Another busy week in and out of class!

On Saturday it was the Christmas Fayre and we had lots of fun there. The craft items that we made, pom poms, bracelets and reindeer cards, all sold out!

We have been practising our songs for the church service – they are so tricky! We are getting better though!

We have started our new topic – The Broons aroond Scotland. It has been really interesting looking at maps and how they can show different types of information.

We have also been looking at plays and how they are written. We practised in our groups and then performed a scene from the play for everyone in the class. We gave positive comments and then gave suggestions on how to improve their performance for next time. It was great fun!

See you next week.

This has been a challenging but fun week in P4b.

In maths we were learning about capacity; how much something can hold. We had great fun measuring out and working out if different containers held about a litre, less than a litre or more than a liitre. We did not spill any water!

We have started looking at how plays are structured and used highlighters to pick out different parts of a play.

In French we held a carousel and every body spoke French! We had to include saying hello/goodbye, our name and asking somebody else their name and also to ask someone how they were and say how we were feeling. It was great fun.

Apart from this we had a big challenge – we made pom poms for the Fayre. Mrs Ghafoor thought we would be finished in 20 minutes but it was far trickier and actually took a lot longer!  We have also made bracelets and cards but they were so good, most of us have already bought our own items. We do have a selection of fab items left so come along tomorrow to buy them!

The Fayre will be on from 10am – 12pm. See you there!

Our Rocket is called Blazing Blooms. We use it to help us understand what we are reading.

Do you like our questions rocket?

Another busy week in P4b.

This week we looked at the advertising aspects of chocolate. We made slogans for our chocolate bars and then wrote adverts for them. We had to include what they looked like, smelt like and tasted like. (Tasted amazing, we know that!) Mrs Ghafoor was very impressed with the slogans that we came up with. We also made up questions from information given to us about chocolate. We had great fun creating and answering the questions in our groups and getting points for our groups. We have a quiz wall outside the classroom if you would like to answer some of the questions that we created. (Don’t worry, information is there also!)

We have been looking at the Commonwealth Games and have started designing posters for this. We also enjoyed our visit to the library. We now have our Blazing Blooms rocket to help us with our leaning and questioning. We voted for the best name, although Mrs. Ghafoor was ready to cheat if we didn’t vote for her favourite name for the rocket! Luckily our votes matched and Mrs. Ghafoor didn’t have to resort to cheating.

Enjoy your weekend.

P4b

What an amazing assembly we had! It was called ‘The Time Machine’. We had sooooooooo much fun! We think we all worked really hard to learn our lines which was rather tricky as there were lots of names and dates to remember! Miss Goff is so proud of us! Lots of people complimented us after our assembly.

We will be busy making our Christmas Enterprise products next week. We will be making Christmas bracelets at £1.50, Christmas card with envelope at £1.20 and pom pom Christmas tree decorations at £2.00. This week we created our own order forms to take home. So if P4g would like to buy our items next week before the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 30th November please hand in your order form with money by Friday 29th of November.

This week’s Special Person is Gemma because:
• She is the funniest friend ever!
• She is crazy! (Gemma agrees and thinks she’s nuts!)
• She is very entertaining
• She is a hard worker
• She is a chatterbox (Miss Goff agrees!)
• She is a great singer
• She is a really nice friend
• She is very good at maths
• She is lovely
• She is super smart
• She has a fabulous imagination!
• She is very confident
• She is extremely good at talking hehe!
• She always takes part
• She has good ideas
• She has a great sense of humour
• She is epic!

Have a fabulous weekend!
P4g

• Louise – We have enjoyed practising for our assembly. We have been working hard to remember our lines.

• Clara – We painted our clay star from last week with metallic paint. It was fun!

• Louisa – I liked writing this week!

• Olivia – I think writing this week was challenging because we learned the layout of a newspaper and had to write an article from a different perspective.

•Ramsay and Connor – We think we are really good at drawing the lines of symmetry and it was tricky to complete the reflective symmetry pattern.

•Scott – We learned a new game called ‘Battleship Maths’, It was amazing! I also enjoyed learning how to subtract mentally and playing ‘Around the World’ mental maths game.

• Cameron M – We discovered that metals are conductors and plastics and wood are insulators in science this week.

• Lucy and Isla – We have had tremendous fun creating and building our Time Machine for our assembly. Thank you to Miss Fisher who has helped us create it!

This week’s Special Person is Roan because:

• He is good at Minecraft and collecting Moshi Monsters
• He is a fabby dabby do friend
• He is kind
• He is a cool dude and handsome
• He is easy to talk to
• He is cute
• He is amazing at maths and is brainy
• He is good to work with as he shares jobs equally
• He is super at spelling
• He is very funny
• He makes me laugh
• He is extremely helpful
• He is amazing with computers
• He doesn’t make a fuss
• He doenst get involved with arguements and helps others
• He is lovely because he involves everyone in he games
• He makes people happy!

