This week in p6b we have been learning about…

Woodland

On Friday we were preparing for our RSPB Wild Challenge during Woodland. We explored the area then had some free time.

P.E.

We continued to learn more about handball and have slowly increased more rules. It was amazing to see excellent cooperation and everyone having fun.

Literacy

We started our new imaginative writing block this week. The learners focused on analysing introductions and created their own introduction based on a passage of their choice. Next week the pupils will create a new section of the story and learn about flashbacks!

This week in P6b we have been participating in Crookfur’s Culture Celebration Week!

Venn Diagrams

For Maths we were creating Venn diagrams out of chalk to see the similarities and differences between two things. – SG

Me and CA created Venn diagrams about vehicles and had lots of fun outside! – AS

Free Choice Mornings

In the morning me and L have been practicing our K’Nex for our competition that is coming up.- EC

In the morning I have been building with Lego creating a mini McDonalds model working on my construction and engineering skills – SS

Since its Culture I have been going to the Mendi station and designing my own mehndi hand designs on a traced out hand. – TG

Book of the Week: The Most Exciting Eid

Using our knowledge of maths we used the book to compare the countries that celebrate Eid using Venn diagrams. – AV

We made graphs on the Ipads and created our own glossary looking at words that were in the book. -HN

In the most exciting Eid book we looked at the new language throughout and looked at the Arabic language throughout after that we discussed the different languages in our school and created signs for the door – LS

On Wednesday we created stories of either a real or made up experience based off the themes of the book that were Travel, excitement, family and celebration. – KR

This week in P6b…

It is our final week of term 2! We had another busy week with our big show performances. Thank you to everyone for supporting the learners from helping them learn their lines, practicing the songs and putting costumes together. I was incredibly proud of everyone’s performances.

Today we said goodbye to Miss Nesbitt. We had a lovely afternoon reminiscing and celebrating.  We are all sad to see her go and I would like to thank Miss Nesbitt for her time, enthusiasm and commitment to supporting P6B this term. I hope you will join me in wishing her the best of luck as you starts her teaching journey in August.

This week in P6B we have been celebrating World Book Day!

Our author of the week was Zanib Mian. She is the author of Planet Omar and we have been reading her books in class. Zanib created the book series after feeling that there wasn’t a lot of representation of Muslim individuals in children’s books.

The learners conducted an author study and created their own Project Zanib book covers and blurbs to showcase their knowledge of the author. We learned about her writing style and used this when creating our biographies.

We used the Planet Omar books in all of our literacy lessons this week, including reading skills and comprehension. On Monday we chose a character from the book and analysed them using the STEAL approach. On Wednesday we used an excerpt from Chapter 14 and focused on developing our dictionary skills. We used Blooket to assess our skills and there was a lot of excitement in the classroom!

We also completed the Grand Design Challenge and used our maths skills to calculate the area of the space. Next week we will vote for our winning design and begin revamping our Reading Corner.

We ended the week by reading with our P1 buddies and shared the excitement of reading.

EuroQuiz – On Tuesday we had a massive stage EuroQuiz then 4 teams went to the ERC heats. The teams were amazing!

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

From Miss McNeil and P6b

This week in P6b…

Maths

• We have been learning about coordinates. Miss Nesbitt made a massive coordinate grid on the floor for us to practice. We have also been playing battleships outwith maths time to practice.
• We have been learning about data handling. We worked with Miss McNeil to learn about how influencers use data on social media. Then we created a survey project. The research is investigating the social media usage of P6 and P7 pupils.

Literacy

• This week we focused on characterisation using the STEAL approach. This helped us when we were creating our imaginative newspaper articles today.

HWB

• Miss Nesbitt led our rebound block on P.E.  She taught us a new warm up game which focused on cooperation and strategising.
  

School Show

• This week we started practicing the songs for our show, Mystery at Magpie Manor.
• Everyone was told their role today. More information including lines will be given out towards the end of next week.
• It has been extremely challenging for the teachers to decide on the roles as we were blown away by everyone’s auditions. We have created new roles and adapted roles from the original to ensure everyone who wanted a speaking part has one. We cannot wait to see you perform your roles on 26th March.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss McNeil and P6b

This week in P6B we have been learning about…

Literacy and English

We created our first drafts of our recipes for the Crookfur Cookbook. Everyone used Miss McNeil’s example to help us to create our success criteria.

Health and Wellbeing

We have been learning about resilience and our bouncebackability. This week we explored body language clues associated with different emotions and the support measures available to us if we find it challenging to manage our emotions.

Knex Challenge

We completed the class Knex challenge. Each pair was scored out of 100. Well done to E and L who won and will be representing p6b in the stage competition.

Bodyworks

This week we were learning about the lungs. We investigated the number breaths we took before and after exercise then compared the two variables. We then discussed why our breaths increased.

At the end of the week we enjoyed our trip to the Science Centre where we learned even more about our bodies. Look out for next week’s blog for more information.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

From Miss McNeil and p6b

This week in P6b we have been learning about…

Maths

Some of the learners wanted to share what they have been learning about in maths this week and created mini lessons to share their knowledge.  They showed creativity and worked cooperatively with each other.

Literacy

This week in literacy the learners continued working on Scots language. They converted their comic strips into imaginative stories. They also continued learning about apostrophes in grammar. Everyone enjoyed writing on the tables!

