This week we have been challenged to write a story using our spelling words which have the ea sound.

One day I went to the SEASIDE for some HEAT.  I saw my friend Johnny, we played in the sea for a wee while.  Then we went to get lunch, in the queue we MET a strange looking spider,  It was SPINning a WEB on a LEAF.

I said ‘Who are you?”

The spider said ‘WHICH boy are you?’

I said ‘ My name is Tobin and this is Johnny.  Would you like to join us for a cup of TEA?’

‘No thanks’  it said ‘I’m a spider.  I would prefer a fly, do you have any?’

‘No I don’t have any.’  I said and we EACH had our lunch.

By Tobin

In drama we have been performing plays in Scots.  One of the plays we worked on was Th Thee Wee Grumphies (The Three Little Pigs).  In writing we had a go at writing the story of the the three pigs in Scots!

Th’ thee wee grumphies.

Lang lang ago in the days o lang syne, there were three wee pigs.  The three wee grumphies had such braw faces.  Johnyny the Dowper was a funny pig.  Slaverie Sam was a daft pig.  Alan was a smart pig.  There was also a muckle bad wolf.  The grumphies were blethering in the ferm, they decided to leave the ferm to live their lives.

Johnny the Dowper saw a mannie wi a cairtie it was awfy full.  He said “Hey mannie wi a cairtie, can I get a daud o straw?”

The mannie said “Aye!”

Johnny the Dowper bigged his hoose in 5 hours.  Oh no the wolf came!  He said “Little grumphie, let me in.”

Johhny the Dowper said “I’m no daft!”

The wolf heched and peched and bloo the hoose doon and ate Johnny up in one gulp.

Slaverie Sam saw a mannine wi a cairtie.

He said “Hey mannie wi a cairtie, can I get a daud o widd?”

The mannie said “Aye!”  Slaverie Sam bigged his hoose in 6 hours.  The muckle bad wolf came and he said “Little grumphie, can I come ben?.”

Slaverie Sam said “I’m no daft!”

The wolf heched and peched and bloo the hoose doon and ate Sam up.

Alan saw a mannie wi a cairtie of stanes.  “Hey mannie wi a cairtie, can I get a daud o stanes?”

The mannie said “Aye!”  Alan bigged his hoose.  The wolf came!  He said “Little grumphie, can I come in?”

Alan said “I’m no daft!”

The wolf heched and peched but he couldn’t bloo the hoose doon.  The muckle bad wolf climbed up the hoose and went doon the lum.  But the wee grumphie had put a muckle pot under the lum and the fell into it.  The wee grumphie ate the wolf for his dinner!

By Archie

Miss Holwill was very impressed by the Scots we knew!  Well done to everyone 🙂

Over the last term we have been lucky enough to be taking part in some football training. We have learned and practiced different skills like ball control and accuracy when passing. This week we got to take part in a football festival which was great! We spent the first half practicing our skills and getting warmed up and then after break playing matches. We all saw a huge improvement in our skills and were good sports doing the game.

This week we have also started being Tomb Raiders. We have learned about the importance of the Nile. We have set up a research tent and even discovered an archaeological site….we are wondering what treasures we will discover!

As part of our home-learning we thought about all the different things that make Scotland great.  Here is a picture of the posters we made!

They look great….well done for all your hard work.

We have been having lots of Festive Fun!

At the Christmas Party Santa came to visit us.  We each got a present, Mark received a football themed book which he thought was great….thanks Santa.  Michelle enjoyed getting her dancing shoes on!

Colin enjoyed making his reindeer puppet to sell at the school fayre.  Miss holwill thought we all did an excellent job and didn’t get too m any grey hairs J

We have been busy decorating our classroom.  We were lucky enough to have family and friends come in and visit, together we made robins, reindeers, snowmen or puddings.  They make our classroom look fabulous.  We have also been making lots of crafts.  Robyn liked making an angel…will it appear on the top of her tree next year?  Archie liked making a calendar for next year.  We painted using our hands.  We had a chicken for Spring, a sunflower for Summer, a tree for Autumn and a snowman for Winter….I wonder who will be lucky enough to receive Archie’s calendar as a present?  Aidan enjoyed making his 3d Christmas tree card, I really liked all the stars.  Lewis liked making a Santa character.

We had a very yummy Christmas lunch!

