P7B Term One – 13/09/19

This week we were lucky enough to have a teacher from the science department called Mr McCormick come and teach us about planets. He taught us lots of different things about planets including the different names of planets and how far away they are from the sun. After this we completed a worksheet where we filled in lots of information about each planet including their temperature, how far away they are from the sun and other information like if they were a gas giant or not. 

We learned about the Native Americans and how they hang Dream Catchers over a child’s bed. Each one of us painted a background of our Dream Catchers and then actually drew them. It was fun and interesting to learn about the traditions of Native Americans. After drawing them with pencils we outlined them with a black marker. Next Miss Kelly stuck them onto our wall outside the classroom. The blend of colours really makes our whole stage stand out!

This week in art we drew portraits of all they last fifteen American presidents. You and your partner got assigned a president and you each got one half of his face your task was to draw the other half. First of all we had to stick our half of the face onto an  A5 sheet of paper and then – using only a pencil – we had to carefully draw the other half of the president. I got John F. Kennedy, it was really hard.

We also made President Fact File about any President in the United States. We had to write down the key events of the President and some interesting facts. Learning about different Presidents was very fascinating and gripping. We learned many facts, for example, for Abraham Lincoln, I learned where he was born and about his Presidency. In addition to this, we had to draw a little picture of the President that we were doing. 

By Cameron and Rayyan