This week we have enjoyed baking some truffles. We had to check the quantities and weigh ingredients carefully from the recipe. Everyone enjoyed making the biscuit crumbs by giving biscuits a good bash! We have made our very own individually designed greenhouses and planted some beans. The see through panels mean we can look out for them sprouting soon. Which will be first? Roots or shoots?
This week we have planted some flowers in pots to brighten up part of the AR playground. In class we have looked at how seeds sprout and what they need to grow. We were able to look at the leaves, roots, stems and flower buds of our little plants before planting and watering them. We hope to attract some insects along as well as be able to see them bloom and flower more soon 🌷 🌱 🐜 
We are glad to be back to school to see everyone this week. We hope the holidays gave everyone the chance to relax and recharge ready for our last term this school session. Class Star were very excited for our STEM (Science Technology Engineering Maths) challenge to build the tallest tower possible from spaghetti and marshmallows. We watched some video clips for inspiration and then set about building our own designs. We thought about the shapes we could use and how to improve the strength of our structures. Finally, we tested our creative designs by balancing an item on our towers. We wondered…Did the quick cook spaghetti make a difference? Did the colour of the marshmallows make a difference? Would bigger marshmallows have built taller towers? Do cold or warm hands change how well you can build?
What do you think of our results? Could you give this a go at home?
This week we have enjoyed developing our fine motor skills using some challenges like this one.
Colour is helping us to pick out the sounds we are learning as part of our spelling.
This week we have been investigating dangers around the home to help us learn about keeping ourselves safe. We managed to spot and circle things which could be sharp, hot, slippery or dangerous for children to touch.
In maths we have been using numicon for our number work and counting, organising and sorting data. We can display our data in a table, chart or graph. We can also use tally marks – close the gate!
We have loved sharing and reading together this week as a special focus as part of World Book Day. We also recorded reading our favourite books from home using the ipad and watched the clips back. It’s tricky to turn the page, read in a loud voice and smile at the camera!
Earlier this week we enjoyed decorating and eating some delicious pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. The chocolate writing pens were a success.
Class Star enjoyed smelling and then creating their very own hyacinth flowers today. We thought about our scissor skills and showed careful cutting. We had to fold and roll paper too. We also needed a lot of glue! We think they look very realistic and everyone felt proud of their efforts.
Please see document below for learning experiences should the school be closed due to adverse weather.
Hi Everyone!
It has been a short week in school this week but we have done lots of things!
We were learning about:
We are looking forward to our assembly in two weeks time on world Book day!
Have a lovely weekend!
Class Star
We have enjoying learning all about America! We have learned about different states and landmarks within them. We even built the Empire State building using Lego and the Golden Gate Bridge using art straws and string and tried to build them to scale. We were learning about the job as president and all feel it must be a pretty stressful job! If we were president, we would like to provide healthcare like our NHS and decrease the number of people who are homeless. We are now going to be learning about world war 2 and looking forward to it!
We were excited to be back swimming again with Kyle and Ross our instructors. Jayden recieved swimmer of the week for improving his forward stroke so well and following all instructions! Week done Jayden!
We also have been working hard on our class tasks. We had to choose a famous American celebrity, past or present, and research information about them. We then peer assessed each other during the talks and gave feedback. We were looking for for appropriate pace, volume, clarity, eye contact and content.
Here are some of our highlights:
Joe – I really enjoyed learning about the president’s job
Cody – I enjoyed the Burn’s supper as I liked the Irn Bru
Yolie – I liked the Burn’s Supper as the haggis was nice
David – I liked building the Golden Gate Bridge
Cameron – I enjoyed doing my class talk as I got really good feedback
Have a nice weekend!
Class star 🌟
Welcome back everyone to school. It is good being back! We hope you all had a nice Christmas and New Year and that Santa was good to you.
This week we were learning to budget money by organising a Burn’s Supper. We are very excited to have our own Burn’s Supper and looking forward to eating Haggis, Neeps and tatties, Irn Bru and shortbread!!! We had £45 to spend on a main course, sides, drinks, desserts and extras including table decorations and we had to make sure we stayed within our budget which was a little tricky.
We had fun learning about M.C. Escher’s Impossible Pictures and drew our patterns in the same styles as the artist.
We also learned about famous American landmarks and which states they can be found and constructed them using our chosen media.
Next week we will be applying our budgeting skills when ordering and buying food for our class snack during Out and About.
If you have any questions about our learning please just ask us below.
Have a lovely weekend!
Class Star
We had such a fun time at our Christmas parties this week! Look at some of our photos! We also loved the panto, oh yes we did! It was about Cinderella and was really funny especially when they got the teachers up to dance. I don’t think the teachers found it as much as we did! We had fun making gingerbread men and melted snowman cakes too!
Have a lovely Christmas and New year
Class 🌟
We learned loads of new facts about New York this week. We improved our map skills looking at New York on the map and learned about keys to symbolise land features for example mountains, rivers and capital cities. We also watched a fascinating video about an aeroplane landing into the Hudson River! True fact! Did you know that the population of New York is 8 537 673!!!!!!
Here are this week’s highlights:
Cody – I enjoyed learning division with higher numbers this week and learning that multiplication and division are related.
