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Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo

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The class have been reading ‘Running Wild’ by Michael Morpurgo as part of a ‘Keys to Literacy’ project. This time we were looking at the key “Description Detective”. We had to scan through the chapter and pick out great description. We were looking for adjectives, similies, metaphors, aliteration, onomatopoeia words etc. We also were looking at ‘Scene Stealer where we had to draw a detailed picture of our favourite part of the chapter.

“…the shadow came into the light, flickered into a flame of orange fire, and became a tiger…”

“…a toucan flew off a sudden flash of colour…”

“…the tiger was right below me now, gazing up at me out of unblinking amber eyes, magnificent, awesome, teriffying…”

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Our construction challenge

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Robertsion Construction ( a building company that is building our new school) came in today and they set our class a challenge. Our a challange was to make a 4 m high tetrahedron. we started by making our own mini ones and we had to make 64 small ones also we used 384 pieces of dowling. Then we took four small tetrahedrons and made a bigger one and lastly we made out of the four big ones together and ten we added them all together which was really hard and we needed the 3 tallest people in the class toput the top one on then it was complete. It was really fun and the rest of the school came in to see it.

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writing character descriptions

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We have been writing character descriptions in class.

We had to good describing word such as strange, sticky and rough, we also had to use similies and metaphors. We listend to a film clip called the lost thing and had to use our imaginations to write it. Our target was describe what the character looks like, sounds like and wearing. Here is a piece of writing.

“A few years back I was sitting on the sand minding my own and thats when I saw it. A poor little blue scaly object, I walked over and thought it must have been washed up by the rolling frothy waves that were crashing into shore. I slowly bent down and picked it up, it had a small gash at the side of its head, its bright green eyes were locked on to mine. I picked it up it felt stone cold, it was a strange sticky feeling, rough but not slimey. I looked closer, it seemed to have gils but also tiny little legs, I felt sorry for the poor little thing. So i took it over to my little perch and pored water along its slimey body, it purred but not like any cat”.

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ENG 2-31a

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planning an election

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The Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils are organising their own election campaign! We were put into groups, which were our political parties. We had to come up with 5 policies that would make people to vote for us. They had to be focussed on young people.
We also chose our jobs they were I.T. manager, resourse manager, candidate, photographer and PR secratery.
Over the next few weeks we will be campaigning – with everyone voting for their favourite candidate and party on the 7th December.

SOC 2-17a

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Drama

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We were doing drama with Mrs Inglis. We were learning about improvisation. We had to take an object and make it into a prop. Some people chose a bench and made it into a canoe or a trampoline. We had to make the prop into 10 different things, 5 silent and 5 speaking. Some people made a bouncy hopper into a wheelchair or a car.

These boys are improvising using a rope. What do you think they are acting out?


EXA 2-12a