Epic Arty P4a

This week our focus has been on art- creating art works for our Ancient Egyptian museum and starting Monet inspired Spring art. We have made Mummified cats, Mummy’s- life size (EEEK),  a couple of life size Sarcophagi, Canopic Jars, curses to keep the Mummy’s away (did we mention they are life size!), Scarab Beetles to protect us from those life size Mummys and necklaces. We also made a few pyramids for our door- hmmm maybe that is where the Mummys came from??

We learned how to write like an Egyptian- tricky at first but we are getting better. We also learned about the Rosetta Stone and how they used it to translate hieroglyphics into English.

In PE we did Hockey, we think we are getting better each week. In Music and in class we have been learning some Egyptian music (The Pyramid Song and Amazing Egyptians).

In numeracy we did estimating and representing using a variety of different measurements. We had a focus on reading skills on Thursday- we watched Tony Robinson talk about his book Weird and Wonderful Egyptians and we then played “Guess my book”. Some of our parents and grandparents joined us for this, we had great fun trying to guess which books we all were.

We have all been entered into the West Lothian Sum Dog contest- it runs from today for a week- we also taught P2/3 how to access and use Sum Dog- we love being teachers!

On Thursday we all shared our class talks, they were all very interesting. Daniel took part in a Russian Poetry competition at the weekend and won an award. Finlay, Hannah, Isla, Amy and Freya took part in a Gymnastic Show and did fantastic. Finlay and Orla took part in the Matt McGinn night, which involved singing. This weekend some of us are taking part in a Music Festival in Glasgow and Katie and Erin are taking part in an Acrobatic show- what a talented bunch P4a are!

PLUS 11 of our girls went to the first Gala committee meeting, more of this after Easter.

Next week is the last week of our home learning wall. All tasks should be in by Friday- although a lot of us have already completed these.

As an extra special challenge (and worth a whooping 10- yes 10- dojo points) Mrs Newton has asked us all to make simple Easter Bonnets for the school Easter Parade. Details of this will be in our home learning jotters on Monday.

Have a great weekend, 3 weeks to go 🙂

P4a