We have even been having Christmas themed French.  We decorated stockings, Gary liked added all the sparkles.  Joyeux Noel everyone!

We had a big treat and went to the panto.  It was Aladin.  Harry thought it was very funny.  Stacey liked it when the genie was freed from his lamp.  We would all like to say a huge well done to Kamron and Zoe who were members of the cast, we are very proud of you both!

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We were lucky enough to go to the Sports Centre and try lots of different sports.

At FOOTBALL the coach had different colours which meant different activities.  The green cone was for dribbling, the yellow cone was tap the ball with each foot and the red cone was to stop.  We thought that in football there were lots of different fun activities.

At BABMINTON we practiced hitting the shuttle-cock, Cameron M thinks his went the highest.  We played shuttle-tig.  We thought badminton was really good.

At TAE-KWON DO we practiced our punches and kicks.  We had to duck really quickly so the pads did not get us.  We remember that we can only do these moves with Master Elder.

At HANDBALL we practiced passing the ball so we could score goals against another team.  We thought was fun.

At RUGBY we played touch rugby, we all had tails that we tried to steal.  It was fun and we liked doing it.

At TENNIS we got to hit our balls over the net….Miss Holwill was very impressed with the shots, Andy could have some competition soon!

This week we were lucky even to have a Judo taster session.  We all got to wear a special judo jacket, before we tried lots of different judo moves with our partner.  We all had lots of fun!  Thank you to everyone for organising this.

I liked doing the judo throw – Archie & Callum

It is a fun way to keep fit – Noah

I liked playing the different games because it was fun – Lewis

I thought the ‘bear hug’ was the best bit – Cameron R

It was tricky trying to block people – Amber

I liked the game when you had to get your partner out of the mat! – Harry

Kameron would like to know when we will get to do it again as it was fun…..

We have had another busy week….we had a visit to the library and Fiona along with some other pupils organised a bake sale today.  We tried to pick our favourite activity but it was tricky.  Here are some of our thoughts…

• maths because I was adding up
• maths because I enjoyed counting to 100 and a 1000
• library because I chose a book of facts
• art because I got to paint
• maths because I think it is fun to solve sums
• reading because I learn new words
• maths because I have learned lots and know find it easier to do

 Fiona serving us yummy cakes!

We have been discussing what makes a good friend.  These are some of the things we thought made a good friend:

• help me when I am hurt.
• help me with my work, when I am stuck.
• play with me.
• help me if I am worried.
• help me sort problems.
• include me in games.
• make me feel happy.
• make me feel part of a team.
• make me laugh.

We are all going to try and be the best friend we can be!

Well we are shocked to learn there are so many children who don’t go to school around the world.  BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT WE NEED 1.7 MILLION TEACHERS IN THE WORLD, we learnt this when we were looking at our Rights and Actions.  We have been looking at our rights:

*the right to a good education

*health care

*food and water

*play and rest

We have also been discussion when it is important to think about our actions like listening and sharing.

Bye!

We have had a busy start back to school.  We are all enjoying meeting up with our old friends and make new ones.  We are working hard and enjoying maths especially. 

We have been learning about our rights and making our class charter.  As part of this work we designed our IDEAL TEACHER, we think they should be –  nice, good, loving, challenging, caring, cool, kind, lively, scientific and mathematical!  So not too much for Miss Holwill and Mrs Ghafoor to live up to!

We have also been writing our personal targets for this term.  These include:

*working with larger numbers.

*sounding and blending our tricky words.

*writing longer stories.

*playing with different people.

So we have set ourselves a challenge too!

Bye for this week…

P3h

We have been learning about Climate Change.   In Bangladesh climate change is having a major impact on those communities living in riverside areas. Heavier, longer rainy seasons mean that land where farmers used to be able to grow crops to feed their family is being flooded before crops can be harvested. As a result families go hungry.

We were challenged in a small group to design and make a structure that would enables farmers to continue to grow their crops even when the land floods.

This is what we thought:

The floating gardens are very cool, it held 560g

It was fun but challening, mine worked ok (NR)

I enjoyed making the floating gardens ao that it could hold seeds and learning how the floating gardens are really made (JR)

Our floating garden was alright, ours held 540g

Our garden held 560g.  I liked my floating garden because we used each others ideas and worked as a team (MP)

I think the floating garden was fun to make and we did well.   Our floating garden managed ti hold 560g.

