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Our Week In 6.23

On Tuesday, P6.23 did P.E, Mrs Thompson chose 4 people to host a game. Our instructors were Euan, who hosted wet foot, Harrison and Aiden who hosted dodge ball, and Sam, who hosted port starboard.

On Wednesday we did maths! The cubes did maths about thousandths, and we used Bbc bitesize for some independent study. The spheres learned about tenths and did some work on a whiteboard. The pyramids practised their times tables.

We read Wonder with our partners and worked on identifying true and false statements.

On Thursday, we were listening to some amazing solo talks about famous Scots by our class.

We then did P.E which was in the gym hall and we played a team game which built teamwork, and strength. After P.E we attended P6.21’s fashion show, the fashion show was made by reused clothes. P6.21 named their fashion show “Fashion Passion”. After the fashion show, some girls from P6.21 did a dance.

We went outside and learned a little about algebra and solving equations. It was good fun! We used leaves, stones and sticks to represent the unknown digit.

Today we were even more entertained with more solo talks. For our mental maths, we played a speed game, where we had to use our skill and speed. You would have to try answer the quickest to get a reward, the quickest that didn’t answer the question right wouldn’t get the reward, and the other fastest that did get it right would get the reward. Some really fast people had to close their eyes to make it a bit more fair.

After lunch, we had some values time to play on the pitch.

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Spelling Outside

One of the activities we did today helped us revise spelling rules and create words using letter stones.

Have a look and listen to the following videos and see how we worked together to revise some of the spelling rules we have learned.

The Promise and leaf rubbing

After listening to the story The Promise, by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin, which was launched as a video animation on Monday in Scotland, we had some great discussions on nature, how being outside in nature makes us feel and how growing things is such a satisfying and happy and joyful experience .  Here is a link to the website where you can listen to the story again and watch the animation too.

https://www.thepromise.earth/

We then went outside and collected some interesting leaves and made some beautiful leaf rubbings using colourful oil pastels.

Flower and leaf pressing

The week before the October holiday we all made and designed our fantastic high tech outdoor clip board flower presses (HTOCFP for short!) We went out into the ECO garden and collected some leaves and flowers to press.

We carefully placed the items we picked into our presses and stored them away in our folders till today when we opened them and had a good look at them on a light box. It was really exciting to see what happened to them over the two weeks.

 

 



 

 

Outdoor learning

What a mix of weather we experienced this afternoon! Beautiful sunshine to torrential rain in seconds!

We all had a great time playing some listening games then moving on to learn about creating maps. We need to do a little more work on planning before we start creating next time as we missed some important things out from our maps and got a little muddled with the different objects we were using. Its great knowing this is an area we need to work on and we will certainly focus on that next time 😊