Category: Achievement

This past week has been busy with lots of great learning.  We have been making decisions in groups and as a class to decide on a name for our class sweet shop and for the logo to be used along with it.  We had to listen to each other’s ideas in a group and use criteria to decide on the logo.  Our shop will be named Sweet Stall Surprise. The name was created by Rosa and the logo that we voted on was created by Ethan.  All the ideas were fantastic for the names and the logos.

We are almost finished painting our sweets to use and are about to set up the shop – we can’t wait.  The models for our home work were due in today and they are fantastic!  Look out for photos on the blog later this week.

Mrs Andison is looking forward to seeing all the parents at Parent nights this week.

We would like to share with you things we have been learning so far in term 3!

 

‘I have enjoyed learning about Malta, finding it on Google maps and looking at the lovely beaches’. Renee

‘ We have been learning about our rights and talking about the rights of the people in Malta’. Amen.

‘We have been learning how to use Google maps to look at different places and the different ways land can be used.’ Jay

‘ We have been reading ‘James and the giant peach’ and we have been using this to help us develop our writing skills.’ Darci.

In our writing:

‘We have been using connectives’. Hayden.

‘We have been using wow words’ Darci.

‘We have been using words to describe our feelings’. Murron.

 

This week, we started our new topic – Farming.

We began by thinking about what we already knew and then came up with questions about things we’d like to find out. So far, we have explored the types of farming that occur in Scotland and where they happen, looked at seasonal calendars to find out how farming in Scotland changes throughout the year and have begun to look at where our food comes from.

For a homework task, Miss McLaughlin set us the challenge of looking for food labels to show us where our food came from. We found some products could be grown/farmed here and many had to be imported in from other countries. We think that this might be because our climate makes it hard to grow things like bananas, coffee and pineapples.

We also used atlases to look for the countries found on our food labels. It’s amazing how far food can travel! We are going to start thinking about the good and bad things about importing food into the country.

Below are super examples of homework and class work from Kristina and Lauren.

Until next time…

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

This week has been great fun.  We have begun to start making sweets for our class sweet shop.  We are making them out of salt dough which we made ourselves by following a recipe, mixing and kneeding the dough.  We worked in groups to create ideas for the sweet names, ideas for the name of the shop and logos, as well as cutting out shapes for the sweets.  Next week we will finish making the sweets, decide on a name for our shop and a logo to go with it.  We can’t wait to start using the shop.  We are using lots of Maths skills for our shop.  We have used measuring for our dough and we have discussed what skills we will need in the shop – using money, adding, subtracting and times tables.  We are going to have great fun.

Have a great weekend.

Primary 5 had noticed that the playground toy boxes were looking rather empty.  They spoke to Mr Eagleson about some enterprising ideas to raise money to replace the toys.   After looking at different ideas they have decided to organise a nearly-new book sale in the school.  They have some books for the sale already but not enough to set up their stall.

We are looking for any nearly-new children’s books that you do not need anymore.  These can range from nursery to Primary 7 level and should be in good condition.

The sale will take place in the last week of term 3. Every class will have an opportunity to visit the stall and buy books at a low cost.

Please send the books in by Monday 14^th March 2016.

Many thanks

Last week we were revisiting the compass points which we had learned about in topic.  This time we were doing 1/4 and 1/2 turns from North

in a clockwise direction. This morning we went back outside and we were doing the same turns in an anti clockwise direction.

This week, Primary 4 presented their Climate Zones knowledge to parents, family and friends. Thanks to all that came – we hope you enjoyed it!

We have been exploring time in Maths – minutes past/to the hour (in 5 minute gaps). We found this very tricky so we came up with some tips to help others remember how to find the time:

• Start with the hour hand (little hand) first – which o’ clock is it closer to? (e.g. 2)
• Then look at the minutes hand (large hand) – which number is it pointing to? (e.g 4)
• Next, multiply that number by 5, as we are working in gaps of five minutes (2.20)
• Finally, work out how many minutes until the next o’ clock (e.g. 2.20 = 40 minutes until 3)

Miss McLaughlin would love it if we could practise this at home.

Many thanks,

Primay 4 & Miss M 🙂

We have had a great week and have been learning more about chocolate and chocolate farming. This has linked to our learning about Fair trade and our class novel Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.  We have completed a very big piece of writing about the process of how chocolate is made and we have illustrated this.  In Art we sketched images of cacao beans and then used chalk pastels to add colour and line to our sketches.  They look very impressive.  We have been making plans for our very own class chocolate shop and we are looking forward to getting started on the shop.

Hope you are having fun helping to make the sweet rooms for our homework challenge.