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Lewis – Yesterday we were writing a sheet and saying what we could see, feel, hear and smell outside
Matthias – We wrote ideas about what we see, we hear, we smell and what we felt. When we got back inside we wrote our ideas in our blue jotters
Evie – We used our plan to help us write in our blue jotter

Josh – We have been learning about stone age people and we made pictures
Caitlin – We were drawing pictures of the stone age people and some handprints. The stone age people made pictures like this in caves

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Matthias- When we got on the bus we first put our seatbelts on and then when we got off we went with a partner
Hamish – We went on our class trip to Dynamic Earth
Noah – When we were on the bus I sat next to Marcus
Josh – Everyone went on a time machine
Caitlin – We stood next to a brachiosaurus’ leg
Emma – We got to see an iceberg
Rose – We saw animals in the rainforest and they moved their heads
Hamish – We were passing fossils around
Caitlin – We watched a 3D movie and it was like we were flying
Maksim – We were digging for fossils

Kaiden – We made dinosaur projects
Jacob – The velociraptors jumped really high in some movies
Josh – Anchyosaurus can break a t-rex’s bone

Emma – We made a giant “A” because it was Autism Awareness Day and we had to wear something blue
Hamish – Autism means that sometimes it is too bright and you can’t listen to anyone
Caitlin – Some people have different relationships
Noah – Everyone is different and people have different voices and favourite colours
Jacob – It means everyone is different and some people don’t talk and some people do
Matthias – Some people’s brains are different and parts are switched off

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Maksim – We did number lines to 20, 30, 50 and then to 100.
Hamish – We glued on dinosaurs and fossils to make it like snakes and ladders.
Noah – We needed to count and write the numbers.
Josh – We made snakes and ladders by gluing dinosaurs on and their tails.

Emma – We were writing lots of facts about dinosaurs from ‘Andy’s dinosaur adventures’.
Jacob – A fact I remember is that a pterodactyl can fly in the air.
Caitlin – Pteranodons eat fish.
Maksim – Pterodactyls are very noisy.

Hamish – On Wednesday we had our mums and dads come to see our learning.
Josh – At Shared Start we had some games out and we showed all of our mums and dads how well we have been learning.
Ava – We had mild, spicy and hot things to do.
Gracie – Mild, spicy and hot things are there to challenge ourselves.

Evie – We were trying to make an explosion and to make a volcano and it spread out in the whole playground.
Emma – All of us were in a circle and looking to see what would happen.
Josh – We used the paper as a funnel and it broke the bit of paper when it exploded.
Max – We had Diet Coke and put mints in it and that made it explode down the hill.

Evie – We were trying to make dinosaur fossils with cotton wool buds.
Matthias – First, we practised putting the cotton wool on the pictures so we could then put it on the black paper without the picture.
Hamish – We stuck them onto the paper after we practised.

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Emma – “The dinosaur egg was hatching and it has to wait for a few weeks to hatch more”
Gracie – “The dinosaur might be a t-rex”
Maksim – “The egg is hatching will be a stegosaurus”

Josh – “We were learning what all the bits were called”
Noah – “We were cutting and sticking them onto the right parts”
Lewis – “We were labelling the dinosaurs”

Caitlin – “We were seeing how many dinosaurs had 2 legs and how many had 4 legs”
Matthias – “On the back of the sheet we were writing the votes of how many dinosaurs had 2 legs and how many had 4 legs”
Scott – “We had to cut the pictures out”

Ava – “We were making dinosaurs and sticking the parts in the right place”
Jacob – “We needed to make dinosaurs and stick all the parts together to make them into a dinosaur”
Reiss – “We were trying to figure out where all their parts went”

Caitlin – “We had to decorate the eggs first and then cut them out. Then we cut out the dinosaurs”
Josh – “We could colour the eggs and dinosaurs in”
Hamish – “We stuck the dinosaurs in the eggs to make it look like they were hatching”

PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Noah for writing super sentences and using connectives and sentence starters!

