As part of our farming topic, both Primary 3 classes took a trip to Leyden farm to learn more about farming. One class went into the forest and the other P3 class went to the farm with the farmer.

In the forest…
we went to find some pine cones and we found some that had been nibbled on by squirrels – Eva
we all looked at different types of trees and what we can use them for. For example, paper, bedding and nappies – Caitlin
we found some holly leaves that can be used when camping as a mattress because it is springy – Megan
we were looking at a rowan tree and we talked about it keeping witches away – Rowan
we learned how to whistle with a bit of grass – Cole
we found out that in the 2nd world war, moss could be used as a bandage for wounds – Liam

At the farm…
we fed the pig, hens and the cows! – Rhia

we got to see lots of different animals. We got to see Poppy Pig, the hens, the cows, Henry horse, the lamb and Marley the kitten – Eva
we got to see a baby calf with its mother – Alanna
we got to sit on the tractor and the quad bike – Samantha
it was fun when we got to see Henry horse because I didn’t know the horses could lean over the barrier so much – Ty
I enjoyed when we got to sit on the quad bike – Rowan
I enjoyed when the farmer and his daughter were acting like cows – Harvey
I liked it when we went into the cow’s area and we saw a brand new calf – Cole
we learned that we have to wash our hands and our wellies because there could be some diseases on your boots from walking around the farm – Caitlin

Congratulations to all the boys and girls in the school for their achievements this year! We were all so impressed with how well everyone has been doing.

Well done to the following boys and girls in P3W:
Ty Shek for enthusiasm and excellence in P.E.
Harvey Forrest for always working hard in all his subjects and trying his best.
Samantha McMillan for always making a huge effort in presentation of all work.
Lennox Clarke for always being respectful of others.
Sophie Lindner for always trying her hardest and working well with others.

Miss Wilson is very proud of all the boys and girls for their hard work!

Here is a picture of our performance of “You’ve got a friend in me”

Eva – We had a visitor who came from a farm. His name was Jamie and he was a farmer! He came and showed us some wool that came from a sheep.
Megan – He took us outside and showed us his tractor and we all got a picture beside it.
Sophie – He showed us some crops that came from the farm and they were really small! They looked like nuts.
Liam – The most important crop is grass and we all see it every day. Really dried out grass is called hay. It has no moisture in it and it’s cleaned out.
Jennie – If the soil is really good and moist then there will be lots of worms in it.
Alanna – It’s good when there are lots of worms in the soil and birds are trying to eat them!
Ty – It was really fun when Jamie started his tractor up and it was also really fun when he showed us a picture of the brussell sprouts he farms.
Caitlin – When we went outside we looked around the tractor and it was fun. When I stood next to the wheel it was bigger than me!
Cole – When we looked around the tractor it said JCB on the side of it.

Primary 3W thought it would be a great way to finish off our Ancient Egyptian topic by performing a Drama and recording our performance. We will try and post this on our blog next week!

Sophie – First, we wrote our script and thought of 3 scenes. These were:

Scene 1: Tutankhamun’s life

Scene 2: Mummification

Scene 3: The weighing of the heart ceremony in the afterlife

Eva – We printed out our script and everyone got a part and their own script. I am Narrator 3.

Ty – In Scene 1 I am Narrator 4. My script says:

“King Tutankhamun was only 19 years old when he died.”

Noah – I am in Scene 2 and I am Worker 1. I have to pull out the brain from the mummy’s nose! Ewwww.

Jennie – In Scene 3 I am the God Osiris. He is the God of the dead and afterlife. I get to welcome Tutankhamun into the afterlife.

Caitlin – I am in Scene 1 and Narrator 2 and my script says:“Tutankhamun was only 9 years old when he became pharaoh. As he got older he gained more responsibilities. He even got married!”

Rory – Tutankhamun’s nickname was King Tut.

Sam – In Scene 3 I play the God Ammut. Ammut eats up people if their heart is heavier than the feather because it means that you have sinned in your life.

We have all been practising our lines very hard and are even taking these home to learn for the final performance next week. We have been working on costumes and prop ideas and it is all very exciting. I hope you all learn your lines and I know you will do great!

