On Sunday 28th January we enjoyed a Burns Supper along with our families. We all had haggis, neeps and tatties which most of us enjoyed. P.7 did the address to the haggis and we all recited Burns, Scots or dialect poems. Our favourite bit was the end when we all sang Auld Lang Syne.
As you are probably all aware we have been very lucky to have Mr Spence working with us for the last 5 weeks as part of his PDGE course. His focus was with second level but he has enjoyed being involved with the whole school. He has been involved in the planning and delivering of numeracy and literacy lessons as well as taking a lead role in teaching primary 4-7 about climate change. We have really enjoyed having him with us and can’t believe how fast these last 5 weeks have gone. We are sad to see him go. We wish him all the very best in his next teaching placement and in his future teaching career! Thank you very much for everything you have done Mr Spence!
We have learned what the different number of lines within a rhyming poem is called:
Here are our rhyming poems:
Snack
I really wanted a snack
But mum said “GO BACK!”
I was really mad
And I knew mum felt bad.
Five minutes later
Mum shouted “Mater”
I was really happy
But then I had to change my brother’s nappy!
By Jasmine
Cats and Hats
Once there was a cat
That ate a rat,
There was a hat
That had a chat.
By Bethany
OUCH!
Once I saw my dear friend Zog
Who stood on a cog
How he said ‘ow’
Now I will be a cow!
By Thomasina
The Dairy
I went to the dairy
But all the milk was hairy
And it was really scary.
By Jessica
My Puppy Ben
My Puppy is called Ben
He’s not even ten
And he has his own pen.
By Ollie
There once was a cute little dog
Who very much liked to jog
He had a very good friend who was a cat
They made homemade bats
But they never made them on foggy days
By Ollie
ZOO
In Mr Magoos amazing zoo you will find:
A perfectly peculiar parrot
Phoning a carrot.
A filthy fantastic fox
Flipping off rocks.
A rare risky rat
Running to catch the cat.
A friendly familiar fish
Flipping around in a dish.
A mysterious majestic monkey
Riding on a donkey.
An annoying armadillo
Falling asleep on a pillow.
By Abbie
Last night I was playing football
I tripped and fell over the wall.
I started bouncing to the hall
There was no J20 at all.
By Dylan
The Undersea World
The sea is a wonderful place
The fishes are holding a race.
The undersea garage is open
And that’s lucky because Mr Crab’s car is broken.
The young fishes are going to school
They all think that school is really cool.
One little fish is late
And this really worries his mate.
But then they find him playing
And he doesn’t see the search party coming because he is too busy saying….
“Hi, how are you?” to a mouse
Round the back of his house.
By Tali
The Phoneys Baloney
I once met a phoney
He gave me a baloney.
I learned his name
Which brought me to fame.
And then became really bonnie.
By Ruby
The Dog!
Who tripped over a log
He got stuck in a cone
When he got out there was a bone
And that was the reward for the dog.
By Emma
The meat and feet
I like to eat a lot of meat
And I like the smell of my own feet
I tried to put them over my head
But then I ended up dead.
By Sabienne
In the summer I like to play
All through the big long day
It’s so fun
My friend made a great pun.
By Katy
Ellie is so cool
But she hates the bull because he’s very cold
And really, really old!
By Katy
To the Future
Flying cars
A trip to mars
Back to earth
oh how I wish I could see the stars.
By Poppy
A cat and a bat
Once there was a fat cat
He was looking for a bat
The bat screamed like a baby
But the cats name was Taby
Then the fat cat ate the black bat.
By Poppy
The Ocean
In the ocean there are lots of things you’ll find.
Here are a few things that come to mind…
They’re big fish and small fish
Lots of different shapes.
Sometimes if I really wish,
I see them wearing capes.
Let’s go deeper down in the sea,
To see now what lives there.
A seahorse that didn’t look like me
And clothes he didn’t wear.
Let’s go deeper, deeper still,
into the murky pool.
I wonder if I ever will
see a big shark fool.
Now our journey comes to an end,
Come on now let’s go my friend.
And it’s time now to get fed,
So then I can sleep, in my warm bed.
By Ben
Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. It has 3 lines. The 1st and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme and because they are so short they are usually written about things that are familiar to the reader like animals and seasons for example.
Here are our haiku poems:
Cars Zoom
Cars cars everywhere,
Zoom past the houses so fast
On the racing tracks.
By Beth
Flowers
Flowers are blooming.
They are very beautiful
I love their colours.
By Amanda
The sky
The sky is grey now
But soon I will see the sun
So I am happy!
By Tali
Hansie and Cissie
At Up Helly Aa
Brian O Houll is Cissie
Trevor is Hansie.
By Ruby
The flowers
Look at the flowers
In the sunlight you’re shining
What a pretty sight.
By Sabienne
Highland Coo’s
I like highland coo’s
Furry, big and very fast.
They eat everyday.
By Ben
Summers coming
Sunflowers grow tall.
I like picking pink daisies.
I love red flowers.
By Thomasina
My dog Ellie
I have a cool dog
That can be very scary
She is trustworthy.
By Katy
Spring time!
Fluffy sheep dancing
Doing fun stuff in springtime
Springtime is awesome!
By Emma
Summer
The sun is shining
I run to get an ice-cream
I am cooled down now.
By Jasmine
Up Helly Aa
Vikings are coming
I like to try on helmets
I am excited.
By Jasmine
Cullivoe Summer
Sometimes it will rain
Until the sun comes again
We will stay inside.
By Jessica
Cullivoe in da Summer
Black sheep on da road
Moorit ewe on da grey broo
Birds earing da cod
By Abbie
Lazy, hot, warm sun
Warm hot yellow sun
It will heat you up very much
With rain BOOM! Rainbow.
