New Year, New Beginnings

On Monday we had a new book called the Ice Monster by David Walliams we read chapters 1-4 , discussed the book, then answered questions to the chapters.   This was one of our read to write tasks from Giglets.

For maths we started learning about measurement and converting between different units, using what we learned from decimals.We had lots of challenges. 

On Tuesday we went out for PE and played 3 different games we also did Science.

On Wednesday we were doing measurement and we also were writing play scripts for our film festival and as you see we were finding costumes.     

On Thursday we were filming our movies for the film festival and we did a task for measurement and did indoor PE with 6.21. We learned lots of new badminton skills like serving and hand-eye coordination.

On Friday we did spelling and mental maths. They were hard but we enjoyed discussing all of our strategies. We got some values time outside and we had some time to play different games in class.

Bloggers this week: Heather & Nikon

Snow Much Fun In 2022

Happy New Year!

We’ve had a great start to the year, learning all about handling data, different types of graphs and surveys. We designed and conducted a survey of our own. Next week we will be using technology to display the results of these.

We have also been busy planning our film festival, creating storyboards, thinking about genre, and considering vocabulary for our scripts. Our homework this week was a film review to help us prepare for this.

Today we had so much snow to have fun in! We spent the morning running about, building things and playing with each other. It was great to get outside.

Thankfully we have a radiator to warm our hats and gloves before we go out again at break and lunch!

A great start back to school!

 

Happy Holidays

I can’t quite believe we have reached the end of the year! The past few months have flown by and we have had so much fun on our learning journey, in P6.23. Our highlights have been Mearns Masters, presentations and using the technology. We’ve loved trialling 5e integrated day and taking ownership of our learning. Next year we look forward to more of the same and hopefully some nice Spring weather for more outdoor learning!

This week we have enjoyed a pantomime, a festive quiz (well done Icy Intelligence) and our Film Day. The PTA very kindly bought us some popcorn and water to enjoy alongside this. We also were too busy having fun at our party last week to remember to take any photographs but we had a great time!

Thank you all for the support, encouragement that you offer your children, it shines through in their positive attitude and determination which they show every day. I hope you all have a safe and relaxing holiday and enjoy spending time with your loved ones. Thank you all for your kind words and generosity, it is so appreciated and I feel truly lucky to get to work with such a wonderful group of children.

See you back in school on Wednesday 5th January!

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, see you in 2022!

Mrs Thompson x

P6.23 Mearns Masters, Numeracy and Literacy

This week we have been creating eco houses to make our eco city. We also decorated the houses using materials from outside and inside. We all enjoyed it. We have done our wonder and we will hopefully be watching the film next week. In maths one group was doing the difference between 12 and 24 hour time. Another group have doing percentages. Another group were learning about coordinates and creating some Christmas pictures. We have also taken part in the Adventure Trail where we have done numerous tasks such as making a present out of tiles.

 

By Jean-Charles & Zayn

A week of challenges

We have been trialling the integrated day. We completed maths and literacy tasks every day, in an order and at a time of our choice. It’s been so good!

    

This is what we done in P.E on Tuesday there was an obstacle course,rugby and beat the goalie

 

This week for Mearns Masters we were designing and building an Eco friendly community!

We using saws and clamps for cutting the wood and using the wood glue to stick down the builds and roads some teams were doing green space and some were doing houses and some were doing a school and some were doing a roads and shops/markets

This group is making an Eco friendly house

 

By Areesh and Niko

Bee Kind

At lunch on Thursday we saved a bee🐝. We found it outside one of the classrooms it was covered in water and was almost dead so we ran and got a stick and put the bee on the stick. Then we put in the forest and came back at lunchtime to see it falling off the stick and covered in more water. So we decided to go and get a tub to keep it dry and after a while we decided to call him Ribbon because on the box he was in it said ribbons so that’s what we called him that. Then we started to hold him and he started to trust us. After that we came inside and went to the kitchen to get him some sugary water. Then we went to P.E. and let him free in the eco garden and payed our respects to Ribbon by saluting him. He flew away to start a new life outside of Mearns Primary.

By Christopher & Ruaridh

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.

Thanks from Parisa & Heather, your bloggers!