Last week we started learning about the Victorians. We began learning about Queen Victoria and went on to learn about the life of the Victorian people.
We did a Big Talk about the workhouse and spoke about the jobs, the conditions, the food and how we would feel if we had to live there. Then, we wrote a diary entry about a day in the life of a Victorian child in the workhouse.
This week, we started doing some art work related to the Victorians. We have painted some cityscapes which are the outlines of Victorian rooftops with chimneys and a chimney sweep. We looked at different shades of blues and oranges and mixed the paints to create different shades for each layer of rooftops.
Beth S brought in some Victorian artifacts for us to look at and discuss. Some of the items were:
Wash board
Iron
Tea pot
Money
Fountain pens
Jelly pan
Hot water bottle
It was fascinating to see that these were real Victorian objects and how different the same objects are today.
The class worked in their math groups and created questionnaires for each other to answer. We focused on making the questions about what they were learning about in maths. We had to think of the questions ourselves. It took some of us 1-2 days to finish our questions.
Primary 6b brought in their own devices to use during Maths Week 2018. Everyone had to download an app and use the app to scan QR codes all over the playground. Each QR code gave a different problem to solve. P6b worked in groups of 4 to solve problems collaboratively.
Today we went to the polling station in our school and voted for who we wanted to be our representative for the Pupil Council, Eco Committee and the Rights Respecting Group.
Our Candidates for the elections were:
Jessica
Renaska
Laurie
Tyler
Beth M
Olivia
Callum
In the voting room there were two election booths and a voting card with each of the candidates for us to vote. When we had voted we put our votes into the ballot box.
We can’t wait to find out who will win each of the elections!
This term we have introduced Big Talk as a focus within Literacy. This is linked to Big Writing and Questioning. We were given a homework task to discuss within someone at home that related to what we were going to write about in big Writing. For example we talked about our school show and the time we spent with Ellen from Pop Uk.
Talking about our writing at home helped us to come up with good idea, WOW words and really improved our writing.
Elise – I think big Talk helped improve my writing because I already had an idea in my head of what I was going to write.
Abbie – Big Talked helped me because talking about it at home made it easier for me to come up with ideas.
Our class trip was to the Science Centre this year. We went with P5a , Miss Macdonald, Miss Watt, Mrs Muir and our parent helper – Mrs Korabinska. A huge thanks to Mrs Korabinska for coming with us to help out.
We visited each of the three floors in the science centre. We had our lunch outside as it was a beautiful day. We also visited the shop.
We also took part in a Crazy Construction lab where we made cars from junk materials. We used a battery powered propeller and then raced our cars. We had a super day!
Grace – My favourite thing was the hurricane. It was lot’s of fun.
Darryl – I liked the lab best because we got to make the cars and I liked using the hot glue gun.
Connor – I liked the pull up bars on the second floor .
