Article 28 – we have a right to an education

What a busy week we’ve had in p5b.  We have been using our artistic skills and knowledge to design a logo for our fashion house (huge thanks to Mr Gorman for converting them into stickers for us :-))  creating mood boards to show off our 1960s clothing designs, using persuasive language to make adverts, learning all about the Great Wall of China, the Cold War and Vietnam War and much, much more.

RERC

– We were learning about religious symbols and looked at the Celtic Cross and Pictish Stones. They were hand carved with pictures of animals to do with the creation and patterns of shapes. No-one really knows what they all stood for. Next week we are going to design our own using our God given talents as symbols. Some places in Scotland are named after religious saints or things to do with the Bible.

Social Studies

– This started in the 1950s. Vietnam split into 2 (North and South) and began to fight each other. China and Russia were friends with the North and America thought this was dangerous because of the Cold War between them and Russia so they sent soldiers to help South Vietnam. They dropped lots of chemicals on innocent people and woman and children were forced to fight in North Vietnam. Mohammed Ali, the boxer, refused to go to war.

Maths

– We have been learning about place value and multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000. We are organising a 1960s music festival and had to work within a budget to find 7 acts that would perform at a choice of venue. We are now going to see how much profit we make with ticket sales but had to know how to multiply by units of 10 first. You can’t just add a zero!!! You have to move ALL the digits 1 place (x10), 2 places (x100) or 3 places (x1000) to the left and then put zeros in to hold the value of the place. We think to divide, you do the same but move to the right…

Wonderous Wednesday

– all about the Great Wall of China. An Emperor in China forced people (including prisoners) to build a wall around his land to protect them from invaders. A lot of them died and were just left to rot in the fields. The wall is about 20ft high and is over 1300 miles long – it looks like a snake on the map and you can walk along with wall. It has towers quite often so there was always a view or place for the soldiers to see and fight oncoming invaders.

Literacy

– We have been trying to use descriptive language, rhetorical questions, strong verbs and play on words to write an advert for our fashion houses. AFOREST helped us to remember what to include and became our success criteria for this task.

Here’s what some of us enjoyed the most..

Finlay – “The war in Vietnam was really interesting, I didn’t know America and Russia were against each other at the time”.

Grace – “I really enjoyed Maths this week because I had to challenge myself”.

Cole – “Watching the video about the Great Wall of China was good because it had loads of interesting information in it. It was sad that so many people died and were just left to rot in a field”.

Shaelyn – “I liked using lots of descriptive words in our writing this week”.

Alex – “I can’t believe that the Celtic Crosses were all hand carved – that’s awesome!”