We started our new topic this week and it has been a great start! Our topic is the theme of enterprise and is called: ‘The Apprentice’

We were put in to teams of 4 and had our first team building challenge! We were given an a3 sheet split into 4 and had to create a house. We were only allowed to draw on our section of paper and were not allowed to touch others. This required a lot of communication and planning.

We also decided our team names. This is what we have so far:

Atomic Extinct

Alpha mines

Team Love

Team Sapphire

Alpha Velocity

Next week we will get our first team challenge! We know it is a branding task but that is all.

We have had a very productive week in 7b! Here is a little overview of everything that we got up to:

Poetry

We continued exploring poetry and wrote our very own cinquain, limericks and haikus. We also had a go at writing a group poem with the theme ‘The Door’.

Imagery

We explored how authors and poets use imagery in their writing to create clearer pictures in the readers mind. We then were given a challenge of reading a poem and drawing what we pictured while reading. Everyone had different images and in the end Mrs Rasul revealed that the poem was actually about a tiger!

The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

Having explored the themes of friendship, kindness and love, we created a class book inspired by the author and illustrater Charlie Mackesy. We each created our page inspired by his famous book, and then made a class version. Tia and Aarohi kindly offered to make the front cover. This book will now be in our cosy corner for anyone to read.

Vedic Square for maths

As part of maths, we learned about John Napier, one of Scotland’s most famous mathematicians. We then went on to look at maths patterns through a story called the Napier code. The first chapter had us exploring Vedic squares. These squares crate shape patterns based on the positioning of the numbers.

What a busy week in primary 7! We have been doing lots of things. Here is a snippet of our week:

Cloud Busting

We are well into our book now and have become more familiar with the main characters. A few twists and turning points have been revealed and it is getting more interesting. We have created comparison paragraphs to share our views on characters and even created a comic strip for chapter 10.

Poetry writing with metaphors

We had a go at writing poems with metaphors. Mrs Rasul let us write on our tables, we had to think of all the words that come to our mind linked to poetry and then had to ‘brain dump’ on our desks. This was fun. Then we went on to see examples of metaphors and created our own poems full of them!

Problem solving

We have been revising the four operations in maths (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and we had a go at solving worded problems linked to these.

Kapla

Since we are reading cloud busting, we had a go at creating our very own cloud busting towers using Kapla. Each group went for a different style. The criteria was:

• It had to be free standing
• It had to have a viewing tower
• It had to have a space for storage.

Have a look at some of our end results!

Welcome to the Primary 7B class blog! It has been a busy start to primary 7 and we have been doing lots of different team building and ‘getting to know you’ activities! Here are a few of the things we have been up to:

Class Charter

We discussed children’s Rights and how we can make sure we respect those rights in our classroom and school. We then had a vote for which theme we would like our class charter to be – The Minions won!

STEM Challenge

Mrs Rasul set us a challenge to create a tower using cups, string and an elastic band. The rule was that we could not touch the cups using any of our body parts. Despite it being tricky at first, we used our problem solving skills and figured it out in the end.

Sunny Wednesday

It was a great start to the school term with the sun shining on Wednesday so we went outside and played some games!