VIP tour and will get to choose a book.

Primary 5 had an excellent day today learning how to control and master their bikes in a safe space.  Thanks to Keith and his team we all learned something new and many of us made great improvement.

Primary 5 had worked very hard researching different breakfast recipes and creating 7 new recipes for this competition.  We then had to create a menu with our new recipes.   During this time we enjoyed some practical research with the making of some dishes.

We found out today that we were runners up in the competition.   Good luck to all the finalists.

Primary 5 had an exciting afternoon when Primary 7 came into class to share their learning.  Each group had worked hard preparing a presentation which actively involved our class.  We enjoyed a tectonic plate activity with crackers and cream – we actually enjoyed eating the tectonic plates and the magma!!  We identified the Pacific Ring of Fire on a world map.  We watched a volcano erupt.  We witnessed the devastation to Pompeii after Mount Vesuvius erupted.  We learned about the 2015 flood in our own town, Peebles and how there is still some damage visible.  There was a little drama to explain a tsunami and we got to practise a drill to keep safe during an earthquake – Drop, Cover and Hold.   There was also a quiz at the end to see if we had been paying attention!

Well done  Primary 7 and thank you.   You have worked very hard on  your presentations.  You explained everything clearly and enthusiastically.  It was great seeing you demonstrate and apply your knowledge and understanding.  This has also helped to reinforce key learning involved in our topic on Natural Disasters too.

We had great fun making volcanoes erupt today.

We used 250 g of potatoes, 25 g of butter, 50 g of self raising flour and a pinch of salt.  We mixed all the ingredients together and then rolled it out.  We then made triangles for our scones.

Rana  – It felt fun mixing everything up with our hands.  The chipolatas were good with a little bit of ketchup.

Charlie – These were the tastiest tattie scones ever.  Thank you Forsyths for giving us the amazing chipolatas.

Frazer – These wonderful tattie scones were really fun to make and delicious to eat.

George – The chipolatas we good along with the super potato scones.

Lewis – It felt so weird when you mixed the potatoes, butter and flour together.

We used crackers and honey to show what can happen at a plate boundary.

A Constructive Plate Margin is when two plates move away from each other causing  gentle volcanic eruptions and a volcano can form.

A Conservative Plate Margin is when two plates slide and rub past each other and this causes very violet earthquakes.

A Destructive Plate Margin  is when oceanic and continental plates move together.  The oceanic plate is forced under the lighter continental plate.  This can trigger earthquakes and volcanoes.

Can you spot match the picture to the

tectonic plate movement?

We worked together to solve our mental maths times tables and division problem.