Author: Miss O'Neill

So far we have had a great start to our new term.

We have made a start on a new topic, The Caribbean.  We have made carnival coustumes and researched about the carnivals that happen in the Caribbean.

In Maths and Numercay we have been doing data handling with Mrs Ashgar, we have made a questionnaire about anything we wanted and we looked at what kind of questions we should put in our questionnaire.

We wrote a narrative story about a secret hatch and a magical forest. We did this with Mrs Ashgar and she gave us an idea of what we could put in our stories and she told us to describe the forest really well because she wanted to feel as if she was actually there.

All groups have all started a new book,we all are really enjoying looking at different books and we are looking forward to doing more tasks on them.

In P.E we have been doing sprinting and we have went over to the high school with the other Primary 7.  Over in the high school we have still been doing sprinting but also do exercise stations like squats, sit ups, luges , jumping jack and a few others.

We have enjoyed this term so far and hope to keep it going like this here are some photos of what we have learned –

On Tuesday the 18th, we went back to school. It is now Friday the 21st so our first week has ended. We have started lots of new topics like data handling in maths and new reading books in literacy.  The new books are ‘The Borrowers’ for the Disney dragons, for the  Gandalf Troopers  ‘abomination’ and ‘The Goosebumps’ have ‘The Day The Island Exploded’. Our new topic is the Caribbean.

On Tuesday most of the boys from primary 5 and up tried for the school football team, most of them got in but some didn’t. At the tournament on the 21st, they came second out of 16 other school teams.

By Lorna Robertson

Art

Recently we have been learning about Celtic art with Mrs Asghar.

‘I have learned that certain pieces of art mean different things, ‘Emma P7

‘Some pieces mean ability and other pieces mean power’ Matthew P6

Health and Wellbeing

Last week we made banana bread with Mrs Asghar. Before we made it we explored ways to change the ingredients to make it more healthy.  We all enjoyed it very much.

‘I learned how to mash bananas with a fork’ Luka P6

 

 

 

 

Numeracy- Weight

In numeracy we have been learning about weight and have been converting grams to kilograms and kilograms to grams. We took out the scales and took stuff around the classroom and estimated the weight then weighed the item and wrote the difference between the estimate and the real weight.

Health- Foods from Around the World

In health we are learning about foods around the world and we were put in to groups of 3 or groups of 2. We chose a country to write facts about, draw their flag and name some of their traditional foods. When Miss O’Neill told us about this everyone started singing ‘Its raining tacos.’

Pizza

We made pizza today and we made it from scratch and most of us found it really good. We added tomatoes, parmesan cheese, mozzarella and basil and it got messy…        Then some people carried the pizza to Mrs Ross and she put them in the oven. Ten minutes later when they were cooked 4 people were sent to bring them over, 2 people brought the pizzas and the other 2 brought chopping boards.

PE- High School

This week in P.E we went to the high school and got split into 2 groups half of us went to badminton and the other half went to tennis.

Pupil Council

Next week we are organising the pupil council. Miss O’Neill told us to plan our manifesto.  We will present the reasons to the class as to why we will make good class representatives.

 

By Josh Backhouse

 

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Before the holidays we had a visitor to our class. It was Miss O’Neill’s mum! She came in to talk to us about her childhood during the 1960s. We made a list of questions to ask her prior to her visit. She brought in some LP’s to show us including ‘Hello Dolly’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ (both musicals from the 60s). She also brought in an old fashioned doll house and some photographs.

I learned that people tended to sit together in their living rooms as that was the warmest room in the house. Most homes didn’t have heating in the early 1960s.    Cameron McAulay    P7

I learned that bedrooms had hot water pipes and that would be the only heat source in the room.  Lewis Potter   P6

Mrs O’Neill said that the Beetles spoke their mind and that’s why some parents didn’t like them.  Keavie P6

You would get the belt for talking whilst the teacher was talking to another adult and if you pulled your hand away, you’d get an extra whip. Jake and Kali P6

 

 

Our first week back was exciting because we learned new things, like growing patterns, non-Fiction, badminton, green exercise, the brain and the body.

Badminton 

In P.E. we are learning about badminton. This week we were practising returning a serve.

Patterns & Relationships

In maths we have been learning growing patterns. A growing pattern is when the term grow by how many you add. Also in maths we learned a sequence called the Fibonacci sequence. it goes like this.  1 1 2 3  5 8 13 21 34.

Non-Fiction 

In literacy we have been working on non fiction texts.

After a busy week learning about decimals, practising our reading strategies and rehearsing for our party and concert…..its great to get a reward. We deserve it!