Monthly Archives: October 2015

Art, Expressive Arts, French, Golden Time, Health and Wellbeing, Modern Languages, Personalisation and Choice

Halloween

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Wednesday

We were busy making Halloween decorations for the Halloween party in the hall at the weekend. We had great fun making lots of different things. Miss Nicholson had lots of activities for us to choose from, she put all the choices on the board and we chose 2 we wanted to do. We could make hanging bats, paper chain ghosts, ghost garlands, witches, spider webs, hanging ghosts and lots more. We tried to make the spiders web out of black bags but they didn’t work so we chose other things. We really liked making the paper chain ghost.

Thursday

We learned French words for a witch, a pumpkin, a ghost, a black cat, a pointy hat, a spider and a skeleton:

See if you can work them out!

  • Une sorcièr
  • Un chat noir
  • Une araignée
  • Une citrouille
  • Un fantôme
  • Un chapeau pointu
  • Un squelette

Miss Nicholson put pictures of these things around the room, she would say one of them and we would have to stand next to the picture we thought it was. The first time we did this a few of us got a bit mixed up but once she tried it again we all got them right.

We also got to play a quick game of heads down, thumbs up but in french. Instead you would say:        “tête baissée, pouces levés” and to say put your head up is “levez la tête”

After French Miss Nicholson split the class into two groups and gave us the bones of a skeleton and asked us to try and put it back together. We worked really well as a team and it didn’t take us long to put him together again. Both groups did make 1 mistake but it wasn’t a big one. We thought this was fun!

Friday

Today after we watched newsround we took the Halloween quiz. Did you know that the old name for Halloween is Samhain and that people in the middle ages were suspicious of black cats because they thought they were witches?! Hundreds of years ago people thought that ghosts would try to return to their old homes on Halloween so to avoid being recognized by theses ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for other spirits. So this is why we dress up!

We used words associated with Halloween for our spelling activities. We all brainstormed and came up with one to put on the board.

During golden time Miss Nicholson brought in a couple of pumpkins for us to carve. A few of us stayed in the classroom to help. We had great fun working together to create these! Everyone had a shot at scooping out the insides. It was very messy but great! When we were waiting for our turn we designed a face for the pumpkin. Once everyone had drawn something we put them on the floor and we chose 2 that we wanted. Miss Nicholson counted up the votes before she carved them for us. She said a couple of us could take them home if we wanted so we put up our hands to see who wanted them and then used lolly sticks to chose 2 people. This was the fairest way. Colvin and Lucy were the 2 chosen to take them home. 🙂

Primary 4/5

The start of term 2

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We’ve had a busy few days back at school, on Wednesday we watched newsround and discussed what we watched and debated whether we should or shouldn’t have wild animals used for entertainment purposes. We thought if they were being treated fairly and were being looked after then this would be ok as they usually take orphan animals or ones that cannot look after themselves. Then we shared a little of our news with the class before writing about our October holidays in our writing jotters. We had to draw a spooky Halloween picture and write a spooky short story about it. Some of us didn’t get to write the story as we had to go onto our reading. After dinner we made Halloween crafts – we will put another post up to show you all the cool things we made. It was great! On Thursday we had reading and maths in the morning, then music and class PE after break and in the afternoon we had French but this was linked to Halloween which was fun and we had to assemble a skeleton.

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LAST DAY OF TERM!!!!!!!!!

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Today we watched Hercules. We watched it for our project myths and legends. It had lots of myths in it. The whole class really  enjoyed it. At golden time we watched matilda when we were watching it then the teachers moved all the stuff in our class room in to p67 so we can get our new carpet. It was good today because its our last day of term. Before we watch matilda then we got some harry bows. They were so yummy. WE REALLY ENJOYED OUR DAY!!!!!!!!

Last day of term

Last day of term

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Today it is the last day of term, evreyone is exited. In the morning we were doing lexia or ERIC then we watched newsround. After that we did a quiz at 10:40 we had break. Then most of us wached hercules as we looked at this legend during our topic this term but some of us went on laptops and ipads. At 12:45 we are going to have lunch. Then we will write in our learning logs after that we will have golden time.   HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY.

