Author: Mrs Kerr

What a super week we have had for health week. Every day we have had the chance to learn new skills to develop our fitness.

Please have a look at some of our highlights:

We hope you have a lovely long weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr

This week we have been making the most of the lovely warm weather and taking as much of our learning outside as possible.

We have been out in the garden using our fractions knowledge to make up our own fractions games. This was lots of fun and got us running around while challenging each other with different questions.

In PE we were developing our running skills with Miss Wison and Miss Naismith.

“First we had to practice how to start a race. You could choose either a sprint start or a crouch start” said Jacob

Once we had plenty of practice we went outside to race each other on the field. This was exciting because the field has now been painted with the track lines.

We then competed against each other to win house points for sports day. The children below all won points which go towards sports day.

Girls

1st Place: Evie

2^nd Place: Aoife

3rs Place: Hannah

Boys

1^st Place: Joseph

2^nd Place: Jan

3rd Place: Lukasz and Haseeb

Have a look of our action shot pictures.

Have a lovely weekend!

A short but sweet week in primary 3/4.

This week we are going to tell you all about our story writing. We had a very creative time writing imaginary stories. It was a little bit different this week because we could write about whatever we wanted to.

Mrs Kerr did have a little bit of a say by adding one target however the rest we did ourselves. This year we have been developing our writing skills and on Wednesday we managed to work in groups to create our own success criteria for our story. Mrs Kerr was very proud of this as we have worked hard to achieve this target.

Here is a little bit about our stories. I bet you would love to read them…

“My story was about me being inside a Pokémon game and it was the best adventure EVER” said Jay.

“My story was about being stuck in Jurassic Park world and it was awesome.” said Joshua.

“My story was an adventure with my friend and we went to candyland. I wish it was real life.” said Brooke

“In my story I was stuck in Mindcraft and on an adventure with Stampy Long Nose. It was so awesome!” said Joseph.

“I climbed up a volcano and at the top I met a dinosaur and he helped me get back down.” said Haseeb.

“I got sucked into a land with fairies, mermaids and princesses and we had to defeat a wicked witch. It was a marvellous adventure.” said Hannah.

Well done everybody you all wrote a very exciting story with an imaginative adventure.

Have a lovely weekend Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr.

 

This week was creativity week and we have really enjoyed exploring our creativity on our own and working in groups.

We think creativity means:

• “Being unique” said Jay
• “Using your own qualities” said Ailie
• “Using your own mind” said Evie
• “Using your imagination” said Aidan
• “Creating things that have never been created before.” Said Haseeb
• “Putting different things together to make one extraordinary thing.” Said Hannah
• “Helps our mind grow” said Caiden

On Wednesday we all had a creativity challenge to think of a game or a sport. Then we chose to work with a partner or in a group to join with. In those groups we invented a brand new game. “This was amazing!” said Lukasz. Below are some of the games that we came up with.

• Hannah and Shannon – Ping Pong

“I enjoyed Hannah’s idea of using the game corners in our new game. I also enjoyed it because we mixed different games together to make it more exciting.” said Shannon.

• Mark, Joseph, Jay and Adrin – Basket dodge

“I enjoyed the game because I like a dodge ball and basketball and mixing them together makes it out of this world.” Said Mark.

• Evie, Ailie and Brooke – Paper Ball

“Our game was like basketball, dodge ball and rock, paper, scissors. In the game you play basketball and try to hit someone, when you hit someone you have to do rock, paper, scissors and the loser gets to take a shot of scoring a basket. You win a point if your score a goal.” Said Brooke.

• Jan, Kacper, Joshua and Haseeb – Cyberball

“In this game there are 2 teams. One team starts by passing the ball to their partner if they don’t pass then the other team get the ball.” Said Haseeb

• Jay P, Aoife, Isabella and Rachel – Splat

“Our game was fantastic. It included rounders and dodgeball. The defenders had to stop the opponents from getting passed them. They had to try to grab the ball.”

Said Isabella and Jay-P

• Jacob, Charlie, Aidan, Gaby and Lukasz – Dodge the rugby ball

“In this game you have 2 people that hold the rugby ball. They throw the ball without it hitting the ground; if it hits the ground then they go in to prison.” Said Charlie.

 

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Creativity is important because:

• “It helps your growth mindset grow bigger and stronger” said Jacob
• “It means you can experience new things” said Aoife.
• “You can explore new things” said Lukasz

Have a lovely weekend!

From the awesome primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr.

We will be back next week 🙂

 

It has been a busy second last week of term.

This week we were learning about how much sugar is in different drinks. It was very interesting to find out this information and we were very shocked to find out how much sugar there was.

