Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend break.

EXCITING NEWS!

Over the last few weeks, I have been busy organising something exciting in the background and I finally revealed what it is on Google classroom this morning. Our topic last term was “Our Frozen Worlds” as this was the ecosystem assigned to Primary 6 as part of the “Our Planet” STEM fortnight. Through this topic, we learned about the people, animals and environments in the frozen poles of our world.  A core part of this topic was our class novel Sky Song. I chose this novel for many reasons: the setting was in the frozen North, the author is Scottish but many because it is a great adventure story that would challenge the children.

As I thought, the children really loved this story of a boy and girl on a quest to save their world. We used the book as an inspiration for many activities in and out of school:  Ice Queen portraits, Winterfang Palace 3D models, Letters to Ma, Eska’s diary entries, Erkenwald cartography, animal fact files, inventing villains and magical creatures, and much, much more.

I am so impressed with their work that I contacted the author, Abi Elphinstone, and told her all about P623. She was so pleased to hear about all the things we have been doing that she agreed to be interviewed by our class and even hinted about an exclusive gift that she would like to give the children.

I have asked the children to submit any questions they would like to ask Abi and I will keep you informed of how this is progressing.

A few weeks ago, I posted my first Book Island quiz on Google classroom and I asked the children to identify which book character lives on each of the islands.

Today, I post the second Book Island quiz. Can you identify who lives on each island?