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We enjoyed making our Mothers Day cards this week. We can’t wait to give them to our mums on Sunday!

We entered the WLC Scotland Now art competition. We made a list of possible places to draw then had a vote. The winning vote was Urquart castle at Loch Ness. We even added the Loch Ness Monster to our drawings. We had to all the detail of the lake, mountains and castle and blend and shade when colouring. Miss Goff was really proud of everyone’s entries and found it really difficult to choose the top three! The three that was chosen was Ella, Isla and Sarah, Well Done!

Our next stop around the world was Japan. We really enjoyed working in both Miss Goff and Mrs Ghafoor’s class to learn about Japan. We did some fun activities including Japanese fans, origami helmet, painting Japanese calligraphy and designing our own kimono. We are really looking forward to our next country…America! We can’t wait to act out a Broadway musical!!!

This week’s Special Person is Ramsay because:

• He is caring
• He is nice to others
• He is great person to talk to
• He is strong and stands up for himself
• He is awesome and a cool dude
• He is energetic and full of fun!
• He is very hard working
• He is really funny!
• He is kind and gives good cuddles!
• He is a cheeky monkey (Ramsay agrees)
• He is epic
• He is good at cheering people up!
• He works hard to improve his behaviour
• He is good at solving problems
• He is never unhappy
• He is fun to play with and we couldn’t imagine the class without him!

Question of the week: What is your favourite object in the world and why?

Have a lovely weekend

Jane

This week we have been studying India as part of our topic ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. The best part of the week was when we joined up with P4b and rotated around three exciting tasks. These included dress up in children’s traditional Indian clothing, art picture of the Taj Mahal, making and tasting chapatti and dahl curry and lastly designing our own henna tattoos and having them painted on the palm of our hands! We also learned that the most common form of transport in India is rickshaws and there is no legal limits of the number of people on public transport so people can just jump on anywhere at their own risk and not even wear a seatbelt! Also, there are certain areas and certain times of the days where electricity has to be shared so not everyone across the whole country gets electricity at the same time. This is called shed loading. Another fun task was learning how to Bollywood dance to a song Chaiyya Chaiyya.

Look at our amazing henna tattoos:

This week’s Special Person is Kiera because:

• She is the bestest and most greatest friend I could ever have (Gemma).
• She is very funny!
• She is nice and caring to all of her friends.
• She is cool in school!
• She is pretty.
• She is cute.
• She works hard in class.
• She is a good person to talk to when you have a problem.
• She always has a smile on her face and makes us smile.
• She is kind to everyone.
• She is very helpful.
• She is interesting to talk to.
• She is a fast runner and shares during sport games.
• She is fun to play with because she has a good imagination and invents fun games!
• She is always gives 100%.

Question of the Week: Do you know any interesting facts to share with us about a foreign country?

Have a blast this weekend!

P4g

Here is what some of us thought about the open morning:

Scott – I enjoyed working with my mum to complete the fact wall about ‘Around the World’. I learned that the 50 stars on the American flag represent the 50 states of America.

Clara – I enjoyed doing research about different countries using the netbooks and library books.

Louise – I learned that France is a hot country and there are famous mountains called the Alps in Italy and it is covered with snow at the top and is a very very cold up there.

Lexis – In Spain there fashion is based on bright colour especially red and yellow.

Cameron B – I learned that Jamaica has more beaches than cities.

Isla – it was nice to work with mum and dad today to do tasks together and for them to share their knowledge.

Jane – I liked my mum seeing my class today.

Question of the Week: What do you know now that you didn’t know this time last week?

See you next week!

P4g

We had a short but fun week.

We started our new topic of around the world in 80 days.

We are going to study this through the eBook written by Michael Palin. It should be great fun as long as the internet doesn’t go down again! We started our journey in London, Pall Mall. We discovered that Pall Mall was actually a game played in the 17th century; it was a cross between croquet and golf. We made rules up for the game and some of us had a chance to play this in the corridor outside the classroom. The rest of us will get a chance later on. From London we went through France and then into Switzerland. We found that the Swiss alps are here and one of the mountains is called the Matterhorn. The Matterhorn is shaped like a square based pyramid and ‘Banner’ clouds form at the top. We made our own Matterhorn from ‘nets’. Mr Jeffries has climbed the mountains around the Matterhorn and was able to recognise the mountains from the features of the Matterhorn.

