Welcome back to our blog! This week we have been very busy. Have a look at some photos below, to find out more.

In Literacy, we learned about the Writer’s Craft and continued a story, focusing on adding senses to up-level our work.

 

  

In Maths, we have been developing our problem solving skills. We used our times tables skills and we had to work out the question instead of just the answer. We also  used match sticks (don’t worry, wooden sticks appropriate for school) and Miss McKee displayed pictures. Then we had to move matchsticks to solve the problem in groups.

‘What I found tricky, was working out which match stick to move.’ Bruce

‘I found working out the questions instead of the answer a little tricky but I got it in the end!’ Ayyan

   

This week, Miss McKee presented three Scottish history topics for us to explore and then vote on. These were, Wallace & Bruce, Scottish Clans and Mary Queen of Scots. In the end, the majority voted for Clans and this will be our new topic!

In our first Clans lesson we had lots of activities relating to Scottish culture. This included, piecing together a jigsaw of Scotland and placing on cities and tourist attractions on the map.

We also were sketching pictures of Scottish thistles and we matched up Scots words with English words. Lastly, we researched information about Scottish clans on Chromebooks to help us get started with our new topic.

‘There were lots of words that I never even knew existed!’ Molly

‘I found it interesting comparing Scots words with English. For example, ‘bonnie’ means beautiful!’ Bella

‘I found it really interesting that some people in our class (including our teacher) may be related to the clans of the past!’  Ayyan

Also this week, we completed our Wow Wall display, which includes frames that we designed and then we chose our best piece of work so far to display. We even added our names in calligraphy and finally some gold leaf!

Tune in next week for more from P6a!