-Miss Wilson 🙂

This week we handed in our personal projects! We had to complete these at home as a Home Learning task and some of the projects were astonishing. Everybody received a certificate for their super interesting personal projects. There were 3 winners who stood out as making an extra effort. These were: Sophie, Noah and Liam.

A few of the projects were:

Caitlin – My project was a scroll made out of papyrus paper. I made it by putting tea bags on it and then putting it in the oven to make it look real.

Sam – My project was an Egyptian book. On the front cover was Tutankhamun’s sarchophagus.

Rowan – My project was a very big 3D wooden pyramid! I made it by putting six planks of woods and cut them into triangles and stuck them together. We then painted it with glue and tipped a bag of sand over it.

Jennie – My project was a booklet. Inside the booklet was lots of different facts and pictures of things I researched.

Noah – My personal project was a book of lots of facts and pictures inside of pictures of me at Edinburgh museum. I also made a canopic jar with a jackel head on top and it had a mummy stomach inside. I won a prize for my efforts.

Sophie – My project was The Book of the Dead and I made a death mask and a model of Ancient Egypt. I had lots of interesting facts and I made the death mask look like it had been burnt. Also, I won a prize for my efforts!

Liam – My personal project was a booklet with facts and I won a bookmark prize for my great efforts also!

Well done Primary 3! Your efforts were outstanding 🙂

We all had our Grand Opening! We made our own museum with 5 exhibits. These were:

1.Sphinx

2.Gods

3.Death masks

4.Tutankhamun

5.Mummification

It was lots of fun taking parents around our museum. We all had different jobs. These were:

1.Ticket office workers

2.Curators

3.Tour guides

4.Shop assistants

We also had visitor badges for all the parents.

We made our own artefacts, e.g. death masks, sarcophagus, etc.

We made sure we had facts on all the tables about each exhibit and we researched these facts ourselves.

We all enjoyed our jobs a lot!

We also had thank you cards and welcome tickets that we handed out and made ourselves.

It was a fantastic open morning and we hope all the parent senjoyed themselves – because we certainly did!

So far this week….

Rowan – I enjoyed learning to take notes in writing.

Jennie – I enjoyed making our fact files on Ancient Egyptian Gods. My fact file was on Isis.

Megan – I enjoyed Maths this week and I also enjoyed doing Hundreds, Tens and Units sums.

Ty – I have enjoyed learning in Maths because I have been doing Tens and Units sums.

Liam – I enjoyed learning facts about Ancient Egyptian Gods and mine was Bes! He was the protector of families and children.

Noah – I enjoyed learning facts about Ancient Egyptian Gods and mine was Anubis. He was god of death.

P3W have been really impressing me this week! We have been learning lots of new things and a few people who have really impressed me this week are:

–      Rhia with her Tens and Unit sums

–      Cole when laying out his Maths sums

–      Jennie with her note-taking skills

–      Yasmin with her Safety Poster

–      Ross with his fact finding skills

Raffle Prize winner: Sam

Dojo winner: Jennie

This week we took part in a really fun Drama lesson which involved the class working together to act out the different types of people in Ancient Egypt.

We acted out the roles of:

-Pharaoh

-Nobleman

-Scribe

-Farmer

-Slave

In Drama we have been learning about:

-Facial expression, body movements and expressions in our voices.

I am very impressed with the whole of P3W and their performances! They have been giving very good feedback to their peers on how to improve. We are going to working on 2 stars and a wish!

Class Dojo winner: Jennie Armstrong

Raffle ticket winner: Samantha McMillan

Pupil of the week: Yasmin McKinnon for fantastic researching skills when finding out facts about Ancient Egyptian Gods.

Great Playtground Behaviour: Megan Forrester for always being polite and joining in playground games with her friends!

In class, we have been learning a lot of Scottish words and been learning in lots of different ways. Such as: using play-doh to spell our words, doing word matching games, creating our washing claes line, and so on.