IDL – Bodyworks

This week the learners started their first bodywork’s lessons with Miss Nesbitt. They started by learning about the digestive system. Everyone is really excited to learn more about it on next week’s trip to the Science Centre.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

From p6b and Miss McNeil

This week in P6b we have been learning about…

Literacy

Miss Nesbitt continued teaching Spanish this week. We revised the vocabulary for pets that we used in P5 then used this to create full sentences and have conversations.

This week’s writing lesson focused on exploring Scots language.  Mr Wilson introduced the class to a famous Scottish character, Oor Wullie. We used the text ‘Oor Wullie’ and a poem to create Scottish dictionaries then created our own comic strips!

Health and Wellbeing

This week in PE we have been working on our dance skills. We have been learning different Scottish Country dances. This week we learned the Gay Gordon’s and Strip the Willow. Miss McNeil was very impressed by how quickly everyone picked it up.

Other Curricular Areas

This week our committee members met up and continued working on their action plans.  Some of our reps also presented updates at todays assembly.

Today we enjoyed our house spirit afternoon. Have a look at Twitter for some photos from this afternoon.

This week we started planning our IDL topic with Miss Nesbitt and our new RME topic about important milestones with Mr Wilson. We also started our fundraising project. Next week’s homework task will provide more information about our project.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

From Miss McNeil and P6b

This week in P6b we have been learning…

Literacy and English

• In the avengers we continued our book there’s nothing wrong about a boy whose mum is sick so he gets anxiety even when his mum gets better. In the lion king read our book Project bright sparks with Miss Nesbitt in the artpod. Project bright sparks is about a man who is very rich and he scammed people so he went to jail but escaped. Then there was a teacher at a school call Mr Spark and he was favouriting his daughter. But these two kids get suspicious and find out he is working for the rich man who escaped jail.
• On Thursday with Mrs Nasar we did grammar. In grammar we learnt about apostrophes. We created a piece of art with ten flaps that had different types of contractions on them.
• We did apostrophes in grammar and learnt that it is used to combine a word like should not become shouldn’t .
• With Miss Nesbitt we learned Spanish. We learned how to pronounce different family members !
• At spelling we have been learning about the spelling rule EL.
• For reading we answered questions like what do the characters look like and what happens at the beginning of the book.

Numeracy and Maths

• In the orangutans we were learning 3 different triangles, scalene, isosceles and the equilateral.
• For maths we did 2D shapes with Miss Nesbitt and we learnt about different triangles.
• We were doing 2D shapes and learning about lots of triangles and the proper names for them.
• In maths me and my maths group have been learning about 3d shapes and their edges,corners,faces ect. It have been really fun learning about them!
• we learnt the mathematical names of the three types of triangles. They were called scalene, isosceles and equilateral. We also learned a few differences between them, before I thought the scalene and isosceles were the same but then we were taught that one of them has no equal sides, and one has two equal sides.

HWB

• In PE we did fitness stations like wall sits and push ups.
• On Tuesday for P.E we did fitness and there was 8 different stations to do such as push ups, sit up, mountain climbers and burpees.
• In P.E we did fitness. We had eight stations to do, some include mountain climbers, burpees, push-ups, relay races, sit-ups and wall squats.
• On Monday we did P.E and we started of with some games then we went round and did little fitness groups where there was one area for wall sits and hula hoops and more.

Other News

• We got club letters on Tuesday and some of them were dance with Miss Lamb and netball with Miss Orr.
• In March we have a show and we are auditioning soon for it.
• On Tuesday we made New Years resolution art.
• On Thursday with Mr Wilson we were using the Knex to make a car, a bridge or a house they all had to have a moving contraption.
• We did a welcome lesson for Miss Nesbitt and we played a quiz and guess what was true out of the three statements then we made a jigsaw piece about ourselves.
• We did a practise K’nex challenge with Mr Wilson.

We had a great first week of 2024! We hope you have a lovely weekend.

P6b and Miss McNeil

This week in P6B we have been learning about…

Maths

• In maths, we practiced exchanging and carrying.
• In maths, we focused on decimal fractions with division.

Literacy

• We got new group reading books. My book is called Project Bright Spark.
• We did a piece of writing on how to steal Christmas and we wrote instructions. We had to include four sections: an introduction, things you will need, numbered list and a conclusion.
• On Wednesday, we did handwriting and it was about Harry Potter.

HWB

• On Friday we had PE. We focused on football and we played the numbers game.
• On Thursday, we learned about our rights and what happens when they aren’t fulfilled. We also watched a video about a current situation where the rights of the child are not being met because of a conflict. We played a game called Promises, Promises to understand more.

Other Curricular Areas

• We watched the P1 Nativity and it was Mrs Agnew’s class. The Nativity was about the story of the first Christmas. After we watched it we created good luck cards for our P1 buddies and the classes. I enjoyed it!
• We had a STEM challenge and we had to try and make a sleigh. It was a knex challenge. It needed to hold three things and be able to move. If you wanted bonus points you needed to have a moving part or have a Christmas theme.
• On Wednesday and Thursday, we made art pieces using pointillism. We had to use different shades of colours to add light and shadows. We used tooth picks and cotton buds.
• On Monday some of the violinists had a concert at Eastwood.
• On Monday we made props for the P1 and P2 Nativities. We made and painted doors and other props.