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Forget The Beast from the East. Ice Art from Harbin Anyone?

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CREATIVITY IN THE SNOW ANYONE?

Have a go at making an igloo? With help from adults you can make snow bricks and a great den. How will you decorate the interior?

The Scandinavians have long dark winters but try to create warmth with candles, blankets etc What is Danish hygge?

Check out images of Harbin in China and their amazing snow and ice sculpture event for 3-D ideas.

Go to new places to enjoy the snow and the views. Take some pictures of wintry trees and then use these as an art inspiration. Victoria Crowe is an artist who has done just that. Google her.

What can you make with icicles? What can you make with powdery snow or another kind of snow.

Il neige. It is snowing in French. How many other languages can you say that in? The winner wins an ice-cream. Try making a fun-flavoured ice-cream outside!

If you can get on skis and sledges and swish through The White Stuff!

 

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Primary 4 Winter Ready Activities

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Primary 4 Winter Ready Activities

Literacy

  • You wake up to find the snowman you built last night has come to life! Write a story about what happens next!
  • Practise writing this week’s spelling words in the snow!
  • Write a personal diary of your adventures during the snowy days.

Numeracy

  • Practise writing your times tables in the snow.
  • Draw a wintery picture and hide your times tables in it.
  • Design a board game using times tables or division.
  • By using recipes to make a cake or meals, follow instructions regarding weighing and measuring of ingredients. Take a photo of your dish and write a paragraph about how you made it.
  • Count and record how many snowballs you can make in a minute. Can you beat your score?

Social Studies

  • Choose a Scandinavian country, research and create a fact file. Compare their weather to ours here in Scotland. For example how do they cope in wintry weather? Does their daily life change in the winter?

Art

  • Make a ‘Wintery Scene’ picture.
  • Design an outfit that will keep you warm in the winter weather. Add explanations of what it is made of and the special features it has to enable you to keep warm.
  • Design a fancy pair of winter wellies.

Technology

  • Build something in the snow that you can sit on or hide inside such as a seat or an igloo. Take a picture of your creation!

P.E.

  • Stay fit by playing in the snow!

 

Take pictures of any fun activities you do and remember to share these when you come back to school! Have fun!

 

Miss Clark

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Winter Ready P4

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In preparation for our Burns assembly, Primary 4 have been learning some Scottish poems. We have been practising reciting our poems in Scots language with a clear, confident voice and lots of expression. As a extra challenge, please perform your poem in front of a relative or friend to help you perfect your poetry performance.

The First Hoolit’s Prayer

“A’ll tak the nicht-shift,” says the hoolit.
“The nicht-shift suits me fine –
An i the deeps o winter
A’ll aye dae the overtime.

“Dinna send me wi thae ithir birds
cheepin in a choir
i the gloamin or at brek o day
lined up oan a wire.

“But gie tae me a solo pairt,
markin oot the nicht
wi low notes that gie goose-pricks
an hie anes that gie frichts.

“An Lord, dinna pey me
wi nuts or crumbs or seeds:
A want tae be carnivorous,
an chow aff rottans’ heids!”

 

The Hens Lament

“A’ll tak the nicht-shift,” says the hoolit.
“The nicht-shift suits me fine –
An i the deeps o winter
A’ll aye dae the overtime.

Nae sunner div I settle doon
My clutch o bairns tae hatch
The fairm-wife come – a scraunin pest –
She cowps me aff me cosy nest
A tarry- fingert vratch.

Jist lately, though, she’s changed her tune –
Ma plaitie’s piled wi corn.
“Sup up, ma bonnie quine,” says she,
“We’re haein broth the morn!”

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P.5/4 Scots Poetry

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P.5/4 are busy learning some Scots poems at the moment. To help you to do this at home, click on the links below to download them. There are three for the P5s to read and three for the P4s. Everyone should choose one that they would like to learn.

To show that you are Winter Ready and can access the school blog in case of a school closure, please comment below with which poem you are going to learn!

Primary 4 Scots Poems

Primary 5 Scots Poems

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Scottish Poetry Recital Primary Four

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The children have been asked to choose a poem to practise in their best Scots accent for our Burns Assembly on 22nd January.

These are the poems that the children can choose from

The Bubblyjock by Hugh MacDiarmid

It’s hauf like a bird and hauf like a bogle
And juist stands in the sun there and bouks.
It’s a wunder its heid disna burst
The way it’s aye raxin its chouks.

 

Syne it twists its neck like a serpent
But canna get oot a richt note
For the bubblyjock swallowed the bagpipes
And the blether stuck in its throat.

 

Graffiti by Janet Paisley

 

Johnny Scramble, nae preamble,
draws oan waws whin naebody’s lookin,
YAISES AEROSOL CANS,
RINS AWA FAE POLIS VANS.
Coarnered yesterday, he wis.
KEN WHIT THE STUPIT EEJIT DIS?
Pents hissell tae match the waw,

thocht they’d no see him at aw.
Johnny Scramble’s jist a ful,
NOO HE’S IN THE HOASPITUL
whaur naebody hus oney peety
FUR SICH

A RARE CASE o GRAFFITI.

Lament for a Lost Dinner Tickey by Margaret Hamilton

 

See ma mammy
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine.

See thon burnty
Up wherra firewiz
Ma mammy says
Am no tellynagain
No’y playnit.
A jist wen’y eatma
Pokacrisps furma dinner
Nabigwoffldoon.

The wummin sed Aver near
Clapsd
Jistur heednur
Wee wellies sticknoot.

They sed Wot heppind?
Nme’nma belly
Na bedna hospital.
A sed A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine.

They sed Ees thees chaild eb slootly
Non verbal?
A sed MA BUMSAIR
Nwen’y sleep.

I can’t wait to hear them next week!

To show that you are Winter Ready, please leave a comment about the poem you are preparing and let me know how you are getting on!

Please share any top tips for pronunciation too.