In our writing, we have been working on our use of descriptive adjectives to set the scene for the reader.
We enjoyed discussing a variety of different settings after seeing photographs on the board. We explored each of the 5 senses and what the character would be experiencing in that location and shared this with the class.
This week we began coding our own game on Scratch which follows the design brief of creating a character that jumps, flies, collects rewards and keeps a score as you progress through the game.
We have a wide range of characters, settings and rewards in the class and this is looking like it will turn out to be a very exciting project for our class!
This week one of our targets has been a research task investigating Scottish tartan and the history of Scottish Clans.
We then created our own kilts with the tartan of our choosing and designed our own sporran.
Happy Burns Day everyone!
We have had an exciting week in 6.22 after getting started with the preparation for our very own newspaper!
Throughout the week our editors, journalists and reporters have been conducting interviews with staff and Primary 7 pupils. We have decided that each issue of our newspaper will have a ‘spotlight year group’ giving our entire school community a chance to get an insight into what is going on throughout Mearns Primary.
Meanwhile our advertising team have been busy contacting local businesses around our authority to offer a unique opportunity to showcase their company with us, a few of us even paid a trip to the Avenue in Newton Mearns to hand out flyers to the shops.
Our photographers have also been hard at work, supporting all pupils in their interviews and capturing them on camera.
We are now very excited to write up our articles, collate them all together and send our very first issue to print!
One of our New Year Resolutions in 6.22 was to make positive changes to help the environment. To show how much we care about nature and our planet we have chosen 3 pledges to fulfil in class and at home.
1. Power: Turn off an electrical device when you are finished using it rather than leaving it on standby – this could be a games console, computer, tablet or television.
2. Plastic: Switch from plastic food wraps or water bottles to a lunchbox or reusable water bottle.
3. Plants: Save water by turning off the taps (when brushing your teeth, washing up etc). Using less water gives plants and trees more to drink.
We hope that these small changes will make a difference!
This week in Maths we have been working on Data Handling, we used Google Sheets on our Chromebooks to input a variety of different data and present it in pie charts, line graphs and bar graphs.
We explored using the x and y axis to plot different points, practiced inputting statistics and observe how changes impacted the graphs.
We have enjoyed the start of our new outdoor P.E block of rugby the last two weeks.
We have been working on developing our skills that were previously taught by Whitecraigs player Nicole and are advancing into small-sided touch rugby game play and skills drills.
Today we learnt the overhead pass, a technique used in line-outs and focused on performing accurate passes that our teammates were able to receive and run on with the ball for a try.
We look forward to more rugby in the coming weeks as the infamous Six Nations tournament begins in February – we think this will give us lots of inspiration!
We had a busy start to the week in our Literacy today with a specific focus on using connectives to make our sentences more detailed.
First, we worked together to read a passage and identify any connectives that we could see. These included ‘however, as well as, in addition, consequently, thus and because.’
We then applied our knowledge that a conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions to up level sentences in our literacy jotters.
Grammar Monday’s could be our new favourite thing!
Happy New Year and welcome back to 6.22! We had a very busy and exciting week in our class after returning to school following the Christmas holiday.
We came back to a special surprise that our festive corner has now been transformed into a new library/reading corner. We have our own beanbags to sit back and enjoy a good book (this week we started our new class novel Wonder) as well as new books that were gifted to us.
Additionally, we began our new integrated day and we were all very excited to see if we could achieve our learning targets. Our class reflection on Friday showed that our entire class enjoyed this type of learning and we all feel that we are working even harder to get through our tasks and feel proud when we can remove our target counter after our Literacy, Maths and/or BGE is complete.
We look forward to continuing this in the coming weeks and we have some exciting projects coming up soon – stay tuned!
