The Kirkhill Chatter

It’s been a busy week as always in Primary 4/3.  We have started working on our new topic Around the World in 80 Days.  We were visited by an exciting guest – a bear who had been marooned in his hot air balloon in our classroom, named Passepartout!  He has given us some exciting challenges and after we managed to set him free on his journey again he sent us a letter to allow us to track his progress around the world.  We are going to learn all about his travels, as well as the countries that he visits.  Here we are with Passepartout and his balloon!

We have been working very hard on our phonics this term and have been decoding, blending, segmenting and building words.  We have been learning all about short vowel sounds and rules with a strong ck and a double l.  We are beginning to spell much trickier words and working really hard with all our literacy.

Also this week, our P3 children had some exciting activities.  Firstly, on Monday, they worked with the other P3 class and James Pegg from Albyn Park on lots of interesting sports activities – this will be continuing for most of this term.  Also, they began work on our Nativity Play where they will be playing the important role of the choir – the singing was already sounding great!

Literacy

We have continued looking at poetry this week with a focus on shape poetry. We thought about the 5 senses to inspire us to come up with similes, adjectives and metaphors in our Bonfire Night poem. They look great!

We looked at examples of similes, metaphors and adjectives and sorted them into groups. We know a simile has ‘like’ or ‘as’ to compare two things to make our writing more interesting. A metaphor does the same thing but doesn’t use ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Maths

We have been learning our 3, 4 and 8 times table. We’ve been learning in different ways. Mrs Thomson wrote the stations of each times table and we had to shout them out. As we got better, she rubbed them off the board and we had to remember them. We had a colouring by numbers Bonfire Night sheet where we had to answer the question and colour the squares the right colour to reveal the picture. We played lots of games, like Multiple Frenzy, on the smart board to help us improve.

Highlights

Justin – I enjoyed learning to pass in rugby. I know that we can’t pass forwards in a game.

Dillon – I enjoyed making the Black Houses as part of our Highland Clearances topic.

Joshua – I enjoyed making our shape poems

Lewis H – I enjoyed watching the Primary 1’s assembly.

Gemma – I enjoyed doing our multiplication colouring sheet.

Maddison – I enjoyed doing our healthy eating challenge. Everybody did really well!

The school will be represented by staff and our House Team at the Remembrance Service at the War Memorial at Strathbrock Partnership Centre at 2.00pm on Sunday 12^th November 2017. Pupils will lay a wreath at the War Memorial on behalf of the school.

All pupils will have the opportunity to get their poppy in school by donating 50p.  Our Primary 7 children will visit classes during week beginning 6^th November 2017 for our children to purchase poppies.

A two minute silence will be held in school at 11.00am on Friday 10^th November 2017.

Photographs

The photographer will be in school on Monday 6th November to take individual/family groups.  All pupils in school and nursery will have an individual photograph taken as well as one with their siblings if applicable.  Unfortunately due to the size of the school we are unable to accommodate pre-nursery children or pre-school children not attending Kirkhill Nursery.

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Please note that Project Playground on Diary dates for Saturday 4th Nov has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.