This week we began our Chocolate Geology focus. Geology is the study of our planet, Earth; how it was made, what it is made of and how it has changed over time. Chocolate Geology is just the same but all the learning is done through chocolate! This week we explored what was inside the Earth by examining a creme egg and learned how mountains were formed using Oreo cookies. Tidying up after Chocolate Geology lessons is always very tasty!

From The Blog Post Box:

This week I learned…
…how tectonic plates can slide apart from each other or one can slide under another. This is how mountains are made. Lily
…why earthquakes happen. Aaron
..that if you cut the Earth in half you would see three parts, the crust, the mantle and the core – a bit like a creme egg! Eva
…how to play Highland Cathedral on the drums. Craig
…how to add Hundreds, Tens and Units. Erin M
…how to play basketball. Scott

Samantha – We made puppets this week!

Kirsten – We started by sewing the templates together

Liam – People had different puppets. There were Santa Claus’, reindeer, snowmen and penguins!

Sophie – First we went up with the sewing needle, then we went down through the hole. You kept doing this until it was finished.

Noah – It was kind of hard! We got help with this though from others in our class. Samantha helped me.

Ty – The sewing was really easy for me

Kate – We got to stick on the bits on our puppets – like the eyes, arms, noses…

Sophie – Then we made cards to stick on the back of our puppets to show who made them. We drew Christmas pictures!

Brooklyn – We put them to sleep in a box until the Christmas fayre.

Lennox – Night night!

Primary 1b and Primary 1l have been working with Miss Henderson on the Hindu Festival of Diwali which took place a couple of weeks ago.  The children learned about Rama and Sita and the ten headed monster, Ravana who kidnapped Sita, and how the Monkey King, Hanuman saved Sita from the monster and returned her to Rama and this is the reason why Hindu’s celebrate Diwali.  We also made our own Rangoli boxes.  Hindu’s paint rangoli patterns at Diwali to welcome their goddess Lakshmi into their homes as they believe she brings good luck and happiness.  This week Mrs Jamieson helped us to make milk peda (sweets) to put into our boxes and she also made us an Indian Potato Curry to try with naan bread which some of us thought was delicious.  At home time the children were allowed to try out the peda sweets they had made.  Mrs Leamy thought they were really nice.  We would like to say a big thank you to Megan’s gran (P1l) and Isaac and Lauren’s mums (p1b) who very kindly gave up their time to come in and help us with our baking.

Next week we are going to be learning about Thanksgiving celebrations in America.

Boghall 4 Balbardie 5

On Wednesday 13^th November we played Boghall primary. The squad was Sophie M, Declan, Tom, Fraser, Christopher S, Luke, Ewan, Daniel D, Daniel M and Logan. At the start of the match we went down 2-0 but we still kept our heads up, then Declan scored and made it 2-1. Then we scored our next by Logan scoring and making it 2-2. Daniel D scored from behind the halfway line making it 3-2 to Balbardie. Then after half time Boghall scored again making it 3-3. Logan scored again making it 4-3 and then Boghall equalized again. Balbardie scored making it 5-4 with Logan completing his hat-trick and as a result we won! Match report by Sophie McMillan

Captain’s Comment by Sophie McMillan: “Everyone put 100% effort into it and played really well even though the weather conditions were pouring down with rain and really windy. Well done team.”

Manager’s Comment by Mr Berginis: “I’m very proud of how well you represented the school. You showed resilience and desire to win and you played as a team. Keep it up!”

This week we redrafted our Remembrance poems and made a  display outside our classroom. They are our way of showing we remember not only the soldiers who gave their lives in the past but also the soldiers who fight for us every single day across the world.

Our week:

Callum: I enjoyed our lesson about evacuation. We got to experience what it would have been like to be a child evacuated during the war. We all had different things happen to us, some of us had better situations while some had relatives who were killed. It was interesting to see the emotions children felt.

Rabeea: I enjoyed doing long multiplication this week. We were using bigger and bigger numbers and learning how to solve different problems. I also had fun in Drama because we managed to run through the whole of the first act.

