Sounds Right Garageband Activities

P7 have been enjoying music workshops from Sounds Right using Garageband on the IPads.

Today we were learning how to create 8 bar musical pieces using Apple Loops.

We had to use several instruments to show progression in the music.  have a listen to our tracks!

Victorians- Queen Victoria Fact Flap Book

Today we created these fact flap books all about Queen Victoria.

We used tessellation skills to draw 7 hexagons and cut them out to look like a flower with attached petals.

We did a line drawing sketch of Queen Victoria in the centre of our flowers using a portrait found online.

We brainstormed facts we knew about Queen Victoria and shared information with each other!

Lots of skills development from across the curriculum on display here!

EAC Junior Youth Conference 2021

Our P7 boys did a fantastic job on Friday representing our school at the East Ayrshire Council Junior Youth Conference.  The conference focused on the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, and how our learning links with our rights.

They used menti to answer questions and put forward their opinions and now have lots of ideas to take forward our Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award!

Home Learning 10/11/2021

Hi everyone, I hope you are all OK and ready for your day of home learning.

Here is today’s suggested schedule for home learning:

Morning Challenge:

Literacy- Relative Clauses and Parenthesis:

Start by watching this lesson video:

Have a look at today’s presentation all about the different ways we can add extra information to a sentence using brackets, commas and dashes:

Lesson Presentation Parenthesis

Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson all about parenthesis

Using what we learned about relative clauses in class, complete this new set of juicy detail burgers:  relative clauses 2

Literacy- Reading Comprehension:

REMEMBER TO TAKE YOUR BREAK!  MRS CLARKE WILL BE HAVING HER BREAK AT 11AM, JUST LIKE AT SCHOOL.

Maths- Multiplying Fractions:

Watch this video for today’s lesson about multiplying fractions:

Complete the fraction multiplications:

Log into TIMES TABLE ROCKSTARS and spend 10 minutes practising your target times table.

Jump on HIT THE BUTTON and spend 5 minutes practising your target times table.

French- Quel âge as-tu?:

Today we are learning about the question “Quel age as-tu?” which means “How old are you?”

Watch today’s High Five French video:

Complete the second page of unit 2 from our online textbook:

WIDER ACHIEVEMENT OPPORTUNITY- Have a short conversation in another language:

Follow the script to have a conversation with a family member in French:

A: Bonjour! Comment ça va?

B: Bonjour! Ça va bien merci, et toi?

A: Ça va bien!  Quel âge as-tu?

B: Je onze ans. Quel âge as-tu?

A: Je dix ans. Au revoir!

B: À bientôt!

REMEMBER TO HAVE YOUR LUNCH! I THINK MRS CLARKE WILL ORDER A PIZZA!

NewsRound:

Access NewsRound by clicking here.  Take notes about what you listen to and discuss today’s news with a member of your family.

The Victorians IDL- Timelines:

Today you will be creating a timeline of important events in the Victorian times.  You’ll remember from our workshop that the Victorian era is defined from 1837 when Victoria became Queen until 1901 when Victoria died.

Timelines must be structured in chronological order.  You should start with 1937 and end with 1901.  Try to include at least 10 events/ inventions/ important dates within your timeline.  You can use the internet for your own research.

If you are struggling then have a look at these event cards to help you:

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

You should include words and pictures in your timeline, and remember to add in the dates of each event!

To finish off for today, here is a horrible histories song all about Victorian inventions!

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

War Memorial Board Research

We have been researching some of the names found on our school WW2 memorial board using the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.

This activity has allowed us to give more context to Remembrance Day and work as detectives to find out more information about the names on the board that we walk past every day.

Next time, we’ll all pause a moment and remember the sacrifices made by these men from our village.

Climate Change Art

We have been enjoying learning about the COP26 event in Glasgow and really interested about the climate crisis.  We watched a clip from David Attenborough’s “Frozen Planet” and discussed his impact statement about melting ice caps:

In the past 30 years, we’ve seen these effects of global warming escalate: areas of Arctic sea ice have melted that is larger than Norway, Sweden and Denmark combined. Summer sea ice in the Arctic has reduced by 40% in 40 years.

We created these polar bear images in response to the climate crisis, using water colours and black markers.

This links with Article 12 from the UNCRC “Every child has the right to have a say in all matters affecting them, and to have their views taken seriously”.