We have also started to learn to ‘Be cool in school’ and to recognise the three responses that we can give to any situation.

Enjoy your weekend.

This week in p4g we have been looking at the Broons and have made comic strips of our own family! We had to include speech bubbles, sound bubbles, thought bubbles and connectives to link the boxes.

We have also made a book about ourselves, here is a list of what is inside: house floor plan, family tree, factfile of ourself, house for sale and character cow and a family comic.

This week for our review jotter we were writing about how we cooperate in school. We co-operate by sharing, taking turns, being kind, listening to others, offering a friend a shoulder to cry on, not leaving anyone out and always taking part in a group challenge.

Our popcorn tub is nearly full wooooohoooooo! We have been working hard to be kind and show respect, let others share their ideas and keeping the classroom tidy.

We have started a new class novel called ‘Gansta Granny’ by David Walliams. It is very exciting and awesome.

During language sessions this week we were learning to be a ‘Discussion Duck’ where we had to work in partners to create 5 different OPEN-ended questions on the ‘Hodgeheg’ then ask other partners to answer our questions.

For dance this week we learned the ‘Dashing White Sergeant’. It involved 6 people in each reel and you need to be very energetic!

For Science we watched a video all about the human skeleton and we had to take note and remember as many facts as we could to label the bones of the skeleton. We learned that the human body has 206 bones, a baby is born with 300 bones then they join together, the longest bone in the body is called the femur and the largest bone is the pelvis.

Our ICT challenge this week was to begin making a powerpoint presentation on our favourite celebrities. Miss Goff showed us how to add slides, photographs and text. She even showed us how to add animations to make our powerpoint more interesting! We will present our presentations in the next few weeks.

This week’s Special Person is Isla because:

• She is a really good friend.
• She has a great smile.
• She is my bestest friend ever as she is always kind to me (Ben)
• She is super listener.
• She is helpful to everyone.
• She shows good behaviour and good manners.
• She is forever confident.
• She is very close to her friends and shows them respect.
• She is very funny!
• She is really good at making up playground games.
• She is a cheeky monkey (Isla totally agrees and thinks her parents will agree too!).
• She shows good co-operation.
• She has a great sense of humour.
• She has a very caring nature.
• She always tries her best (Miss Goff agrees!)
• She is good at taking part in everything.

Question of the Week – Who is your favourite celebrity and why?

See you next week!

Cameron B and Kiera H

This week we wrote our newspaper reports about the loch Ness monster and also looked at Aberdeen. Aberdeen has a famous amusement park called ‘Cordona’ and we got to design a ride for it. We had to describe what the ride was.

We also did freeze frame in drama, Mrs Ghafoor took pictures and we are going to use these for creating our own personal comic strips.

Here are some of our thoughts:

David: We learned about Aberdeen and it’s amusement park.

Zoe: The Pentagons have a maths challenge; to have the fastest times table recall. (If you get an answer within 3 seconds you know your times tables!)

Iona: We’ve had fun with our Coordinates grid. We play connect 4 but have to write the coordinates before we can put the counters down.

Evie: French club is doing great as we are learning lots of new French words.

William: We made posters for ‘Day for Change 2014’ which told about Angita and the cyclone. We all made sure we helped by bringing in our £1.

Enjoy your weekend.

Our week flew by so quickly – it’s Monday again!

We researched interesting places to visit in Edinburgh and completed our posters which will tempt tourists to come and visit Edinburgh. We then used this knowledge to write postcards as if we were on holiday in Edinburgh! We also looked at how newspapers are set as we’ll be writing our own news article this week.

In maths we are still busy learning our maths facts and we are getting better and quicker. Today we got to play on our giant, floor grid. We played in teams and had to ‘connect 4’ to win. It was great fun.

In art we created a sponge sea backdrop for our silhouetted Nessie. They look really cool.

Bye for now.

This week we made yummy shortbread. We had to follow the recipe exactly and learned knew baking words like cream, score and press. Thank you to Mrs McNeill for doing this with us. Miss Goff said she was so proud of us and gave our class 50 popcorn seeds as Mrs McNeill said our behaviour was fantastic and she had a very enjoyable afternoon with us!

