Lots packed in to a short week in P4l. Amazing art with Mrs Clark on Wednesday. Library, love, logic, pancakes and masks on Thursday and the week ended with Town Criers and shape puzzles. We also created posters for the ‘Big Balbardie Book Swap’ we are going to run on World Book Day, 7th March. If you have any books you don’t read anymore and would be happy to donate to the book swap please bring them in.
Bye for P4l
What a quick week this has been!
We are developing our skill with coordinates and 
played games of finding characters from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ on our ‘map’.
We looked at part of a story from ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and then tried to change it into a script. Mrs. Ghafoor was impressed by how quickly we understood how to do this!
We are ‘attacking’ our project from two angles! We are looking at people in the 16th century and focussing on writing a biography for Mary Queen of Scots. We get to write a biography about a person of our own choice once Mrs. Ghafoor shows us how to do it. This week we completed the front covers for our biographies and next week we will be highlighting important information so that we can write about our Famous Scot.
We also learned that before the Chinese New Year, the Chinese hold FIFTEEN days of festivities finishing with preparation of the ‘Lantern Festival’.
This Sunday is the beginning of the ‘ Year of the Snake’, sooo
Gung Hei Fat Choi!
Hello from P4l
Another week has whizzed by and it is Friday already. We ended the week with some Chinese New Year arts and crafts making super snake spirals and lovely lucky money wallets. Goodbye to Year of the Dragon and hello Year of the Snake.
We used our letter writing skills again this week and were given a free choice as to who we could write to. We amazed Mrs Leamy with our writing skills and thought up some great reasons to write letters from complaints about rabbits to invites for sleepovers. Everyone had a different idea and we showed our skills and creativity all at the same time.
We are continuing our work looking at Mary Queen of Scots and this week focused on her early life. We had a great drama session on Tuesday as we took on roles and recreated her early years.
Wednesday was our last day with Mrs Mooney and we created some amazing art in the form of pointillism paintings and continued our work on ‘Being Cool in School’, looking at cool responses to situations.
Next week we are going to start our trips to the library again, so any books due for the library please bring them and your card on Thursday.
Bye P4l
This week we have had fun in maths with our giant coordiantes floor grid. We learnt about coordinates and played connect four!
We have painted fireworks in the footsteps of Georges Seurat. Your eyes blend the primary colours and this is called pointilism.
We also wrote a poem about shortbread using our senses, but only after tickling our taste buds with shortbread.
Hello Everyone
Brilliant week in P4l, Mrs Leamy is a very proud teacher as everyone has been working very hard and lots of learning going on.
In maths we have been continuing with subtraction and are getting more confident using a range of methods to solve problems. We have started to learn the 4 times table and it is beginning to stick in our brains.
We used our knowledge of Robert Burns and skills learned in our Tools for Writing lesson to write letters to Burns asking questions about his life.
In reading we have been using ‘Reading Keys’ to develop our skills for reading and thinking. We have been working in small groups and are trying out a range of roles developing our collaborative working skills. This week we were dicussing our books and creating mind maps to show what had happened.
On Thursday we took part in the Early Years Story Room and well done everyone on screen and also everyone else for the amazing illustrations and support for their classmates.
Bye for now P4l
Happy Burns Day!!
After looking at the life of Robert Burns this week P4l celebrated in style with a Burns Supper. Rachel and Mhairi piped us into the classroom with their magic bagpipes, Mrs Leamy welcomed everyone then Shaun B said the Selkirk Grace. After that Mrs Jamieson bought in the haggis and it was time to eat. The food was delicious with haggis, neeps and tatties and oatcakes, shortbread and dumpling too. Our after dinner entertainment was provided by Lucy telling us about Burn’s life and Catherine and Sophie reading poetry. Our final act was Eve who showed us some highland dancing. We finished off the celebration with Auld Lang Syne.
This week we have learnt why we have a Burns supper and how to hold a Burns supper. Mrs. Jamieson, very kindly, prepared our very own supper for us. Thank you from P4a!
The results for the poetry competition are:
Ross McPhee and Katie MacMillan were commended and overall winner for P4a was Ava Brown. Well done!
It has been an ext remely hard job choosing three people to go forward for the Poetry Competition. We have finally got our class winners. They are
Ava Brown
Katie MacMillan
Ross McPhee
Congratulations from P4a!
Good Luck!
Hello Everyone
This week on our blog we are going to share some work from our review jotters. We had to reflect upon what we have learned this week and here are some of our entries.
Ava learned that Scotland has 7 cities and she named them Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stirling, Inverness, Perth, Edinburgh and Dundee.
Shaun H, Jamie, Dave and Kerry learned the 10 times table and they were able to write it out in their review jotters.
Becky learned that a fortune means a large amount of money.
Sam and Kelsey wrote about Scottish artists and were able to name Samuel Pepleo as one.
Catherine wrote about Art and how you don’t always have to have lots of detail to make a picture effective.
Teigan learned to dribble through cones in P.E.
With Mrs Mooney Anais learned some 3D shapes and she was able to draw and label a cuboid and sphere.
Sasha and Ray were able to describe what they learned in P.E with Mr Jefferies talking about having a bigger base for better balance.
Jamie N, Joe and Mhairi have learned their 3 times table and wrote it out in full in their review jotters.
Sophie had a great one this week with practise makes perfect!
It has been a great week in P4l, well done everyone.
