Author Archives: Miss MacKenzie

P4M Blog It! 25.9.19

Hallo (Hello),

P4M would like to tell you about our learning!

In the most exciting breaking news, P4M mummified some tomatoes! Oakley would like to tell you about it.  We chopped the tomatoes head off (this didn’t happen in ancient Egypt but we needed to get to the insides!), we scooped out their insides, then we covered the tomatoes in a resin of salt and baking powder.  We did this so that the tomatoes would dry out and they will not rot.  Eden knows that in ancient Egypt they left the bodies in salt for 40-70 days but we are going to leave the tomatoes for a week to see what happens.  We learned a song to remember the process and Baili thought it was really funny. He thought it was like you were doing the hokey pokey but you were talking about a mummified body.  Ethan would like to tell you about our Topic books, they are filled with lots of information, such as what we learned about the Maasai tribe!

Erika would like to tell you about our Hieroglyphic writing.  First we made some papyrus paper using teabags and water.  Then we practised a secret message we were going to put on our paper.  We then copied our secret message in Hieroglyphics before scrunching up our papyrus paper to make it look old and like it has been buried in the sand for a long time!

Jake would like to tell you about numeracy.  We have been using number names and numerals.  Alana has been learning how to add using thousands, hundreds, tens and ones! Pretty big numbers indeed!

William has been learning about different points of view in our Jigsaw lesson.

Louise would like to talk about the rugby world cup! In our PE we have been learning about Rugby, so we have a poster in our classroom to keep track of who wins each game and who was playing!

In art, we painted some tulips because we were learning about The Netherlands as part of our preparations for the European Day of Languages.  Cara learned how to say hello and goodbye in Dutch! Hallo is hello and Vaarwel is goodbye!

Jessica D would like to tell you about our letters to Miss Trunchbull.  We wrote these because she was saying bad things to us and we didn’t like it, so wanted to write a letter to her, to tell her that it was unacceptable.  Ruaridh wrote the letters on Roald Dahl’s birthday which is on the 13th September. He turned 103! Evan thought it was funny we had to write to a head teacher to remind them to be kind!

In French, Ana has been learning the French alphabet.  We learned how to spell our names in French.

Alana would like to tell you about NYCOS (National Youth Choir of Scotland) who have been visiting to work with us on music.  We learned the coca cola rhyme to help us with finding the beat of music.

Vaarwel, P4M!

P4M BLOG IT!

Hello everyone, P4M would like to share their learning with you =]

Jessica D would like to tell you about the jumping dance we did in class! Through our topic, the class decided they wanted to learn about African tribes.  We learned about the Maasai tribe and their traditional dance.  Jessica became the jumping dance champion (warrior!) as she jumped highest for longest! Isla has been enjoying our continuation of our Africa topic.  Baili would like to tell you about our African tribal masks.  We made 3 different kinds, one with paint, one with paper and one using pen. Ana knows that different materials in art are called Media.  Callum thinks that making the masks was fun and knows that they had to be symmetrical.  Isla enjoyed making these masks too.  Since we last posted last year, Oakley has wanted to share about his learning on Nelson Mandela.  He knows that Nelson Mandela was put in prison for believing in equal rights.

Lewis has been playing rugby in PE.  We were learning how to throw the rugby ball using a backwards swing pass. Maxim feels he is getting better at passing the ball.  He enjoyed a passing game that we played. Cara has enjoyed fitness with Mrs Howard because she still has to keep going, even with her rosy cheeks!

In numeracy we have been learning about some pretty big numbers.  Evan has been working with numbers in the tens of thousands! Alana has been working on her written methods for addition.  Erika has been working on her understanding of place value and knows that in the number 287 the 2 stand for 200.

Gracie would like to tell you about our learning in French.  We have been learning new words and been practising the alphabet and learning about families!

Eden would like to share that she has been developing her resilience when solving problems.  We had to make some shapes fit into a square…it was pretty tricky!

In art, Aneta enjoyed sketching a lion!

Aiden would like to tell you about writing.  He was retelling a story in his own words.  We used the traditional African story of, ‘How the sun and moon live in the sky’. Carmen has also been using the traditional tale of, ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ in her writing.  We used the traditional tale of, ‘Why the clouds sit on top of the hill’. Lucas enjoyed this piece of writing.  William feels he has improved his writing and is feeling very proud.

In literacy, Lauren has been reading through stories and identifying VCOP.  Today we were highlighting adjectives.  Ana has enjoyed developing her dictionary skills. Louise has been enjoying this too. Jessica M knows that dictionaries give us the definition of words.

Ruaridh enjoys our weekly circle time and enjoys saying thank you and being rewarded for displaying school values and classroom values.  He also enjoys the chance to show and tell at this time.

Lucy would like to tell you about the theatre that came to school.  We saw ‘The railway children’ and Lucy really enjoyed it.  The main characters were Peter, the railway Porter, Phylis and Bobbie. Ethan thought that Peter was really funny! “Choo choo!”

Jigsaw time is a favourite of Jakes.  We made medals to display our learning goals for the year. Callum S would like to let you know that the Jigsaw puzzle piece we are working on in class is called, ‘Being me in my world’.

It’s a big blog this time, but were so excited to share all our learning in P4 so far!

Thanks, P4M and Miss MacKenzie

P3M Blog It! 25.6.19

Hello everyone,

time for the final blog of primary 3! Can you believe it?! Here are a few thoughts on the year that has past.

Alana has enjoyed doing Art in Primary 3 and particularly enjoyed creating silhouettes.

Oakley – Jay has enjoyed showing good sportsmanship through Health and Fitness fortnight.

William would like to tell you about sports day.  We ran races and the girls and the boys from p3m competed against each other.

Jake enjoyed doing the MAC that came to school.  He liked the climbing wall bit. Jake also enjoyed skills academy where he was learning skills for life!

Jessica D has enjoyed our Jigsaw lessons this year and is looking forward to meeting Jigsaw Jeano next year!

Ana has enjoyed all the things we have been doing in PE this year including gymnastics, football and fitness.

Lewis has enjoyed learning how to use a calculator.

Cara recently took part in an end of term French quiz.

Evan has enjoyed everything about P3 and feels it is the most fun he has had in school…until next year!

Aiden enjoyed Ready, Steady, Cook and Numberacy this year (this is when Miss M accidentally mixed up numeracy and number).

Callum S thinks that Jigsaw has been a fantastic idea and is really, really enjoying it.

Erika enjoyed the skip to be fit time and was trying to skip really fast.

Lucy has been enjoying art this year and enjoyed making a lion portrait out of colourful chalk.

Maxim enjoyed Ready, Steady, Cook and enjoyed seeing what people made.

Gracie has been really been enjoying maths and numeracy this year and has been working hard on multiplication and division.

Allegra has enjoyed sketching in Art this year and particularly enjoyed when we had to sketch along to music and discussed how our drawings changed based on the music.

Eden enjoyed the dance teacher who came to teach us a routine during health and fitness fortnight.

Ruaridh enjoyed literacy this year and enjoyed comprehension and making his own Africa Fact File.

Louise enjoyed Ready, Steady, Cook and enjoyed watching what people were cooking.

Carmen enjoyed reflecting on her year in P3 when she made a little booklet which discussed her school, her teacher and her friends.

Baili enjoyed the skip to be fit activity and is very proud he won a medal.

Callum R has enjoyed improving his handwriting this year.

Ethan enjoyed Ready, Steady, Cook this afternoon and he voted for the Green Beans.  The Orange Peppers won this year!

Thank you for your continued support throughout Primary 3 and I look forward to seeing everyone again after the summer!

Kind regards,

Miss MacKenzie