Our sea-monkeys hatched! We have 7 sea-monkey hatchlings. They are each only 1mm long. We look forward to seeing them grow. We love watching them play with one another. It looks like they’re playing tig!

We have created a log book to record our observations.

Many of us are so fascinated by our new pets that we’re saving up to buy our own!

We’ll keep you informed on their progress.

P5ms

 Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Amy and Lauren were reading an Art Attack book. They carefully followed the instructions to make a beautiful photo frame.

Well done girls.

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Something interesting I learned this week was….

…that the whole universe used to fit on a pin head!          Lauren U

…that Matt Cardle used to have cancer. I found this out as I carried out personal research for my project.       Lauren C

… that the Earth was created from a Big Bang.                Declan

This week we started our ‘What a Wonderful World’ project.

We shared our thoughts on how life began on Earth:

Life travelled to Earth on a meteor.           Amy

Life began in the sea and some of the creatures learned to crawl onto land.     Nathan

Life started on Mars but travelled to Earth.     Lauren U

Life on Earth is all part of somebody’s dream.  Paul

Each of us also discovered a new species. We are looking forward to seeing how they survive in the Circle of Life.

We prepared our aquarium for our sea monkeys and are keeping our fingers crossed that the eggs will hatch.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

Flyn has chosen a book about plant eating dinosaurs to study for his Reading Journal home learning tasks this term. He chose, along with Callum, to record some interesting facts from his book during our Reading Rave. We were interested to hear about the different ways the plant eating dinosaurs defended themselves from the meat eaters.

Thanks for sharing boys!

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Something I did well this week was…

…predict what would happen next in Rockford’s Rock Opera.        Kyra

…learn my 5 x table off by heart. Lauren U

…building up my multiplication skills.   Declan

…getting stuck into my project book.        Amy

This week our Home Teams presented their pitches to the Dragons.

There were four great inventions:

The Do-It Bathroom – a luxury bathroom equipped with drinks machine, music at the click of your fingers and lots more!

The Comfy Collar – a clever collar designed to keep your pet warm in winter and cool in summer.

The Cutlery Plate – a plate with built in cutlery, including a pizza slicer.

The Egg Bed – a snug place for your eggs to rest safely.

In the end it was the Balbardie Stars who, having persuaded the Dragons to invest the most in their Comfy Collar, walked away with £800!

The Happy Hippos came up smiling too, with the Dragons from their team being commended for excellent business sense.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Lauren C and Isla used our Reading Rave to read books about Flanimals.  They designed their own Flanimals which they will use to present a puppet show! It is great to see you using what you are reading to help you in other areas of the Curriculum. 🙂

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This term I have enjoyed….

“…learning about Victorian Inventions.”                   Declan

“…using the iPads.”          Antonia

“…Miss Clark being here.”                   Ellie

“…our Victorian assembly.”                  Jack

Well, it’s been another busy week in Ancient Egypt for P3b!

We have written some wonderful stories about our lives as Egyptian gods and goddesses – we really put our imaginations to good use.

We learned more about mummification and designed our own canopic jars to store the liver, intestines, stomach and lungs. The designs were beautiful but you probably wouldn’t want to look inside!

We even practised our times tables by loading up a camel.

Our personal projects on Ancient Egypt have been handed in and we’re looking forward to sharing our learning with one another – it’s one of the best ways to learn!

This week we have been practising hard for our assembly.  We have prepared our costumes and props and are looking forward to presenting it next Friday.  We hope you enjoy it!

We have been creating symmetrical patterns in maths – next week they are going to become even more complicated!

It has been a week full of achievement for P5ms.  Emily and Ellie have  reached Level 6 in gymnastics, Isla and Lauren K have  achieved new belts in Judo and Amy completed her Copper Music medal.  We are so proud of all of them.  If you would like to find out more about these accomplishments, more information can be found on the Achievement Wall.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Jack, Paul, Ellie and Antonia were enjoying finding out more about The Victorians during our Reading Rave.  They were reading different non-fiction books and taking notes on the new information that they found.  Paul found out that anaesthetic was first introduced in Victorian hospitals.  Ellie discovered that The FA Cup was won by a non-league club in 1901 called Tottenham Hotspur!  Thanks for sharing these interesting facts with us.

