We learned more about how a volcano works and where lava comes from, which was just as well as we had an erupting volcano in the playground.
Next week we are going to be working very hard getting our assembly ready for World Book Day.
P2b Highlights
Here are some of our highlights for this week…
Josh- I enjoyed learning and writing my shape poem.
Evie- I enjoyed practicing our show.
Emma- I enjoyed our show and maths.
Zara- I enjoyed making robots in art.
Hamish- I enjoyed starting our new topic in art all about robots.
Maksim- I enjoyed finishing my lizard eye.
Lily- I enjoyed maths.
Caitlin- I enjoyed handwriting.
Gracie- I enjoyed learning my line for the P2 show.
Ava- I enjoyed golden time, maths and milk and a story.
Rose- I enjoyed golden time.
Star writer- Josh
P3C
This week’s highlights from P3c.
NUM/MTH
Sophie A: I liked measuring cm’s because I could see how long something was
Brandon: I liked measuring centimeters
Isla: I hope to get on to measuring meters next week
Grace: I enjoyed getting the hardest question correct on Amazing!
Sophie M: I liked measuring to see how long things are
Archie: I liked doing measuring because when I grow up I’ll be using it every day of my life, except Saturdays and Sundays
Jess: I liked measuring cm’s because I could see how long things in the classroom are
Marley: I really liked numeracy this week
ENG/LIT
Eden: I am happy that I am star writer this week
Grace: I enjoyed writing how to defeat Thunder Girl
Max & Keegan: I enjoyed writing about superheroes
Harris: I enjoyed being a star writer nominee
Brandon: I liked writing how to make a super villain
Marley: I liked thinking about the spelling of my superhero and supervillain
Emily: I enjoyed writing how to defeat Thunder Woman
LAC
Jess & Brandon: I enjoyed learning about babies
Sophie A & Lily: I really liked looking at Mr. Cunningham when he was smaller
Isla & Sophie M: I liked Amelia the doll because I haven’t held a real baby
Grace: I enjoyed getting to talk about babies because I have two baby brothers
Harris: I enjoyed naming a doll
Marley: I liked learning and talking about babies. I liked Amelia she was so soft.
Star Writer – Eden Smith
P2A Highlights
Some of our highlights this week:
James and Holly: I enjoyed making Valentines cards.
Emily, Megan and Mia: I enjoyed reading.
Alex: I enjoyed getting my new reading book.
Mac and Amber: I enjoyed writing this week’s review in our review jotters.
Ethan: I enjoyed doing maths.
Jack, Jude, Aileigh, Ada and Aaron: I enjoyed learning about how people celebrate Valentine’s Day in other countries.
Olivia: I enjoyed doing mental maths and maths.
Max: I enjoyed celebrating Valentine’s Day.
Carley: I enjoyed talking with Oliver.
River: I enjoyed Big Start.
Have a great weekend everyone.
P2A
Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 14.2.18
A wee short week for us this week and yet we have still managed to learn so much!
We spoke about the highlights of this week. Here they are:
- The Primary 2s enjoyed making the Skeleton masks for the P2 show. We all thought that they look a bit like the Skeleton from ‘Coco’.
- We loved coming back to school after the holidays because we have lots of fun in school!
- We enjoyed the challenge of exploring using a dictionary this week, we like that there are some pictures to help us.
- We liked the different station games this week. Our favourites were tricky word ducks and the multiplication fishing rods. At construction there were new materials to build with and we enjoyed the new wooden materials at imagination station.
- We were learning more about time this week and created a birthday train. We explored birthdays and then identified other key events in the year.
- We created McCoo pictures at messy area using coloured chalk and used our finger to smudge the chalk. It was so much fun!
Next week we are looking forward to:
- Exploring our new maths resources – we wonder what challenges we will be able to create!
- Keeping working on Skellybones – it is going to be amazing!
- World Book Week in a couple of weeks!!! We are so excited that Mrs Mansfield has said we can bring in our own books for Milk and Story time on the week beginning 26th February. There is a dress-down day on Thursday 1st March where we can dress up as our favourite book character! How exciting!
From
Primary 2/1
A Short Week in Class Star
Hi Everyone!
It has been a short week in school this week but we have done lots of things!
We were learning about:
- apostrophes and the correct to use them
- fractions including wholes, halves, thirds, quarters, fifths all the way up to tenths
- symmetrical patterns and painted symmetrical Olympic pictures
- being a Word Worm which involved dictionary and thesaurus skills
We are looking forward to our assembly in two weeks time on world Book day!
