Emma – We have been reading books in the library and visiting the book fair. I have been reading lots of books.

Caitlin – At Shared Start we share our learning with parents.

Josh – We were at a book fair and we were looking at books and we can buy them at the school office.

Matthias – We were reading books at the office and then we had to choose what book we wanted for money and we had to tell our mum and dad if we wanted a book. Then the mums and dads might say yes or no.

Jacob – We also did a wordsearch with our parents at Shared Start and we were searching for Growth Mindset words.

Matthias – Growth Mindset is saying that you can do something, and not “I can’t do this” or “This is too hard”.

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Josh – We made flower pictures whilst printing with bottles and little foam printers
Matthias – We had to make some nice flowers
Ava – We got paint and printed them onto paper with the bottles and made flowers

Evie – We were outside doing Maths and PE and we played a game. We had to clap 3 times and guess what the other person was going to do
Matthias – The game was used in Nigeria and they don’t have any toys so they don’t need them. Someone is the leader and whoever gets the same as the leader becomes to leader. It’s like rock, paper, scissors

Caitlin – We were learning symmetry and we were saying it something was symmetrical or not by saying “yes” or “no”

Lewis – We were learning about directions
Reiss – We worked with a partner and they closed their eyes whilst we helped give them directions. They moved how many spaces that we said.

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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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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!

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

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

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

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!

We have also been learning about o’clock and half past time!

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.

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!

PUPIL OF THE WEEK: Maksim Djakovs for being super at telling o’clock and half past time! Well done!!

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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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Lewis: “We made posters”
Lily: “We made a Christmas Show poster”
Matthias: “We had to put the title, the time and the date”
Max: “We also had to draw a picture of the reindeer”
Lily: “It was a picture of Ralph the reindeer”

You can find our class posters around the Primary 1 area!

Caitlin: “On Wednesday we made soap pictures with our buddies and we were not to drink it”
Emma: “You need water and paint”
Kyle: “You also need cups”
Noah: “And a straw”
Caitlin: “And some washing up liquid. You blow the bubbles and then press your paper into the bubbles and it prints them on the paper!”

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On Monday was the talent show – “The Balbardie Factor”
Hamish – “I played my music. My two pieces were Jingle Bells and Swan Lake”
Evie – “I liked Hamish’s talent”
Noah – “I liked when Justin did his hand stands”
Lily – “I liked the dancing”

On Tuesday it was Shared Start!
Lewis – “Shared Start is when mums and dads can come”
Gracie – “We were sharing our learning”
Caitlin – “It was all about making our brains strong”
Maksim – “It was also about not knowing something YET”
Max – “Not telling our brains bad stuff, we should tell it good stuff”
Caitlin – “We should say things like “I can learn lots of things” ”

We also did a science experiment called “The Snowman’s coat”
Reiss – “We wanted to see what melted the fastest”
Ava – “One water bottle had a cloth on it and one didn’t. We wanted to see what would melt faster”
Hamish – “The water bottle with the coat had the least amount of water”
Maksim – “The one with no coat melted faster”

We made invitations to our Primary 1 Christmas Show
Taylor – “An invitation is like when you invite someone to your party”
Kyle – “We made invitations to go home”

Our Christmas Shows are on Tuesday 13th December at 2:30pm and on Wednesday 14th December at 9:30am

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Caitlin – We read the story “The hot air balloon” and then we had to draw our favourite part of the story. Miss Wilson is going to put our pictures in a competition and someone will win.
Ava – We were reading a book and drawing pictures

Kyle – We drew mittens
Lily – We were colouring them in and drawing shapes. We made patterns
Reiss – We had to challenge ourselves and try to make both our mittens symmetrical

Hamish – The sounds we were learning this week were “r” and “l”
Max – Here is a picture of my rabbit

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