Apologies for the lack of blogs up until today and also the bombardment of blogs from today. We have finally managed to get ours working after some technical difficulties with uploading media. We are now thankfully up and running and are looking forward to bringing you regular blogs about our learning in 7.27. The ‘blogger’ is a class jobs so the blogs will be coming to you from pupils in the class. We hope you enjoy this insight into our class and learning!
OUTDOOR LEARNING
A week ago we went outside to apply our problem solving skills. We had been learning about angles within triangles and quadrilaterals, and also different types of these. We drew some outside and then got our peers to answer questions about these. We asked people to find the missing angles and also challenged others to find some exterior angles too! It was great.
PARTS OF SPEECH
At the start of the year we learned all about parts of speech and revised different areas as well as learning new things. We used QR codes to find out information through videos and games and then created an information leaflet to show what we had learned. We are applying this learning everyday in literacy and writing tasks.
MATHS WEEK
This week is maths week! We had a wonderful long weekend and have returned ready for a week of maths fun. So far this week we have been working in groups to research and investigate a famous mathematician. We all chose someone that we are interested in and we chose a sensible group to work in. Together we generated our success criteria for our presentations. We will be presenting these on Friday so hopefully we can post an update then. We created ChatterPix of some famous mathematicians too.
We’ve also been learning about coding and decoding which has been quite tricky but so much fun! We are looking forward to taking part in the p7 quiz on Friday and using our knowledge.
This afternoon we are heading outside for some numeracy orienteering and we can’t wait to update on how it went.
We also researched famous mathematician Katherine Johnson as a class, by using QR codes and our note-taking skills. We found out lots of information regarding women’s rights, the black lives matters movement, and also NASA and space. We are bursting with knowledge and will use this knowledge to complete a writing task on Friday.
Our First weeks
In class P7.27 to get to know each other more, we have made shields about each other. We have also traced our hands and written our biggest goals for primary 7 on them. Here are some of the classes best
We have also made our own numbers about me drawings. The numbers on the drawings are all important to us, such as our house number or our lucky number. Here are some of the best:
We have also been learning about children’s rights. we have all created our own mirrors that tell you some of the rights that we find most important. Here are 2 of our favourites:
From these rights, we have created our own class rules that we have all signed. Here it is
Distance Learning – Day 55 and the last 😥
Well, this is my final post on the P6.23 class blog. I want to thank everyone who has supported our class by visiting here regularly, over 1600 visits in a month at one point. Wow! 😲🤯
Of course, I want to thank the children who have worked so hard to allow me to share their awesome work with you. Their imagination and hard work are evident when you look back on these pages. I feel that the blog has allowed us to stay connected during this unprecedented period in our lives and I’m happy about that.
From all the Primary 6 teachers and the rest of the school staff, we wish you a very enjoyable and restful summer holiday and look forward to your return in August.
Distance Learning – Day 55 and farewell 😭
Well, this is my final post on the P6.23 class blog. I want to thank everyone who has supported our class by visiting here regularly, over 1600 visits in a month at one point. Wow! 😲🤯
Of course, I want to thank the children who have worked so hard to allow me to share their awesome work with you. Their imagination and hard work are evident when you look back on these pages. I feel that the blog has allowed us to stay connected during this unprecedented period in our lives and I’m happy about that.
From all the Primary 6 teachers and the rest of the school staff, we wish you a very enjoyable and restful summer holiday and look forward to your return in August.
Distance Learning – Day 54
The children are looking ahead to Primary 7.
Last week was Inquiry Week and I received lots of amazing work that I shared with you on here. Over the weekend, I continued to receive work from Grace and Lewis that I have posted below.
Grace already submitted her report for her inquiry but I couldn’t share it on here as it was a written report in a Google doc. However, she has included this nice little addition to her inquiry. Not only is it relevant to her topic, history of ballet and the Scottish Ballet, but it demonstrates several digital skills such as time-lapse recording and video editing. Of course, it also shows her artistic skills. Well done Grace!
Lewis made this brochure on Nutrition in Sport and Fitness which is something he is passionate about and demonstrated previously in Sports Week. He interviewed two professionals in the field who, as well as providing him with a wealth of information, also advised him to make a brochure as they thought young people were more likely to read a brochure handed to them rather than looking up a website later. Either way, it is a great piece of work with a nice recipe at the end.
Distance Learning – Day 53
If you missed it this morning, here is the big teacher reveal for Primary 7.
I know Miss Thomson is looking forward to being P7.27’s teacher next year and I have shared all the video messages you made for her. I wish her and the children all the best.
Distance Learning – Day 52
Yesterday, I asked the children if they did anything special for Father’s Day. I make this Word Art from their responses.
It looks like Dad did very well with the word “dinner” appearing frequently but more importantly, the word “family” is also there which is reassuring considering we have been separated for so long.
The children and I have been using a new website called Flipgrid recently and one of the questions I posed on there was “What is your best memory of Primary 6?” This video is an accumulation of the responses I received with a few extra memories taken from the blog.
I’m so pleased that the STEM Fortnight Egg Landers activity features so highly in the children’s memories. I will be sure to past this on to next year’s Primary 6 teachers.
