Stenton Primary School

On Monday afternoon we learned about the climate in the Dominican Republic. Half the year has Summer, and the other half is the rainy season. They also have hurricanes.  Because the climate is different from Scotland they don’t have brick houses, they have wooden houses. Sometimes they build their houses from old stuff because they don’t waste anything as they are poor. They have a hurricane shelter in part of the island to keep safe when it’s hurricane season. They have to take their food there.

We are all pretending to look through a telescope. Marjorie, the drama teacher, came and taught us about the play ‘A Town Called Elsewhere’. In the picture, Noah is waving. We were learning more about drama.

This is about Anna’s life. P3 were learning about the life of a girl called Anna(10) in the Dominican Republic. She works on the Sugar Platation and she looks after goats so she can their milk so she can get money. She also goes to school for half a day each day, because it is too hot in the afternoon. It takes her half an hour to get to school.

This week primary three have learned a lot!

“We learned how to how to hold our pencil properly.” Lewis

“We learned about the world because we got the globe down and looked at the different countries.” Lois

 ”We started to learn about the Dominican Republic because we are sponsoring an 8 year old boy there called Josua.” Ben and Michael

“We learned how to use superspell.” Noah

“We made a flower picture for the Stenton Flower Show” Yasmin

“We learned how to draw the flag of the Domincan Republic.” Ali

“We made pages for a travel brochure with pictures of hotels and prices” Emma

“We learned about angles and right angles, and some of us learned about turning through  right angles.”

“We all made our own passports.” Noah

“We spent a lot of our choosing time with the lego.” P3 boys!

“The girls enjoyed playing with the dolls house.” P3 girls

I liked tracing!” Yasmin.

Today we started our topic on the Dominican Republic.

Primary 3 will tell you all about their learning here.