Have a lovely weekend!
Class Star
Short Week Round Up
Hello again!
We thought we’d share some photos from our short week at school this week. We hope everyone enjoyed the long holiday weekend.
Here are a few favourite things we have been using our smartboard for:
We are becoming confident in skip counting in multiples of 10 and sequencing these numbers – we aren’t caught out by a sneaky 5!
Mrs Spence has been talking to us about teamwork. TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More. Team work makes the dream work. There’s no I in team. We are thinking about how we can work as a class team to help one another out more. When do you work as a team outside of school?
We have a new castle area to make Cozy Corner a great space to cozy quietly, read a book and relax. Here’s how it looks.
P4 Multi Sports
Free Multi-Sports Club
Dear Parent/Carer,
To all attending the free Multi-Sports sessions at Balbardie Primary School for P4. I am writing to inform you of changes to the dates due to coach availability. The classes will still start straight after school at 3:25pm and will finish at 4:25pm and all sessions will take place in the gym hall at Balbardie.
However, these classes will now take place on a Thursday not a Tuesday. This means the remaining P4 dates are below:
Thursday 22nd February 2018
Thursday 1st March 2018
Thursday 8th March 2018
Thursday 15th March 2018
Thursday 22nd March 2018.
Please remember pupils should get changed into appropriate PE kit and soft shoes must be worn during the session.
If there are any issues with this alteration can you please let me know as soon as possible.
Thank you for your support
Mr Cunningham
P3b
This week we used our knowledge of foods we order every day to say what we liked or disliked, in French.
In maths, we have been learning different strategies to help us to subtract. and have been practising our times tables facts.
In our topic, we learned about the River Nile and why it was important to the Ancient Egyptians and why it is still important today. We also looked at what life was like for Ancient Egyptians and how it is similar or different to ours.
We have been learning how to ask questions about what we are reading. We had to remember to only ask questions that could be answered by watching, looking at or reading the information given.
Enjoy your long weekend.
A Viking-tastic week!
This week has been a really busy Viking week!
In Learning across the curriculum, we made animations about a Viking Saga. A Viking saga is story which the Vikings told about their families and these were passed down from generation to generation. We had to make characters and scenes for our characters to move on. They had shields and axes. We used an app called StopMotion on the ipad on which we took a series of pictures which the app then runs together to make a short film.
We also learnt about Viking longhouses and how the whole family lived together with their animals. They had long benches for beds which had skins and animals skins for covers. The toilet was a hut outside the longhouse,
We also designed and painted Viking shields. We had to make them symmetrical which is harder than it looks!
Learning partners of the week – Kyle and Ellie-Rose
Table of the week – red with 130 points
P2A Highlights
Emily, Jude and Ada: I enjoyed maths.
Jack: I enjoyed going to Mrs Mansfield’s class to practise our songs.
Megan and James: I enjoyed reading.
Mia: I enjoyed the shop game.
Ethan, Holly, River, Aileigh and Ellis: I enjoyed the disco.
Aaron: I enjoyed it when we got the book ‘Warming up’.
Carley: I enjoyed it when we tasted all of the different fruits because one of my favourites was the mango.
Alex: I enjoyed becoming a bronze champion.
Max: I liked playtime and lunch time.
Olivia: I enjoyed becoming a silver champion.
Have a great holiday everyone.
P2A
P2A Highlights
Emily, Jude and Ada: I enjoyed maths.
Jack: I enjoyed going to Mrs Mansfield’s class to practise our songs.
Megan and James: I enjoyed reading.
Mia: I enjoyed the shop game.
Ethan, Holly, River, Aileigh and Ellis: I enjoyed the disco.
Aaron: I enjoyed it when we got the book ‘Warming up’.
Carley: I enjoyed it when we tasted all of the different fruits because one of my favourites was the mango.
Alex: I enjoyed becoming a bronze champion.
Max: I liked playtime and lunch time.
Olivia: I enjoyed becoming a silver champion.
Have a great holiday everyone.
P2A
Class Moon
We have had fun talking about volcanoes this week, so we decided to build
our own.
We are expecting it to erupt next week.
We have also been talking about a Magical bird in our writing and working on more adding and subtracting in maths.
P3C
This week highlights in P3c.
