This week we were very excited to welcome our parents and families into our classroom.  We had lots of fun working on money tasks with them.   We sorted coins, made coin rubbings, coloured in and completed giant coins, counted coin collections, played money board games and games on the smartboard.  Phew, we’ve been so busy!  We had lots of fun with our family members, playing with them and showing them what we can do.

Next week, we’re looking forward to our autumn walk on Thursday and the end of term church service on Friday.  We hope to see you there 🙂

On Wednesday the 9^th October we played Boghall primary school. The starting seven was Tom, Sophie, Declan, Logan, Daniel M, Daniel D and Dean and the substitutes were George, Callum and Euan.

Balbardie took the lead by Daniel D scoring and we were still in the lead when Sophie scored our second. Boghall primary caught up with us by the second half. Logan scored our third and we were leading again until Boghall scored another four and the match ended with the score at 7-3 to Boghall.

The next time we could improve by communicating more and work more as a team.

By Sophie McMillan. Team Captain.

We have had a busy P.E week! We started the week with Streetdance, had basketball mid-week and ended the week with Destination Judo!

In our reading groups we were learning about EVALUATING questions.  The Astronauts made a character profile and had to judge which ones were most suitable to comment on.  The Stars reading group created illustrations which would be suitable for a younger audience and assess which ones would be most important.  The Planets and the Moons were using our Bloom’s Bakery evaluation questions to discuss our reading books and give our opinion of them.  We found that it is quite hard to EVALUATE our work but we are going to enjoy practising 🙂

In art this week we created autumn trees using pastels and paper.  We had a little walk around the playground to look at the differences between the trees and we used this information to help us with the pictures.

This week in maths the Hexagons have been working on the i-pads and learning to subtract 4-digit numbers.

We learned about the ‘Curiosity Rover’ and its mission to Mars.  We found out that this rover is collecting rock samples and looking for ‘life on Mars!’…( not aliens!)

Achievements

Liam won a Bronze (patterns), Gold (sparring) and gold (high kick) in Tae Kwon Do!

Kieran T is practising to become a Rookie Lifeguard!

Kieran S has moved up a level in piping!

Katelyn moved up a swimming level!

3 more people achieved step 3!

• Wednesday was a brilliant day because we made our miniature local community! – Tom
• On Wednesday I liked doing Reading and it was about answering questions – Megan
• I liked doing the Reading this week too because I liked making up my own questions about our book – Eva
• I liked doing Judo this week because it was fun – Samantha, Noah & Yasmin
• I liked thinking up names for our float next year. Our ideas were: Disneyland, Monsters University & Charlie and the chocolate factory – Sophie, Caitlin & Lucie
• I liked doing outdoor PE. We did dodgeball and dribbling – Jennie
• Something I really enjoyed this week was Drama. We came up with problems that happened in a community area and then the audience came up with solutions to the problems. Everybody really impressed me! – Miss Wilson

This week we were set a Home Team Challenge. We had to design a trebuchet that could knock down a Jenga wall with the load of one marble.

We tested our trebuchets and made improvements where necessary.  Congratulations to The Sour Lemons who scored Level 3 damage by dislodging several bricks.

Here are some photos of us at work. Watch out King Edward!

From the Blog Post Box:

I looked at all the great Fact Files. I particularly liked…

…Adam’s because he had a lot of writing in it and I liked the pop up puppets.          Liam

…Charlie’s because it had so much detail. I loved the family tree.        Travis

…Drew’s because he worked really hard on it and it was handwritten. I’m not saying that nobody else worked hard – everybody did! 🙂   Sophie

…Lisa’s because it really stood out and I loved the Freedom! caption.   Ava

…Erin M’s because it was nice to see a fact file on somebody different (King Edward) .     Abby

This week we picked the potatoes we planted last year for our farming topic. We then learned how to peel potatoes and chop them. Together we made potato and leek soup with a special help from Mrs Jamieson. Thank you Mrs Jamieson! It was yummy!

We painted Autumn pictures using autumn colours…red, orange, green, brown and yellow. We included autumn animals and fallen leaves.

In maths we did problem solving in our problem solving trios. We used the strategy ‘draw a picture’ to solve the problem. This involved colouring flags in different ways using only four colours. We had to make sure no two flags matched. It was tricky at first however once we worked out a pattern it became easier.

During topic, we were learning about the invention of the aeroplane by the Wright Brothers. We learned that they faced three problems when inventing: flight, control and power. We were challenged to make paper airplanes looking at the structures of our planes e.g. body, wings, tail and folding. It was a competition to see whose one went the furthest, and Ben won! His was amazing!

Lastly, we had to invent our own food or drink and think of a catchy name and slogan for it. We made an advertising poster to advertise it. It made us feel pretty hungry afterwards!

This week’s Special Person is Sarah because:

• She thinks about other people
• She has amazing art skills
• She is really kind
• She always shares
• She isn’t afraid to say something nice
• She is lovely
• She is super!
• She has lovely manners
• She is a good friend to me (Ben)
• She makes people laugh
• She always wants to play and plays nicely
• She is very helpful
• She is confident
• She always looks out for people especially her friends
• She has a lovely big smile
• She is smart
• She is extraordinary!