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I can improve my part in our assembly by…

… learning my lines.   Callum

…not fidgeting!      Amy

… speaking louder and with more confidence.   Isla

This week we were learning about rich and poor Victorian Houses with Miss Clark.  We enjoyed an interactive CD ROM which helped us to see what Queen Victoria’s house looked like.  We also watched a video that showed us what a workhouse looked like.  People went to the workhouse when they were really poor and had nowhere else to live.

This week Mrs MacKenzie also handed out our Victorian Class Talk Projects.  We have to research important Victorian inventions using iPads, computers and books.  We are looking forward to sharing what we have learned.

We have also started to bring clothes and props into school to use in our Assembly about rich and poor Victorian children.  We can’t wait to show our Assembly to our families and the whole school.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

Flyn and Adam were enjoying reading a book about Dinosaurs.  They were able to tell us some fascinating facts about Velocisaurus and Velociraptors.  Flyn also wrote his own story about dinosaurs.  Well done boys!

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The area I’ve made the biggest improvement in this week is…

“…Judo as I have learned to flip someone over my shoulder correctly.”               Lauren K

“…getting up early.”           Kai

“…learning more about the Victorians.”              Lauren U

“… I got better at Maths this week.”         William

This week we started learning more about 3D shape with Mrs Sutherland.  We found out that a vertex is another word for a corner of a 3D shape.  We’re looking forward to learning more about this next week. 

 We are enjoying our Victorian Project and we have all been given parts to play in our School Assembly in March.  We also learned about Dr Barnardo this week and the work he did for Victorian children.  We made signs for one of his children’s homes. 

This week we wrote a biography about one of our friends.  We had to interview other people in our class in order to find out all the important information that we needed.  We really enjoyed writing our biographies.

Who’s raving about reading this week?

Harry, Jay and Paul worked really well together when reading a play called “The Kidnappers” during our Reading Rave.  I wonder if more people will join them next week? Well done boys.

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Something I accomplished this week was…

“…getting a gold medal in Judo.”                 Isla

“…reaching Step 5 and getting better at joining my letters in handwriting.”         Harry

“…getting a faster time during our ‘Beat the Clock’ test.”    Kendal

“…using  the rollercoaster technique to help me with my handwriting.” Paul

This week we received a wonderful surprise – five iPads were delivered to our class. We’ve already used them but look forward to using them more as we learn across the curriculum.

Another teacher joined our class this week. Miss Clark will be working with us until the end of March. We call our teachers the 3 Musketeers! Together we will make a great team.

We are proud of our 3 finalists for the Burns Competition: Lauren Kirk, Kendal Bryce and Amy Coakley.

It was lovely to have Mr Welsh and Miss Henderson visit our Reading Rave. We enjoyed it and hope they did too!

Who’s raving about reading this week?

This week Callum and Nathan shared their favourite articles from the newspaper with us. Thank you, boys!

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Something I’m looking forward to is…..

…our class assembly.  Chloe

…learning more about the Victorians.    Declan

…using the iPads.  Nathan

This week we started our new topic – Victorians. We made a timeline from the creation of the world until present time. This helped us understand exactly when the Victorian era took place.

We had a new teacher this week. His name is Mr Jeffries. He will teach us Health and Wellbeing and PE. We think Mr Jeffries is going to be a fun teacher with lots of creative ideas.

This week we introduced The Reading Rave. The Reading Rave will be held every Thursday from 9:15-9:45. We can do all types of reading activities during this time: eBooks, comics, play scripts, non-fiction, craft instructions etc… Some of us might practise for our Burns Competition during this time.

On Friday we had our Big Balbardie Blether. Our Blether teacher read his/her favourite book to us. We discussed lots of ideas about how to improve reading at Balbardie. We are all very excited to try them out.

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This week something I did well was…..

….participating fully in all activities.           Lauren C

…subtracting Hundreds, Tens and Units with exchanging.             Lauren U

…producing an interesting piece of writing about things I am good at.     Amy

…mentally subtracting multiples and near multiples of 10.             Emily