For storywriting this week we added to our personal writing booklet. We had to try and sell our own house using persuasive language! We really enjoyed this activity and here are a few examples of our powers of persuasion:

–      This house has lovely qualities with two amazing stained glass windows and a stunning dining room. It also has three fabulous bedrooms with sunlight shining in every morning. (Louise)

–      This house has a lovely relaxing bathroom and the biggest bedroom has an en-suite. There is a dining room with a beautiful view onto the beautiful garden. It is so nice you just can’t miss it! (Jane)

Would you buy these houses???

Also this week we enjoyed making up a dance to Calvin Harris’ Bounce! We choose our own teams with mixed boys and girls then performed to each other. The most popular dance move was fist pumping in the air haha! We even asked Miss Goff if we could continue to work on dance.

For art we were asked to blend colours of black and white to make various shades of grey. We then painted a portrait of Robert Burns. Here are a few of our paintings:

Lastly we have finished our 3D map of Scotland. What do you think?

This week’s Special Person is Kiera H because:

• She is the bestest friend in the whole world (Kiera B)
• She has a great personality
• She is very kind to all of us
• She is helpful
• She is very smart and helps others with their learning
• She has a good sense of humour
• She has a vivid imagination
• She is a good team player (playing Pickles well in a game)
• She is a fabulous performer! She can dance, she can sing and she can act!
• She has a great nature!
• She is very confident in front of an audience
• She is very friendly to everyone
• She is a very good role model
• She is very helpful and caring to the little ones in our school
• She is cute and pretty!
• She is awesome!

Question of the Week: If you were to meet Robert Burns, what question would you ask him?

Have a super duper weekend!

P4g

Last weeks highlights were:

• Starting a personal writing booklet. So far we have done a fact file and a family tree. It will be available to see on parents night.
• Testing our sense of taste. We had to guess the flavour of crisps with and without holding our nose to see if that made a difference. It did!!! Your sense of smell is also used as your sense of taste when you are eating.
• Learning about place value in maths. We did 1000(t),100(h),10(t),1(u) it was really fun!
• We had a trip to the church and learned lots of facts. Mr McDonald gave us a guided tour and played the loud organ for us. We learned about the pulpit, lectern, font and the communion table. We also sang a few hymns. Thanks Mr McDonald!

• Enjoying a very fun PE lesson including buildy tig ,hoop ball and cross the channel
• Olivia winning the Burns poetry competition. Well done!
• Madeleine sharing some highland dancing with us. She put on her dancing outfit and showed us her best moves, it was fun to watch!
• Learning about Scotland and doing Scottish activities with Miss Bollen and her Primary 1 class. We learned m any Scottish words for clothes or should we say claes and enjoyed playing a waashin machin game where we had to load the waashin machin and burl roon and roon! Also we worked well together helping the Primary ones learn a traditional Scottish dance called the Gay Gordons. We like to learn more dances.

This week’s Special Person is Cameron B because:

• He is the bestest friend in the world
• He has a big cheesy smile
• He is funny
• He is a very fast runner
• He is caring and thoughtful
• He is excellent at maths
• He is friendly to other people
• He is helpful to everyone
• He is epic
• He is great at drawing
• He is good to play with because he invents good games
• He is a cheeky monkey (Cameron agrees!)
• He is very kind and smart
• He always cheers sad people up
• He sticks up for his friends
• He always remembers his manners
• He always has good ideas and never runs out of them!

Hope your week was as good a ours!

Sarah and Ella

Another jam packed week!

This week we finished off writing our Scots poems about animals. They wur really guid!  We  learnt about Robert Burns; who he was and why he is so important. We looked at poems that he wrote as well as other Scots poems. We all had a chance to present our poems to the rest of the class and Mrs Ghafoor had a really tough choice picking three of the best to go forward to the Burns Poetry Final. On Friday we learnt about the Burns supper and learnt that this is held all over the world but it follows the same layout everywhere!

Our class finalists were Kari Nixon, Christopher Drysdale and James Cochrane.

James Cochrane was the overall Winner in P4b.

