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P5/6 Interdisciplinary Learning

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On Friday we will be exploring different curricular areas through the Disney Pixar film Coco .

Technologies – We will be using iPads to create music from the film.

Literacy/ HWB  – Writing poems based on the emotions explored

Expressive Art / HWB – creating and labelling skeletons

Expressive Art- carving Halloween pumpkins

If you do not wish your child to watch the short clips of Coco,  which  is a PG, please let the school office know before Wednesday afternoon.

We are looking forward to a fun Friday of IDL

P5/6 KNex Challenge

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We are getting ready to take part in the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Challenge next week.

We sorted our Knex and worked together to organise the different parts into our storage boxes. We loved this challenge and showed fantastic collaborative skills to tidy up our resources. Mrs Ross was very impressed!

 

We then had a go at making some of our own designs to practise building with Knex.

 

Next step : work in teams to plan, design and build a structure from our chosen theme.

 

Next week we will take part in a times team event. Watch this space to see our COP26 inspired designs.IMG_6729

P5/6 Fractions and Decimals

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We have been learning all about tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

In class we have been writing fractions in decimal notation and learning about their place value.

Today we used this skill in a real life context  using decimal points when measuring in metres and centimetres .

We also timed each other using hundredths of a second to record our time accurately.

 

P5/6 Writing

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Setting the Scene

During creative writing this week, we have been learning how to set the scene for our stories.

Today we took part in a writing workshop in class where we uplevelled our descriptive writing skills.  We learned how to move verbs about in a sentence, how to vary the length of our sentences and how to use a thesaurus to improve our vocabulary .

We then became set designers and chose a description to create our own sets. Some of us would love to do this as a career.

STEM task : create a charcter for your set and make them stand up .

Lots of fun active learning in class today.

Ask us all about what we did – you can read about it on our individual E-portfolios.