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Keeping Connected – January 25th 2021

Good morning Primary 3 !

We hope you had a lovely weekend and had lots of fun playing in the snow.

Mrs Belleville and Miss Finlayson have been enjoying watching all of your Scots poetry recitals. Please keep sending them to us if you have not already done so. We would love to see them.

Click  on the link below to hear your Monday  message from Miss Finlayson. In it you will hear about the activities you could do in your Home Learning today. You can also find out what today’s challenge is. (  A written version for this is on P3 Home Challenge  page ).

Happy Burns Day !

Keeping connected – 21st January 2021

Happy snow day Primary 3 !

I hope you are enjoying the amazing snowy scene we have woken up to this morning again.

Please keep sending Mrs Belleville and Miss Finlayson your fantastic poetry recital videos. We are really enjoying hearing and seeing your versions of the poems. It is fun exploring the Scots language when we learn the poems.

Today’s Thursday challenge for P3 and their families is to do a little more exploring of the Scots language – with a little twist.

 

Click on the two links below to hear Miss Finlayson’s  Thursday message for P3  and to find out more about the challenge.

Where will your wellies take you?

 

 

 

Thistle challenge – 19th January 2021

A good morning message for Primary 3 from Miss Finlayson.

Good morning Primary 3. Your Tuesday challenge is to make a thistle  from natural materials that you find outdoors. Maybe you will find these things in your garden or maybe when you are on a woodland walk. You can get your family to join in if you like.

Your teachers would love to see your thistles and you can do this by sending us your photos or videos.

Remember when you have taken your photos and videos to return the materials to roughly where you found them. This helps us to look after the environment and be sustainable.

It’s good fun taking your learning outdoors.

Click on the You Tube link below to hear Miss Finlayson’s message to you.

A Kingsland Christmas

We have been very busy in school this week.

it has been fun walking around the school to see the Christmas doors. Someone spotted that they were all very different to look at and this made it even more exciting. Our corridors look bright and sparkly.

Movie afternoon was such a treat and we thoroughly enjoyed Disney’s. ” The Lion King.” A few of us had never seen it before so, that was special. The snacks and drink went down a treat too! Thank you.

Christmas lunch was tasty and the Christmas tree shaped ice cream was so delicious. A huge THANK YOU  to the kitchen staff and helpers who served us. It was delicious.

We have finished and wrapped our calendars and taken them home. We worked very hard on our bees and sunflower drawings and we are so proud of our final designs. Well done everyone!

The Christmas message led by P1-P3 was very touching. It made us really think about the true meaning of Christmas. Mrs ward wrote and amazing story and she directed it really well with Mrs Belleville. We had a lot of fun learning our lines. How many takes….?

We are looking forward to looking at the Christmas doors virtually as it is accompanied by the Kingsland choir and it’s sure to be really amazing.

We are also looking forward to the pantomime which we  are going to watch on the big screen this afternoon. (  Oh yes we are……!!) The pop corn will make us feel like we are at the movies.

Christmas at Kingsland has been very different this year but, it has been a lot of fun and we have many new memories to treasure.

 

                                   

                                Have a very Merry Christmas everyone !

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Ho ho ho !!

We had a very special video message from Santa today. It was very exciting. Then his Head Elf helped to deliver the present to our class.

Thank you, Santa for our very special gifts. We are really looking forward to playing with them.

 

Feed the birds

In our Science topic we have been learning what living things need to survive.

Birds need a little help in the Winter to find food and water so we made a simple bird feeder from half an orange.

The strings we measured to 30cm with our ruler so, we had to use Maths in real life too. Our bird feeders can be filled with seed or water.

We are really looking forward to spotting birds feeding from our feeders over the Winter.

Caring for others

Thank you to Mrs. Belleville for organising our links with Riverside. We had a lovely time discussing how we can think of others over the festive season and how it would be a very thoughtful thing to do if we wrote letters to residents in the local care home.

We also enjoyed making poinsettia Christmas cards. This fitted in with our Living and non-living things topic. We had to look very very closely and study  the leaves of the plant and draw their veins. These plants grow best in Rainforests and they like the heat. It was much more challenging than we thought it would be.

We hope the residents at Riverside are cheered up by our festive designs and letters.