Well done to all who tried – the standard was very high!

We ended our week by holding our own Burns Supper. We listened to Scottish music and tried Haggis, neeps an’ tatties. Some of us loved the haggis and some of us were a ‘wee bit feared’! We recited Scots poetry and finished with”‘Three Craws’. We heard this in the P2 assembly. P2 did a fantastic job with their singing – even when technology let them down!  A great assembly P2.

Thank you very much to Mrs White, Mrs Murray and Mrs Meek for making our supper and serving us this special dish!

Enjoy your weekend.

Another busy week for us.

This week we looked at where and how grid references are used.  We also had a look at ‘Billy Bug’which helped us with grid references. Our 3D UK map was completed – it was very tricky painting the mountains and land around it because the outlines had become faded when making it 3D. It’s now complete and ready to use! In art we used blending to create different shades of colour for our houses – we are getting quite good at mixing and  blending to create different shades of colours.

We are learning our Big Maths facts and have already shown an improvement in our results! We need to practice our number bonds and times tables to get better. We played bingo using numbers in French and that was lots of fun.

We have been looking at the Synagogue and why it is an important place for people of the Jewish faith. We liked the ’10 Commandments’ that they have as they are simple rules to follow – just like our Golden Rules.

We have worked very hard at home and at school to remember our Scots poems – three winners from the class will go on to the finals on Monday. We have also been looking at Scots words and what they mean. We will use this in our writing next week.

Next week: P.E will be on Thursday afternoon instead of Monday afternoon.

Enjoy your weekend.

We started off the New Year creating a class Promise Tree of our New Year Resolutions. Some of them was to be nicer to brother/sisters, cut out chocolate and fizzy drinks and switching the TV off and doing more exercising.

We enjoyed learning about Scotland this week. We liked drawing Edinburgh Castle using charcoal, writing postcards from Scottish destinations and reading The Broons comics. We were asked to research famous Scottish landmarks and make a 3D model of it and locate it on the map. Please visit our class to see our 3D map if your are passing.

Next week we are going to choreograph a dance to the Scottish artist Calvin Harris and learn Traditional Scottish Country dances to teach to the Primary 1s in Miss Bollen’s class.

This week’s Special Person is Ben because:

• He is very kind to everyone
• He is a very good friend
• He is playful
• He is funny!
• He is very clever
• He is very very very good at origami
• He is a great playtime buddy
• He is a good cuddle monster!
• He is thoughtful
• He is fascinated with dinosaurs and knows a lot of facts
• He has a big lovely smile
• He has many great talents including magic tricks
• He is my best friend ever (Ramsay)
• He is good at making interesting lego models
• He shows outstanding behaviour!
• He has a good sense of humour
• He is great at cheering people up!!!

What a good first week back and we are having fantastic time in P4g!

Jessie, Louisa and Kiera B

Happy New Year!

We are rearing to go again!

This week we have been busy looking at 3D maps and are in the process of creating a 3D UK map. It took patience and teamwork!

We have also been working hard in maths learning our times tables and subtraction facts. These will help us in our Big Maths Beat That tests.

We have also started looking at who Robert Burns was and why he is important to Scots as part of our Scotland Topic. We painted a portrait of Robert Burns using skills taught by Mrs Laidlaw. We were only allowed black and white paint and had to mix and blend to create other shades of grey. They look very good. We hope Mrs Laidlaw is as impressed as Mrs Ghafoor is by our effort.

Have a great weekend.

We have had another fun week in school.

Monday was our school party and we had lots of different games and yummy food.

Tuesday was a hard work day as we had spelling, reading, maths and topic work to do! This was also our last day with Mrs Kelly. Her placement finished and we know we will miss her as she helped us a lot with our work.

On Wednesday we practiced our new spelling words. In French we were learning about the different words for Christmas things. We also made Christmas cards for Mrs Kelly.

Today, Thursday, we worked on our posters for the Commonwealth Games with Mr. Jefferies, completed a survey on how we felt, and continued with our tricky surprise Christmas cards. In the afternoon, we went to the Regal Theatre to watch Aladdin. It was awesome. We got back just in time for packing our bags to go home!

Tomorrow is the Golden Club Event!

We do keep busy!