On Monday we recited our class poem The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate.   Everyone who said the poem to the class or to Mrs Scott and Mrs Cormack was presented with a Burns Poetry Certificate,   Great work Primary 3.  This can be quite a scary thing to do.

Some children entered the Burns Competition and the winner for Primary 3 was Max Caldwell and the Runner-Up was Emily Gray. Congratulations.

For the school video each table group recited one verse and we made a class video of us all reciting The Sair Finger,   This will be on the whole school Scottish video for you to watch.

We worked very hard on creating a poem about a family member in Scots.   We then had to practise saying our poem for the school video.   We hope you enjoy hearing us read them.  Here are a couple of examples of the poems we created.  A copy of this poem was sent home on Thursday 27.1.22.

Ma Brither

Ma brither haes short, dark, broon hair.

Ma brither haes blue een.

He is awfie tall wi lanky legs.

Ma brither ‘supposed tae wear his glesses.

He wears Nike claes.

Ma brither haes a bonnie face.

Ma brither is guid at makin mac ‘n cheese.

He’s awfie guid at fitba’.

Ma brither maks me heppy

Me and ma brither play the gither at collie backs.

Ma brither looks efter me, he’s a guid brither, the best brither in the world.

I widna be withoot him.

by Mia 

 

Ma Dug

Ma dug is cawd Winne.

She haes black fur an’ white splodges.

Ma dug likes tae fetch sticks fae dawn tae dusk.

When I’m sad ma dug snuggles up.

She loves tae be stroked.

When it’s bedtime she snuggles up next tae the feear.

In the mornin’ she gets up an’ eats her scran.

Ma dug loves to gang a walk in the efternin.

I love ma dug Winnie wi aw ma hert.

By Drew and Jamie

We had some fun singing and doing all the actions to Head,  Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Scots.  The words we used were: Heid, Shodders, Knaps an’ Taes and of course een, lugs, mooth and neb.

We found out some facts about Robert Burns.  We listened to Auld Lang Syne and said The Selkirk Grace.   We listened to the poem To a Mouse.

Rory – Robert Burns was born in Ayrshire;

Imogen, he died at the young age of 37 years old.

Drew, he died the same day his 12th child was born;

We learned about the Scottish artist Steven Brown and his fabulous McCoo artwork.  We then created our own ‘McCoo’ in his style using oil pastels.   This has also been made into a video for the whole school Scottish video.

We used the iPads this week to reinforce our symmetry work.  We used the App SketchesSchool and the symmetry tool.  Here are two examples made by Rory and Elsie. We also played Symmetry Invaders on Topmarks