This week was a very busy week as we were getting  ready for our Showcase afternoon.

That happened on Thursday the 17th and we really enjoyed showcasing our work on Aztecs and sharing our learning with members of our family.

We took some great pictures for you to look at. We looked amazing in our Aztec outfits!!!!!

Here is what our best bits of the Showcase were.

My favourite part was doing the Aztec dance and I was the leader – Tia

We enjoyed having the hot chocolate, yum yum!! – Angus, Cyrus, Bryan, Amber and Daniel

We  don’t have a favourite as we enjoyed all of it!!! – Lewis, Alexander, Jamie, Meah and Kelsey

I enjoyed sharing my learning with the people that came to our Showcase -Melissa

My favourite part was being at my station and telling people about Aztec temples, houses and weapons – Toby

I made a powerpoint on my own about the Aztecs and enjoyed showing it at the Showcase afternoon – Chloe

P1/2 had a very busy week preparing for their showcase afternoon, finishing all their art work and deciding on what they were going to say to all the visitors to their castle.

We had a fantastic afternoon sharing what we have been learning with you and completing our knight training. Here are some pictures for those who could not come and for those of you who were there to relive the afternoon’s activities.

Tom, Henry and Isabella very kindly brought in their ducklings to show the boys and girls in nursery. They asked the boys and girls in primary one if they would like to see the ducklings.

Everyone loved meeting them and some of us even got to touch them or hold them.

This week in P3/4 we have been getting our classroom ready for next week’s Showcase. We have had so much fun and learned a lot about the Aztecs.

We have enjoyed making the spears, daggers and shields and making the Aztec gods – Lewis, Kieran, Daniel, Alexander

We  have enjoyed all the work we have done this week on the Aztecs – Bryan, Jamie

I enjoyed designing and making different kinds of Aztec jewellery – Tia,

I enjoyed colouring in the Aztec gods – Kelsey

I enjoyed researching and typing up my findings on the history of chocolate – Chloe

I enjoyed making my Aztec tribal shield – Amber

We enjoyed drawing and painting our Aztec warriors for the wall Display – Cyrus, Toby

We are going to take pictures at our Showcase afternoon and share them with you on our Blog next week.

Please be sure to look at them as they will be AMAZING!!!!

We have been very busy this week preparing for our showcase afternoon. We have been making a drawbridge and chains from paper chains to complete our class castle. We have also been making costumes ready for our knighting ceremony during showcase.

We have written our own invites to our showcase afternoon – you should receive them today!

We have been making use of our class ipads to practise writing our spelling words and become more familiar with the keyboard.

In maths, we have started learning about time. We have been practising our days of the week using a song and have started learning to tell the time through the use of active games.

In PE, we have been doing ‘keepy-uppys’ with a racket and a tennis ball to improve of hand-eye coordination.

We are looking forward to sharing our learning with all our families at our showcase next week.

We had a fantastic trip to Stirling Castle last Wednesday. We saw the King and Queen’s bedchambers and learnt that the king didn’t actually sleep in his, he slept in a small room elsewhere. In the Queen’s bedchamber we met a Jester how told us lots about the Queen and some of us got the chance to try juggling.

We had a look at the cannons and had a picnic lunch next to them.

In the Great Hall we all had the chance to sit on the King and Queen’s thrones and all sat round the top table together.

We went into one of the towers and looked down through a trap door to see where the dungeons would have been below.

There was an area where we could explore some medieval costumes, music, games and painting, solving problems in groups.

We had a great time looking for all the things we had been learning about in class – there were lots of shouts on the bus up of ‘battlements’ when they were spotted!

We saw and learnt much more but you’ll have to wait until our showcase to find out!

Have a look at our photos to give you some clues!