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Weekly Fun. By Zainab Ahmed

This week we have been drawing silhouettes, looking at the timeline of Queen Victoria and even tricking each other with a disappearing coin trick. Silhouettes are pictures or drawings only taken of the side of a person’s face.

As you can see this girl’s fringe, lips, lashes, ponytail and her hair on top of her head all stick out, but you can’t see the features of her face.

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We have also started our Victorians topic and we learned that Queen Victoria was the first person to get her picture taken by French photographer Alexander Bassano. Queen Victoria was also the first one to actually use the telephone, to be put to sleep with an anaesthetic, to have her voice recorded and she was the first person to be filmed.  Queen Victoria was Queen on 1837 and she was born on 24th of May 1819 and died in 1901.

Our comprehension passage was called ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. To make this you get 2 pieces of the same coloured card. Cut a hole in one and stick it onto a clear cup then get the other piece of card and place it upside down on the other piece of card. Place a coin underneath and see your audience get amused when covering the coin with the cup!

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Disappearing Coin Trick. By Aisha Qayyum

In class with Mrs Kyle we did a comprehension passage. The title was ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. We all thought we weren’t going to get to do the trick, but at the end Mrs Kyle surprised us and said we could make the trick!

The things you will need: 

Card,

A plastic cup,

Scissors,

Glue,

Napkin

A penny.

The first thing you do is draw around the cup and cut out the circle. The second thing you do is glue the circle on to the part of the cup you drink from.

This is how the trick works:

You put the cup on the card. Place the penny right beside it. After that get your napkin and cover the cup with the napkin. Now, you pick up the glass and put it over the penny.

Time for the MAGIC!!!!!!!!! ABRACADABRAH!!!! Now take the napkin off and the coin is gone.

Finally, pick up the glass and the coin is reappeared.

 

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Ken Macintosh visit. By Rachel McGhie

On Monday 21st of December to finish our E.U topic, Miss Orchant asked our M.S.P Ken Macintosh to come and talk to our class about politics. At the end of the talk Miss Orchant asked us if we liked the conversation we had with Mr Macintosh and everyone said they loved it! I really liked that Mr Macintosh gave everyone a fair say and everyone got the chance to ask him questions.

Mr Macintosh made a joke and said that Elyze and Izzy could run for M.S.P and that they could decide which organisations to give lots of money to. They said if they were given a million pounds and had to choose between cancer research and education, they would split the money and give half to each organisation.  Mr Macintosh said he would do the exact same thing.

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The BFG. By Sergei De Rosa-Cairns

In class we have been reading an extract from Roald Dahl’s The BFG. When we did comprehension work on it I completed most of the questions. I need to do is finish a drawing showing all of the dreams he has caught. The skills I was developing were ‘finding and using information’ and developing my ‘understanding of literary devices’. I enjoyed re-reading part of the story again because I really liked reading the novel.

 We also wrote about a dream or memory that we have on a piece of paper and rolled it up. Then we put it in a glass milk bottle and decorated the bottle using acrylic paints. Miss Orchant told us to ‘bottle our dream forever’ so we shut it tight with a lid just like the dreams that the BFG caught.

 

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Swimming and European Union quiz. By Lana Tiefenbrun

On Thursday this week we had our last day of swimming and it was so much fun! For about half an hour we did normal swimming and then for the rest of the time we were allowed to go in the shallow pool and play with the floats, balls and rubber rings. On Wednesday we did a quiz about the European Union. Everyone either got full marks or only one wrong so we all did really well. We had a quiz because we have now finished our European Union topic and I look forward to our next topic.

 

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P.E by Izzy Scott

My blog is about our great P.E  lesson with Mrs Kyle. We warmed up with a game called ‘red, amber, green’. How you play is if someone shouts ‘green’ you run, if someone shouts ‘amber’ you run on the spot and if someone shouts ‘red’ you have to stop. It was a great game.

The best part of the P.E lesson was getting to play boys verses girl dodge ball. There were balls flying through the air for ages until there was only one girl left who was Hannah. So unfortunately the boys won, but it was a great P.E lesson.

 

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European Union and Chanukah class party. By Oliver Tomkins

This week we made leaflets for different countries that we were given in our EU topic, my country was Spain. We have been doing a lot of research on our countries and we used this information in our leaflets. We were also allowed to use colours and stick pictures in that we had got from the internet. We decided that one of our Success Criteria should be that we can talk about our country and explain our leaflet, so Miss Orchant picked lollypop sticks out of a cup and the person that got chosen explained and read their leaflet out to the class.

Another thing we did this week was have a party because it is Chanukah! The day of the party we got to dress in party clothes instead of school uniform and each class voted on the type of  party they wanted to have. We voted on a pyjama party and during the pyjama party we got to watch a movie and eat popcorn and crisps. When it was time to have the party not all of us had popcorn but luckily Pippa’s mum brought in great big bags of it so we could all have some. The next thing we did was have a vote on what movie we were going to watch and we ended up watching Ice Age 2.

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Chanukah Preparations. By Elyze Nadler

In art we have started making things for Chanukah. We have been drawing doughnuts, latkes, chanukiot, sevivons (dreidels) and other Chanukah related things. We have started to decorate our class in preparation for Chanukah and it has been ‘dreidel spinning fun’! In Kodesh and Ivrit we have started talking about the festival of Chanukah and with Mrs Rosenberg we are reading the story with a lot of detail now that we are primary 6. We also made mind maps showing the ‘things we know about Chanukah’ and we have done our own re-search. We have all had a very successful week and enjoyed this very much!

Happy Chanukah everyone!!

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Homework. By Saba Rehman

which I find really easy, mental maths and Miss Orchant gave us an extra piece homework. We have been looking at the differences between facts and opinions in class, so at home, we had to find a newspaper article and underline all the facts and highlight all the opinions.  Most of the people in my class think that when Miss Orchant gives us extra homework it’s too much but I disagree, although like doing my homework!  Compared to primary 5 I think our homework is better! They seem to have a lot more than us!

Every Wednesday we get some European Union research to complete as homework which I enjoy and is really easy for me. I make sure that the day I get my homework I complete it.

We usually have spelling which is due every Friday, and our mental maths is completed daily.

This weeks homework was fun.

Fact and Opinion