P4 Update
We are enjoying our topic about Scotland-Let’s celebrate.
We were busy learning Scottish poems. We were very good at reciting them by heart!
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We learned many Scottish songs: My bonnie lives over the ocean and the Union street.
We had visitors from the Scottish Culture and Tradition group who were teaching us every day for a whole week how to play a penny whistle, a guitar and clarsach! We were so good we then performed in front of the whole school!
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In PE we were learning how to dance Scottish dances: Canadian barn dance and Strip the Willow.
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We enjoyed our whole school ceilidh, we danced with the P5 class and we really had a good time.
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In Art we looked at art by the Scottish artist Rithie Collins and we created a picture of a fishing village using chalk and oil pastels.
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Finally we had a Scottish food tasting session. We had a shortbread, a tea cake, cheddar cheese, an oatcake and an Irn Bru. We voted which one we like the best and our favourite was the tea cake!
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In Maths we were busy learning about time. We learned what calendars are for and how we can use them . We also made our own calendars. We can now read and write o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. Some of us can tell time to a minute.
In Maths we were also learning about 2D and 3D shapes with Mrs Kelman.
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In Science we have been talking about a water cycle. We have learned the changes of the state matter: melting, freezing, condensation, precipitation and vaporization.
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