It was the first time that I rode my bike on the road properly! I did a left turn, a safety stop, a safety start and I looked behind myself. I went down a hill and also rode on flat roads.
I shared my bike with Oliver, Abi and Ilya.
It was really interesting because I felt like I’m more professional at riding my bike!
I did this cycling with two professional cyclists Dagmar and Caroline. They are really good teachers for cycling.
I really hope all you other bloggers enjoyed reading my blog.
This week we had a pantomime! The whole school was there even the teachers stayed to watch the whole show. Even though they only had 4 actors they had 7 characters. The only weird thing was Scar was a girl but that changed hardly anything just that Simba had an auntie instead of an uncle and it did not stop the show from being great! It had a lot of audience participation. It also had a lot of singing and dancing and the whole hall was full of excitement and joy. When everybody left they were beaming because the show was so good!
On Monday Primary 6 made Purim cakes they are called Hammantaschen also known as Ausne Hamman this is the recipe:
2 eggs
2/3 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of canola oil
1 tsp of vanilla
2 ¼ cups of flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 to 5 tsp of water [if needed]
We made about 7 trays of them. Each of us got one. They tasted amazing and dancing with flavour my taste buds exploded.
This week it was Purim and it was a blast! Everyone was dressed so lovely and even the teachers! I dressed up as an evil scientist with potions and everything. When the time came for the Purim Parade the teachers went up too!
We then gave Mishloach Manot bags, my one was for Aisha and they weren’t just bags they were white ones so we could decorate them. I received one from Sergei and he did a great job! We put chocolate, juice and crisps in them!
Then we went to do a challenge and that was to find as many words as possible in the word “Queen Esther”. If you did not want to you could have sat and done some relaxing colouring.
We then went to the Purim Quiz and it was super fun, my team won! So we got to choose a prize mine was a pink pencil with white dots.
After that we created our own Purim paper masks. We then went on a Treasure Hunt and our team was so good at it we even got the bonus questions!
Then we had some more relaxing time. We just sat down and ate some yummy Auzne Hamman and drank some juice, after a while we had to do a Purim Play in less than a minute. And guess what!? Gabby said we were the only group who did it right. Finally, in our last station we had to dance.
It was an amazing Purim!
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!
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 🙂
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.
On Wednesday we went on a class trip to Scotland Street School. When we arrived the first thing we did was get split up from the girls so the boys went right and then the girls went to the left. The next thing we had to do was go up the stairs and into an old fashioned changing room where we could hang up our coats and put on waistcoats and collars. After that a man told us about the safety procedures and then reminded us all that it was all acting. Finally we had to line up and the actress who was playing a Victorian teacher came out and told us in a very strict voice to be quiet and then told us where to sit and she said that we should always call her ma’am. The boys had to sit next to girls but some girls had to sit next to another girl because there was more girls than boys and I had to sit next to Pippa. The teacher then told us that we had to sit with our feet flat on the ground and our arms crossed under the table and to face the front.
The first lesson we did was Math. We had to recite our 2 to 5 times table like this: 2 nothings are nothing, 2 1s are 2, 2 2s are four etc and then she asked us individual multiplication questions. She drew a clock face on the black board and then wrote a number in the middle of it. We had to multiply the clock face number by the middle number. For example if 2 was in the middle of the clock and she pointed to 5, you would have to reply: 10 ma’am.
After that we did a quick test with Maths questions on a slate and most people only got 1 or 2 out of 5 because the questions were quite hard, 1 of the questions was: If I walk in a field and there is 10 humans , 1 horse and 1 dog how many legs were there in the field? I know you might think that is easy but the answer is actually 30 because you need to count your legs as well!
The next thing we did was handwriting and that was interesting because we got to use proper ink that we had to dip the pen in. What we had to do was write out the date in Victorian writing which is like script writing and it is all joined up then we had to write the alphabet using the Victorian style as well. Finally, we had to write out our name on the piece of paper in Victorian writing. When they had been handed in the teacher rang a bell and said that we were not in 1883 anymore, we were back in 2016!
She told us her name and then we discussed the similarities and differences between the Victorian class and a class in 2016. By the end of the day we had all learned something.
After the discussion the actress dressed up as a janitor of a school and were all of a sudden back in the Victorian times. The janitor did P.E with us and the P.E was very easy, all we had to do was touch our head then put our arms up in the air and then touch our shoulders and we had to repeat that several times. Once we had finished we got the chance to ask some questions.
We all really enjoyed the trip and I would definitely recommend going there!
Today at school we had a Burns Supper. It was so fun because Leah, Ilya, Sergei Elyze and Zainab did a play for the poem ‘My Love is Like a Red Red Rose’ they were so good. Then we had to serve the mums and dads Haggis Neeps and Tatties, all the mums and dads loved it. After that primary 6 performed a Scottish dance, it was called the ‘Gay Gordons’. Oliver and I were so scared but when we did it everything was fine! Miss Orchant loved it very much. After that we went and said hi to our mums and dads and they were so impressed. Our class then went upstairs to our classroom and we were all so HAPPY!!!!!!
That is the end of our Burns Supper. I can’t wait for next year!
This year for Mitzvah Day, Primary Six decided to help out in the lunch hall.
Each day we went down in groups of three or four. We chose who went down in order of the register.
I went on the Tuesday, I enjoyed it very much because I got to collect bands, serve lunches and check the plates to see if the children had eaten enough!
I was doing this with, Ben, Daniel Dotan and Ilya. Daniel and Ilya were doing the same as me, but Ben was mostly giving out stickers!
I enjoyed mitzvah day this year very much!
