This week we learned about internet safety.  We thoroughly enjoyed watching ‘Kim and Lee’s Magical Adventure’ which taught us not to share personal information with people on the internet.

We have also been busy transforming our classroom into a pirate theme.  We have made a pirate ship and mermaid’s cove.  Watch out for the pictures to follow over the next few weeks!

Lastly, P1b would like to say a huge thank you to all of the parents and family members who took time to visit our classroom today.  We loved showing off our fabulous work and hoped you enjoyed getting an insight into our life at school.

This week was ‘Internet Safety Week’ and we have been learning about communicating with people in various situations as well as keeping ourselves safe when using the internet.

We also got a chance to look at another website in which we can compete against people around the world in Literacy, Maths and Science. Our favourite is the literacy one! There is a competition worldwide on                                                           

5 March* – World Literacy Day
6 March* – World Maths Day
7 March* – World Science Day
22 March – Global award presentations begin with the Official World Education Games Awards Ceremony, to be held in 2013 at the Sydney Opera House.

We have started practising these games in school and also have usernames to use at home.

We are learning about scripts and how to use them and write them. This will come in handy for our assembly.

Today our parents/grandparents got a chance to come in and see what we do in class. This is what we thoughtof it:

It was fun, exciting and amazing.

The best part was showing what we have learnt.

The parents/grandparents seemed to enjoy themselves too!

Hello Everyone

Today we had our open morning and it was great to see lots of parents and grandparents joining in activities in our classroom.  One of the activities was to create a giant story with each person adding another sentence or two.  As it was such a wonderful story we have decided to publish here on our blog.  Each time the text style changes means it was a different person contributing.

John was bored. It was halfway through the summer holidays and he was fed up, so he decided to go exploring. He broke his piggy bank and took all his savings to spend on his adventure. John just had enough money to buy an aeroplane ticket to the rainforest. John had lots of fun doing this. Unfortunately he crashed and found himself surrounded by six gorillas. The gorillas liked him and thought he would be an active family member and they called him TARZAN! He liked it in the jungle with his new friends and also he made friends with a leopard.  The leopard asked him if he would like to come and meet his friends at the waterhole.  John and the leopard went to the waterhole, John met the leopards friend, the jaguar.  The jaguar thought John looked like a very tasty meal.  So John ran off deeper into the jungle.  John and the leopard were friends no more.  John walked deeper into the jungle for what seemed like ages. It was very dark, but in the distance he could see a light…. The light appeared to be coming from torches…held by poachers! John quickly hid as the poachers rapidly approached!  It was something, someone, someone wierd…

Thank you to everyone who wrote in our story book, the children thought you did a great job.  Here our some pictures from our ‘Open Morning’.

On Monday P7 visited the Botanic Gardens. On the bus there we spoke about old stories and when we got there we walked to a little jungle room and had our snack. Next we strolled to the aquarium where I bet Connor half his cookie that there wouldn’t be any piranhas. Let’s just say that was a very nice cookie! Next we visited an ancient tree, the oldest tree in the UK (over 320 million years old.) We trekked up to the Chinese Hillside and then proceeded to the gift shop. We then walked back to the den where we had some lunch.

          After lunch we strolled to a glasshouse and we all split up into groups and had to locate some plants. We had to find strangler figs, vanilla plants, leafs which had good driptips and also mini bananas. We also saw a ginger plant and tried some in a sugar coating. In the next greenhouse there was a giant emergent tree. Emergent trees are the tallest in the rainforest and can grow up to 60 metres! We also looked at some bamboo and heard how it is used in the rainforest as a torture device!

          Next we assailed to another part of the glasshouses which was really full of plants. There was a plant called Old Man’s Beard hanging from the vines and a deadly plant named Poison Arrow Bush which hunters use the poison from to kill monkeys. After that we shuffled to the big pond area and we saw cocoa pods, sugar cane, papaya and a little shop which showed all the foods found in the rainforest. Next we collected up our bags and it was time to go.

Some quotes:

“The best part was when Adrian used the blowpipe and blowdart to shoot the balloon monkey. It was so fun.” – Aisha

“It was really interesting.” – Murray

“It was good fun searching for all of the things like Old Man’s Beard and Vanilla pods. “ – Abbie

“We got to try some different foods and I discovered I like papaya!” – Ali

“I very much enjoyed the visit to the Botanic Gardens and I would happily go back!” –  Connor

Report by Rhona Donald p7b

Our challenge was to work together and build a pyramid using a variety of materials. The pyramids were all different shapes and sizes. Take a look at a couple of photos, taken during the challenge.

This week we learned about writing a newspaper report and wrote one about Tutankhamun being crowned as king. We gave it a Fist of 5: some of us found it tricky!

In maths, we have been learning clockwise and anticlockwise. We know it will help with directions. We have been using: left and right, quarter turn, half turn, full turn, forward and backward.

Our art this week has been making pyramids using clay!

Ramsay said: It was fun because it was messy!

Geo said: I liked how the clay was soft.

Lucy said: I liked how the clay was easy to model.

We knew we had to work carefully so we didn’t handle the clay too much or the heat from our hands would dry it out.

We have been reading text and showing we understand it. Some of us finished the sentences; some of us read the story about ‘Under the bed’ and then answered questions. In our reading groups, we were asking each other questions that recalled parts of the book and explained why things happened.

We enjoyed discussing then making a poster about Energy Balance. In PE we enjoyed playing some team games! We used lots of energy! TEAM is Together Everyone Achieves More!

Today we attended an Electricity Workshop.  We learned how to keep safe around electricity, top tips include:

• Not to climb towers (pylons)
• Not to switch light switches with wet hands
• Don’t stick a knife in the toaster, even if it is switched off.  Turn it upside down and shake it to get the stuck toast out
• Don’t go fishing or fly a kite under the towers or near cables
• Don’t touch cables with sticks etc.
• Don’t go inside/over the fence to a sub-station, phone them to get your ball back
• You can go to a power station with an engineer

We also learned about the underground cables which carry 400 000 volts.  The cables are very thick.  We also saw the insulators.

At the end we had a quiz….Dean was very speedy at pressing his buzzer! Congratulations Dean as he knew the answers too.

Lots packed in to a short week in P4l.  Amazing art with Mrs Clark on Wednesday.  Library, love, logic, pancakes and masks on Thursday and the week ended with Town Criers and shape puzzles.  We also created posters for the ‘Big Balbardie Book Swap’ we are going to run on World Book Day, 7th March.  If you have any books you don’t read anymore and would be happy to donate to the book swap please bring them in.

Bye for P4l

This morning was our P7b assembly. We shared what we have been learning about in class with Mr Chen about Chinese culture. We focused on Mandarin vocabulary, the Chinese New Year and how to use chopsticks.

Ali – “I was quite nervous but once I had done the first one I felt fine.”

Ramie – “I enjoyed it and I felt more confident the second time.”

Katie – “It was really good and I enjoyed doing my part.”

Connor – “I was a bit nervous but my confidence grew after the first assembly.”

Adam – “Ramie and Dylan impressed me with how well they did during practice for and during our assembly.”

Amber – “My favourite part was my LEEETTT’S GET READY TO CHOPSTTIICCKK!”

Lyndsay – “My favourite part was when the teachers were taking each other on in the Chopstick Challenge.”

Mr Berginis – “Well done p7b, you did really well with your assembly this morning, especially considering we had five pupils absent and it was a short school week. I’m very proud of you all.”