P6/7

This afternoon we took the iPads down to primary 1/2 to help them make posters for their comic relief bake sale. We talked to them about what information they would need in an information poster, we taught them how to use comic life and we also discussed why we raise money at comic relief! We really enjoyed teaching others how to use the iPads!

Here are some pictures of the learning we have been doing in class recently. There is some drama at the High School, some presenting of our Political Party Research and some of us working on our reading strategies!

Blogging from Charlie…

Hi there. Sorry we have not been posting for a while so I will tell you what has been happening in Primary 6 since.  First I will tell you about Scottish afternoon.  In primary 6 we sang two songs and we said two poems.  We said the Sair Finger by Walter Wingate and the whole class said it and we did Paper Kate also by Walter Wingate.  There was 10 versus in it so two people said one verse and the last verse 3 people said it.  We also sang to popular Scottish songs.  We sang Caledonia by Dougie McLean and the famous song Loch Lomond.  My favourite was Caledonia.  It was fun and I was very nervous especially for Paper Kate.  

We have started a new topic.  We started the Scottish Parliament.  We are all excited about what we are going to learn.

 Yesterday we went to Chryston High School to start drama with the drama teacher.  Her name is Miss Boyne.  Yesterday we just played some games like a game called splat.  We also played a funny game that we had to use our imagination with.  We got into a circle and we had to go around and we were only allowed to say one word.  We had to try and make a story working together.  They did not make much sense.  On the last week we are going to get to peform our work to the teachers and the rest of the class.  

In PE we have been doing circuit training.  Every week we have a theme.  We have did Stamina, Ball Skills, Muscular Endurance, and Balance.  My favourite is the ball skills.

We will post some photos shortly but I am on my iPad and they are on the class computer!

This weeks blogger is Abigail!

It’s been a busy week in primary 6! In maths we have been doing some work on multiplication using our 6,7,8 and 9 times tables. We got sent on a secret mission, each group had a different mission. My mission was to organise a school disco, lots of times I had to use my multiplication skills to work out the answer.

In language we learned about comparative and superlative adjectives. We learned that comparative adjectives compare 2 things like saying that one clown is funnier than the other. The comparative adjective in that sentence was funnier. A superlative adjective is comparing 3 or more things. I have lots of scarves but my green one is the longest of them all. The superlative adjective was longest. We played lots of games to help us learn about comparative and superlative adjectives. Here are some photos of us having fun with our learning. We also wrote similes poems this week so look at the earlier blog to hear some of them!

In our interdisciplinary we have been learning all about Scotland. We began our week by starting some leaflets on Scottish tourist attractions. we researched some Scottish tourist attractions and looked at important details that tourists would want to know. I made my leaflet of the Falkirk wheel because I’ve been and I think is really interesting. In my leaflet I included 5 facts, the opening times and information on the boat trips.

Also in our Scottish theme we have been doing some cooking. On Thursday we went up to the kitchen and made oat cakes. we were learning to follow the hygiene routine to make ourselves and our cooking area hygienic. We have to be careful though because 2 people in our class are allergic to dairy so in some recipes we have to take alternatives. We used an oat cake recipe that had no dairy in it so the oat cakes were ok for every one.

Scottish afternoon is coming up and primary 6 are working hard on our songs and poems but we’ll keep them secret for now. We were also doing some drama this week we all split into groups of 3 and acted out “The Sair Finger ” by Walter Wingate. We used tone and expression in our voices and actions to make our scenes fun to listen to and watch. Look at our pictures below.

On Wednesday this week, we were learning about similes. We wrote winter poems full of similes. Have a listen to a couple here. We hope you like them!

One winters day by Scott

Winters Day by Leah

This Winter by Grace

We wrote some poems about coming back to school. Have a look at Abigails –

Back to School – By Abigail

The tree is down and the excitement is gone,
oh, that’s right, school’s back on Monday!

No more long lies or jammie days in,
Oh boy, up early on Monday!

I really miss all my classmates and Miss Rae as well,
Oh yay, I’ll see them all on Monday!

