We did two performances (and lots of rehearsals) of our show this week. We had great fun singing the songs and acting like Wemmicks! We have the songs stuck in our head forever!
Our colour run event was brilliant and great fun. Thank you to all the people who organised it. It was tiring but excellent and everyone looked like a rainbow afterwards. We cheered on all the other runners from outside our class until it started to pour with rain!
This week as well as working hard on our play we have been celebrating Culture Week. This is some of what we have done…
We did Bollywood dancing with Mrs Yoshi. One of the dance moves looked a bit like a chicken dance! We did a dance off – Boys Vs Girls!
We wrote our names in Arabic. We also found out the meanings of our names. Some of the meanings were: Precious, young warrior, Praiseworthy, first king warrior and treasure!
We made a recipe called Chana Chaat in the class. Some of the main ingredients were chickpeas, corriander, onion, lemon and potato. Most people thought the finished dish was tasty. Some lucky parents got to take it for their lunch the next day!
Our special author for this week was Theodor Seuss Geisel.
We looked at 3 of his books – Oh the Places You’ll Go, Cat in the Hat and Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
We did some research on his life, looked very closely at Cat in the Hat and made questions, prequels and art about this famous story.
We also found out Dr Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham as a bet with his friend who bet him he couldn’t write a story with less than 50 words.
World Book Day theme was “Read Your Way” which encourages people to read what they want, when they want, where they want…
We tried it!
We did some research on local and Scottish Food Companies for our topic work. We researched using reliable sources, taught each other facts and produced a report on our famous company.
We were using different ways to collect and display information. We were using tally marks to take quick and accurate totals! We also used tally marks to work out who gets hurt more in a Tom and Jerry cartoon (it was Tom!)
We did two pieces of writing this week. One was a narrative story about anything we wanted to show off our excellent writing skills. The other was a set of instructions with a really good introduction sentence.
We finished our Science topic on Electricity and Circuits this week so we will be starting a new topic next week.
This week we were learning about different traditions and customs in Islam. Such as looking at prayer mats and headscarves
A few of the groups were working on rounding large numbers this week. We played lots of games and showed our understanding of ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens and units.
Together, we will be doing lots of work on the properties of 3D shapes next week.
P.S,
Who will be the 5 Secret Students next week???
Remember to bring your jotters back to school!
Hope you have a nice weekend.
We are using our teamworking skills and our knowledge about how circuits work to make working circuits from circuit diagrams. We used our knowledge of circuits to build a model that contained at least one working circuit with a switch.
We have continued to use our block programming skills and teamworking rules to create golf courses for our Sphero bots to navigate. We added animations to our Sphero LED displays as part of the code.
We applied our knowledge of the French language to add labels to our own life size diagrams of ourselves. We all labelled the body parts in French. Tres bien!
We worked together as small teams to operate the school’s Sphero programmable robots. We used the controls to make them move along a simple maze we drew. We used drawing programming to create pictures to angles and headings to make them move. We used block programming to create shapes and make the Sphero follow simple commands (like talking or showing an animation!)
We are learning about different rebound games in PE and will be improving our skills. Also we have been lucky enough to be working with the P7 Play Leaders as they practise and develop their Active Play sessions. They make great teachers.
One of the genres we have been looking at recently is Instructions. We have been planting seeds and thinking about other processes that need instructions. We are going to write recipe instructions next week so we can submit them to the Diversity and P6B Recipe Book – we will be asking for parent’s/carer’s help with some simple family recipe ideas as part of next week’s homework.
On Wednesday we were enjoying some traditional Dances that are part of Scottish Country Dancing – the kind you do at a ceilidh! We learned and danced the Military Two-Step and the Canadian Barn Dance. It was fantastic fun and very good exercise!
Here is a picture of our class all wearing their Christmas jumpers. We look excellent!
We are using clay to make 3D shapes. Then we use those shapes to make the features of a face. We are working towards making a clay head with armature inside it to support the clay.
We used what we learned about respectful behaviour to work together to make Respect Cities out of one of our favourite building materials – Kapla.
During our Woodlands time on Monday we tried to find things that started with every letter of the alphabet. We used our respectful behaviour rules and technology to cooperate and think creatively.
During Road Safety week we heard from PC Mitchell about how to keep safe when we are out and about. We found out it is also our responsibility to keep safe and we got some great safety tips to pass on to all the adults in our lives. We used what we learned to make some posters for the JRSO competition.
This week was Anti-Bullying Week in Scotland and P4a did lots of work about respect – what it looks and sounds like. The differences between joking around and bullying behaviour and how to make a noise about bullying.
We used our report writing and technology skills to write reports during Anti-Bullying Week. We worked in teams to draw and write what respect looks like. We made our own plans to make “A choices” when things go wrong. We put these principles into practice on Friday to make “Respect Cities”
We made some cooperative Landscape Art on Monday, Like the famous artist Andy Goldsworthy and took some beautiful pictures in the Autumn sunshine.
During our Kodaly music session we were practising all of our rhythms and making group music using drumsticks. We learned another new song to add to our already massive collection!
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