Category Archives: Group work

Cooperative learning, Group work, Space, Topic

Cooperative learning with primary 6/7

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Today we got together with primary 6/7 to do some cooperative learning. We are joining together to start work on our topic of space.

First of all we got into groups, to do this we had to look underneath the tables. Miss Nicholson and Miss Morrison had put pictures to do with space under our desks. There were 8 different pictures so we had to go sit with other people with the same picture as us. Then we were in groups of 4. Half of the groups went through to the primary 6/7 classroom to give us more space.

We each had a different coloured pen in our groups and we had 1 large bit of paper and we had to write down everything we knew about space on this paper. You could see who had wrote what with the colours. We had 12 minutes to do this, Miss Nicholson put a rocket timer on the board, it was fun to watch the rocket go off when the time was up. Then we had to join with another group and discuss our ‘graffiti’. We had a lot of the same things but found a few differences after comparing them.

Finally we paired up with someone from another group to think of questions that we would like to find out through our topic.

We are having Harry Rose come in on Friday to visit and talk about space. We are very excited about this!

Animation, Group work, Space, Technologies, Topic

Animation

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Today Miss Nicholson asked us what we knew about animation, we got to watch an animation on youtube and write down everything they had to think about when making this animation. We came up with lots of ideas. She then showed us a few animations that other children in a different school had made. They were really good. We made a list of things you would have to think about if making an animation then Miss Nicholson told us we are going to be making our own animations about space!

We are very excited about this!!

Art, Expressive Arts, Group work, Personalisation and Choice, Shetland, Topic

Our topic

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Our topic this term is Shetland. Yesterday in Topic Miss Nicholson gave us each a map of shetland and we had to write down where all the places were. We found a lot of places. We went over this as a class to see if we were right. We were learning about Fair Isle knitting/patterns and Miss Nicholson took in lots of Fair Isle jumpers which we got to try on. (they were a bit big though) We also got to see a jumper board which is what people dry Fair Isle  jumpers on to keep their shape. After that we got to design our own jumpers and we got to listen to Shetland music whilst we did this.

Expressive Arts, Group work, Literacy and English

Bonfire Night

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We learned about the 5th of November and why we have bonfire night. We know all about Guy Fawkes and read the poem Remember, Remember the 5th of November. Some of us hadn’t heard it before. We also read other poems to do with bonfires and fireworks. We thought it would be good to create our own! So as a class we thought of all the words we associate with bonfire night and fireworks. We used all of our senses! We wrote these all on the whiteboard so everyone could see. Then in groups we made acrostic poems about fireworks and bonfires (we wanted to do bonfire night but we didn’t have enough room). Everyone in the group had to contribute! We had time at the end to draw colourful fireworks on our poems.

Confident Individuals, Group work, Myths and Legends, Personalisation and Choice, Presentations, Topic

Myths Around the World

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Primary 4/5 have been very busy this past few weeks researching myths and legends around the world. Once they gathered all of their research they created a presentation. They had the choice of how they wished to present their information – most groups chose Power Point, although there were a few groups that chose to have a poster alongside their Power Point. We looked at presentation skills before they presented their work to the rest of the class. There were lots of questions asked after each presentation which sparked great discussion within the class.  A lot of hard work was put into their presentation and it showed! Well done P4/5!

Group work, Literacy and English, Myths and Legends, Social Studies, Technologies, Topic

Myths and Legends around the world

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Today we got into groups of 3 and 4 to begin researching different myths and legends around the world. We are gong to present our findings to the rest of the class next week. Each group was given a different country to look at and we have to find at least 3 different myths/legends that belong to that country. We decided in our groups how we were going to present our findings, most of the groups decided to make Power-points but there are a few posters being made. We have been looking through books and searching the internet to find our information. We discussed copyright and now know how to narrow our search on Google images to know which photos we can use and which ones we cannot.

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