Chitty Chitty - again!

Here is a video taken at our dress rehearsal this morning - the music is a little faster than what you would have heard during the show itself but we wanted to share this with you!  Ms Rendall is very proud of how well Primary 4 learned the words (they were VERY tricky, especially at this speed) and how well they sang out.  If only they had remembered to smile - they all looked so serious!

 

Video - Chitty Chitty

 

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Well, after all our rehearsals and practise the show is now over - and Primary 4 did fantastically (as did Primaries 5, 6 and 7!).  Here are some photos we took after the show - as you will see, we were a little excited so there are a lot of different poses!

 

Slideshow - Chitty Chitty

 

 

Well done Primary 4!

 

 

Handwork

We are very lucky in St Andrews that we get the chance to learn to sew, knit and crochet.  Although this is tricky, it is something we all enjoy.  Here are some photos of us in action!

 

 

Slideshow - Handwork

 

We are only able to do handwork every week because of all the people who kindly come in from the community to do help us with this, so we would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who gives up their time to help us.  If you would like to help please feel free to join us on Thursday afternoons as we can never have too many helpers!

 

Christmas jumpers

 

 

Did you know today is Christmas Jumper Day!

 

Primary 5 arranged a competition to design our own Christmas jumpers and we also all paid 50p to wear our jumpers to school.  There was over £93 raised altogether - well done Primary 5 for organising this!

 

 

Fiddlers!

Douglas has been teaching a number of children in our class how to play the fiddle.  We were all very excited last week when we got a sneak preview of what they were going to play at the Christmas concert - but we weren't allowed to put it up here until after the show so we didn't spoil the surprise!

 

 

Unfortunately we can't add the second video to the blog page as it is too big, but you can see it by clicking on the link below:

 

 Hot Cross Buns video

Christmas Assembly

It was Primary 4's Assembly on the last Friday of November so we decided to have a Christmas theme given it would be December by Monday. 

 

We were talking about Christmas not being about getting presents and that there are children around the world who will not have any presents under their Christmas tree this year (or maybe they won't even have a Christmas tree).

 

We want everyone to be grateful for what they have and not to be unhappy if they do not get everything they have asked for at Christmas as there are many children who do not have anything at all.

 

 

Slideshow - Christmas Assembly

Measurement skills

As part of our learning in Maths we have been looking at measurement and the different ways we can do this.  We have looked at measuring weight, length and area so far.

 

 

These photos show us using balances to measure weight - we were trying to find objects in the classroom that were the same weight as the weights we had.  It was fun but quite tricky to find things that made the scales balance.

Maybe Primary 4 will add some comments to tell you a bit more about this!

Rugby

We have had a lot of fun this term improving our tag rugby skills.  We were out in all weathers - even when it was pouring with rain - Ms Rendall wasn't always very fond of the smell in the classroom afterwards!

 

Please click on the link below and have a look at some photos that were taken when we were practising.

 

 

Slideshow - Rugby

Can anyone explain some of the important rules and tactics in tag rugby?  Please leave a comment if you can!

We are thankful ....

As a whole school, we have been thinking about what we are thankful for in our lives.  This is something we think is very important to do as it is sometimes easy to forget the good things in life where there is so much sadness around us.  Everyone in Primary 4 thought and talked about what we are grateful for and we all agreed we are thankful for NATURE.  We each wrote a poem about this and then chose different parts from each of the poems that we wrote.  This is the joint poem from Primary 4 - we hope you like it:

Nature never wants to harm us

Animals provide us with food and medicine

Trees sucking up carbon dioxide

Utterly full of living creatures

Rain pattering against the leaves

Energy from howling wind to windmills

There is so much more that we are thankful for but we couldn't include everything!  If you have anything you are thankful for please leave us a comment.