 

Last day of term

Last day of term!

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Friday 9th of October

Today it is the last day of  term! Everybody is exited for the October holidays and lots of people are going on holiday. Some people have already gone this week. Today we got Eric time Lexia and Newsround first thing then we did a quiz of things you know. After break we are watching Hercules because this was one of the legends we looked at during topic. During lunch break then I get picked up from school to go to the Airport and fly to Aberdeen. On Saturday the 10th of October I will be going to London then…

FLORIDA!!!!!!

After lunch we will be doing  learning logs and then golden time!

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Last day of term

Last day of term

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Today was the last day of term. We watched Newsround and we did reading and then we did a quiz. The quiz was about lots of things. Some of the questions were: where is your iris? Or what is the Olympic sport spear throwing called? The team that got the most questions right got two dojo points each. After break we’re going to watch Hercules as this is a legend we looked at in topic and them after lunch we’re doing learning logs and then golden time.

Confident Individuals, Group work, Myths and Legends, Personalisation and Choice, Presentations, Topic

Myths Around the World

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Primary 4/5 have been very busy this past few weeks researching myths and legends around the world. Once they gathered all of their research they created a presentation. They had the choice of how they wished to present their information – most groups chose Power Point, although there were a few groups that chose to have a poster alongside their Power Point. We looked at presentation skills before they presented their work to the rest of the class. There were lots of questions asked after each presentation which sparked great discussion within the class.  A lot of hard work was put into their presentation and it showed! Well done P4/5!

Imaginative Stories, Literacy and English, Myths and Legends, Personalisation and Choice

Kanchana’s Imaginative Story!

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One sunny morning I woke up in my lovely cottage. I was walking to the kitchen but before I reached it I saw a door I had never seen before. I was curious so I opened it and behind it was the beach. It was so sunny,the sea was looking yellow.I went along the sand and I found a cave. Inside it was pitch black and then suddenly the cave lit up and I could see a woman. She had a long black dress trailing behind her, black and red sparkly shoes, a glowing staff, a black crown with particles floating around it and burning red eyes. She said her name was Cerca. She laughed an evil laugh and asked me what my name was and I said “Kanchana”. She came closer to me and very weirdly touched me and I fell into a porthole but just as I was going to go down in to it I heard Cerca saying “good luck in the time of myths and legends, ha ha ha”. I wondered what she meant because it looked like I was going to find out. At first it looked like I was in a desert but it turned out to be an arena. and I heard someone saying “little girl verses Hercules” and I was l was like “what or more like when”. Now I know what Cerca time of myth and legends because that’s what this place is, a place where myths and legends LIVE! I still have to battle Hercules. I heard he killed a three headed dog! I thought about weapons to kill him and it came to life. I had a shield as gold as all the riches in the world. I had a sword that looked as sharp as a machete. I used it like a dart and it cut right through his head, it was disgusting sight, blood spread everywhere. then I had to keep teleporting to different placesand having to defeat different myths and legends like medusa,pegasus and even a cyclops. the last teleport place was at a dark forest and there, on  the top of a rock stood cerca and next to her was a person that I regonized. It was a friend from school but there was something different about her. She had BUTTERFLY WINGS!  I said “hi” to Emily. Emily flew to me and said she was half butterfly-half human! It was a big shock. Cerca said the only way to go home was if I killed her. So I thought of a boy and Cerca burst into flames. Emily asked how I knew to do that? I said because girls in my class hate boys. THE END! Teacher that’s what I did this weekend!

100 Word Challenge, Imaginative Stories, Literacy and English, Personalisation and Choice

100 word challenge

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One afternoon in my room I was reading a book and my mam came through and said come through to the sitting room immediatly! There was a terrible noise then … in the middle of the noise their was a big crash we took a look out the window there was a plane with lots of injured people so we had to call the ambulance for help. All of the people got to the hospital safely. 10 minutes later we were cleaning in the garden and I noticed something  it was a chest with a golden lock without a key.