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 Toymaker gave us 3 letters. The first one was about making toys out of junk, the second one was to say that we did use our imagination to make a toy. The third one was that he had run out of ideas and he wants us to help. We made toys out of junk which were fantastic! We drew pictures of toys like Noah’s Ark, a fire engine, a fire station, a farm and a car park. We are in the middle of talks about our toys. We had to take in one of our favourite toys and we had to talk all about it to the rest of the class. The class had some questions to ask at the end of every talk. The talks are excellent.
We have heard about Nintendogs and played them on the DS. We had to look at dogs and then buy them. We had to teach them their names. Some people thought it was easy and some people thought it was hard! We had to teach them to sit but some were stubborn, wouldn’t listen and wouldn’t sit! We made some fabulous profiles for our pets. We have enjoyed playing with our faithful pets. We started making a dog animation on the computer. We had to work with a partner. We are thinking about making a pet shop in the corner of the classroom.
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
We received a letter from the giant (from Jim and the Beanstalk) telling us that he had sat on his new glasses. He asked us to make him a new pair. We each designed our own pair for him and he chose which he liked best. We then made him a gigantic pair of fire glasses (designed by Olivia) and left them for him.
