Class O have enjoyed listening to what everyone done during the holidays.

We are looking forward to learning more about Scotland.

Cailtin – I have been quite tired when I have came back to school this week. I have been in class o all week and I quite enjoy been here in the afternoon. I have been making Scottish thistles as I have been learning about Scotland.

Cody – i have been making comics and drawing some characters like toxic waste of time and the gym instructor as well as learning aboot Scotland and the words like dug mammy and caw for call.

Jayden –  I enjoyed playing Lego and building houses and cars. I,ve been leaning Scottish word like dug,doon and aye. And i also made a Scottish thisel with little paper squares.

Cameron – I enjoyed playing with my friends. this week. I kinds of like learning Scottish words like DUG COOTTING CANDY AND DINE KEN.

The Senior Choir will begin again on Thursday 12th January – parental consent letters have been issued, and should be returned as soon as possible. Our extended time is 3.25 – 4.30p.m., as we are beginning our performing arts ‘musical’ experience!
We will be working towards a performance of, ‘The Jungle Book’. Pamela Logan, dance choreographer, will also be involved in this opportunity, ‘to reach for the future, explore what is to to come and dream about the path that lies ahead’. What a wondrous and nurturing place to grow!

This will be performed towards the end of the summer term.

What a good week we’ve had. We will tell you about some of our learning.

Hope, Skye and Haley – In maths we enjoyed learning about symmetry.

Guy, Katie and Jason enjoyed learning about taking more care with our detailed colouring work related to winter time.

Dani and Ella – In our dance/movement session this morning we enjoyed learning more about ribbon work and creating our own movement sequences.

Louie, Ben and Elliot enjoyed the effort and thought that went into creating their own Loch Ness Monster. The learning stimulus for this was that we read about Hamish McHaggis and his friends trying to find the monster!

Charlotte enjoyed our Golden Time this morning. The children had ‘free choice’, and we had a number of ‘babies’ in our classroom!

Cameron, Isaac, Jacob and Nathan enjoyed being back to school and looking forward to this term’s learning.

Have a good weekend!

Welcome back everyone!

We have had lots of fun this week. We started off by talking and listening about our holidays and what we got as presents for Christmas. We are very lucky because we got lots of things and had fun in the holidays. We used this information to make Bar Graphs of what we got and then asked and answered questions about the Bar Graph.

We have set our new targets for this term and are looking forward to learning lots about Robert Burns and the Ancient Egyptians. We have chosen our poems for the Scottish Poetry Competition and will begin learning them next week.

Have a great weekend!

A huge, ‘THANK YOU’ to all who sang at Morrisons on Thursday 22nd December. We have raised £170.83 towards our costumes fund!
There will be no choir on Thursday 5th January and from 12th January choir will continue until 4.30p.m. – we will begin working on our end of year musical. More details to follow!

This has been a busy week.

We learned about adjectives and how they are describing words. We were very god with identifying adjectives.
We built on our knowledge of 3D shapes to build 3D shapes using the ‘map’ for 3D shapes. These maps are called nets. We made cylinders, pentagonal pyramids, cubes, cuboids and cones. We decorated our 3D shapes and then hung them on our tree as baubles!

Don’t they look great?!

We have been learning about different styles of poetry and this week we were trying to write rhyming poems. This was very hard and we didn’t quite manage this task. We did learn how to rhyme words and could find lots of different rhyming words. We may try again later on in the year!

We had our Christmas lunch on Wednesday and our Christmas party. We had lots of fun and played different games. We had biscuits, popcorn, sweets and juice in between our party. The best part was when Santa came to Balbardie! We sang Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Jingle Bells and he gave us a present. We loved it!

We have been learning about Global Warming and how it affects all of us. We learned about recycling and the different bins we can use in school for recycling. We made special cards to put above the bins which show you what you can put in the different bins. They are colour co-ordinated to make it easier.

Youcan see the posters in action around the school!

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This week we have been making Christmas stuff. This is what we liked this week

Charlotte-I liked making the Christmas stuff
Hope-l liked making the Christmas stuff
Luke-l liked the p.e obstacle course
Nathan-l liked making the shape snowmen
Jacob-l liked making shapes
Jack-l liked p.e
Emma- l enjoyed my yummy Christmas dinner
Katie-l enjoyed making my square based pyramid snowman
We made these 3d snowmen from shape nets.

Isaac-l enjoyed making the snowmen shapes
Emily-l liked p.e
Rose-l liked doing p.e
Lucy-l liked doing p.e
Aryan-l liked maths and learning about 3d shapes
Aryan made this dodecahedron from regular pentagons. We think it is pretty awesome!

