Our P6 and P7 pupils all had the opportunity to take part in a K’Nex Challenge.
The K’Nex workshops employ active learning to develop problem solving, communication, teamwork, planning and critical thinking skills. The pupils were all thoroughly engaged in the team activities and gave very positive feedback. Here are some of our P7 pupils working together.
The P2s were making symmetrical t-shirts and shorts with patterns on them for maths. We looked at shapes for maths. The P2s and P3s were making different patterns with shapes.
At story writing we were writing a postcard from a roman soldier. We made Celt torcs.
We were learning about the body inside the ALEC caravan. We touched parts on Tammy and when we touched them they lit up. We learned that our heart keeps us alive. There was a fancy dress party for Harold.
At art, we were drawing a picture of roman soldiers. We folded the paper and in each part we had to draw a part of the body. Some of the parts had two parts of the body in them.
We have been painting Romans and Celts. Some people have been painting shields and swords. In Art we have been painting Mount Vesuvius which is a famous volcano. We are writing stories about a time machine. Our story about the time machine is in chapters. We have written one chapter.
We have been learning about time. The P3s have been learning quarter to and quarter past. The P2s have been learning about o’clock and half past. We went to cooperative learning groups to learn the months of the year and make a paper chain of them. Some people knew all of the months and some people didn’t.
Some people have been digging for finds in the playground! Some people think that they have found things from the Roman times or a long time ago! We have put them in our Roman museum.
We are doing lots of subtracting and some people are enjoying it! We have been stuck with a kind of take away – the one with the missing number at the start! Yesterday we played a game of subtraction bingo on the computer and a few people missed out some numbers!
We all came to school in red clothes and red hair because it is Red Nose Day. We also wore our red noses. All the red noses are dinosaur themed.
We have been writing stories about a magic paint brush. First we heard the story called The Magic Brush and it was a good story. Some of us have written really long ones! We had to follow a plan to write the stories.
We are threading popcorn with sharp needles and thread to make strings of popcorn. We have to be very careful we don’t stab ourselves! We are doing it for the enterprise. We got to pop the corn. We stirred it with a spoon until it started popping and it looked like fireworks when it popped out of the pan!!! Next week we are going to be pricing them. Some people are being sneaky and eating the profits!
We have been counting money to make different amounts so we can give change at the enterprise and to count up the money that we get. P3s have been doing harder amounts than the P2s. The P2s that were more confident were allowed to do the P3s and the other way round.
We made wonderful firework posters for firework safety. We played a Gunpowder Plot game. We needed to guess which cellar Guy Fawkes was in by answering all of the questions. We wrote a fireworks senses poem.
In maths, P2 were doing even numbers and odd numbers. P3 have been multiplying numbers for our times tables.
We learned about where our country is on the globe. We were looking to see how it turns night into day. We are turning our pet shop into a museum and library.
We were outside in the playground. We drew a road with chalk and then we crossed it. Then we had 2 cars and we had to cross the road when the cars were on the road.
Some P3s and some P2s were making up questions for their reading groups.
We did a firework problem solving activity. We counted rockets with 3 or 4 stars and we had to make numbers 10, 15, 25, 60 and 70 by using cubes to count them. It was quite hard for some of us! We watched and read a story for firework safety on the smartboard. We found out about the firework code. We read out all of the code and we learned about how to stay well back from fireworks. We found out that when you are finished with your sparklers you need to put them in a bucket with cold water. We learned not to do dangerous things with fireworks.
We read a story about a Hallowe’en party and had to finish it off. We had to put in capital letters and full stops and we had to make sure we put in some connectives. We had to use spooky wow words!
P2 have been learning about counting in tens and counting bundles. We have been counting tens and units and we have been learning about counting up to 100. Most of us are finding it quite easy! We have been playing number bingo.
P3 have been learning about subtracting and adding hundreds and tens up to 1000. It is quite hard but we think were are getting the hang of it! We have been very successful. We played a game on the smartboard with 3 small penguins and one big penguin. We had to move the penguins to the right place. The small penguins were throwing snowballs at the big penguin. We had to put the penguins on the numbers up to 1000.
We have been learning about growing and one of the stories that we have read has been about James and the Giant Peach. We have planted beans. The runner beans have grown very well. We have been learning to use DSs to take pictures about our learning. We have made cuboid treasure chests.
By Oscar