The best thing is that it floated and was challenging (LL)

It did sinnk but it was still fun to make (NM)

I think the garden challenge was fun.  I think the ‘raft’ could have supported more  if we had provided more support and therefore it would have been stable.

We have come to the end of our sports electives. We have enjoyed the experience and learned lots of new techniques and skills. On Thursday we were entertained by the Musical Theatre and Dance groups who had worked really hard to put together a showcase performance.

These are some of our thoughts:

• I enjoyed my sponsored swim! (EM)

• The best bit was the last week because we played lots of games (football MH)

• I learnt how to use arm drive and different running ‘gears’. My long jump was really fun! (Athletics MP)

• In musical theatre I enjoyed performing to the audience the most!(AS)

• I really enjoyed my football elective. It was great fun – all the shooting and passing games. I will pick it again next year. (DM)

 • I enjoyed doing golf elective. I learned a lot more about golf and skills I need. I enjoyed going on the range. (GF)

• My sports elective was golf and I learned how to hit the golf balls by putting, chipping and full swing (JR)

• I enjoyed my sports elective because I learned lots of new dances and it helped me to be more confident on stage (BP)

• I really enjoyed basketball because I got to refresh my memory after going to a club for 2 years (KP)

• I learned how to cook a lot of different food; it was a lot of fun. I enjoyed making shortbread and banoffee pie. (MH)

• I learned how to hit the shuttle up and down, it was very fun (EM)

• I really enjoyed that we got the chance to go on the course with a coach (Golf TD)

• I really enjoyed athletics it was very fun for all us. We learned lots of new skills and got better at them each week! (EB)

• I love learning new things and my confidence improved! (MB)

• I learned new dives and I enjoyed the fun day (swimming)

We have had a busy afternoon with the Primary 1 to make models and masks of mini-beasts for their assembly.  Some of the models using junk, plasticine and drew pictures.  We used lots of different to decorate out models.  We helped the primary 1 to use non-fiction books to find out facts, we read and the primary 1’s had to summarise.  This is what they said….

• We learned how many legs a spider has.
• Butterflies have lots of colours.
• Caterpillars turn into butterflies.
• We wrote questions about mini-beasts on a big leaf.
• We learned facts about the mini-beasts so we can tell people at our assembly.  Our P6 buddies helped us.

Daniel M and Jessica were very impressed with Jake’s bumble bee.

We are all really proud of ourselves….we have made our lighthouses!  Miss Holwill challenged us to include a switch in our design using our conductor knowledge.  We weren’t very sure how to do it at first but we all managed in the end!  This meant we could make our lighthouse’s light flash. 

Here is a video for you to look at….

http://youtu.be/8i470fnxqM8

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P6

We have been learning about electricity.  So far we have investigated circuits.  A circuit is like a bike chain, the battery pushes electrons round the wires and components.   We experimented making our own circuits and the effect of adding more light bulbs in either series or parallel.  We learnt how to draw circuits.  We then tested different materials to see which were conductors, metal spoon or paper clip, and insulators, chalk or plastic.  We are going to use this knowledge to build a light house.

 Today we had a visit from Emma from the SSPCA.  The SSPCA looks after animals in Scotland.  We learned lots of interesting facts about what to do and not do if we see wildlife in trouble.  For example we should not touch young animals as their parents will not look after them again.  When hedgehog’s wake up from hibernation you could feed them cat food (but not fishy ones).  If you are concerned you should call 03000 999 999.  We played Top Trumps which told us about rescues that the SSPCA had done.  There were facts about the animals, species information and rescue information.

Today we attended an Electricity Workshop.  We learned how to keep safe around electricity, top tips include:

• Not to climb towers (pylons)
• Not to switch light switches with wet hands
• Don’t stick a knife in the toaster, even if it is switched off.  Turn it upside down and shake it to get the stuck toast out
• Don’t go fishing or fly a kite under the towers or near cables
• Don’t touch cables with sticks etc.
• Don’t go inside/over the fence to a sub-station, phone them to get your ball back
• You can go to a power station with an engineer

We also learned about the underground cables which carry 400 000 volts.  The cables are very thick.  We also saw the insulators.

At the end we had a quiz….Dean was very speedy at pressing his buzzer! Congratulations Dean as he knew the answers too.