Category: Primary 3

This week has been a busy and super technologies week.

“Technologies week is the best week ever” said Mark.

“It has been really fun and awesome.” said Brooke

“It has been really really exciting.” said Ailie

On Wednesday we enjoyed our trip to West Lothian College to visit the Engineering and Science department. During this trip we had a tour of the workshop. We got to see lots of different people working to build walls, stairs, and really cool machines to cut metal.

“I liked seeing all the big machines” said Evie

Finally we got to have a peek at the electricians hard at work. “My favourite was the electricians.” said Caiden. After our grand tour we had a chance to build our own machines.

“My team built an alarm with a horn and lights. This was tricky to build but we got in the end.” said Hannah.

“I built the siren it was really complicated even for the people helping but we got it in the end. It was fun!” said Aoife

 

“I built a car. It was kind of tricky because the wires were hard to put in the tiny holes.” said Adrin

Thank you West Lothian College for a great trip.

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday we had a visitor from Scotch Beef. During this visit we had a look at the different symbols for meat and what they mean.

“The symbols meant the animals never went out of Scotland.” said Mark

“This also meant that the animals have had a very happy life.” Said Gaby

The lady was teaching us all about the vitimans that meat can give you and how this helps your body.

“The meat can give strength, helps your blood cells, it can help with your bones and it can heal your cuts and give you extra energy.” said Jan

“We had a chance to make beef faijtas. They tasted like beef and vegetable. I didn’t really but I gave it a try.” said Joesph

“The faijtas tasted like heaven!” said Rachel

Have a lovely long weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr 🙂

This week has been a fabulous week.

This week we have started our new topic ‘A Wee Book of Fairy Tales in Scots.’

“The first story we read was the Three Wee Pigs.” Said Aidan

“This story was not the same because the words were different.” said Ailie

“It was in Scottish slang.” said Rachel.

“The book is really fun to read.” Said Evie

In drama we were leaning the skill of hotseating. Ailie was the Big Bad Wolf and the rest of the class were the news reporters. We had some interesting questions to ask the wolf about his terrible crime.

Then for art we went a hunt around our garden to find different things objects, shapes and textures to inspire our Big Bad Wolf picture. Take a look at some of our pictures.

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 3/4 and Mrs Kerr

Along with P3/4 and P4, P3 were real show stoppers this week with their Great Scots performances. The great Scots were actually all the children! After a lot of hard work performing and rehearsing together, the show proved to be a great success. Thanks to everyone who helped with all the preparations.

A few other highlights of the week:

PE : practising turns and balances on the apparatus and using a camera with a delayed timer so that we could all see our own moves!

Spelling: learning magic e rule, ai and oa sounding words, using letter cubes to wordbuild, playing dice games to help spelling

Reading: reflective reading about the life of Robert Burns and enjoying extracting facts about his life from a passage

Writing: we wrote about our school show, what we liked, how we felt and what other people said about it,

Art: designing our own tartans, drawing Robert Burns step by step and using an online tutorial on how to draw a rose

Outdoor Learning: Mr Hunter took us outside again and we were intrigued to learn what a fank is! If you don’t know, ask the children!

National Youth Choir of Scotland: this session was fun and we even used a huge parachute while singing at the same time!

Maths: sequencing to 1000 and partitioning 3 and 4 digit numbers

Hope you enjoy the photos,

Adios for this week,

Mrs Howley and P3

This week has been amazing for all of us. This was because we got to perform in front of all our parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters.

Jay said “ It was very very awesome”

Aidan said “I felt very freaked out but after the show I felt very proud of myself.”

Joseph said “I felt like I was going to be sick.”

Rachel said “I was very nervous but after the show I felt tired and happy.”

Mark said “I felt like I was doing something crazy as I had never done anything like that before. I was glad that I remembered all of my lines.”

Haseeb said “I liked that I got to stand in for my friend Kacper as he was not at the night show.”

Ailie said “I just felt really excited and nervous at the same time.”

Aoife said “I felt that I was a little bit scared and after I felt happy because that I had completed my challenge.”

All of primary 3/4 would like to thank everyone who came to see us and who helped to organise our costumes. Thank you parents for helping us practice our lines.

From all the boys and girls in p 3/4

Have a super weekend! 🙂

 

 

This week has been busy and fabulous! said Shannon

We have been so busy doing our final practice for our show. Today we performed our show for the whole school.

Jay-P said “I felt nervous”

Caiden said “Thumbs up!”

Lukasz said “I felt proud.”

Yesterday we had time to squeeze in some writing. We made a Scottish dessert called Cranachan.

Charlie said “I likes id because it was great”

Rachel said “I liked it all except the raspberries.”

Now we can make a full Scottish dinner.

Blog written this week by all of the primary 4 children.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Rachel, Charlie, Caiden, Gabby, Isabella, Lukasz and Nasim.

Fun activities have featured in class this week! We have been devoting lots of time to our Burns’ Night show practices and the excitement has been building as the big day approaches. We have had 2 dress rehearsals this week, one for the 3 classes involved and today we performed for the whole school. No stage fright at all as we have become such confident performers! Here’s to next week, you will be in for a treat!

In Maths we have continued practising our counting beyond 100 up to 1000. We have played smartboard games and we had fun using an online flip-counter which helped us. Here is the link:

http://www.ictgames.com/flipCounter/index.html

We also had fun dancing to a 5 times table song. We enjoyed the activity as it helped us to learn this table through singing and dancing. We all have our own personal tables challenge sheets now, and Mrs Howley will only give us a times tables sticker if we can recite our tables fluently as well as correctly!

In Spelling we were learning nk and ng ending words. Fun activities included spelling using whiteboards, making spelling word pyramids and bending pipecleaners into letters to spell our words, as well as take photos of them using our class iPad!

In writing we had an exciting, fun time when a huge bag of tartan materials, clan badges and a shoebox filled with tartan ties all arrived in class! This generous donation came from Alexander’s gran who has a kilt shop. Everybody in class got their own piece of tartan and we had to describe it, including colours, shapes, materials and designs. After writing down our ideas on whiteboards, we wrote on our writing templates and these will become a new wall display in class. It was great fun having real materials to touch and see, especially as they were then going to be used for the school show. How lucky are we?

We rounded off the week with our first Skills Academy classes. These included Spanish games and songs, First Aid, Hungry for Success, Animal Care, Team Building challenges, Messy Play and Creation Station. Hope you like a few of our photos from this week. Have a fun weekend,

Mrs Howley and P3

What a busy first week back after our Christmas break! P3, along with P3/4 and P4 have been very excited about our forth-coming Great Scots play for Burns’ Night. We enjoyed getting together with the other classes and we have been practising our lines and our songs for the show. 2 weeks to go and we are buzzing with excitement!

We are very grateful for your help with costumes for us, and supporting us with learning our lines. No photos for this week, as we will keep them until after the performance!

Happy New Year,

Mrs Howley