The Guess the P623 baby quiz is now active on our Google classroom. It’s super fun and a little bit challenging (nobody has full marks yet), so give it a try before I reveal the answers tomorrow.

Continuing our look at the life of ancient Egyptians, today we found out about their belief system and their various gods.

Both Jamie and Dylan completed this word search challenge on the gods of ancient Egypt.

And both Zac and Alesha cracked this code using Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Lewis drew this impressive Egyptian pharaoh.

Finally, Lea has created this artwork of Sekhmet the Goddess of War.

Zac has came up with this solution for one of our Countdown games…

… and Delisha has also solved it using a completely different method.

Yesterday was Star Wars Day and we had a few late submissions.

Wint created her own unique golden lightsaber.

Grace drew this picture of baby Yoda complete with levitating carriage.

Yesterday, we had a go at a book quiz with a difference. It’s a visual quiz called Book Islands and the goal is to name the book characters that live on each island. Have a go and see how many you can guess.

Our BBC Bitesize lesson was about teamwork but I also wanted to celebrate what makes us amazing as individuals. I posted a few activities that let us see everything that makes us special as people.

Lewis

Kara

Jamie

Lea

Zac. Fantastic work P623!

Today we also launched our “Guess the baby!” quiz with a teacher edition. It was great fun to see our teachers as children as unbelievable as that is.

As it’s the last day of the school week, I’ve given out lots and lots of well deserved digital badges, so check your Google classroom stream and congratulations if you won one.

There are three new badges added to our classroom and I’m currently making some more for next week. Which brings us around to my next announcement. Monday May 4th is officially Star Wars day on P623 Google classroom and I want to celebrate by showcasing the children’s amazing talent and creativity. Log on to our classroom to read more.

Today’s BBC Bitesize lesson was about Islam. It looks like a lot of you really enjoyed learning about this world faith judging by all your great work.

Zac completed this work sheet on the five pillars of Islam.

Aatish completed this Ramadan base crossword.

Whereas, Dylan decided to do some research on the festival of Ramadan…

…and design his own Mosque.

Delisha decided to do all the tasks. These  are just a selection of all the great work I received, thanks for sharing.

So, after a quick Google classroom interview with Lewis and a photo of the magazine article, I finally got all my questions answered. Lewis is different from most young football fans because he chose which team to support. His decision wasn’t based on who his family or friends support but just what he thought after visiting many football grounds and matches with his grandfather. Well done Lewis!

He also sent me this photo of him participating in yesterday’s music lesson. He said it wasn’t really his thing but he still took part.

Grace shared this photo with me earlier this week of her and her brother having a STEM based scrabble game. I thought this was a great idea and they even hid a bit of a joke in it too. Can you spot it?

I’m currently looking for baby photographs so we can have a Guess the baby quiz in P623. Please share a photo with me using Google drive. And just to demonstrate that it will be good fun, have a look at this!

Firstly, can I thank all the pupil that have participated on Google classroom this week.  I have noticed this week there has been a definite mood of positivity and support for each other and for our achievements. Well done!

Our collection of digital badges, that are given out for achievements, is slow growing. Congratulations those who have received one so far and keep working hard to receive more.

Even though we are in lockdown, we have continued our excellent class novel Sky Song. The author, Abi Elphinstone, creates very clever character names that give you an insight into the character’s appearance and/or personality.  For instance, one of the lead characters is called Flint. This made us think of the stone that cave people use to start fires or fashioned into spear or arrow heads. This made us think that Flint was a warrior or hunter, could look after himself in the wild, or he was a survivor. Which turned out to be completely true.

One of today’s Literacy challenge was to come up with a descriptive and clever name for a ice ghoul.  Jamie thought Snowtooth was a good name for this character, whilst Lea suggested Iceglider.  Aatish came up with the very apt name of Frostbite. Great names everyone.

The second task was to use the images that are created in your mind when you hear one of Elphinstone’s characters and create a piece of art of the character.

This is Lea’s idea of the character Inch.

Zac drew Inch’s friend Lofty.

Aatish used his digital art skills to create his version of inch.

Another Inch this time from Noah.

And finally, this collection of Elphinstone characters from Jamie. Thanks for sharing all your great art with us.

Remember when I posted the news that Lewis was features in the St Mirren’s magazine, well Lewis shared with me a better photo of the magazine front cover.

Fantastic Lewis! Now rather than answer any of my queries, this front cover has just created new questions for me. What is this difference that the front cover mentions? What is on page 10? Please put us out of our misery Lewis! Keep checking out the blog and hopefully our questions will be answered.

Today’s question in Social Studies was “What was life like for the ancient Egyptians?” Lewis produced this great poster showing how the ancient Egyptian’s diet varied depending on their wealth. Rich Egyptian could afford meat and eggs whereas the poor ate bread and onions. However, Lewis discovered that “everyone loved garlic.”

Zac share this photo of a recent holiday he spent in Egypt of a camel resting on  Hurghada beach.

Jemma decided to make the traditional Egyptian flatbread using the recipe on BBC Bitesize.

Before they went in the oven…

… and the finished product. They look amazing. How did they taste Jemma? Thank you for sharing your learning with us, you have done an amazing job.

Today I asked the question “Which PE have you done or planning on doing today?” Three of you are are getting your PE fix with the nation’s PE teacher, Joe Wicks. One person prefers a more zen experience and joins in with the Cosmic Kids. But the majority of your prefer to do your own thing. Great!

Ibrahim likes to play football and do some skipping which is a great cardiovascular activity (good for the heart). Jemma on the other hand, likes to take her exercise outside amongst nature.

She also like to do a bit of transient art with things she finds in nature. This is a great activity and a chance to show off your creativity. Why not give it a go and share your photos so I can let everyone see.

Remember to share your photos of all your learning and activities with me through your Google drive or by email.

Thank you Lewis for sharing this excellent piece of art with us. This shows the Great Pyramids of Giza which was part of the this week’s learning on Ancient Egypt.

This week I supplied you with two Countdown challenges of different levels of difficulty. If you find the first too easy, challenge yourself to try the next one.  Thank you Lea and Aatish for sharing their solutions with me.