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Here are some highlights of our week:
Jack – I have had some nice days. Me and my mum made the same slime at home that we made at school
Sarah – We made goopy stuff in Science!
Elena – I have enjoyed our Spelling books
Luke – I want to work my hardest to get 3 points
Akasha – I like my Dojo monster. It is black and orange
Daniel – I liked making the goopy stuff at school
Hollie – I liked that I was STAR OF THE WEEK because I did excellent writing
Rheagan – I liked making the slime

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P3A

This week has been our first week in Primary 3A. Here are some of the things that we have enjoyed this week and some things that we are excited about learning this year.

Luke – I am looking forward to learning more Science.
Charlotte – I am looking forward to learning more about our Rights.
Hollie – I am looking forward to Writing.
Akasha – I am looking forward to doing some Writing.
Archie – I liked when we were learning about making clean water.
Sarah – I am looking forward to Golden Time.
Artjom – I am looking forward to exploring more animals in the playground.
Maddison – I like Big Maths.
Daniel – I am looking forward to learning more Science.
Jude – I am excited for my day off school tomorrow.
Elena – I am looking forward to school trips.

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Ava – I had a really good time at the teddy bear picnic and we were supposed to go outside because it was raining. We had food and snacks. We read a story!
Hamish – We had a teddy bear picnic and we brung our teddies into school for the picnic.
Matthias – We were eating lots of sweets and crisps and we brung in our teddies. Some people didn’t bring in their teddies, so we shared them. We were celebrating summer!

Evie – These awards were for Sports Day and because we were racing so fast. We were trying to win!
Ava – I was 1st place in the sack race and I was 3rd in the egg and spoon race.
Matthias – Some people got 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Then we got lots of pictures and awards.

Scott – We were making buckets and we could colour it in after when we were finished.
Emma – We were doing our writing in the bucket and after we did our writing we got to cut them out.
Hamish -We were writing what we wanted to do in the summer holidays.
Matthias – We said what we wanted to do, who you wanted to see and where you wanted to go. Some people accidentally cut off their bucket handles, so Miss Waddell had to tape them together again.

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Reiss – We were learning how rain is made.

Caitlin – This was the water cycle.

Matthias – How rain happens is that the sun is so hot and tiny pieces of rain goes up to the sky and it turns into clouds. Sometimes it makes snow.

Emma – The rain was pouring down the clouds and we did an experiment and we took photos.

Ava – We had water, blue food colouring and shaving cream. When you add the food colouring you could see the cloud was getting heavy and it started to rain.

Hamish – When the tiny bits of water go up it’s called evaporation.

Lily – When the tiny bits of water go together and make clouds it’s called condensation.

Caitlin – When it falls down it is called precipitation.

Hamish – Everyone was looking at the experiment and we liked it.

On Wednesday it was Move on Day!

Caitlin – We were doing Rainbow Writing in Primary 2.

Evie – We made our names for our new trays.

Ava – We played a game where we had to roll the dice and say our names and something about us.

Emma – We also got to play with the play-doh and making stuff with it.

Evie – We were writing invitations to our teddies for our teddy bear picnic!

Ava – Our teddy bear picnic is on Monday in the tellytubby garden and if it is nice weather then we will have a real life picnic in school. If the weather is not nice then we will stay in the classroom.

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Noah – On Wednesday it was Sports Day and there were different races to win. The first race was just running, there was also an egg and spoon race. There was also a sack race and a rally race.

Emma – We had Sports Day and we did lots of races.

Matthias – There were lots of people who were trying their best. I was running for the House Point race. My daddy tried to race too, but I think he was second last.

Evie – When we were doing the sack race, lots of people were falling over and some people were not.

Maksim – I was fourth place in the sack race.

Marcus – In the sack race some people got hurt by falling.

Josh – At the egg and spoon race we had a potato instead and we had to walk slowly to the finish line.

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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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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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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!!

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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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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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Our learning in Primary 1b

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”

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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”

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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” ”

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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”

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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”

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

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Our week in P1b

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

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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

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

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