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Purim! By Ilya Gladkikh

This Thursday it is Purim! Nobody can wait!

There will be so many fun things to do! Stations, competitions, activities and the part that I’m most excited about… Mishloach Manot (food gifts)!

There are a couple of tradition, like reading the Megilat Esther, the story of when Queen Esther saved the Jews lives. The other tradition is dressing up in fancy costumes. We dress up because we are supposed to look different. Also, Hashem is mentioned in the story but does not appear as he is in disguise, so we do the same.

There is always a competition to see who has the best costume. Fellow classmates go crazy with their costumes! Once I remember someone came as a rubix cube and his friend came as a sandwich.

As I’ve said before, my favourite thing about Purim is Michloach Manot. These are girft bags of food decorated and given to friends.

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My Week. By Daniel Dotan

Over the course of the week we have done a lot of fun things. Probably the most fun thing we did was in science where we got a battery pack, battery, wires, a light bulb and a light bulb stand. Miss Orchant told us to see if we could make an electrical circuit to power the light bulb. If the wire was not touching the battery pack or light bulb stand it would stop the flow of electrons and the light bulb would turn off. One thing we learnt is some scientific symbols. Another thing we learnt is that electricity is the flow of electrons.

Also this week, one of our maths groups was learning how to calculate rate per second so in PE we made six different stations  and timed the rest of the class to find their rate per second, minute and hour. The four stations were star jumps (how many in 30 seconds), short sprints (how many in 30 seconds), commando crawl (how long it takes to go from the top of the hall to the bottom), skipping (how many in 30 seconds), bouncing a ball (how many in 30 seconds), step ups (how many in 30 seconds) and finally step ups (how many in 30 seconds).

In our writing we have started our Personal Study, which is technically a big book report. The book we are doing it on is Oliver Twist since our class have just finished it. This week we wrote the introduction. We had to include the author of the book, the genre, the theme of the book and an overall opinion of the book.

To me the book was great and very exciting. In the writing we had to have a plan which answered the four questions. The personal study is fun but looks like a lot of work!

I hope you enjoyed this blog!

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Mothers Day. By Lana Tiefenbrun

Mother’s Day is on Sunday so in class we made some Mothers Day gifts.

First we made cards. To make them we cut out a yellow circle, a green rectangle and some pink petals. Next, we stuck them into a flower shape and in the middle we wrote ‘I love my mum because…’ then on the petals we wrote some reasons that we love our mum!

The other things that we made were some paper flowers. Everybody in the class got a sheet of paper with flowers on it and then we all coloured them in and stuck glitter and sequences. Next we folded them up and cut them out so that they looked like a real bunch of flowers.

In the end they all turned out really good and I hope all of our mums like them too!

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The Victorians. By Ben Jackson

The Victorian Era is the period of time that Queen Victoria reigned. We have been learning about the Victorians but not just about Queen Victoria. We also learned about the types of homes, work life, inventions, education, transport, fashion and toys/games. It was a great topic for me and I learned lots of interesting facts.

This week we handed in our project about the Victorians and I hope my teacher Miss Orchant will enjoy mine.

 

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EuroQuiz2016. By Elyze Nadler

On Wednesday 24th of February 2016 some students (Ilya, Daniel Dotan, Abi , Elyze and Hannah, who was a reserve took part in the Euroquiz2016. There were 4 rounds and they were ‘Geography’, ‘Languages’, European Union and ‘History and Sport’.

We zoomed through each round getting only about 5 or 6 wrong in each round. Our best round was probably the EU round as we only got 4 questions wrong out of 15.

At the end, the winning school was Mearns Primary with 51 out of 60. Our score was pretty good too, it was 32 out of 60 that was 6th place. It doesn’t matter that we didn’t win, it’s the taking part that counts and we had a great time 🙂

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Ivrit Workshop. By Gideon Ross

Our Ivrit lesson on Wednesday was not a normal  on because lots of parents came to take part. Mr Robson began by giving a speech to the parents about our Ivrit curriculum.