We have been very busy this week with other learning going on in our class.  Here is what we have been doing: 

Sophie – We have been doing our Burns’ Poetry competition and 3 people have got through to the finals and I am one of them!!

Abbie – We have been doing times tables – 2x tables, 5x tables and 10x tables.

Tom – We have been making our “Kindness Tree”. Our “Kindness Tree” is made up of promises that we have all made about school. My promise is “I will try my hardest to never get on the sad cloud and get minutes off Golden Time”.

Ty – We have been learning our times tables. I know that 2 x 2 = 4, 
5 x 3 = 15 and 10 x 9 = 90!

Caitlin – We have been learning Scottish words! A goonie is a dressing gown, bitts are boots, a jaiket is your jacket, sannies are plimsole shoes and a sark is a shirt!

Other News:

Pupil of the week – Brooklyn -> for doing fantastic times table sums in Maths.

3 Burns poetry finalists: Sophie, Caitlin and Megan.

MVP for January – Ty.

Caitlin – We were having our P3 party on Tuesday this week. Santa came and we played lots of fun games!

Megan – The P3 party was great! I loved when Santa game and I also loved playing all the games.

Rhia – It was a party and Santa came.

Sophie – We saw Santa and we got presents and after that we had some ice cream! We had lots of fun. We got books as our presents.

Ty – I think Santa was really fun because I saw Santa’s sleigh going past the window!! I also saw Rudolf!!

Noah – I quite liked when we played all the games and had party food. I also liked when Mrs White and Santa Claus came up.

Tom – I liked it when we were dancing!

This week I enjoyed…

Big Start:

Megan – I liked Big Start this morning making our Christmas trees!

Rowan – I enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree in my own style.

Cole – I liked putting baubles on the tree. It is really fun decorating our own Christmas trees.

Alanna – I liked decorating the tree.

Brooklyn – We are going to add all our trees together and make a huge class Christmas tree on the wall!

Maths:

Ty – I liked doing Maths. Maths is good because I found it easy and I really want to move up a level!

Tom – I am excited because I’d like to move up a level too!

Magnetic Games:

Kirsten – I liked creating a magnetic game. It was lots of fun!

Harvey – Our game is called ‘Fishes in the net’ and I liked making the fishes and it was fun making them.

Samantha – Caitlin and I’s game was called ‘Fish collector’ and whoever can collect the most fish in 30 seconds wins!

Rhia – Me and Kirsten’s game is called ‘Fishy Fun’ and if you get the most fish you win.

Jack – Me and Rory’s game is called ‘Temple Run 2’ and to win you have to race to the cave and you only get 5 seconds.

Jennie – Me and Ty’s game is called ‘Super Racers’ and the first one to get to the magnet wins!

We had a visitor!

Dr. Pugh visited our classes to help us learn more about magnets and forces. We learnt a lot of new things and we also got to take part in lots of fun activities! 

Some of our highlights of the visit were:

• Sophie – A magnet can lift a frog!
• Cole – Magnets are stronger than the earth’s gravity!
• Rory – The visitor was my dad and I learnt that there is a world’s biggest magnet.
• Ty – A magnet can pull iron filings even through paper!
• Caitlin – Some metals are attracted by magnets.
• Ross – If you put a paperclip at the bottom of paper and you have a big magnet, the paperclip will make the paper lift up!
• Liam – A nail can be turned magnetic by rubbing it against a magnet!
• Noah – I had lots of fun with Dr. Pugh J 

Samantha – We made puppets this week!

Kirsten – We started by sewing the templates together

Liam – People had different puppets. There were Santa Claus’, reindeer, snowmen and penguins!

Sophie – First we went up with the sewing needle, then we went down through the hole. You kept doing this until it was finished.

Noah – It was kind of hard! We got help with this though from others in our class. Samantha helped me.

Ty – The sewing was really easy for me

Kate – We got to stick on the bits on our puppets – like the eyes, arms, noses…

Sophie – Then we made cards to stick on the back of our puppets to show who made them. We drew Christmas pictures!

Brooklyn – We put them to sleep in a box until the Christmas fayre.

Lennox – Night night!