Jayden – I enjoyed doing BIG Maths this week and getting 17/17 in thirty seconds! Integration was fun too especially meeting my new teacher.
David – I like learning about New York and finishing my dream catcher.
Yolie – Golden Time with my integration class was fun!
Adam – I had fun multiplying with double digits. It was challenging but really good.
Cameron – Ok so here we go again, I loved learning about New York! Ok, truth or dare… are all New York taxis yellow? ………………. It’s true!
Joe – Making my leaflet about New York was good fun, I liked researching using the ipad.
So see you next week 😀
Class Star
Was a quick week it has been in Class Star! Here are some of this week’s highlights:
Jayden – I enjoyed making a timeline of American Presidents and I enjoyed swimming because it was a fun week with the floats. We played ‘Stealing the HQ’ too and it was really really fun!
Yolie. I had a fun week at swimming! I enjoyed making dream catchers too with wool and beads. Next week we are going to add feathers to them.
David. I enjoyed Rookie Rockstars especially the singing and dancing. The concert was really fun too!
Cameron. I enjoyed Rookie Rockstars, IT WAS SO FUN!!! Is this true or false: did I take off the wig I had on for the song ‘Never Give Up’? …………….it is true! Swimming also was fun this week.
See you next week
Class Star
It’s been another busy week in Class Star, we have been learning about the importance of Remembrance Day and we attended a Remembrance Assembly to pay our respects. We enjoyed sensory spelling where we practiced our tricky words. It’s lovely to have Cameron back today after being unwell for the past four days.
Here are Class Stars highlights of the week:
Jayden – I enjoyed PE with my Integration class this week
Cody – I enjoyed the Remembrance Assembly as it has such an important message to ‘remember those who died’
Cameron – I am enjoying being back seeing my class mates again
David – I enjoyed doing problem solving by drawing a picture
Yolie – I liked writing my holiday story on my own
Joe – I loved being able to go to assembly with the ARB
Have a lovely weekend
We have had a fantastic start to the month as we all have been working hard! Mrs Gray and Miss Fisher are impressed by us! We have been planning our new topic all about the USA! We would like to learn about previous Presidents, fashion, state laws and celebrities past and present.
We have been practising our times tables and improving our mental recall. We have enjoyed torturing Mrs Gray and putting her to the test on her mental recall, she was pretty good!
We have a new class rewards system called Balbardie Bargains where we collect money for doing good deeds. We can then buy rewards from the store including Rainbow Room , DS day, long choose, sensory fun and a homework pass! Each item is worth a different value and we can decide when we would like to buy a reward. We are super excited to start earning money! (not real money unfortunately!).
Have a lovely weekend
Class Star
This week in maths we were building 3D shapes with Plasticine and matchsticks with Miss Fisher (it was quite hard but they looked great). We were learning trickier time intervals with Mrs Gray. We have been researching The Awa Tribe and finding out lots of interesting facts. We were very lucky to get to see and hold some rainforest animals this week from Cool Creatures. It was amazing and made our rainforest topic easier to imagine.
Have a lovely weekend.
This week in Class Star we have been continuing to work on our class topic The Rainforest. Our rainforest display is looking fabulous and we are looking forward to sharing a picture of it soon. We have been working on time and continuing our Idiom of the week.
This weeks idiom of the week was from Cameron and was ‘put my foot in my mouth’. Well done Cameron.
We have had another busy week in Class Star. We were focusing on Inspirational Maths and working outdoors to find shapes and look for maths in our environment. We had a lovely trip to Cafe Yum Yum for our Out and About.
Cody – The cafe was good and I tried tea for the first time (I thought it would be nicer). We measured out how big rainforest trees are and I was really surprised.
David – I got water and a crispy cake at the cafe, I really liked it. I liked the whole school sing-a-long.
Cameron – so I went to the cafe. Oh I just forgot true or false did I GO to the cafe …………. I did but only for 20 mins but guess what did you know there is white hot chocolate. So that is all folks see you next week so bbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyyeeeeeee 😀
Yolie – I liked the Sing-a long this week. I ordered a bacon roll at Cafe Yum Yum (I put tomato ketchup on it ) it tasted nice.
Jayden – I loved making our rain gauge to measure the rain fall. I enjoyed outside maths this week. My favourite thing this week was going to Cafe Yum Yum I ordered a white hot chocolate it was really good. Have a nice holiday weekend everyone.
This week we have been learning about the rainforest and it was so much fun 🙂 We learned about animals, trees and plant life.
Adam – I liked learning about the trees and the plant life I also liked burying the time capsule :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
Cody – I have been learning about rainforest animals. My favorite was the spiders.
Yolie – I enjoyed going to assembly. I enjoyed measuring out trees using a trundle wheel in the drama hall.
David – I liked playing outside at break time. I enjoyed assembly yesterday. I also enjoyed painting my leaf for our display.
Jayden – We have buried a time capsule but we are not going to tell you where we put it because its a secret. We have been learning about the rainforest about the layers with Mrs McLean and I’m going to miss her 🙁 but at least she is gonna visit 🙂
Cameron – this week we buried a time capsule yey!!! but its time for a true or false – where did we put it no wait its a secret that I am not going to tell you.
