The Kirkhill Chatter

We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We all enjoyed our Christmas holidays and are now back school ready to learn.

We have started this term by looking at New Year Resolutions which are our targets we hope to achieve in 2018. We also thought about our school targets for Term 3 and have all now got targets which we should achieve by Easter.

We have started our new topic which is called ‘A Moment in Time’ which is about different decades in the 20th Century. We began by having a carousel to find out what we already know about the 20th Century. We have learned what decades, centuries and millenniums are and how many years are in each time period. Mrs Weir gave us lots of different cards with different events from the 20th Century on them, our job was to sort them into the correct decades. Some of us did well at this, and some us were very surprised at some of the decades which things happened in. In Writing, we had to think about our personal opinions about what were the best and worst things which happened in the 20th Century.

Here’s our thoughts for the week:

” I learned that Elvis Presley did not die the way that I thought he did.” – Ashley

” I was surprised that the film Lady and the Tramp was so old.” – Kyla

“I was surprised that i-pods only came out in the 21st Century.” – Liam

“I was surprised at how old the Twin Towers were.” – Finlay

“I’ve enjoyed learning my Scots poem.” – Blair

“I did better at my writing this week.” – Zach

“I liked doing the timeline sorting activity.” – Molly

“I’m proud of my writing this week.” – Brayden

“I’m also proud of my writing as I got to show Miss Henderson.” – Jenna

“I improved my writing this week.” – Rhys

” I was surprised that Pong was the first ever computer game.” – Stephen

“I thought personal writing was easier than imaginative writing.” – Karis

” I was surprised at how old Lego was. It was created in the 1940s.” Emma C

“I enjoyed being back at school.” – Sarah

“I quite enjoyed the carousel activity in my group.” – Amy

“I now know what a decade and a century are.” – Emily-Louise

“I learned what the 20th Century was.” – Torran

“I learned what a Millennium is.” – Emma J

“I found out that Elvis didn’t die as I thought he did.” – Temperance

” I liked the sorting activity.” – Aaron

“I enjoyed the carousel activity.” – Umme

“I liked writing on the laptop.” – Neil

This week we have been very busy delivering two performances of Puss in Boots to two different audiences. We loved every minute of performing and were very pleased with the final performance on Thursday night. We would like to thank all of our parents/carers/friends and family members who came along to support us during the performances. We would also like to thank them for helping with costumes and supporting us during learning our lines.

During our Writing lesson we were trying to improve the vocabulary which we use in our stories. We had to make Mrs Weir’s short piece of writing better and Mrs Weir thought we did a great job of this. This gave us a bank of vocabulary to use in our writing. We were allowed to choose between 4 Christmas/Winter themed titles and then had to plan and write our stories. We then had to highlight the pieces of V.C.O.P within our own stories. We feel that we have all written better stories this week.

On Friday morning we have been making reindeer Christmas cards with P2/1. We are very pleased with Rudolph’s pop out nose and loved helping the younger children.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