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Evie – We were trying to find minibeasts
Ava – We were trying to find stuff on the lists. We were in teams and everyone found lots of things
Emma – We looked in some bins and plants so that we could find some animals
Hamish – We were finding lots of things and objects

Josh – We were making toast and we had to put it in the toaster and we had butter, a toaster and some bread, a knife and plate
Matthias – We were writing instructions on how to make toast
Marcus – In the end, the teacher ate the toast!

Caitlin – When we were fundraising money we were running and stepping and we were doing star jumps and passing
Noah – We were jumping and bouncing basketball. We moved when the music started and when the music stopped we had to put everything back where it was
Josh – We were in the PE gym hall and our mums and dads came
Kyle – We were raising money for more things for the playground

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Emma – We have one cup with no water in a cupboard, one with lots of water and one that has everything
Matthias – One cup has enough of everything. It needs the right temperature of heat, the right amount of water and the right amount of light
Josh – One cup is in a cupboard with no sun and no water. It is very hot and it has dried up
Caitlin – One cup has too much water and there’s only a few green leaves

Gracie – We had to write the labels
Hamish – We had to write what the parts were and then we coloured it in
Noah – There is the stem, the leaves, the petals and the roots

Josh – We were learning maths outside with our buddies
Kyle – Our buddies made us a trail adventure and we had to find stuff
Hamish – We had to find rocks and sticks
Ava – I had to make squares using sticks

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Noah – We had to put the right pictures into the right seasons
Gracie – The pictures were all jumbled up and we had to sort them
Hamish – We had to stick them in the right places
Josh – We had lots of pictures and they were all jumbled up

Ava – We put cotton wool in cups and then we put seeds in them and put water in them. We left them and took them home
Josh – They are called cress plants
Ava – We are doing an experiment. One cup is having lots of water and lots of sun
Caitlin – Another cup is having some sun, the temperature has to be right and we have to give the plant some water once a day
Josh – One cup is in the cupboard and is getting no sun, it’s too hot and it’s getting no water
Miss Wilson – We will see what is going to happen to each of these plants and compare them!

Lewis – We were sorting healthy foods and unhealthy foods into the right plates. Cookies are not healthy because they have chocolate on them. Chocolate is not healthy
Hamish – The green plate was the healthy plate, the orange plate was the foods we have sometimes and the red plate was the unhealthy foods we have as a treat
Josh – The red plate was full of treats

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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!!

Article 28: We have the right to an education

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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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Scottish Book Trust

P1 Parents & Carers – Scottish Book Trust needs your help!

Every November, Scottish Book Trust gifts a free bag of books to every P1 child in Scotland to help them with their reading, writing and counting and to encourage them to develop a life-long love of books. Scottish Book Trust is asking parents and carers of children in P1 to complete a short online survey about the Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag. Please click here to take part in the survey, which shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help to improve the Bookbug P1 Family Bag in the future and you could win a free bundle of books!

The deadline for completing the survey is 10 February 2017.

Thank you for your support and participation.

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 🙂

Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 9.1.17

We have had a bonnie week in P2/1.

This week we started preparing for our assembly and so we have been learning lots about Scotland, Scottish history and Scots language.  Here are some of the things we have been learning:

Rio – I learned the word ‘ees’, it means eyes.

Regan – I liked saying the word bahookie, it sounds silly.

Cameron – I liked reading Room on the Broom, it taught me new words.

Emily – Making tartan at buddy time was lots of fun.

Ellie – I like to learn about all the different words.  My favourite word is lugs.

Rory – Bahookie is a Scots word for your bottom.  It made me laugh.

Breaghannon – I liked the story of Robert the Bruce.

Poppy – Our assembly is about Robert the Bruce.  He was a King.

Griffin – I liked the story about Robert the Bruce, it was good because he had a growth mindset at the end of the story.

Max – There are lots of different tartans because there were different clans.

Liam – A clan was a big family in Scotland.

Leah – I liked learning Scots language.  My favourite word is bahookie.

Millie – I like learning about Scottish words.

Jonah – I liked making Scots word posters for our assembly.

Leila – I like the songs for our assembly.

Marley – I like to learn about Scotland.  I learned about the spider story.

Keegan – I liked painting posters for the assembly too.

 

We can’t wait to share our learning with you next Friday (20th at 9.15am).  Please remember that we need something tartan/Scotland themed to wear for our assembly (can the ‘craws’ and the ‘spider’ please bring in a black t-shirt instead – Emily, Regan, Rory and Cameron)

 

Thank you,

Primary 2/1

 

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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!