We listened to a film – without seeing what was happening in it. We wrote down our ideas of what we thought might be happening and discussed it in a group. We then had to create a cartoon story based on what we heard. There were some interesting stories created!
This is Ethan’s cartoon.
You can watch the film here.
We were looking at HOTS questions and what makes a good answer. We all had to write an answer to a HOTS question which we then discussed as a group. We picked out the best answer and gave our reasons why these answers were good.
In class we have been learning about 2-D shapes and we have been trying to name and draw them. We had to draw a 3-sided shape first, then a 4-sided, 5-sided etc. Oliver managed to draw a 31-sided shape! Tymen found out that a 672 sided polygon is called hexahectaheptacontakaidigon!
We have been learning about line and form with our art teacher, Mrs Clifford. We have looked closely at how to draw faces and we applied our knowledge to create a print of a portrait that we did. We were very pleased with the results!
The Primary 7s in the class were at Crucial Crew last week. There were lots of different workshops that we moved around – all about keeping safe. We learned about drug safety, keeping safe on a bike, safety on a farm, how to keep safe next to a railway track, water safety, what to do in case of a fire and others. It was a lot of fun – and we learned really important messages about how to keep ourselves safe.
You can find an ITV news report on the day here.
We have been creating questions using the snowball effect. We had to write a word on a sheet of paper and loosly scrumple it up , we then threw the crumpled ball across the hall.
You would then unscrumple the piece of paper and think of a question to go with the word.
Twice a week we take part in Literature circles. We decide how much we are going to read and decide a task to complete for next time. We also look and discuss the tasks that others in the group have done. It is important that we all read what we have decided and complete the task for the next time the group meets.
This task was to create an alternative book cover.
This task was to design a poster advertising the book.
Every Monday morning we do a Team Games Tournament. We do sums where we try and get points for our table, like times-tables, adding two digit numbers and subtracting two digit numbers. We work in a different group and take turns to answer questions. Each question we get right is one point. Each week we try and get a better score for our home table.
We had to choose a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or pronoun and stick it on the head of our partner. By using good questions, our partner had to guess what was written on our head. It was good fun – and we learned a bit about different types of words too.
We had this problem to do in class today –
“You need six drinking straws the same length. Cut two of them in half. You now have eight straws, four long and four short. Arrange the straws to make 3 squares all the same size”
We worked in pairs to try and solve the problem – it wasn’t easy but most people managed to find a solution.
You could try this problem at home – can you see if you can solve it by having no straws sticking out the side this time?