Maths/Numeracy
Jess: I liked doing maths and measuring
Grace: I enjoyed measuring the table
Sophie M: I enjoyed playing hit the button with the 5 times table
Brandon: I liked doing centimeters
Lily: I enjoyed measuring the smart board
Isla: I liked doing length
Lacey: I enjoyed measuring the table
English/Literacy
Eden: I liked writing about my superhero
Luis: I liked writing about superheroes
Sophie A: I liked writing about my superhero
Brandon: I liked drawing the ingredients for the superheroes abilities
Jess: I enjoyed writing about my superhero
Harris: I liked writing about my superhero and his ability was to hover.
LAC
Archie: I liked uncovering the jewels from ancient Egypt
Nina: I liked digging up from the Valley of the Kings
Lily: I liked digging in the sand in the Valley of the Kings looking for treasures from Egypt.
Marbles Champions – Rainbow Table
Star Writer – Sophie Smith
P5a
This week we learned all about Victorian schools. We used Venn diagrams to compare and contrast Victorian schools to Balbardie Schools. We also wrote a diary entry from the perspective of a Victorian school pupil. We are really looking forward to having a Victorian Day next week. In Numeracy we are continuing time and angles. We have been calculating long time durations, using clocks and number lines to help. We got two sessions of Jazzamatazz this week, and we loved it because we got to improvise on our glockenspiels. Here are some of our highlights:
Mia – I loved violin this week because we passed a test in violin and got a certificate.
Lauren – I really enjoyed P.E this week.
Teighan – The Valentines Disco was really good!
Megan – I liked learning about Victorian schools and writing the diary entry.
Connor – I liked working with my learning partner to do the Venn diagram.
Kiara – I’m looking forward to having the Victorian day in class.
Jason – I am liking planning my class talk.
On Thursday 15th February we will be having a Victorian Day in class. The children can come to school dressed up as Victorian children.
Enjoy the long weekend everyone 🙂
P2 Performance of Skellybones – Costume information
As stated in last week’s letter, please see information below regarding costumes for the P2 show on the 9th of March. A letter has now been issued with ticket information (this can also be found on the school blog under Whole School News)
“Dear Primary 2 Parent,
Primary 2 – ‘Skellybones’ Performance
As you know, your child is taking part in this year’s P2 show – ‘Skellybones’ on Friday 9th March. For this show, all children will be required to bring in a costume. Can all parents please send the following items into school by 1st March.
Plain black t-shirt, Black trousers/leggings, black plim-soles/black trainers
Please ensure all your child’s items are clearly labelled in a carrier bag. A letter will be issued regarding tickets closer to the date.
Many thanks,
The Primary 2 Team”
P2 performance of Skellybones – Ticket Information
A letter has been issued to all P2 children today about tickets for the P2 show. This has been copied below for your information.
Can all tear off slips please be returned to your child’s class teacher as soon as possible so we are able to make arrangements. If there are any issues, please speak to your child’s teacher.
Thank you for all your support!
“Dear Parent/Carer,
Skellybones ~ Friday 9th March
The children of Primary 2 will be performing Skellybones, a short musical, on the above date. The parents of the children in P2a are invited to the performance at 9.30 a.m. and the parents of the children in P2b are invited to the performance at 11.15 a.m. Parents of P2/1 children will have the option to attend either performance. If there are any problems with this please speak directly to your child’s class teacher (or pop a note in your child’s school bag).
Each child is allocated 3 seats, one of which is a seat for your child’s ‘special person’.
Please complete and return the tear-off slip below by Monday 26th February directly to your child’s class teacher.
Regards,
Miss McKinnon, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Mansfield and Mrs. Harrison
Skellybones Performance
Name of pupil _________________________________________ Class __________
Number of seats required (maximum of 3)
Name of Special Person and relationship (eg. Nana)
____________________________________________________
Signature of Parent/Carer
________________________________________________
Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 5.2.18
WOW!!!!!!!! This has been an incredible week for P2/1 with lots of exciting learning opportunities.
On Tuesday we welcomed Tracey from Tesco who taught us about where fruit and vegetables come from, how cheese and bread are made and…we even got to do a taste test with lots of different fruit, vegetables, cheese and bread! It was very yummy!!
On Thursday it was our class assembly and we were all SUPERSTARS!! We helped the rest of the school to learn about the 4 seasons and sang lots of super songs with amazing actions!! We loved dressing up and getting to perform in front of the whole school. We are definitely becoming more confident and can’t wait for the next time we get to perform!