Learning about dinosaurs in P1b

Hamish – We made dinosaurs out of clay
Josh – We made dinosaur fossils out of clay too
Evie – We put the pieces of clay together
Matthias – We made dinosaurs fossils and figures and we got to take them home when they were dried up

Emma – We have a dinosaur egg in our class and it is hatching
Kyle – There might be a dinosaur in it!
Caitlin – Is it going to be a t-rex or a brachiosaurus?
Maksim – The egg is hatching and there might be a t-rex, a velociraptor or a pterodactyl
Josh – It has a crack in it and it might be a t-rex
Max – It might have two things in the egg! It might be a raptor or a pterodactyl
Gracie – It might be a stegosaurus or a brachiosaurus

Evie – We have been singing songs in our assembly and saying our words. We had to sit on the benches, but I fell off!
Ava – We did a dinosaur assembly and told jokes
-We sang in front of the school and the mums and dads
Emma – We were doing our speaking parts and singing lots of songs
Noah – We waited our turns to speak

Kyle – Yesterday was World Book Day and we wrote what our favourite book is
Reiss – We were writing about stories that we like
Maksim – We took a book and wrote the title and drew a picture of our favourite part from the story
Josh – We drew some pictures
Taylor – We all read a story
Max – The whole school had to read a story at the same time for World Book Day

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Zara Bulut won MVP of the month in P.E. for Primary 1!

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Evie – We were checking everyone’s eyes and there were blue, brown, green and grey.
Gracie – We wrote down the numbers of how many had that colour at the side
Kyle – We asked people what colour eyes they had

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Josh – We were learning about all the dinosaurs and their names
Kaiden – We were cutting out the dinosaurs and sticking them in the right box
Rose – We put them in “meat eaters” or “plant eaters”
Hamish – We were also checking our own answers and seeing if we got them correct
Maksim – A carnivore eats meat and a herbivore eats plants. An omnivore eats both

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Caitlin – We were making dinosaur fossils out of clay
Reiss – We did footprints and we also printed the dinosaurs by lying them down
Maksim – We made some dinosaur fossils and we can take them home when they are dry

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Next Friday is our class assembly! (Friday 3rd March 2017)
Keep practising the song words and assembly words at home 🙂

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We have been learning about adjectives!

Matthias – This is describing how people look and we had to draw around a person
Maksim – You write about the person

We drew around Noah and Emma and then we had to write words to describe them as a person!

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We have also been learning about o’clock and half past time!

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We came into school on Thursday and found some dinosaur eggs! We used some tools to help crack the eggs open and get the dinosaurs out.

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Hamish – We made Chinese lanterns with our buddies. We made them with sellotape and we cut them out.
Matthias – We were sticking and cutting out lanterns for Chinese New Year and we were making pictures on them and decorating them.
Josh – We made the Chinese lanterns nice and colourful and we cut them out.
Emma – We were making the Chinese lanterns with our buddies.
Gracie – We had to cut out the card.
Marcus – We had to cut out the paper.
Caitlin – We were making lanterns to celebrate Chinese New Years.
Kyle – We made some patterns on the paper.

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Evie – As part of my home learning I made some shortbread and I ate some.
Maksim – We have been learning about Scottish food and our home learning challenge was to make some at home.
Lewis – I made muffins with my grandad and my sister. We made banana muffins and they were yummy!

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PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Maksim Djakovs for being super at telling o’clock and half past time! Well done!!

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Emma – “We have been learning sounds”
Kaiden – “We did a Pokemon hunt!”
Kyle – “We were making tartans and measuring”
Caitlin – “We have been making tartans and learning the sound ch”
Hamish – “We made Scottish flags”
Josh – “We made some loch ness monster crafts”
Noah – “We have been learning about the union flag”
Hamish – “We started our floorbook where we write down things we want to learn”
Taylor – “I liked writing in the floorbook. The colours were all nice”

PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Kaiden Doyle. Kaiden has been solving taking away sums and been super speedy! Well done!!

