The Clan Chiefs are hard at work judging the entries to the Easter Egg contest, which will be announced later today.
We have been overwhelmed by the number and quality of the entries this year, especially given we weren’t able again to have a judging in school thanks to the pandemic. Hopefully next year we can do that again, especially given the amazing work by all entrants this year.
Here is a gallery of our amazing entries.
Happy Easter from Dalry Primary
The boys and girls in Primary 2 have been busy measuring this week by making potions in groups and pretending to be builders and architects by calculating the length of objects. We have also been comparing weight and length by investigating whether something is heavier or lighter and longer or shorter with practical activities.
We really enjoyed making a mixture of love potions, stretchy potions and invisibility potions 🧪 🧫
P2 have had the pleasure of enjoying Scots songs this term, led by Alyssa Muego, our YMI tutor.Songs which we have learned include, Coulter’s Candy and My maw’s a millionaire 🎶
As part of our Superhero topic, we looked at a super ‘woman’ this week called Amelia Earhart and learned about how things fly. This tied in nicely with International Woman’s Day on Monday.To commemorate her, we followed instructions to make our own paper planes then tested them outside afterwards 😃 ✈️
The information for the latest Incredible Years parenting workshop is linked below for families of 3-6 year olds.
P2 were enjoying their Friday last week.
Primary 2 had a great time celebrating World Book Day last week by watching a live stream of authors and illustrators including taking part in a drawing lesson with the author of ‘What the ladybird heard,’ Lydia Monks. She also really loves our drawings of the fine prize cow when we sent them to her on Twitter.
We also made bookmarks to take home and took part in a story book scavenger hunt in class looking for characters, objects and other things in the books.
On Friday, we split into 2 groups to act out the story of ‘What the ladybird heard’ and had great fun doing the animal noises
Please find below details of Monday’s reopening for Nursery to P3
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Before the February break Mr Bennett posted some holiday fun ideas.
One of these was that if it snowed we would accept pictures of the snow taken by the children and share them here.
Ethan in P6/5 and Harmeher in P2 both rose tho the challenge with the great pictures below.
Harmeher’s nest
Harmeher found a nest from last year in the bushes and also showed us a view of the Pentlands.
Ethans Snowglobe
Ethan has taken some really great photos of ice and snow.
His icy sphere and use of perspective is really cool.
Well done Harmeher and Ethan.
From this week we will be doing a Mr Bennett Tech Tuesday for those still home schooling.
If you want to learn how to make your own apps and games this is the place to learn the skills!
All of these tasks are extra fun things to do, not must complete tasks, so only attempt it if you fancy it after your other work.
My Grown Up is a Robot
Ask a grown up or a big sibling to be your robot for an hour.
Robots can only do what they are told.
Get them to also help you pick a task to achieve. Maybe walking from the front door to the kitchen.
Maybe getting a glass of water.
Or something more complicated like using the swings at the park.
They will only respond to the exact instructions on how to move though. Just like a real robot.
A really tough task is the one in this video about making a peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwich. I don’t think you should try this with your grown up robot (unless you don’t mind wasting a lot of food) but watching it gives you an idea of how your robot grown up might act.
Was that tricky?
What mistakes did they make?
How will you need to make your instructions?
Then you need to give the robot grown up your instructions. If you are in P1 and P2 this could just be your saying the instructions.
If you are in P3 and P4 maybe you could go further and write them down.
All videos you want to share (no need to do this if you don’t want to) are welcome either in your class tech channel as an upload or on twitter to @tweetsbennett
Storytech
Did you know you can use scratch as a storytelling programme?
You can make your own animations or comic strips.
Try out the story tutorial here https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=tell-a-story
If you are feeling really fancy you could try the audio options too. Find the animations that can talk tutorial here https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=all along with all the other tutorials you could need.
You can use the included sprites and backgrounds or draw your own. It’s up to you.
If you want to share your story then either save the file and upload it to Mr Bennett’s tech channel in your class, or set up sharing in scratch (please ask a grown up for permission here) and share a link to the Mr B tech channel once you’ve shared your story.
Have fun coding Digital Dalry!
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