Our Hippo design has been finalised and his name was chosen. Thanks to Ebony in Primary 6 for coming up with the name, Scotty Malawi. There were lots of excellent suggestions for names, but the children all voted and Scotty Malawi came out on top! The children have now begun painting him and I have to say, he is looking
FAB-U-LOUS!
Primary 4 loved having Scotty Malawi to visit!!!! We watched the ‘All about Hippos’ video and used our literacy skills to take notes. We used these notes and what we have been learning about non-fiction, to help us make a Hippo Fact file.
On Monday Scotty Malawi the hippo came to visit the P3 class. The children were quite concerned that he would get cold in the chilly Scottish weather so we decided to make him some pants! The children combined Scottish and African images and flags (and the occasional emoji!) to design lots of bright and colourful pants!
THE BIG STAMPEDE
Primary 1/2 had a fantastic day with the hippo. We taught him how to build and read some of our tricky words. The hippo also made a friend in Primary 1/2. We introduced him to the class dinosaur, Dexter. We read the story ‘Animal Pants’ and designed some colourful new underpants for our hippo. We also watched the video ‘The Greedy Hippo’. In the video, the other animals made the Greedy Hippo a disgusting dish to eat. We created our own disgusting dishes for our hippo. We used ingredients such as smelly socks, spiders, stinky cheese and worms. To finish off we sang a little song to the hippo called ‘One Big Balancing Hippo’.
