Calling all P4 and P5 pupils can you take up our World Book Day Challenge to celebrate Roald Dahl’s 100th Birthday this year and create one of his stories in a box? This weekend gather together items you think you could recycle and use to create one of his famous stories in class next week….
Bring in a shoe box if you have one spare!
This week we started to look at some of the Pharaohs that ruled Ancient Egypt and we found some interesting facts in books and on the computer. We found that because the Pharaohs thought they were gods they had to keep their blood line pure, so they married into their own families, which caused problems, disease and deformities. We will be looking at this a bit closer next week, as well as mummification. Some of the children carried out an experiment on decay, which they will complete next week and report back to class. We also create some signs for our museum and we will be adding to these over the next few weeks.
In writing we continued our story of the magic carpet and wrote about how we got the carpet back to Ancient Egypt. We tried to ensure we were writing in sentence, putting in wow and interesting words to describe the journey.
The children said this week …
Alix – I liked gathering information about the Gods and Pharaohs.
Evan – I learned about Compass Points.
Faith, Jamie, Ruby, Demi-Lee and Chloe – liked the Scottish Dancing.
Robbie – I was learning to count up to 31 in French.
Lauchlin – This week I learned that one of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs tried to change all the Gods into one God.
Well done P3/4
Some pupils even remembered their own devices to listen to their own playlist as they got active !
This week we continued to work on our topic we learned that the Egyptians lived near lakes and the Nile because of the environment. We also learned that they relied on the wet season, each year, for new life for their crops. 5000 years ago they developed a calendar so they could track when the rains were going to come. The children now want to learn more about Ancient Egyptian calendars and try to make them. The children also finished painting the Egyptian Gods for display and they look fantastic. We hope to share all this learning with you at our Assembly on Friday 18th March.
Also this week the children have been learning the Scottish poem; Mrs Nae Offense by Gregor Steele. They all did very well and it was a very difficult decision, but in the end Aiste and Niamh were the two chosen to go through to the next round.
Well done P3/4.
Please note that in RE we are now starting prepare the children for their sacraments.
Children in P3: First Reconciliation is schedule for Tuesday 1st March at 7:30pm.
Children in P4 undertaking their sacraments – Confirmation Friday 22nd April 7pm and First Holy Communion Saturday 28th May 10am.
Click on the pupil link to play a great CONNECTIVES game…
