Week 4 of our big drum adventure and our band has learned how to start and stop playing all together at the same time! Mat gives us a count of 4 so we know when to start and stop playing.

A big well done to Rory who was our drummer of the week!

This week was a shorter one because of the In-Service day on Monday but we’ve still packed in a lot!

We’ve enjoyed learning about Volcanoes and have used them as a focus for our Learning in Writing, Science and Technology.  Mrs Little was especially impressed with our exploding volcano gifs. Our task was to create a moving image that showed some part of a volcanic eruption. We could use any app we liked and we certainly rose to the challenge. Here is just one of the fabulous efforts:

We’ve also managed to fit in some Spelling, Music, Gymnastics, Numeracy work on Decimals and some work on Resilience. Other highlights this week have been welcoming Mrs Strathearn on Tuesday and getting totally covered with snow on Thursday morning!

Time for reflection:

We want Mrs Strathearn to see what a fantastic school Kingsland is. What one thing/piece of work would you tell her about this week that shows the best version of you? (It could be something you did, said, made etc).

As part of our topic about natural disasters, we have been looking at the different layers of the Earth and how the crust is divided into different tectonic plates.  We used crackers to represent the plates and red icing for the mantle to show how the plates move against each other.

When the plates move apart (divergent) molten rock erupts creating new crust.

When the plates crash together (convergent) new mountains can be formed.

When the plates slide past each other (transform) they create earthquakes.

Welcome to the Kingsland toy shop!  We created a sales page with a variety of toys which were on offer and we used coins and notes up to £20 to buy toys from each other. We were revising how to write amounts of money correctly, how to add up amounts of money and listing coins to pay for items.

Well done to all the children in P5b who wore their uniforms for thinking day.  They looked very smart!

Members of P6 wearing their Cubs and Guides uniform for World Thinking Day!

Today marks the 12th Anniversary of our school building being opened.  As it is also the birthday of Robert Baden-Powell who founded the Scouting movement which is why today is known as Thinking Day or Founders Day.  Lots of pupils in the school wore their uniforms today to celebrate and remember – here are 3 from P7A looking very smart.

Maths

We have been practising adding decimals, and learning about metres and kilometres.

Writing

We wrote a cinquain poem, with 5 lines and a distinctive shape.

Here are some of our cinquain poems.

Art. For Valentine’s Day we drew geometric shapes inside a heart, by joining carefully placed dots. We painted them in warm, pastel shades.

Drumming

We are enjoying drumming with Mat the Hat and have been set the challenge of coming up with a band name.
The drummer of the week was Ruby, well done!

As part of our Building Resilience lessons on ‘respect yourself’ we listened to the story ‘Only one you’ by Linda Kranz.

We then added our own page to the book with a message to remind ourselves that we are unique and we should respect ourselves.

Here is our book. We hope you enjoy it. Best viewed on a tablet.

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This week we have really enjoyed learning about earthquakes and will be finishing our writing based on this after the holidays.

We have used oil pastels and water colours to create art based on seismographs, the instrument that measures earthquakes. We have included some pictures below.

We have worked very hard to improve our skills in division and some of us were introduced to algebra.

We are looking forward to exploring natural disasters further after the holidays.

Have a great holiday P6 and P6/7!
Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith