What a fun week in P4/3 as we were all feeling in the festive spirit!! We enjoyed watching Christmas movies, making crafts and spending time with our friends. We were even lucky enough to have a special visitor during our movie afternoon on Tuesday!!
Wishing everyone a safe, restful and peaceful holiday. Looking forward to seeing the children return in January 2021, Merry Christmas !!! Mrs Morrison xx
This week the children have enjoyed taking part in a number of Christmas activities.
On Tuesday the children performed their Christmas poem “Peppermint Stick”. Mrs Wallace recorded it and it is now available for you to view. Enjoy!
On Tuesday afternoon we had our class Christmas party. The children enjoyed dancing, playing games such as – corners, musical bumps/statues, pass the parcel and pin the tail on Rudolph as well as welcoming a special visitor (who is currently in our bubble). Some Pictures below.
The children have also enjoyed taking part in a number of Christmas art activities. I hope you enjoy hanging the baubles and gingerbread men on your tree. Some images of the process below.
Some of the books we have enjoyed reading.
I would just like to say a big thank you for all the support you have given the children and school since August, it has been very different year and hopefully next year at some point, we can welcome parents back into the school building. I hope you all have a brilliant Christmas and a very happy new year and I look forward to welcoming the children back on Wednesday the 6th of January 2021. Take care and be safe!
Primary 1B would like to take this opportunity in our final blog post of 2020, to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Our last week of term has flown past, filled with parties, Christmas crafts and lots of Christmas fun. Here are some pictures of what we have been getting up to.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Nativity production this year looks very different. All classes in the school have been involved in creating a stop frame animation of The Christmas Story.
The story was divided into scenes, with each class being responsible for a scene. Pupils made the scenery and props, and set up the scene for their class. Everyone in the class was involved in helping to animate their class scene, and pupils were able to work in small groups at a safe distance.
The stop frame animation involved positioning the characters in the scene, taking a photo, then moving the characters a very small distance. Another photo taken, another tiny movement made, another photo taken, and this was repeated over 100 times for each scene. When all the pictures are sequenced and viewed one after another, the characters appear to move by themselves.
There has been a huge amount of work from the pupils involved in creating this year’s Nativity – well done everyone.
We all hope that you enjoy watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYceZXoYX5w&feature=youtu.be
Literacy
During writing this week, we were focusing on varying our sentence length when writing a Viking dairy entry. We had to include connecting words, adjectives and facts we have learned about the Vikings.
During reading, we were sounding out unfamiliar words and then answering reading comprehension questions about our text.
“We were answering questions about our reading books.”
We use the look, say, cover, write strategy to help us sound out words containing our spelling pattern. In groups, we also played a tricky word flash card game.
Maths
This week, we learned more about addition. We were learning to use column sums to help us add bigger numbers. It is very important we remember our knowledge from place value when using this method.
“We used Number Talks to discuss the different strategies we can use when adding.”
“This week, we were learning to add using column sums.”
IDL
This week, we were learning about the Lewis Chessmen. These were found on the Lewis Island in 1831. There were 93 gaming pieces in total. Each piece is different and you can see these today at National Museum of Scotland.
“The Lewis Chessmen are the game pieces that the Vikings use to play chess.”
“The game pieces were carved from walrus ivory and whales’ teeth.”
Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper Day
On Wednesday, we enjoyed our Christmas lunch and on Friday we liked wearing our Christmas jumpers to school to raise money for the charity Save the Children. We are getting very excited for the holidays.
CW- We’ve been learning how to do a Discussion text.
LS- We’ve been learning about abbreviated words, which are words that have been shortened.
EH- We have been revising on Subtraction.
For PE, we played rounders. (KP)
DB- We also learnt to read Advertisements.
CC- We’ve been learning Time intervals.
Lastly, we have been practicing out Christmas Poem.
Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!
Christmas Story
Mr Welsh read us one of our favourite stories yesterday! We showed super listening skills and were paying close attention to see if we could hear our boost words!
Writing
During writing this week we wrote letters to Santa persuading him that we have been good this year. Some of our arguments include hoovering the rug, being kind and helping to do the dishes!
Christmas Lunch
We had such a delicious Christmas lunch on Wednesday! After our lunch, we wrote letters to the lunch ladies to thank them for our wonderful food. We tried super hard to use adjectives to describe our lunch.
STEM Challenge
On Tuesday, we began learning about the Christmas story. We learned that Baby Jesus was born in a stable. We had to demonstrate our collaboration, communication and leadership skills whilst working with the people next to us to build our very own stables! We had lots of materials to choose from but had to think hard about which materials should be used where. We discovered that the kitchen roll tubes were the best material to make the sides of the stable!
Salt Dough Hands
On Thursday, we each had a batch of salt dough and we had to print our hands into the dough. Once the dough has had a chance to dry over the weekend, we will paint them next week and bring them home!
Christmas Jumper Day
Look how great we all look in our Christmas jumpers!
Today we all said goodbye and good luck to Miss Hennessy as she is leaving to work in a new school. We are all very sad to see her go but wish her the best of luck and hope to see her again very soon.
On Thursday, as we had been learning all about the properties of 3D shapes, we decided to practise drawing them. We used a step by step approach and we became experts!
On Friday we were encouraged to wear our Christmas jumpers and that made for a jolly, festive classroom.
This week, P4/3 learned about stop frame animation during their time with Mrs Buntin. All of the children made contributions to re-telling the Christmas story using the technique of stop frame. A big well done to Ashley and Nathaniel who were able to describe and demonstrate the process to Mrs Morrison!! Look out next week (via e-mail) for the finished piece of work, well done P4/3!
Next week, we will enjoy our last week of term before the Christmas holidays. A big well done to all of the children for dealing so well with the changes that have had to be implemented due to COVID-19. Mrs Morrison is proud of you all!
Special events next week:
Tuesday 15th December- movie afternoon and snacks!
Wednesday 16th December- P4/3 record a Christmas poem. Children to wear Christmas jumpers or something sparkly!!
Enjoy your weekend and I will check in with you all next week.
Drama
This week we listened to the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and then in small groups acted out the story.
We used props to represent the baby Jesus and practised using our voice, facial expression and body language to represent how the different characters were feeling.
Can you guess who was the sheep in this scene, who was the angel and who was the proud father?
Going Digital
As well as acting out the Christmas story we completed a scene of the Nativity using stop frame animation. We did this with Mrs Buntin.
Alexis – I enjoyed this.
Colin – We learnt how to move the figures a little bit each time.
Jaxson – Then we took 50 million photographs.
Anna – Then you put the photographs together to make a video and narrators record a message over it.
Christmas Lunch
One highlight of the week this week was the Christmas lunch.
Bella- My favourite part of lunch was macaroni cheese and ice-cream!
Jaxson – It was nice to see Joy.
Sophie S – I liked the Christmas music at lunch.
Numeracy
This week we practised formal methods of subtraction using columns.
Lily-Elen – I am more confident at subtraction.
Health
This week we kept running for 5 minutes during P.E.
Piotr – I enjoyed the 5 minute run!
Jaxson – I was proud of everyone for running for 5 minutes.
Hope – I enjoyed football and am more confident at tackling.
Art / Music
Bailey – I enjoyed looking closely at paintings.
This was part of our work with ‘Limelight Music.’ We then went on to listen to a piece of music and draw a picture depending on how we felt about the music. Everyone interpreted the music in a different way.
Topic – Europe
Cameron – I enjoyed playing the online games.
Sara – I didn’t know Russia was so big.
Anna – I learnt that in Lithuania they make beads out of tree sap when it is hard.
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