Welcome to primary 7b’s class blog.

This blog will tell you about all the fun things we learn about in our final year at Neilston primary.

We are all settling in well to primary 7!

 

In the first week of term we created our class charter, which helped us understand our rights as children.  We also watched a play by Hopscotch Theatre, which showed us our rights in real life situations. “The boy gave away his rights, he was ignored and couldn’t learn anything so it showed me how important our rights are.”- Bethany.

 

In art and design we have been learning about hot and cold colours. We painted a landscape picture with half hot and half cold colours to demonstrate this.

“Blue, green and purple are examples of cold colours”- Calum G.

“Red, orange and yellow are examples of hot colours”- Ellie

 

Our IDL topic this term is space. We have made mnemonics to help us remember the order of the planets from the sun and from largest to smallest.  We used scale to compare the sizes of the planets to real life objects and have sequenced the events of the space race in chronological order.

We have been researching about aspects of our solar system and presented what we have learned to our groups using jigsaw learning.

“We created what we think space looks like using pastels.”- Emily

“I learned that Jupiter is the biggest planet”- Rebecca

“Earth is smaller than I expected it to be compared to the other planets”- Bethany

“We learned to write newspaper articles, we wrote these about the moon landing. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins travelled to the moon but Michael did not go on the moon as he had to orbit the moon in the spaceship”- Donovan.

 

We have been using sumdog as a fun way to improve our mental maths skills!

“It has helped me practise my maths skills in a fun way, I even use it at home to get more practise”- Bethany.

 

In PE we have been focusing on fitness and improving our stamina.

“I like doing the fitness stations like bunny hops, sit ups and the plank because it keeps me fit and healthy”- Georgia.

We have also been doing the daily mile each morning. “It keeps you fit, wakes you up in the morning and is fun” Calum Shearer.

 

Thanks for reading! We hope you enjoy these weekly updates throughout the year.

By primary 7b and Miss Quin.