Enjoy your weekend! P4g

P4b RRS is Emma Davidson.

Apologies!

Mrs Ghafoor has invented an entirely new bar! The winning entry was the Chocolate Crunch Bite!

Thank you for your votes! As you can see it was a tricky decision, however the winning entry was the ‘Crispy Crunch Bite’, as decided by the Board of Directors.

Come and see all the wrappers we designed!

Today we made the chocolate bars and were allowed to modify the ingredients slightly. We worked cooperatively as teams and made the decisions together. The chocolate bars look delicious!

We have also been learning about different types of questions and how to use them effectively. We can now identify three types of questions. They are simple questions, true/false questions and multiple choice questions.

Enjoy your week.

week 1;

Spooky School!

We had lots of Hallowe’en fun! We worked cooperatively in trios to design and carve Hallowe’en pumpkins. Some had one eye, some had three eyes and lots had scary cracks and scars! The inside of the pumpkin was squidgy and slimy! We also enjoyed Hallowe’en arts, crafts and puzzles.

Last week was what we had all been waiting for…animation week! We worked very excitedly to make our animations. Some of us brought in figures and backgrounds from home and some of us made our characters out of plasticiene. We learned to move our characters slightly and take a photo each time to blend it all together into a movie. It is called stop motion. We also explored with the ‘Lego Movie’ app to add special effects and music. We loved your idea Mrs Spence of having a screening to watch each other’s animation, especially with popcorn! We have dropping hints to Miss Goff haha!

Well done to everyone as we ALL kept our Golden Time last week!

Last week’s Special Person is Andrew because:

• He is good at playing Minecraft
• He is sweet
• His behaviour is spectacular
• He is a very caring and thoughtful boy
• He doesn’t like to see anyone hurt or upset
• He is a good friend
• He works very hard in class
• He likes to play with new people
• He includes everyone is games
• He always has good ideas
• He tries hard to concentrate
• He is lovely
• He is handsome
• He is very confident
• He is funny!
• He is a very good listener
• He is a cool dude!

Isla and Connor

Week 2:

We wrote a set of instructions about how to carve a pumpkin. We enjoyed writing this week!

In maths we learned about subtraction with 2 digit numbers with exchange and problem solving. It was challenging.

We made clay stars in Art which where we had to portray different expressions. Miss Goff had to guess what the expression was to see if we achieved our Success Criteria.

In gym, we learnt 2 different passes in basketball; a bounce pass and a chest pass.

Jessie got the P4 Most Valuable Player from Mr Jeffries for October. Well Done!

Scott got the Pupil of the Week for identifying and suggesting super synonyms during a carousel activity.

This week’s Special Person is Lexis because:

• She is fantastic to work with
• She is fun to play with
• She is nice
• She is very funny
• She is a good friend who always stands up for her friends
• She is never scared of helping people
• She gives fantastic cuddles
• She is easy to talk to
• She is very kind, helpful and thoughtful
• She is a cheeky monkey
• She is good at karate
• She is very friendly to everybody in the class
• She is not afraid to be herself
• She is cute
• She is lovely
• She is amazing at trying new things
• She is intelligent and always tries hard
• She is EPIC!

A group of children went on an adventure around the school, looking for nouns. Our best one was a trolley! We also met some people along the way and learned names are proper nouns!

A few people went to Fireworks displays for Guy Fawkes Night.

We enjoyed a fabulous assembly by P5m who told us the story of Guy Fawkes and how to be careful around fireworks.

We have been practicing for our assembly on the 22^nd November – don’t miss it!

Have a fab weekend!

Scott, Ben, Olivia and Andrew

This week we have been busy with our invention of chocolate topic.

We looked at maths problems and tried to work out different combinations that we could get using three ingredients.  We also worked out how much it would cost to buy the different combinations of ingredients!

We investigated how to make a Cherry Choo  Chocolate Bar, discussed the process of making the bar and then had to teach the ‘Idiot Alien’ how to make the chocolate bar. The problem was that the Alien would only do exactly what you told him to. It was very tricky to make sure no steps were missed out and the Alien understood how to make the chocolate bar.

We now have an overall winner of the chocolate bar wrapper design. Why you don’t you vote and tell us which wrapper you like?

We also had great fun when Callum came to give us a taster session on Karate. He showed us how to count in Japanese as well as some basic moves.

Enjoy your weekend!

