This week we have been celebrating Maths Week!

Book of the Week: Fractions in Disguise

This week in honour of our book we made a structure to display fractions with Kapla.  Some groups made a gallery, cafe, pizza shop, museum, maze and bakery. – L

This week we read Fractions in Disguise, a book all about simplifying fractions. – J

I played snakes and ladders with fractions. You had to solve the fraction cards and make up the mystery word. – F

Mondrian Inspired Art

We used the place value blocks for hundreds, tens and units. We traced around them to create an art piece.  For example if you traced around 2 100 blocks, 1 ten block and 3 units blocks then it would illustrate 213. – S

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who created a new art style that uses primary colours and black and white shades.  He used lots of geometric shapes, such as squares and rectangles. – H

Inspired by Piet Mondrian we made an art piece where we used different place value blocks. We drew around them to show a number then coloured each shape a different colour.  Then we walked around the class to work out the mystery number of each piece of art. – R

This week in P6B we have been learning about…

Personal Projects

We finished our personal projects and presented them to the class. Next week we will be sharing them with our P1 buddies!

Coding

This week we started our new Natural Disasters topic.  As part of the topic we are learning how to code using Scratch.  We decided our end of topic assessment will be an animation created in Scratch.  This week we started our first module and learned how to add sounds and change the sprites costumes to create a rock band.

This week in P6B we have been learning about…

Literacy

This week we have been learning about direct speech.  An example of direct speech is “What is the weather like today?”. – H & H

We use direct speech to upgrade our sentences and it helps to add extra description to characters.  It also helps the reader to tell the difference between when a character is speaking and when it is the narrator.  – M, J & T

We practiced our joins during handwriting. – C

We did P.E. then we went outside to read our personal books in the sun.  It is important to read books you enjoy because you can be mindful of techniques to help you with your writing. – L & F

This week in writing we used the STEAL approach to create a full description of a character for our theme park story. – S

This week in P6B  we have been learning about settings and creating the first part of the our writing project.

Yesterday afternoon we were building a theme park using kapla. – C

Today we wrote our first part of our picture book about a theme park. – H

On Thursday, we built a theme park in groups.  We had to use cooperation and team work skills to be successful. – H

Yesterday we built theme parks with kapla. We were split into groups and each group created a unique design. – R

This week we have been learning about settings and using our senses to describe the theme park settings. – C

This week in writing we were creating an imaginative story. – T