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Measuring in Primary 1B

This week we have been learning about what measuring is. We have been given different units of measurement to explore the classroom and see what we can measure! We were all given different units of measurement:
Caitlin – “Max and I had blocks to measure with. We shared them”
Hamish – “Gracie and I measured lots of things in the classroom. We had rubbers”
Kyle – “Evie and I measured with counters and we did lots of measuring”
Matthias – “Lily and I had sticky notes”
Maksim – “Yesterday we explored rulers and measured things in the classroom”
Lily – “When using a ruler it is called centimeters – we write it as cm”
Caitlin – “We measured things like an iPad, a paperclip and a rubber and then we wrote down the number and cm of what it measured as”

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With our buddies we were telling them what we have been learning about Scotland.
Ava – “We made tartans”
Josh – “We made a frame with strips of paper and then added more paper”
Kaiden – “We used glue and scissors”
Evie – “We used lots of paper strips
Maksim – “We glued the corners with the paper strips and then weaved through the others to make our tartan”

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PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Taylor Rankin for writing a fantastic imaginative story about her weekend! Well done 🙂

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Here are our highlights of the week:

Caitlin – “We have been drawing a picture of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflowers. We had to copy the picture”
Kyle – “We drew it first and looked at the shapes and then we painted it”
Hamish – “We painted it different colours like gold, yellow and orange”

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Noah – “We played a game where we had to try and stay on the tape”
Kyle – “We had to try and not fall”
Lily – “We worked in a group of 3 and had to listen to each other”
Maksim – “We were working well in a team”

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Marcus – “This morning we went to different classes”
Jacob – “We went in our house groups and talked about if we liked things about the playground and things we didn’t like”
Gracie – “It’s called BBB which means Big Balbardie Blether”
Caitlin – “We are going to see if we can improve the playground”

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Budding artists in P1b

Noah – “We had to gather materials off of the ground like plants and leaves and then we made pictures”

Hamish – “We made faces”

Emma – “We made them on the ground in the playground and we made them with sticks and other materials”

Lily – “We made cheery faces”

Gracie – “We went outside to use the things we found to make pictures”

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Caitlin – “We have also been learning about the letter j”

Zara – “We have been learning about adding and taking away”

PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Kyle Pettigew for writing a wonderful story about his Christmas holiday!

Most Valuable Player: Hamish Roden for outstanding performance, focus and kindness in P.E.!

Merry Christmas from P1b

We have had a very nice last week in Primary 1b.

We have been learning the sound “y”. Here are some words with “y” sound in them:
Hamish – “yum”
Lily – “yoghurt”
Josh – “yuk”
Zara – “yes”
Caitlin – “you”

We have been doing some Maths in our Christmas booklets and are very excited to take these home and keep them!

This morning we were at the Church and all sang beautifully!

We are going to the pantomime very soon to see the show “Sleeping Beauty”. We cannot wait!

We hope you have a lovely Christmas holiday and Santa has put you on the nice list. Have a great holiday!

Festive Fun in P1b

We have had a whirlwind of a week in Balbardie Primary School! Here are some of the exciting things we have been getting up to:

We have had a cheeky visitor in our class! ELFIE!!…

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She has been very naughty, but has given us lots of great missions to complete each day. On Wednesday our mission was to listen to the teacher and help in the classroom. We helped by cleaning up the paint Elfie spread all over the tables! On Thursday our mission was to be kind to others as some children were being a bit rough with Elfie the day before. Our mission today was to say one nice thing (at least) to someone else. Elfie has been checking that we complete our missions and has been so pleased. We are excited to see what else she gets up to whilst she is here!

On Thursday it was our Primary 1 Christmas Party…

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We played lots of fun games, danced to lots of fun music and even got a visit from Santa!! We were so excited and he was very kind to bring us all a present. Everyone was very polite and said “thank you” to Santa – we are hoping we are all on the nice list.

Not to forget that Primary 1 had their Christmas Show Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. The teachers and staff at Balbardie PS were so happy to hear all of your lovely comments. The children did a fantastic job and should really be proud of themselves.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and are excited about our final short week in school next week. Church service is on Wednesday at 9:30am and we hope to see you there!

Our learning in Primary 1b

Lewis: “We made posters”
Lily: “We made a Christmas Show poster”
Matthias: “We had to put the title, the time and the date”
Max: “We also had to draw a picture of the reindeer”
Lily: “It was a picture of Ralph the reindeer”

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You can find our class posters around the Primary 1 area!

Caitlin: “On Wednesday we made soap pictures with our buddies and we were not to drink it”
Emma: “You need water and paint”
Kyle: “You also need cups”
Noah: “And a straw”
Caitlin: “And some washing up liquid. You blow the bubbles and then press your paper into the bubbles and it prints them on the paper!”