Sophie M: My highlight of the week was our school football match against Boghall. We all tried our best, worked as a team and showed we were proud to represent Balbardie.

Christopher A: In Drama, we practised scenes 1-6 and everybody did really well. There was lots of great acting and accents and most had learned their lines off by heart.

Rebecca: We researched famous people from WW2 this week. Louise and I researched Franklin Roosevelt and discovered he was the President of the USA during the war and he had to lead his country through some very tough times.

Isla: I enjoyed doing research on Oskar Schindler this week with Jane. We discovered that he was part of the Nazi party and he worked in a concentration camp but he then helped 1200 Jewish people escape, therefore saving their lives.

Fraser: I enjoyed redrafting my Remembrance poem. I had to choose what order to put my verses in and make sure my rhymes all worked properly. I also really enjoyed researching for my WW2 project this week.

Who has impressed?

Declan: The school football team impressed during our win over Boghall because they put in loads of effort.

Tom: I’m impressed with Fraser who played his first ever game of 7-a sides this week and did well.

Rabeea: Sophie impressed by showing great leadership skills by motivating the football team and leading them to victory.

Isla: Well done to Sam for winning pupil of the week.

Eve: Well done to the Flyers for winning table of the week.

Sophie M: Nicky has impressed by working really hard all this week.

Tom: I’ve been impressed with Josh’s behaviour this week.

Mr Berginis: A big well done to Isla, Dean, Rabeea and Sophie L who are our first four pupils onto step 4.

We can’t believe it is Friday again!

This week we have been learning about our senses of hearing. We listened carefully to different sounds and tried to guess what they were. We also went on a sound walk to find out what sounds we could hear in the classroom and outside. We are also taking this activity home to find out what sounds we can hear in our house.

In writing we wrote fantastic poems using our senses. We imagined we were at a park and we wrote about what we could see, hear, feel, smell and taste. We used wonderful describing words in our writing.

In reading we have been using Steven Story to help us learn about the beginning, middle and end of stories. We read a story called Aliens Love Underpants and sequenced the story using alien masks and real pants! It was good fun.

On Thursday we went on a trip to the library. Some of the children chose some books to take home on their library card. If you would like a library card please fill in a yellow card and we can get a card on our next trip. We are going to the library on the 5th of December and are going to be involved in a vote for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards.

Awards:

Class Dojo: Mya and Caitlin

Star Pupil: Lucy for writing a fantastic poem.

We will find out the winners of Table of the Week on Monday.

• 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

Another week done!

We all deserve a rest this weekend because everyone has worked really hard in P5 this week.

Pupil of the week – Carter W

Table of the week – Minions

Maths –

We have been working really hard to identify the strategies we use when doing mental maths calculations. We have all found this a bit tricky.

Lily – This is really hard but I think I am getting better at talking through the strategies I use.

Ray – I am finding it easier to find the missing number in my sums because we talk a lot about different strategies and I know what ones I need to use.

Topic-

We have used our topic as a focus for our writing this week

Eve – We wrote a letter to a nobleman about the death of Alexander III. I think the Scottish Wars of Independence is a really good topic.

Kerry – I enjoyed making a wanted poster for William Wallace.

HWB –

We all made posters on the theme of friendship. We focussed on words associated with what a good friend is.

We all wrote a post-it note about what happiness is . Here are some of our contributions –

Lucy – Happiness is …..

the smell of a cake                                                                                                          a friend                                                                                                                             love                                                                                                                                        a box of chocolates

Catherine – Happiness is ….

teachers                                                                                                                    laughing                                                                                                                    singing                                                                                                                             family

We have all had a great week although we are sad that we have come to the end of our class novel Gangsta Granny. On the bright side we will start Billionnaire Boy next week.

This week we have had another very busy week. Not only did we start our Literature Circles, we also prepared for a moon landing by designing vehicles and space buildings. Here are a few of our finished products.

It has a camera on the top so that it can take pictures of The Moon. It can move so that it can explore the moon and pick up rocks.