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P4/5/6 Play

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We are enjoying spending time together as a new P4/5/6 class, doing the things that we enjoy most.

We have been playing with Lego, making comics, setting up a cafe, reading our books, decorating stones, doing some origami, playing board games and drawing.

Through these activities we are:

  • Developing communication and writing skills
  • Taking turns
  • Sharing space and resources
  • Involving others
  • Being creative
  • Using our imaginations
  • Building resilience when we lose a game
  • Problem solving
  • Using Maths in a real life situation

I wonder what everyone will enjoy playing with next time!

 

STEMSpace Project

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This year, P4-5-6 are taking part in the STEMSpace Project.  Its main aim is to improve spacial reasoning skills using a fun, hands-on approach, encouraging pupils to Visualise, Predict and Check as part of the learning process.

Here are a few photos from Week 1 of the project. Please look out for more over the coming weeks.  We are very excited to see where this project takes our learning!

Lesson 1 – Shapes in Shapes

The class explored making shapes using the pattern blocks and created bigger shapes, with smaller shapes within them.

Lesson 2 saw us exploring tessellated patterns in more detail and exploring what ‘tessellation’ means and why some shapes tessellate and others don’t.  Then we used our shapes to trace out our tessellated patterns on paper.  This was a great motor skill activity too!  We had to carefully line up the edges to make sure there were no gaps.  It took time, but the results were great! 👍🏻

 

We are looking forward to future lessons!
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Our First Weeks

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That’s been a fast start to the new term!  P4-5-6 have spent time getting accustomed to their new teachers, classmates and new rules, routines and expectations.  They have all settled in really well and we feel sure it’s going to be a great year of learning and fun!

We spent time doing lots of ‘getting to know you’ activities and taking part in team building challenges that required good communication skills, supporting group members and giving advice and resilience when things went wrong!

We also took part in a group drawing competition.  This was definitely harder to do than expected!  The end results caused great hilarity!

Each morning, we settle into school with a Soft Start. This might be a whole class game, an individual or paired challenge or a quiet task before our lessons begin.  Here’s a small selection of Soft Start photos…

Please keep an eye on our class blog as the weeks go by and give us a comment or ❤️ to let us know you are following our learning journey.  Thank you!

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Tuesday 17th January

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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.

Multiplication Miner – Mathsframe

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Dartboard Multiplication – 7-11 year olds – Topmarks – for some challenge!

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.

  • What does Fairness mean to you?  
  • What is Fairness in AI? (Artificial Intelligence)

Hope to see you all tomorrow!

Mrs Henderson

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Class Prize!

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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!

 

I wonder what everyone will vote for next time…?

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Chuck Close Portraits

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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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We got mail!

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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!  🤞

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