On Monday, we did a maths problem solving task called Powerlines where we worked with a partner from a different group. We were given numbers and circles connected as well as a total to make. We had to use all of the numbers and place then in the circles so that all the connected circles added to the total given. I really enjoyed it because it was fun. – Finn

On Monday afternoon we had our Christmas party and played games like Corners, musical statues and musical bumps. It was very fun! – Mariam

On Monday we also got to choose any piece of our writing which we would like to finish off. I chose the newspaper article about the Willy Wonka tickets. Some people then read their writing aloud to the class. – Zunairah

On Tuesday some P7’s came to our class and we did a Kahoot Quiz all about Christmas. – Finn

I thought it was really fun because there were mixed true/false Qs and also because me and Jamie won! – Zunairah

 

Mr Blackwood, the music instructor, came in to our class and brought some WW2 artefacts. He was talking about what each of the artefacts are, such as a medal which was given out to women who had 8 or more children, some hats and helmets. – Ismail

He taught us that in the 1900’s and during WW2 there were planes which looked like rockets and I remember they were called V1 and V2 with a 5 cylinder engine. – Finn

The first man couldn’t be put on the moon if it wasn’t for Germany because it was German engineering which created the jet engine. – Zunairah

He also brought in a photo of a very tall building which was built in 1938 and destroyed in 1939 because it was a big landmark in the war and planes flying through the sky would recognise that it was in Britain so they had to destroy it. He also brought in a book which had loads of German stamps in it and some were worth 5 million Deutsche Marks and other ones at 250,000 Deutsche Marks and these were to represent how much things were worth. – Finn

We learned that a loaf of bread would be a very low Deutsche mark amount and then it got much higher. – Murdo

Yesterday, P7’s came back to our class and we did some Christmas art. We drew a Christmas tree template and then cut it out and put it on a piece of card and then we painted designs on the card around the tree. Then we took the Christmas tree template off and it looked like a white Christmas tree with a coloured background. – Varda

Kapla

For Kapla, we had 200 little wooden blocks and a book  per group and we would have to look in  the  book and choose something to make out of the wooden blocks. – Myra

P.E.

In P.E.  we were learning line dances such as macarena and cha cha slide. – Myra

in P.E. me and Olivia were leading dancing and we taught the macarena, the cha cha slide and sturdy – Gabby

In Scottish dancing, we were learning the Military 2- step. My partner was Mariam and I thought it was really fun. – Gabby

 

 

 

 

 

Woodland

We were finding insects and looking at them with magnifying glasses. We had a booklet and we used that to find out what each of the insects were. – Jamie

I enjoyed it because we got to find some bugs we did like and some we don’t normally see up close every day. – Isam

Omar and I found a really thick worm and we named him Thick Billy. – Zunairah

As a class, we found centipedes, millipedes, worms, maggots, a woodlouse, spider and we came across a little robin.

Social Studies

Fact, Opinion and Point of View:

A fact is something that is true and we can prove it. We were stating facts about WW2 such as the kids had to practise evacuating at school. – Finn

An opinion is something someone personally thinks, e.g, we were looking at Anne Frank’s diary and she thought there was a long narrow hallway at the top of the annex stairs. This is her opinion as some people may think it was wide and not narrow. – Gabby

A point of view is the way someone sees something, e.g. If there was a 9 on the ground and people were standing on either side, 1 person would see the number 6 and the other would see a 9. – Finn

Air-raid Shelters:

In Social Studies, we were learning about Anderson Shelters which were built from corrugated iron in gardens and Morrison shelters which were made from thick iron and wire like a hamster cage. – Zunairah

There is also another shelter called the communal shelter. This is where lots of people can hide during the bombing raids. These were normally in underground train stations or dug out tunnels in school playgrounds. – Jamie

Zunairah and I made an air-raid shelter with an explosion at the back which looked like a chunky, red star. See 3rd pic down. – Jamie

I was proud of that explosion as I spent a lot of time and effort on that. – Zunairah