First we were estimating how much sugar was in Irn Bru, Ribena, Chocolate Milkshake and water.

Once we had finished at this station we moved on to the research station to find out the exact amount of teaspoons in each drink.

Then we had a chance to spoon each teaspoon into a plastic cup. This allowed us to see exactly how much we would be drinking.

Evie said “I was amazed at how much sugar was in chocolate milkshake.”

Ailie said “This has made me think for the future.”

Have a look at some of our pictures to see our results.

We are so excited to come in to our class next week as it will decorated. It is looking very bare at the moment.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr

 

“This week there has been a HUMONGOUS amount of learning this week.” Said Gaby

Today we had pyjama day. “Pyjama day has been epic” Said Caiden. However Aidan reminded the reasin why we were in our pyjamas. He said “We are wearing our pj’s today to raise money for SCIAF.”

“This money is really important for lots of people all over the world to give them food, clothing, villages and houses.” Said Jan

“Pj day was fun because we got to wear our jammies.” Said Rachel

“Pyjama day was amazing because we got to go to school in our jammies. You might go to sleep.” Said Lukasz

Joseph said “It feels weird wearing your jammies and slippers.”

Primary 3/4 all agrees that they feel soooooooo comfortable and relaxed wearing their pyjamas to school. They wish they could do this every day.

“Writing was amazing this week because we were trying persuade a new family to come to our school.” Said Haseeb

“Writing this week has been brilliant because our St Ninian’s posters had all the great things about our school.” Said Hannah

“Our writing this week has been very successful because everyone done really well.” Said Evie

“We got to share our comments about St Ninian’s and it sounded great.” Said Ailie

“Well done to every child for producing a fantastic persuasive poster this week. It was super to see that everyone was prepared with a super comment and very enthusiastic about their own school. Aoife kindly went around each child to take a picture of their poster to share on our blog. Have a look at some examples of our successful work so far. Well done primary 3/4! Mrs Kerr J

Have a super weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr

This week was great fun! We really enjoyed world book day.

“I loved it” said Brooke

“I loved world book day because you got to be your favourite character in your favourite book.” said Ailie

Yesterday we read a book called the Snorgh and the Sailer. This was about a lonely Snorgh who had no imagination until he met a sailor rabbit. The rabbit took the Snorgh on different adventures and the Snorgh had so much fun that he wanted to start to use his imagination.

A special letter fell from the middle of the book while we were reading. Isabella reminded us that the letter was asking if we could design a boat to help the Snorgh catch the sailor.

“My boat could go underground and it had GPS tracker that could find the sailor” said Charlie.

“We had a seat which had buttons on the front which helped him go as fast as he wanted because there were two boosters on the back.” said Evie.

“My boat had three boosters and two seats on the back. It had an invisible screen which had a tracking device on it.” Said Caiden

Mines had a safe to keep his soup warm and it was a two layer boat which could move up and down. Said Jay P

“Mines had an auto steering wheel and auto pilot made the boat go even faster. “Said Adrin

“I liked world book day because I liked dressing up as Ariel. I enjoyed making the boat for the Snorgh.”Said Shannon

Mark said “I thought that Mrs Kerr was creepy and evil when she came out dressed as Mrs Twit.”

“I liked world book day because I got to dress as Ellie’s magical bakery. It was great fun.” Said Aoife

Just a wee note to say thank you to everyone that made it along to our class mass yesterday. I’m sure you will agree that it was a lovely service.

Have a great weekend and a lovely rest.

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr

 

 

This week has been amazing.

This week we have started doing our daily mile.

“The daily mile is fun because it get’s us active and helps us concentrate” said Hannah.

“The daily mile is a pain to my legs but I like it.” said Jan.

“I like the daily mile because it gives you more energy” said Shannon.

“I get tired doing the daily mile and it helps me sleep at night.” said Caiden

“I challenged myself and I ran two miles instead of one.” said Haseeb.

“Our assembly went very well today because we entertained the rest of the school.” said Jay.

“It was a good start to the day.” said Joseph.

“I liked doing the assembly today and I would like to do it lots of times.” said Jacob.

Below is an example of the Cha Cha Slide in Scots:

Alright noo, we’re gonna dae the basic step

Tae the left, tak is back noo y’all

Wan hop this time, right fit let’s stramp

Left fit let’s stramp

Cha cha real sleek

Birl it oot, tae the left, tak it back noo y’all

Wan hop this time, right fit let’s stramp

Left fit let’s stramp

Cha Cha noo y’all

Noo it’s time tae get funky

“The assembly was fantastic because we all worked together as a team.” said Ailie

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr