Today the choir sang songs that they performed in Princes Square last Wednesday and sang it in front of the whole school. We also got to join in if we knew the songs. There were such songs as We Wish You A Merry Christmas , My Gran Wants An Action Man, Away In A Manger, You’ve Got A Friend In Me etc.
Today Primary 7 have been doing a role play audition for Cilla Black’s Blind Date! Except they’ve changed the theme to Christmas! All the boys & girls enjoyed this task.The focus was to be able to read scripts & work together as a team!
In primary 7 we have been learning about multiplication. But to make this harder… We multiplied by 2 digits. We also made some information booklets on how to do it (As shown above) and we hung them up on the maths wall and we can look at them when we are stuck.
Can you plan and cost the price of Christmas dinner for your family? What is the best value for money you have found?
Write a list of all the items you need for your family Christmas dinner. (Don’t forget drinks and crackers!)
Research how much the items cost – you can do this online or with an adult if you are in the shops.
Identify what is best value for money. Were all of the items from the same shop or would you have to go to different shops?
Include a conclusion detailing what you have found.
Literacy Challenge
Can you write a Christmas poem? Using everything you have learned so far, choose your own structure to follow and create a poem!
Choose your structure (repetitive, Haiku, ‘I Am’, acrostic…)
Describe Christmas and what it means to you
Make clear stanzas
Include a metaphor or simile
Include personification
Choose appropriate punctuation
Illustrate your poem
IDL Challenge
Create a greetings card to send to someone at this time of year. Use Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs to help you create your own!
This will be our last homework blog for this year! I would like to thank everyone for their hard work and for the many homework items I have seen where the effort made by primary seven pupils has been clear. I wish everyone a safe and wonderful Christmas together and look forward to our first homework blog after New Year.
Today we were applying the problem solving skills we previously learned to a new problem. We needed to remember to write our conclusion to show what we had worked out!
Today we were learning how to write a Haiku poem. Each poem only has 3 lines but you need to make sure it has the right number of syllables. Line 1 should have 5 syllables, line 2 should have 7 syllables and line 3 should have 5 syllables. Count ours to make sure they are correct: