Hello everyone! I hope you have managed to enjoy the gorgeous snowy weather. Have you been sledging? Built a snowman? Snuggled up and watched a film? Read from your book?
As we have been working on our 5 sentences with correct punctuation in class, can you write down what you have been doing with your days at home? Remember…5 sentences with capital letters and full stops/exclamation marks/question marks.
If you are not venturing outside today, I have set some Sumdog tasks online.
This week in Maths we are starting to look at Multiplication and Division, so the following websites could be used for practice. We are looking at the 3x and 6x tables first, so this would be a good thing to work on at home.
We were planning to look at the next part of Mission 3 for The Children’s Parliament this week, so you could start thinking about this at home, in preparation for returning to school tomorrow. Please note down your ideas to bring into school.
We had our class prize today! When our peg jar was approaching the finish line, we all voted for what we would like as our prize. There was no clear winning idea, so we have enjoyed laptop time and crafts. It has been a lovely, relaxed afternoon full of creativity and fun!
We did it! We have worked hard all term to win enough pegs to fill the jar. Now we can enjoy our class prize!
On Friday 30th September we will have our pyjama day with a film. Pupils are welcome to bring in a cuddly toy to watch the film with them, if they wish.
It’s taken us a while but sometimes you can’t rush a good job! The children have all created beautiful self portraits in the style of a famous artist that we found out about. They were shown his work and we talked about how we could recreate it. The children were given the choice of working with larger squares or smaller squares in true Chuck Close style. We talked about drawing 2D shapes within each small square or taking the opportunity to make each small picture more personal to them and some chose to do a mixture. We talked about the use of shading to make certain parts of their picture stand out and used black pen to make each portrait more visible than the shapes and squares. When the pictures were complete, we looked at the colours used and they picked backing colours to help display them to their best advantage! They will be displayed in our ICT Suite so please look out for them when you next visit.
Below are three examples from our P6 pupils.
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Scott’s portrait really catches your eye! His small shapes fill his page and I like that he’s left some of the background white. This works particularly well on his face. He’s still used skin tones to create the colour of his face.
Innes chose a bright background and his small shapes work really well on this! I really like the way he’s captured his hair line…very effective! Best of all…Innes thinks it’s his best portrait!
Robbie worked tirelessly! He chose the bigger squares, but within each one, he drew something special to him. Robbie chose the backing colour green to compliment the colours in his picture and to represent his favourite team!
Five pupils were delighted to come back from their Easter Holidays to find that they had received replies to the author letters they wrote for World Book Day! Some were standard replies from very busy authors but we were still grateful! One was a lovely, handwritten, personalised reply. The rest of the class are patiently waiting! 🤞
To continue being active this week, we took a walk up to the shop to post our World Book Day author letters. We are hoping that, in time, we’ll get some replies! We took a detour on the way back to make our walk a bit longer. Thank you to John and Eilidh’s Mum for joining us. (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading...
We have had a super day for Ms Henderson’s last day at Dunrossness! The pupils all made a great effort dressing up for the occasion. We enjoyed following the P7 Jarl Squad procession and singing along in front of the beautifully decorated galley. We were treated to musical items in the hall and were delighted to hear Kate and Leah play their violins! Ms Henderson joined us in class for us to play her our PowerPoint poem and join us for a game of Hangman! We had time for Reading and some tessellation work before lunch. We also managed to squeeze in our Recognition Board prize as all the pupils have been setting good examples over the past few weeks. Then it was back for more singing and celebrating in the hall! We will all miss her but wish her good luck in her new job! Three Cheers…Hip Hip!!
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Ms Henderson plays Hangman….Once A Dunrossness Always A Dunrossness!
Superb playing Kate and Leah! Your first big audience!
We had a super Christmas lunch in the classroom. We played Christmas songs while we enjoyed good food and company! Grateful thanks to the cooks for all the effort they went to.
Our class is beginning is get ready for Christmas. Each morning, we open the light bulb advent calendar we made and we also learn a new “sign” each day when we open a door on our Signalong calendar. We are taking part in the reverse advent calendar again this year and want to thank you all for your kind donations to the Shetland Food Bank too.
We started our day with a reading session. Lots of quizzes were taken with some great scores being recorded! We’ve had a new delivery of books from the Sandwick School Library so lots of pupils had a look through them and chose stories that they think they will enjoy. We have some very keen readers in P4/5/6.
We are working hard on handwriting in the class. Some pupils worked alone on joined sentences while others copied my examples from the board. Getting to grips with joining can be tricky but all pupils worked hard and did not give up! It was great to see their confidence grow in just one short session.
Maths time was spent exploring 3D shapes and their nets. We built up various shapes using construction, then folded it flat so that we could see how we needed to draw our own nets on squared paper. There was a lot of learning in this activity! It didn’t always work out but we spoke about how we’d improve on what we did next time!
After lunch we looked at two Christmas cards and spoke about the different themes that appear on them. The class have been asked to look out for this over the coming weeks at home. Do the cards link to the Christian faith and festival of Christmas or are they more winter themed with images of Santa, snowmen, robins and things we associate with this time of year?
Then we started to think about creating a Christmas card to take home. We painted the background ready to start decorating next week.
We took advantage of the calm day to go outside for a longer Class PE session while Ruben and Ryan grabbed the chance to rehearse their guitar pieces for our Christmas Play in peace and quiet. Two of our violin players also celebrated success in their individual lessons. See the photos below!
Have a lovely weekend all!
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Innes is hoping to find a treat in his advent bulb!
We used nets to create our 3D light bulbs.
Beautiful joined handwriting!
Last week we explored 3D shapes using tooth picks to create the edges and play doh to hold it together. It made it easy to count vertices.
It was tricky to get the shapes to stand up. We needed patience and sometimes, a friend to help hold our structures up!
Rachel was pleased with her triangular prism. We’ve talked a lot this week about the difference between pyramids and prisms.
It’s good to work alongside friends on your Maths!
More complicated 3D shapes were easily made using the Geomags.
Our recent measuring topic came in handy as we had to draw lines of the right size, using the squared paper as a guide. We had to work accurately.
Ruben quickly realised he needed to use a protractor to measure the angles so he could draw his net accurately.
Gluing the tabs and sticking them down was tricky!
Eilidh’s construction cube and her completed net.
These two budding musicians have now moved on to playing first finger! They are very proud of themselves.
Look for the different types of Christmas cards coming into your homes over the next few weeks.
We hope you like the new image on our P4/5/6 Blog page! What a motley crew we are! We had a great time celebrating Halloween in class. We made toilet roll tube characters, wrote spooky story starters, created a pastel crayon bat picture, enjoyed a special Halloween themed lunch in the canteen and took part in a co-ordinates Trick or Trick game in the afternoon.
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