Author: EAlaura.cameron@glow

As part of Digital Learning Week P5/6 were lucky to be visited by the Digital Learning Group from Auchinleck Academy. They brought iPads and little robots called Spheros that we were able to programme.

We enjoyed playing with the Sphero. We liked drawing shapes on the iPad and letting the Sphero draw them on the floor. We used ramps to let the Sphero go over them, it was very cool! We liked changing the colours and chasing Mrs Montgomery and Skye Young with the Sphero.

 

It was fun and we got to make the Sphero go up ramps. We drew shapes on the iPad and the Sphero drew the shape on the floor. We tried to make it jump over ramps and paint trays. We made it say “Alright mate” and make chicken sounds and we drove it about. It was fun! It crashed onto a tonne of things, and the ramps were cool. It was fun to control it on the iPad.

 

We played with a little ball. The cool thing is that we got to control it using an iPad. We drove them up ramps!

Today the whole school visited the Church for our Easter Service. We had the opportunity to perform to the rest of the school through telling facts  about Easter and how it is celebrated, fun Easter facts, a bible reading and to finish off an Easter song.

We did this with confidence and really enjoyed being on stage!

Primary 5/6 and Primary 4/5 joined together this week to take part in an Easter themed STEM Challenge. Supplied with cocktail sticks, blueberries and some very cute chicks they were required to work in teams to build a house for their chicks.

What we found tricky:

• The blueberries started to get soft and fall apart.
• It was hard to find a design that would work.
• If you put too weight on top it would fall over.

 

What we enjoyed:

• You had to be creative.
• We had to use our imaginations and work as a team.
• It was messy and fun!

 

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we all dressed up as our favourite book characters and as you can see we all looked great!

During the day we created new front covers for our favourite books and rewrote the blurbs in our own words. We have used these to start creating our own class library.

 

Sadly, the Art of Learning Project came to an end last week. We have all really enjoyed our time with Ruth and Steven and will miss them coming into class.

To reflect on what we have learned throughout the project we all took part in a BIG DRAW. We all drew 3 things that have helped up develop the 3 executive functions: Cognitive Flexibility, Inhibitory Control and Working Memory!

The finished result…

You can see this hanging proudly as part of our Art of Learning display in Base 3.

Today we visited the Boswell Centre to make some Valentine Bird Feeders.

We spread peanut butter onto love hearts and then sprinkled them with bird seed.

“We used peanut butter and bird seeds.” – Josh

“We made two. We got to keep one and we hung the other one up at the Boswell Centre.” – Connor

“We hung them up on the fence” -Kaitlin

Douglas said it was a fun day and everyone agreed! Even if it was a little chilly!

 

As part of our new class topic “China” we have been creating our very own Chinese Opera Masks.

Before creating our own we studied pictures of Chinese Opera masks and spoke about the different features and their similarities and differences.

Kaitlin: “We made Chinese Opera masks. It was a fun activity.”

Ryan: “We used paint to create them. It was exciting, I would do it again.”

Liam: “The different colour represent feelings”

Sophie: “Red represent loyal and brave.”

Douglas: “Green represent violence”

Rhian: “White represents evil.”

Connor: “Yellow represents intelligence.”

James: “Black represents rough and fierce.”

 

 

On Wednesday 8th November, P5/6 led a Remembrance Assembly for the whole school. They worked very hard to prepare and rehearse and were able to confidently tell the school about Remembrance Day and what it means.

During class time P5/6 also studied the famous World War One poem “In Flanders Fields.” This poem inspired them to create their own poppy drawings using oil pastels.

 

During Term One, Primary 5/6 were learning all about the Stone Age and really wanted to build their own Stone Age shelters. Due to our typical Scottish weather we decided the best way to do this was to create miniature versions in class!

The class thoroughly enjoyed this activity and were able to show what they had learned through their choice of natural materials that they found outside.

  Kaitlin, Katie and Kailam

 

  Declan and Douglas

 

 Cailyn, Chloe, Sophie and Skye

 

  James, Rhian and Karli

 

 Ben, Shanyn and Liam

 

 Ally, Kaydan, Rory and Lewis