Here are our best bits of the week:
Cameron – “I liked our assembly because I liked learning the songs. I liked finding out the story behind the song and challenged myself to learn all the words”
Rio – “I liked making the decorations for our assembly. I got to create the poster for autumn and liked sticking on all the leaves we had made”
Teigan – “Assembly was my best bit because I liked singing the songs”
Aaron – “I liked singing the songs in assembly because they were good fun”
Aiden – “I liked the assembly because I got to perform and do lots of other things. I thought I was really good at it!”
Griffin – “My costume was really cool for the assembly! I got to get changed in class and wore my sunglasses”
Regan – “I made the sunglasses for the summer poster. I did it all by myself and it was tricky”
Leah – “I liked practising my lines and the songs. We added actions to the songs and I said my line really well”
Poppy D – “I liked when we were getting dressed for the assembly. It was so funny because my mum gave me my brother’s trousers – they didn’t fit! I also liked the posters we made to show everybody the 4 seasons”
Lucy – “I liked the singalong on Friday because my brother and his friend got a certificate”
Millie – “I enjoyed the assembly because I had 4 lines to say. I liked the singing and the dancing because I thought it was really, really fun”
Daniel – “I liked getting changed for assembly because I liked wearing sunglasses. I looked really cool”
Leila – “This week I have liked our assembly because I think I did my line really well and my daddy came to see me”
Mason – “I really liked practising my assembly words in Cosy Corner with Rio. In the assembly I held a magnifying glass and my mummy liked it”
Emily – “I liked dressing up for the assembly because it was really funny when Poppy tried to put her little brother’s trousers on”
Poppy F – “I liked when Tracey came in and we learned about Farm to Fork. We learned lots about food”
Brooke – “I liked assembly because of the songs. I enjoyed doing the actions”
Breaghannon – “My assembly was good because I said my words really well”
Rory – “I liked doing the assembly. My words were the best bit”
We are very excited to have a long weekend this weekend. We won’t be back in school until WEDNESDAY!!
From
Primary 2/1
(A note from Mrs Mansfield – A separate letter has been issued to P2 children about the performance of Skellybones, this information will also be posted on the blog. Please return the tear-off slip directly to your class teacher as soon as possible. Thank you!)
Tesco Visit 1a 7.2.18
We welcomed Tracey from Tesco to our class today. She brought lots of interesting things with her in her shopping bags! We had this to say about it:
Jess – I enjoyed eating everything on my plate.
Daisy – I like tasting the cucumber and the ripe fruit.
Lois – I cheese best.
Georgia and Robyn – I liked the plums.
Logan – Grapes were my favourite.
Luke M and Bailey – I love grapes.
Hollie, Devyn, Willow and Michelle – I liked tasting cucumber the most.
William – Smoked cheese was yum, yum, yum!
Ruaridh – I liked the carrots.
Anna – I liked tasting the pineapple.
We loved our visit and this has helped us to learn more about where our food comes from, from farm to fork!
Primary 2/1 Assembly
Hi,
I have been made aware that not all parents know about the arrangements for the class assembly taking place tomorrow (Thursday 8th February).
For those that haven’t seen the note in homework or the letter sent home, I apologise for the lateness of this information and have copied the letter below. The children are really looking forward to sharing their learning with you all!
“Dear Primary 2/1 Parent,
The children have been very hard at work preparing for our class assembly on Thursday 8th February. This will take place in the Gym Hall at 2.30, with parents invited from 2.15pm. For this event, parents are asked to provide costumes (chosen by the children). Could these please be labelled and sent to school in a carrier bag by Wednesday 7th of February (at the very latest) – I will be able to store these in class if you wish to send them in prior to this date.
The costumes required are as follows:
Autumn:
Dark coloured t-shirt (brown, black, orange, dark green), jeans and trainers.
Winter:
Jumper (any colour or pattern), jeans, trainers, hat, scarf.
Spring:
Flowery t shirt/shirt, jeans, trainers.
Summer:
Shorts/Skirt, t-shirt, trainers/sandals, sunglasses.
Season Spy:
White shirt, black trousers, black shoes – (I will provide a lab coat)
Thank you for your support with this and for continuing to practice assembly lines at home, it is very much appreciated. The children are all very excited to share their learning with their families.
Best wishes,
Mrs Mansfield”
I look forward to seeing as many as possible tomorrow!
Mrs Mansfield