 Enjoy your weekend!

Scott and Clara

We have had a very busy week. In our topic we have been learning about homes around the world. We built mud huts out of sand, tepees from art straws and stilted houses out of lego. We all really enjoyed learning about the different types of houses people live in. We also made collages of different kinds of houses using different materials.

   In maths this week we have been learning more about symmetry and created out own symmetry pictures of houses and butterflies. Miss Elliot was very impressed with our pictures!

We all really enjoyed writing this week and we had to use describing words to write a story about a haunted house. We all had great ideas. Some stories had vampires, ghosts, wolves and even moving trees. This week our star writers were Cameron and Lucy. They had fantastic ideas!

Awards:

Pupil of the Week – Sam

Class Dojo pupil of the week – Keira

Drama award – Rachael Muir

What we enjoyed most this week in school:

Charlie – writing a scary story

Grace – writing a spooky story

Lotte – learning about numbers to 100

Gemma – 3D shapes and making symmetrical pictures

We have had another busy week….we had a visit to the library and Fiona along with some other pupils organised a bake sale today.  We tried to pick our favourite activity but it was tricky.  Here are some of our thoughts…

• maths because I was adding up
• maths because I enjoyed counting to 100 and a 1000
• library because I chose a book of facts
• art because I got to paint
• maths because I think it is fun to solve sums
• reading because I learn new words
• maths because I have learned lots and know find it easier to do

 Fiona serving us yummy cakes!

We can’t believe it’s Friday again! What a busy week we’ve had.

In Maths we have been working hard to speed up our recall of the times tables. We use loop cards for this and time ourselves and already we are one minute faster than we were on Monday. Our place value activities this week have focussed on identifying the value of a digit within a number. We palyed a really fun game to help us learn this. Sorry we forgot to take a photo !!!

We continued our writing this week developing the setting in our story. Carter read out his story and it turns out it’s a bit of a thriller. He had the whole class on the edge of their seat! It was clear that Carter’s chioce of words to describe the setting and atmosphere worked well.

Awards –

Mr Jeffires MVP in P.E. was Teigan Ross.

Table of the week – The Minions.

Our week –

Lily – I like the loop cards game, especially timimg ourselves because we know we are getting better and better.

Jamie N- The place value game was really fun. I was a digit !

Sam – Loop cards were my favourite part of the week.

Carter – My favourite part of the week was working with Mrs McClafferty to make pictures of the Big Bang. We used differnt chalks and smudged it then we splattered paint over it to look like the Big Bang.

This a a small selection of our work.

Ray – I like that we are learning new Scottish songs. This week we are learning Billy Connelly’s song about wellies. When we learn a new song we get to add it to the music wall.

Jay is a superstar because he is both our Pupil of the Week and also  Mr Jefferies’ MVP (Most Valuable Player) for Primary 6.

Literacy

This week we have been redrafting our stories of the skies. We have been continuing to develop our skills when asking and answering analysing questions. We also had to correct a piece of work that had lots of spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes.

Antonia – I enjoyed reading this week because I like my new novel.

Lauren C -I liked redrafting my story.

Harry – I enjoyed creating a powerpoint.

Paul – I liked typing a powerpoint.

Finlay – I already know how to work with powerpoint.

Jay – I feel like I have got faster and better at reading.

Maths and Numeracy

The red group have started learning about fractions

Antonia – We are no now learning about decimals

Lauren C – We now have Countdown on our maths wall. I liked trying to work it out as I liked being challenged.

Harry -I like that we have moved onto a different kind of fractions (decimals)

Paul -I am working hard in maths to ‘step up my game’

Finlay -The red group have started learning about fractions.

Jay – I feel like I’m starting to get the hang of multiplication and fractions. I have also been chosen to be one of the Countdown assistants.

LATC

We have been working on our songs and scripts for our assembly next week. We have also used powerpoint to research the planets in our solar system.

Antonia – I have enjoyed making the powerpoint for our assembly.

Lauren C – I am enjoying creating the choreography for our assembly songs.

Harry – I like being a timeline person as I get to find out events that happened before we went to space.

Paul – I like being an astronaut because we are all working together to finish our script.

Finlay – I like that I am an alien because everyone is working together to make the assembly good. The aliens are a big group.

Jay – Miss Anderson said I’ve got the timing right for our song Variation in Space.

Achievements

Antonia – My team won our football match.

Lauren C -I have learned more notes on my clarinet.

Harry -I have learned about tenths in maths.

Paul -I have made a big effort to think about what I say and I feel that I have achieved this.

Finlay -My team won our rugby tournament

Jay -I am pupil of the week and Mr Jeffries’ MVP!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend

Miss Anderson and P6a (the Starships in particular!)

*** We will have basketball outside on Tuesday (and for the next 4 weeks). Please bring an outdoor P.E. kit. If you have black/grey joggers you can wear them to school with your polo shirt/school jumper. ***

This week we had another visit from Dennis the Dragon.  He left Little Red Riding Hood’s cloak and basket in our school car park.  We think he wanted us to find out all about the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  In class we made wanted posters for the wolf and discussed stranger danger. We really enjoyed decorating a basket and the challenge of making a handle strong enough to hold yummy biscuits.