This week we did some artwork as part of our celebrations for Chinese New Year. We created dragons and wrote our names in Chinese. We have made a lovely display of our hard work J .
As part of our Scottish Landscapes topic we created a slideshow with our partner. We compared Scottish landscapes to landscapes of another country. We got to choose our other country and do some research and next week we are going to start presenting our presentations to each other.
In skills academy those of us in learning for sustainability made plant pots out of papier-mâché. It’s really fun. Design and manufacturing were painting cardboard boxes as part of our design challenge to create a town. In life skills we were learning how to do a running stitch using different shapes. In digital technologies we were looking at a new app called Scratch. We animated characters and started to create some games. It was great fun.
Pythagoras have been learning more about time and calculating time durations. They have a new time booklet which they are enjoying.
The Comics started a new book called the 18th Emergency. It is about a boy who is being bullied and he seems to have plan for any type of emergency. The Magazines finished Granny Nothing, which was great, and are excited to start their new book next week.