Mrs Tees and Mr Tyler set up our Seesaw accounts today. Soon we will be able to use our devices to share our class work with home (once Mrs Tees figures out why Mrs Horne’s account has the wrong class attached, haha)
Seesaw
Super Skills
Today we continued our Super Skills lessons. Mrs Horne’s group are creating clips. We look forward to seeing the finished work at the end of the block!
Term 2 Overview
Devices Day – Change of Plan
We discussed bringing devices in next Thursday, however following a change in assembly time, could you please bring devices in on Friday instead. Thank you!
Homework 20/1/20, due 24/1/20
Spelling – Access https://www.spellingcity.com/users/MrsKHorne, select the correct lists use spellingcity’s games to help you learn your words. Each week you are also to learn five words that you have selected yourself with the spelling rule taught on Mondays. These will not be on spelling city. Instead practise the rule making your words using active strategies (writing words on a partners back to guess, make with pasta or play doh, rainbow writing, cheerleading the words etc…). You do not hand evidence of this in to school. It should be short, fun and engaging. You will complete a short dictation which uses words of a similar difficulty, though not the 5 specific words, which follow the spelling rule on Fridays.
**This week is week 11, the rule is words ending in ‘ow’**
Numeracy – Spheres – 3D shape – Complete on the sheet
Cylinders – Diving for Treasure  – answer in jotter
Cuboids – Weight Scales HL 49 – Complete on the sheet
Pyramids –Â Months of the Year Song
Other – Show Racism the Red Card Competition – Visit the site for further details:
Show Racism the Red Card Competition
*****School Show – if you would like to take part in the first round of auditions please apply following the link emailed to parents on Friday as soon as possible. The audition pieces will be put on the class blog by Miss Harvey. Please prepare your audition. P6 will be auditioning next Thursday and Friday, not the following week, due to our class trips and assemblies occurring w/c 27/1/20*****
Eco-Committee and JRSO
Today we had our first Pupil Group meetings. Mrs Horne and Mrs Jamieson run the Eco-Committee and JRSO group. Members of this group have an action point for their next meeting on Wednesday 5th February. They are to research the UN Sustainable Development Goals and select three targets they would like the pupil group to achive over the next two years. One should be linked to litter, one to the sustainable goals and the third can be anything which makes our school more eco-friendly. We had lots of great ideas to get us started.
P6a all came back from their meetings quite excited to share what they had been doing. The Sports Leaders said they are thinking about a running track, STEM are investigating experiments which could be carried out across the school, Positive Peers are looking at introducing a calming area to help people destress at break before they discuss events with the Peer Mediators and the librarians said they are looking at new organisational systems.
Lots will be happening over the next couple of years so watch their blogs for more information in the future!
Homework 13/1/20, Due 17/1/20
Instructions
* Check your homework diary for your mental maths task.
* Choose an activity from the spelling homework grid to help you learn your spelling words.
*Complete your Tomorrow’s Inventors’ Market Research Surveys. These must be returned on THURSDAY.
Mentos and Coke!
Today we completed our reactions topic with an experiment which used many of the skills we had learned in term 1. We have developed and applied our knoweldge and understanding of report writing, measuring volume and length, data handling and chemical and physical reactions .
After we carried out the experiment, adding mentos to cola, we measured the volume left to calculate the volume which had erupted during the reaction. Next week we will watch our videos back and use our ICT skills to measure the height of each eruption before creating graphs on excel. We had a few false starts but once Mrs Horne was holding the bottles the experiments went really well and we enjoyed seeing her covered in cola!
Christmas Party Fun
Festive Slime
We continued our chemical reactions topic today by investigating slime. We carried out a fair test to discover whether using more glue makes the slime more bouncy. It definitely does! We also developed our report writing skills as we conducted the experiment.
