Today we watched a short video clip about St Andrew and answered some questions. We have been working on answering our questions in sentences.

This week we made a candle snowman and wrote a set of instructions. We made our snowman by listening to instructions from the teacher. While we were making it we made a list of time connectives and bossy (imperative) verbs  that the teacher used.

Today we completed an engineering challenge. We had to solve a problem for Sam. He needed a perch to sit safely on that was 20cm or more above the ground.

We used the 4 steps that all engineers use.

We worked together to create the perches.

We had lots of success!

Some groups took on the challenge of making their perch multi-level.

We have been learning to find and use imperative verbs. These are words that tell people what to do. We looked through instructions and found loads. We used a set of instructions to make a mini book and then filled it with verbs.

We have started a block of work on coding. We were using the BBC:Microbits and block code to write programs. We will continue to develop our skills next week.

Yesterday we made a ball and cup game.  We then wrote a set of instructions to tell others how to make it.  We are going to give the instructions to P7 and they are going to try to make them as part of their Victorians topic.

We have been learning how to say the weather in French. We recorded the names in our booklets and added illustrations. We also had fun playing games on the promethean dashboard.

We finished the Iron Man novel and wrote a summary of the last chapter. Mrs Petrie highlighted our great parts.

• Blue – wow words or phrases
• Pink – connective
• Yellow – openers
• Green – punctuation

She gave us feedback so that we know how to improve our work. We had time to work on our feedback.

We used this chapter to create a piece of drama. We created play scripts by making up a conversation that the Iron Man and the Dragon might have had. We then acted them out in front of the class.

As part of Road Safety Week we were using stick bots to convey a road safety message. We used the slider tool to watch our movies.  Next week we will continue to develop this skill and use iMovie to create mini movies.

We were focussing on creating and holding balances.