There were 4 Ivrit stations. There was Aleph Champ reading, writing, games and speaking, we had to show the parents what to do. The workshop started at 2 o’clock and finished around 3 o’clock. Then the parents went to the staff room to have tea and coffee.

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Friendship Soup. By Saba Rehman

On Wednesday morning we had Mr Robson because Miss Orchant was out at the EuroQuiz2016 with some other children from P6.  What we did with Mr Robson was we had to list down some qualities that a good friend would have but first we had to get in partners. I was partners with Aisha.  Later on we were going to make friendship soup, first when Mr Robson said we were going to friendship soup I thought we were going to make a real pot of soup with the list of words but I was wrong! I was so shocked!  We had to write beside the list of words how much of that you wanted in your soup. For example,  loyalty  =  3 cups,  we could do 3 jugs, gallons, pints depending on how much of the quality you thought a good friend should have. After that we had to copy it neatly on to another piece of paper and draw pictures and colour them in!  I had so much fun I wish we could do something like that again! I learnt that friends often have arguments over small issues they say sorry and get over them quickly.

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Chocolate Coins. By Abi Benshetrit

On Wednesday Miss Orchant put chocolate coins on everyone’s desk and all around the classroom. We were all very suspicious and asked her why, but she said she didn’t know. When we did social studies I saw Pippa eat one and I was shocked because we weren’t told whether we could eat them or not! At this point I was so tempted to eat one and was curious to know the reason for them. Next thing I knew lots of people were eating them and taking them home because they saw Pippa do it. I was walking out the playground with my friend and we started to unwrap ours but then we didn’t eat them because I said I thought it was a test. We came to school the next day, and the coins were still on our desk! At this point, I was eager to find out what they were for. Later on in the day, there were very little coins left. Miss Orchant asked us ‘who ate a chocolate coin?’ it was a test! Miss Orchant’s accomplice was Pippa! She was meant to eat as many as she wanted and try to persuade us to do the same. Our lesson was about drugs and alcohol and to show us how easy it is to be influenced by your peers. I learnt not to be pressured into doing things that I don’t want to do. I thought it was a very interesting lesson and I really enjoyed it.

 

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Victorian Classroom. By Ilya Gladkikh

Today after break our class got to experience what it was like to be in a Victorian classroom as our topic is the Victorians. Our teacher became a typical Victorian teacher for Maths and English.

Before break we had to put our water bottles at the side of the room. My friend and I thought that we would get to do something arty because we always do that before art. When we came back in from break the teacher had a measuring pole in her hand and then she started shouting that we needed to sit down in any seat and do it quickly. She banged the pole on a table and shouted: “From now on, you shall stand at the side of the table to answer a question. You must say: “Miss Orchant, the answer is ____ and then the answer!”

Everyone got a fright and quickly sat down in any seat.

On the table in front of us there was a slate and a thick piece of pencil lead on it. The first lesson was Maths and the maths questions were simple multiplication questions. When the teacher was asking the questions the pupil that was asked stood up and went over to the side of the desk and answered the question.

When it was my turn I went to the side of the table and said “The answer is 100… ” Then Miss Orchant shouted “DUNCE!” (because I forgot to add Miss Orchant at the beginning of my answer and I hesitated before I gave my answer) so I had to go to the front of the class and put on the DUNCE hat and stand facing the wall. Then because of that accident I missed the rest of the maths lesson!

The teacher shouted to grab a slate and lead and to write ‘Keepnotwhatisnotyours’ in a big long line with no spaces in between the words and also in old style letters. When another boy in the class had bad handwriting the teacher shouted “DUNCE” so he had to put on the DUNCE hat too.

When we finished writing the words out three times we needed to write ‘livepeacefullywhithallmen’ in the same way. That was the Victorian era classroom finished, it was scary!

 

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