By Ollie
Life
I sleep through the night.
I wake up in the morning
Then I play with friends.
By James
Limericks are silly poems that have 5 lines. They are usually funny and don’t make sense. They were made famous by Edward Lear who was a famous author that wrote an entire book of silly limericks.
The 1st, 2nd and 5th line rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables – usually 8 or 9
The 3rd and 4th lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables – usually 5 or 6.
Limericks often start with “There once was a…” or “There was a…”
Here are our limericks that we created:
There once was a small kind of dog
Who went for a walk in the fog
Tripped over a nut
And fell on his butt
And started to poop in a bog.
By Ben
There once was a man called Wally
Who really needed a dolly
He felt really sad
But never felt bad
He wished that his name was Mollie.
By Jasmine
There once was a man in a bar
He tried to get back in his car
He was to drunk
Fell over a skunk
So he did not get very far.
By James
There once was a rat nicknamed fat
He liked to carry around bats
Pushed dogs in a bog
Hit them with a log
And went back to sleep on his mat.
By Dylan
There once was a very weird dog
He wanted to swim in a bog
But then he got ill
So he took a pill
Then he went to rest on a log!
By Tali
Once there was a small black bat
Who swallowed a cute little cat
The bat found a dog
In a sticky bog
He laughed at the dog who was fat.
By Thomasina
There once was a little cute dog
He decided to chew on a log
He chewed and he chewed
Then filled up with spew
And then he threw up in a bog.
By Sabienne
There once was a man from a crew
He thought he needed a new shoe
But when it arrived
He found it alive
So he thought he needed to spew.
By Abbie
There once was a very cool crab
He started to wrok in a lab
But then he got bored
So he quit and got a new job.
By Bethany
There once was a very fat cat
He sat on a red and blue mat
He fell on his head
And then he was dead
And then became friends with a bat.
By Ruby
Once I was eating Doritos
But i didn’t want to eat those
I chucked them away
On my favourite day
Even when I liked Doritos.
By Poppy
There once was a cute little dog
Who very much liked to jog
The day wasn’t good
He really wanted food
So for tea he cooked some frogs
By Ollie
There once was a man in a race
Who suddenly ran out of space
He tripped on his bum
And fell up the lum
And that was the end of the race.
By Emma
We have been learning about poetry this term. We started by looking at poetry written by Robert Burns as we were reciting some of his poems at our Burns Supper. We have previously looked at acrostic poems so this term we have looked at limericks, haiku’s and rhyming poetry. Poems do not always have to rhyme! Mr Spence taught us these before we had a go of writing our own. We will post what we learned and the poems we created for you to have a read.
Last week we did work on Remembrance Day. We looked at what Remembrance Day is and why we have this and completed work around this. Primary 5-7 watched a few clips about Remembrance Day (also called Armistice Day) and the poppy and why this symbolises Remembrance day. We each had a clipboard and paper and had to take notes when watching the clips. We learned that they make 40 million poppies each year. Did you know that there is an English poppy and a Scottish poppy?! You might see presenters on the TV with a poppy that has 2 petals and a leaf, this is the English poppy. Whereas our poppy, the Scottish poppy, has 4 petals and no leaf. Do you know why? Well, it costs £15000 to add leafs onto all that poppies so Scotland thought they could put that money to better use by giving it straight to those affected by the war. You can get a white poppy which is a peace poppy. The poppies that you buy are actually made buy war veterans and the money that we raise from selling these poppies goes to people affected by the war, both past and present! When wearing your poppy you should remember that men wear them on the left but the women should wear them on the right! We all read In Flanders Field and then wrote our own poems about ‘Remembrance’.
Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson also took us for art one day and we created poppy art of our own. P5-7 used paint to paint poppies on a black background, they really stand out and look fantastic, wouldn’t you agree?
P1 created poppies by painting bun cases. We had fun painting them then got to stick them together when they were dry. Miss Nicholson put them on the window of the classroom door to make it look like a wreath.
P2-4 created pictures of poppies blowing between crosses using chalk and crayons. We thought about this after reading the poem In Flanders’ Field as the first few lines are:
‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,’
Julie had been to Ypres in France and told us of her trip there. She had been to the Commonwealth war graves, visited a grave of a man that came from Otterswick and found the name of a man that originated from Cullivoe! She even left a piece of Cullivoe by the Menin Gate where his name was engraved. It was very interesting listening to her the history that she told us behind things. It really made you think and be grateful for everything.
On the 11th at 11 o’clock we all took part in the 2 minute silence. Primary 1-4 discussed the importance of why we have a 2 minute silence and watched the news live online before observing the silence. P5-7 went to the kirk to attend the service there.
Today we looked at the Gunpowder Plot during literacy. There are a few different versions of the gunpowder plot but this is one of them…
In 1605 King James 1 was the King of England. Not everybody in England liked him though. A man called Guy Fawkes decided he wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King inside. Guy Fawkes and his friends planned to use gunpowder to blow it up. They put 36 barrels of gunpowder in the basement of the Houses of Parliament on November 5th – this was directly underneath the King’s throne. The King received a letter that told him of the plot so he sent soldiers down to the basement to check…The barrels were found and Guy Fawkes and his friends were arrested for trying to kill the King. Guy Fawkes was tortured until he confessed to trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament. He was hung, drawn and quartered.
Here is the poem ‘The Fifth of November’
Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, ‘twas his intent
To blow up king and parliament.
Three score barrels were laid below
To prove old England’s overthrow.
By God’s mercy he was catched
With a dark lantern and lighted match.
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.
So every year on November 5th we remember the gunpowder plot and how it failed. We have a bonfire and set off fireworks outside.
