Maths:

We are focusing on drawing to scale & creating timetables for events (investigating how long activities take & planning our time) Below are some activities that will help.

A room plan (cm squared paper) Choose a room at home and draw a floor plan of this room on cm squared paper. Use steps to measure the dimensions of the room and furniture items and mark these on your plan, writing the scale on your plan, i.e. 1 cm = 1 step.

How long does it take? Estimate or measure how long it takes you to do a particular activity (e.g. brush your teeth, walk the dog, eat dinner, etc.). Record this for four days. Back in class compare your findings with a friend. Who spent most time brushing their teeth?

Exercise at home Create a 10 minute exercise programme which you could do at home. The programme should include short rest times.

Create a Timetable Create your own timetable for Sports Day. What activities would you choose & how long would you do them for?

Literacy:

Use the website Panoramas to describe a setting. What would you see, hear, feel & smell.

Create a character profile for a favourite character (book/TV/Film) It can take the form of a picture & paragraph or brainstorm. Try to include as much important information as you can – name, likes/dislikes, special powers, family members, friends, where they live, hobbies, etc.

Art:

Draw your self portrait (or a family member or friend) in the style of Pablo Picasso

School Show:

Continue to practice your show words & actions 🙂

Today we were developing our sketching & shading skills. We found it very tricky to sketch the other side of our photographs!

Such a busy day today… Did you know we helped Primary 5 to plant a forest?! We had great fun digging holes, planting trees and working as a team to get the job done! There are still lots more trees to be planted, perhaps next week we’ll get to do it again!

We really hope you don’t mind us coming home a little dirty – we truely were very busy learning!!!

We started our day with some writing – first we completed some hand writing using pen & then we moved onto writing stories about Bonfire Night. We peer assessed our work as our target was to include some adjectives & a simile.

After break we began visualising decimals. We used the Base 10 materials to help us & it made it easier to visualise the whole numbers, the tenths & the hundredths.

This afternoon we created some bonfire night artwork. We used coloured pastels & paint to create silhouette paintings. The P6’s took part in a safety talk from the fire fighters & the P5’s played an endless game of dodgeball with Mr MCCrorie!

We started today with an introduction to decimals. First we brainstormed what we already knew & then we learned about the place value system & where the decimal point sits. To practise we played an exciting game of Beat the Teacher. Mrs Thomson needs to brush-up on her skills as she didn’t manage to beat the whole class!!

This afternoon we were in the ICT suite to research & make powerpoints about Guy Fawkes. We found out lots of information about him & why we have bonfire night. We were even able to teach each other some new ICT skills – many of us included animation in our powerpoints.

This afternoon we had a bit of Halloween fun! We made some Halloween crafts, played a pumpkin game & outside we played a very messy Halloween game involving flour & sweets!!

Have a great Halloween everyone!

What an action packed day! This morning we began work with P6/7 looking at peer assessment.

After break we had literacy time. We investigated adjectives & verbs before moving on to try out a new literacy resource.

We had art this afternoon where we created pictures using crisp packets. We had to concentrate on & consider size, shade & features. We are pretty proud of our pictures so far!

We finished the day with PE where we enjoyed playing team games. We taught Mrs Watson & Mrs Thomson some new games!