I’m bored of all my presents, DVD’s and games,
At least I’ll have things to do on Monday!

I’ve liked the sweets and fizzy drinks but can’t wait to be healthy again,
Hooray for healthy snacks on Monday!

I love Christmas every year but I can be very bored,
Mum, I can’t wait for school on Monday!

I started writing this blog before Christmas then I had to go home ill! This is me only getting round to finishing it now!

In September this year (now last year!) I drew a picture that was going to be entered in the North Lanarkshire calendar competition. I drew a picture of a haunted house which I called The Halloween House. When I drew it I did not feel like it was my best drawing but it obviously was. I actually got the idea off of Louise and then made her idea my own with my own ideas. My house was 3D with the dark sky meeting with the green grass. It also had pumpkins and bats. I got an idea to give it a name when, the day before our class assembly, Mrs Woodward came in and asked what I would call my house. The next day it was our class assembly. It was good fun but at the end it got even better because Mrs Woodward, the head teacher came on and announced to all the parents, teachers and me in front of the whole school that I had won for the month of October. Apparently I had the biggest smile I had ever had in the whole ten years of my life. On the 13th of November I went to the North Lanarkshire offices with Mrs Woodward to get a photo taken. Some of the art work by the High School kids were great. My favourite piece was a drawing called Padlock. On Tuesday 18 December I went to the North Lanarkshire Offices with my mum, dad, sister and Miss Rae to get a prize and a certificate for my drawing. At the presentation it was really fun. There was refreshments, speeches by people that work for North Lanarkshire, a photographer taking pictures of me with my art work. I got called up to get my prize. The prize was great. I got a pack of Staedtler sketching pencils. The pack included B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, and 6B. I also got a pack of coloured pencils, and Berol pack of wax crayons. I also got very high quality paper. The day was great.

We have been doing some fun Christmas maths activities this week! They were so fun and we all enjoyed doing it. We had 4 stations to visit all testing different maths skills. The first one was sorting the stamps and seeing which houses could get their cards. We only had 5p stamps and and 3p stamps and each house needed stamps that equalled the house number. This means house number 9 would have needed 9p, house 38 needed 38p and so on. Not every house could get their card because we couldn’t make 7p with a 5p and a 3p stamp. Lots didn’t get cards!

The second one was the twelve days of Christmas, it had on it lots of questions all about the song and we were to work out the answer them.

The third one was room for reindeer. Here we had to make rooms for a certain number of reindeer. We had to measure the distance of all the sides then work out the perimeter.

I enjoyed room for reindeers the most! (Lewis)

The fourth one was when we had to look at Argos catalogues and search for christmas presents within our budget. It was really fun and very cool.

(Kacey) I found the mums shopping list hard!

Joshua and Kacey – On Monday the 17 December it was our party with the p5s. We all dressed up in fancy clothes and then we went to the hall. First we danced about to Party Rock Anthem and lots of other songs but we think everyone can agree with us that the best song we danced to was Gangnam Style! We also did some scottish dances such as Military Two Step, the Gay Gordans and last of all the Canadian Barn Dance. Next we came back to our classrooms for some snacks with christmas music playing and then went to finish the amazing party and play some games. We played musical arms and pass the parcel and that was our great party! Have a look at the pictures!

On Tuesday Primary 4 and Primary 6 were invited to the official opening of the Cultural Centre.  There was a story teller there called Gerry Durken. He told us lots of interesting stories, but not all of them had a good ending. Gerry made lots of different twists in his stories that we didn’t expect! The first story told was about an ice kingdom and there was a prince called handsome prince, a queen called the queen with the cold cold heart and two princesses called princess with a bad cough and the princess that was very beautiful but very sad.  We had actions and noises to make each time he said their names – it was so funny!

Gerry also played songs he wrote on his guitar, one of them was called the Dundee ghost. In the song the Dundee ghost at a certain point of the song we had to make a ghost noise.He said we were great at the noise.

Have a look at the pictures!