In P4b we have had an exciting week with looking at the invention of chocolate and it’s history. We have worked very hard in our new teams to invent a new chocolate bar using different ingredients. Next week we will judge the wrappers that we made for the chocolate bars.

Have a great weekend!

We had fun painting our clay fish that we made last week. We used various coloured paints to create colour patterns.

We had lots of fun at the handball festival. It was great scoring goals and playing against other schools. Thank you to all the parent and grandparents for coming along to support us!

We also went on the LIDL health bus to make delicious fruit smoothies. We then played healthy exercise games in the playground including banana tig and Get the Fruit. Thank you to the LIDL staff!

This week we had fun visiting the library again and getting new books.

A 6^th year pupil called Grant from Bathgate Academy visited our class to teach us all about animations. He showed us some animations that he created himself. It was very interesting! You can find his animations on the internet: youtube, Bionicle the release and Google, The Tail of the Lobster Tail Helmet. We are looking forward to making our own animations after the October holidays!

This week’s Special Person is Louise because:

• She is really kind
• She doesn’t cause a fuss
• She is a really good friend
• She works hard
• She is gentle
• She is very clever
• She has excellent behaviour
• She is always ready to learn
• She speaks in a kind way
• She is very pretty
• She is fantastic role model to others
• She is the funniest friend ever!
• When people are sad she always makes them feel better
• She likes having a laugh
• She is very creative
• She is super!
• She is an excellent partner

We have had an outstanding week!

Enjoy your holidays!

P4g

This week we for story writing we had free choice and got to make up our own story. It was fun having the freedom to choose our own titles. We had the choice of personal, imaginative and functional writing.

On Thursday we did problem solving related to money week. In our trios we had to find at least 10 ways of making up money totals e.g. 10 ways to make up 67p using 1p, 2p, 5p, 10, 20p and 50p coins. It was easy at first but hard to find the 8^th, 9^th and 10^th way as we were running out of options!

We went to judo and had lots of fun. The instructor was really funny! Ramsay brought in his Judo medals to share as he goes to the same judo club. Well done Ramsay!

On Wednesday at art time we made clay fish. We learned to sculpt and imprint patterns. Next week we are looking forward to painting them once they have set.

At gym this week we learnt more about handball in preparation for the handball festival next Wednesday. It was really, really fun!

Lastly, we were testing lots of different solids’s solubility in science this week. Solubility means it dissolves and disappears in water. We learned that stirring and using hot water speeds up this process. We learned a new word; hypothesis, it means tohave a guess/predict. We discovered that sugar, salt, flour and certain medicine tablets are soluble. This linked in with Alexander Flemming inventing penicillin, very interesting!

This week’s special person is……. Cameron Muir because:

• He is my bestest friend in the world (Scott)
• He is really helpful
• He gives really really really really tight hugs
• He is really funny
• He works hard
• He is nice to talk to
• He is kind
• He is beautiful
• He likes having a laugh
• He is a cool dude!
• He likes to play nicely with everyone
• He is very laid back
• He is a clever boy
• He is crazy (Cameron agrees!)
• He is very sporty and is good at sport
• He is very thoughtful
• He is a cheeky monkey (Cameron also agrees!)

We had a very fun week!!!

Annie and Madeleine

This week we picked the potatoes we planted last year for our farming topic. We then learned how to peel potatoes and chop them. Together we made potato and leek soup with a special help from Mrs Jamieson. Thank you Mrs Jamieson! It was yummy!

We painted Autumn pictures using autumn colours…red, orange, green, brown and yellow. We included autumn animals and fallen leaves.

In maths we did problem solving in our problem solving trios. We used the strategy ‘draw a picture’ to solve the problem. This involved colouring flags in different ways using only four colours. We had to make sure no two flags matched. It was tricky at first however once we worked out a pattern it became easier.

During topic, we were learning about the invention of the aeroplane by the Wright Brothers. We learned that they faced three problems when inventing: flight, control and power. We were challenged to make paper airplanes looking at the structures of our planes e.g. body, wings, tail and folding. It was a competition to see whose one went the furthest, and Ben won! His was amazing!

Lastly, we had to invent our own food or drink and think of a catchy name and slogan for it. We made an advertising poster to advertise it. It made us feel pretty hungry afterwards!

This week’s Special Person is Sarah because:

• She thinks about other people
• She has amazing art skills
• She is really kind
• She always shares
• She isn’t afraid to say something nice
• She is lovely
• She is super!
• She has lovely manners
• She is a good friend to me (Ben)
• She makes people laugh
• She always wants to play and plays nicely
• She is very helpful
• She is confident
• She always looks out for people especially her friends
• She has a lovely big smile
• She is smart
• She is extraordinary!