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On Monday was the talent show – “The Balbardie Factor”
Hamish – “I played my music. My two pieces were Jingle Bells and Swan Lake”
Evie – “I liked Hamish’s talent”
Noah – “I liked when Justin did his hand stands”
Lily – “I liked the dancing”

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On Tuesday it was Shared Start!
Lewis – “Shared Start is when mums and dads can come”
Gracie – “We were sharing our learning”
Caitlin – “It was all about making our brains strong”
Maksim – “It was also about not knowing something YET”
Max – “Not telling our brains bad stuff, we should tell it good stuff”
Caitlin – “We should say things like “I can learn lots of things” ”

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We also did a science experiment called “The Snowman’s coat”
Reiss – “We wanted to see what melted the fastest”
Ava – “One water bottle had a cloth on it and one didn’t. We wanted to see what would melt faster”
Hamish – “The water bottle with the coat had the least amount of water”
Maksim – “The one with no coat melted faster”

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We made invitations to our Primary 1 Christmas Show
Taylor – “An invitation is like when you invite someone to your party”
Kyle – “We made invitations to go home”

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Our Christmas Shows are on Tuesday 13th December at 2:30pm and on Wednesday 14th December at 9:30am

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Our week in P1b

Caitlin – We read the story “The hot air balloon” and then we had to draw our favourite part of the story. Miss Wilson is going to put our pictures in a competition and someone will win.
Ava – We were reading a book and drawing pictures

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Kyle – We drew mittens
Lily – We were colouring them in and drawing shapes. We made patterns
Reiss – We had to challenge ourselves and try to make both our mittens symmetrical

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Hamish – The sounds we were learning this week were “r” and “l”
Max – Here is a picture of my rabbit

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Learning sounds in P1b

This week we have been learning more sounds and words!

Noah – We have been learning “x”
Kyle – We’ve been learning “z”, like “zig zag” and “zoo”
Maksim – We were blending these sounds together
Hamish – We have been learning “b” as well
Emma – We also learned “t”
Caitlin We’ve been learning “p”
Noah – We were blending sounds using the carpet mats
Hamish – We have learned yellow tricky words “no”, “go”, “so”
Caitlin – On the SmartBoard we played a zoo game

We used the blending mats to pull down sounds to make words and then we had to write a sentence using these words. Miss Wilson was so impressed with our sentences that we wrote!

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Learning in P1b

Here are some of our favourite parts of our week in school…

Hamish – We’ve been learning about adding and taking away and about static electricity
Kyle – We were learning if some things float or sink
Ava – I liked learning about static electricity
Caitlin – We made mosaic pictures in Art using tiny little square paper
Zara – We were sticking balloons to our hair with static electricity
Emma – We were making a charge with rubbing the balloons on our tummies
Noah – We were learning more about 3D shapes
Kyle – We have been learning pointillism

On Wednesday we were very lucky to have somebody visit our school and tell us the story of “Hairy MacLairy”. We had fun at the storybook workshop! Here is what we did…
Rose – Some people were characters in the story and we had to look for scotch broth soup
Jacob – We had to pretend to be sleeping
Matthias – Everyone else had to sneak up and try and get the ingredients
Kyle – I found a cup and put it to my ear and it was a telephone
Reiss – We flew to Shetland! We found haggis and potatoes around the big fire
This was lots of fun and the boys and girls really enjoyed themselves.

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Our week in P1b

Noah – We were making poppies
Caitlin – We were painting with our fingers
Ava – This was a little bit of pointillism
Gracie – It was also printing
Maksim – We made the poppies because were remembering some people died fighting in the wars

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We were scientists this week! We did two experiments…

Experiment 1:
Ava – We rubbed balloons on our jumpers and it made it stick to the wall
Kyle – This was static electricity
Maksim – Rubbing it against your jumper charged the electricity and made it static
Caitlin – We had a competition to see who got pick up the most tissue paper in their group with the static balloon
Matthias and Ava – We won by getting 3 tissues in 10 seconds!
Noah – We also tried to stick it on our hair. It made it rise up off our head!

Experiment 2:
Gracie – We wanted to see what would float or sink
Caitlin – We cut out pictures of objects and stuck them into either “float” or “sink” columns. Then we put the objects in the water
Evie – We ticked our pictures if we got it right! Or we put a dot if we didn’t know the answer YET

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