Maisey-l liked doing the tables tests and doing the cards
Dani-l enjoyed decorating all of the Christmas things
Louie-l liked decorating my folder
Hayley-l liked the book report
Jaime-lee-l liked practising my spellings
Elliot-l liked making cards for my family
Callum-l enjoyed doing 3d shapes
Special person is… Katie
Pupil of the week – Hayley
Table of the week – blue table with 430 points

From Mrs Collings – It’s been a busy week and the children are very much looking forward to the weekend. We hope it is restful and peaceful for you all!
Article 31 –the right to an education

We are getting in the Christmas spirit this week and have been learning about Christmas traditions.   Here are some of the ways that we celebrate Christmas:

Teigan – “I put a tree up”

Leila – “I celebrate when Jesus was born”

Rio – “I help to make Christmas dinner.  We have steak pie”

Keegan – “I decorate my Christmas tree.  The best bit is the tinsel”

Liam – “I put the star on top of my tree, it is a tricky job”

Marley – “Santa comes and we leave out a present for him”

Breaghannon – “We make Christmas cake.  It is yummy”

Griffin – “Santa comes and give presents, I give presents too”

Poppy – “I learn about wen baby Jesus was born”

Regan – “I make Christmas pudding.  I like the wee ball bits that I get to eat”

Millie – “The way I celebrate Christmas is talking about baby Jesus”

Max – “The elf comes to my house, he is a bit naughty”

Cameron – “I get presents for other people”

Rory – “I buy presents for other people, that is being kind”

Ellie – “I learn about baby Jesus and tell people”

Emily – “I celebrate baby Jesus’ birthday with my family”

Jonah – “I sing songs about Jesus”

Brandon – “I go to Church at Christmas time”

Leah – “All my family come round and they watch me open my presents.”

The best bits of this week have been:

Teigan – “Making the handprint reindeer”

Rio – “Our P1 show was the best!”

Marley – “I got to watch the P1s in Ralph the Reindeer.  I liked the songs”

Poppy – “The Christmas party was fun, I won a prize”

Leila – “I liked the party too.  Santa came and gave me a present”

Keegan – “Making the reindeer was lots of fun”

Millie – “The Christmas party was great.  Every bit was the best bit”

Liam – “Seeing Santa at breakfast with Santa”

Griffin – “Writing Christmas cards for my class”

Regan – “Being Santa in the P1 show was the best”

Breaghannon – “I liked my pretty dress at the Christmas party”

Max – “Doing our review jotter and thinking about Christmas”

Cameron – “I liked the review jotters too”

Rory – “I liked the Christmas party, I got a prize for being a good dancer”

Ellie – “I liked being in the P1 show, the best bit was when we sang our songs”

Emily – “I liked the Christmas party”

Jonah – “I liked writing about Christmas this week”

Brandon – “Golden Club was great. The magic tricks and the magician had the same name as Pete the Dragon”

Leah – “The party was the best bit of the week” 

A huge well done to our Primary 1s!!  They were all excellent in the P1 show this week and we are all very proud of them!!

From.

Primary 2/1

This week we have been learning about using the apostrophe to show posessives –

Euan – the cat had a toy….it was the cat’s toy

Ranna – the boy had a jumper ….it was the boy’s jumper

Writing has been fun this week as we got to make a book of our own. We were given a booklet made up of a blank front cover and two A4 lined sheets and we were able to choose the theme for our own story and design a front cover. We had to discuss what things we would need to have in our writing that would impress Mrs Little. Here are some of the things we thought of –

Ranna – capital letters and full stops

Lucas – punctuation like question marks, exclamation marks, speech marks and brackets

Euan – time connectives

Mia – sentence stretchers

Miles – wow words

Alex – adverbs

Amy – adjectives

Maths was also fun this week as we were earning about tiling 2D shapes. Maths was also fun this week as we were learning about tiling 2D shapes. We had to choose four colours and use squared paper to create our tile patterns. All the shapes have to be touching with no gaps.

Apologies for the lack of photos but the programme won’t let us upload more than one today.

Not long to go now. Have a great weekend!

The choirs have now been uploaded – You Tube Balbardie Primary School Sing Christmas Carols 2016 – and there we are!

What an amazing bunch you are! The recordings today were absolutely brilliant. I’m waiting to find out when it is uploaded, and will put this on the blog as soon as I know. I think it may well be tonight!