 Enjoy your weekend!

Scott and Clara

In maths this week we have been learning about division and we also discovered that not all dividing sums equally divide and that means you get a remainder. Remainders are what is left over.

For spelling we have been doing telephone spelling and we challenged each other by trying to decode each others spelling words! We enjoyed it!

For story writing we did Writer’s Craft where we had to create our own chapter of George’s Marvellous Medicine. We were challenged to write an alternative plot of what happened to Grandma when she ate George’s Medicine! It was very fun!

We learned how to use the new netbooks to research famous inventors.  We learned that John logie baird invented the television for home entertainment and Alexander Flemming invented Penicillin which is an antibiotic that fights off infections.

Our five class ipads were delivered yesterday and we are very excited to use them to support our learning next week.

This week’s Special Person is Jane because:

• She is very kind
• She is beautiful
• She is a kind friend
• She has fun sleepovers!
• She always smiles
• She produces outstanding and amazing work!
• She is lovely
• She is not fussy
• She works very hard in school
• She always pays attention to the teacher
• She is very friendly
• Even though she is shy, she always tries to be confident (Jane agrees!)
• She is helpful to others during maths time
• You will hardly ever see her involved in an argument
• She has lovely blues eyes
• She is greater than great!

Enjoy your September weekend!

Louise and Geo

This week in maths we have been learning about division and times tables. We learned that multiplication and division are linked by rearranging the three numbers around.

 In story writing we have been learning about punctuation. This included full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, speech marks, commas and new one we learned was ellipsis. We used ellipsis in our writing to create suspense and make our stories exciting. We had to write an imaginative story about ‘The Invention’ to link in with our class novel ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. Some inventions we invented was time machines, food that made people shrink and a multi-gadget rocket… (ellipsis haha!)

 We also would like to thank Mrs Jamieson for coming into our class with her Knex boxes and setting us a challenge to make a useful invention for the future. It was lots of fun! Next time she comes in she is going to bring motor so our creations can have moving parts.

This week’s special person is Geo because:

• He is the Greatest Friend ever!
• He always listens to the teacher
• He is funny!
• He is a fantastic best friend (Scott)
• He is very good a playing Minecraft on his tablet
• He is the Greatest Cousin in the World!
• He is cute
• He is more excellent than excellent at being a good friend
• He is sometimes cheeky (but in a funny way!, Geo agrees!)
• He is a very fast runner
• He is awesome
• He is supportive
• He is a lovely friend
• He is helpful
• He is a very good friend
• He is super
• He is a good big brother!

Enjoy your weekend

lexis and Cameron M

Primary 4g…

In maths this week we have been learning about 3D shapes! This included shape properties such as vertices, edges and faces. We made 3D shapes out of art straws and also made them with paper from their nets.

In story writing, we have been writing an imaginative story called ‘The Cottage in the Woods’. We draw a mind map to plan our stories.

In art, we drew a portrait of a friend learning how to draw a face in proportion. We then made a speech bubble about our rights and actions to stick on the mouths to make our Class Charter.

In the creative area we made lots of things! The best one was when we glued down something like a star in the outline and put glitter on it and you had a glitter picture. Miss Goff said there was more glitter on us and the floor than there was on our picture!

Our Class Novel this term is ‘Georges Marvellous Medicine’. Our class loves the book. His grandma is funny!

This week’s Special Person is Annie because:

• She is astonishing
• She is kind
• She is nice and beautiful
• She is a lovely friend
• She is very helpful
• She is always having a laugh with you
• She always lets people play
• She is my superhero (Olivia)
• She is a star!
• She is funny
• She looks like a movie star
• She always helps others with their work
• She helps with arguments
• She helps people solve their problems
• She is awesome
• She isn’t fussy
• She always thinks of others feelings!

Have a lovely weekend!

Lucy and Roan

This has been an extremely busy week.

On Monday we had a special treat as Hibs Football Players Alan Maybury and Andy Kirk came along to teach us football skills. We had great fun even though the weather decided it was going to be cold and dull!

Our bowling was cancelled but we got to go on the ‘Giant Walking bus’ instead. We had to come up with a logo very quickly and we all decided that Cameron’s logo was fantastic – ‘You Speed, We Bleed!’

This week we learnt about the digestive system and on Thursday we did an experiment to see how the digestive system works. It was  ‘gross’, ‘disgusting’, ‘cool’, ‘sick’ ‘amazing’ and ‘minted’ depending on who’s view you listened to ! We all had great fun though. We had to make the best poo in our groups but Mrs. Ghafoor couldn’t decide on a winning entry so there were five joint first places!

Can you decide?!