Pencaitland Primary Blog

Lesson 11 - 31/05/07 
Well, today was our last lesson in our processes of life topic. We started off by reviewing our blog to remind ourselves what we had learned since Easter. Thanks to everyone who left comments (especially the photos of snails left by Mr McIntosh) - it really spurred us on to find out [...]

Lesson 10 : 29/05/07
 Today we should have gone for a walk in the woods to look at flowers and learn about the structure of plants and flowers. However it was pouring with rain so we couldn`t go.  Instead we looked at the life cycle of a dandelion and got to grow some cress. Firstly in [...]

Primary one can draw pictures using a mouse.

Saturday was the annual Spring Fair at Pencaitland Primary School. It was a lot of fun and there were lots of stalls. Despite the windy weather we can all say that the Spring Fair was a great success!
By Kirsty and Anna
Primary 6 have been making egg cups for the spring fair which we sold.
I made [...]

We learned all about a single animal today - the snail.  As a class we discussed all we knew about snails and we came up with a long list.  Then we saw some photos of different types of snails and we talked about the differences we saw.  We learned about the life cycle of the [...]

Lesson 8 - 21/05/07
Todays lesson started with Mr Cain reading us the “The Hungry Caterpillar” again.  We had read it before in nursery and P1 but it was good to see the book again. After we finished reading the book we discussed all the stages the caterpillar goes through. Starting out as an egg, he hatches [...]

P5 went on two school trips recently, Hollyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh Castle was very interesting with all the armour and weapons. We enjoyed our visit into a private room where we got to try on the armour and have a shot of a rapier (a type of sword). P5 trip to Hollyrood and [...]

On Tuesday PPS Animations met for the first time. We have some enthusiastic apprentices who hope to create some interesting productions over the next few weeks. Click on the links below to see what we created in our first production meeting.

m-blog-animation.mov
blog-animation-cl.mov

Lesson 7 - 15/5/2007
What an exciting afternoon!  Richard, one of our local countryside rangers, came into school to speak to us today. He brought with him a collection of stuffed woodland animals - a fox, a badger, a stoat and a weasel. We talked about all sorts of things concerning these and other animals, as [...]

Primary 4 are very busy at the moment. As part of our Electricity project we are starting to design buzzer games.
We have also just started creating our own animations.
More details to come soon.

Lesson 6 - 14/5/2007
Today’s lesson was in two parts.  Firstly, in groups, we identified the different stages people pass through as they grow and get older, and put them in sequence.  We then made timelines for ourselves which identified the important stages we have passed so far, when we were born, first walked, talked, went to school [...]

Lesson 5 : 03/05/07
We were able to go outside today to explore the playground using our senses.  First of all we cut up some colour samples and stuck them on to a piece of card. Once we were outside we were challenged to find things that matched the colours on our card.  We also had cups [...]

  Primary one practiced using a mouse today.
Look at the pictures they coloured in using Kid Pix.

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