The past two weeks have been very busy!

We have been using a new website called Giglets, to help develop our reading and comprehension skills. We’ve been really enjoying the stories and activities.

In Mearns masters, group 2 experimented with mozzarella on their bruschetta, and group 1 made a delicious dish of tagliatelle alfredo! Unfortunately I don’t have any photographs of the pasta because I was busy undergoing training to become a bike ability instructor which will come in very handy when we begin bikeability later on in p6!

Wonder is our class novel, and this week we thought about generating thoughtful, open-ended questions.

The cubes worked with the K’Nex to created 3D shapes and to calculated the volume of them.

In writing, we have been learning about writing recounts, and have been retelling events of notable days in our lives.

Everyone has been working so hard, well done Primary 6!

Hello and welcome to our primary 6 blog! It’s been a very busy few weeks back so I thought I’d share a little of what we’ve been up to…

Last week we took part in a maths challenge with our groups. We worked on our speed and accuracy of mental and written calculations. We were adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, and solving multi-step problems.

On Friday mornings  we learn through play! We consolidate and extend our learning in numeracy and literacy by playing and collaborating with our peers.

We used the chromebooks for writing and created a Google Slides all about us.

We investigated line and shape to create some starburst art, and we thought about how the SHANARRI indicators are met while we are in school.

We created a class charter, while learning about the rights of the child.

This week we practised our dribbling and passing skills while playing hockey in P.E.

On Thursday we visited the kitchen for our first Mearns Masters session. The children revised chopping techniques and considered presentation of their dishes. We are focusing on Italian food and flavours this session and we made delicious bruschetta and garlic bread!

Today we wrote about our favourite day and learned the features of a recount. Some people chose to write theirs and other chose to use the chromebooks.

We’ve had another great and successful week in P6 and look forward to next week already!

We had the most glorious day for our sports. The sun shone and we participated in archery,  beat the goalie, tug of war and an obstacle course. We finished the afternoon with competitive sprints (boys/girls) and a well deserved ice lolly! Well done to everyone who took part.

We enjoyed learning about the careers of different engineers yesterday and getting the chance to ask them questions. We then used our team-working skills to build towers to hold marshmallows. Unfortunately not all of them survived! The tallest successful tower was 25cm!

We decided that we wanted to play games during our party and enjoyed Who Stole Santa’s Cookies and Pictionary. We also watched a bit of a film whilst we had our snacks. There were lots of lovely outfits as well!

We have been busy practising for our Christmas Performance which should be available for viewing next week. We are playing some Christmas songs on the glockenspiel and have very much enjoyed the joyous tunes!