{"id":15237,"date":"2016-11-24T20:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2016-11-24T20:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:45:45","slug":"winter-poems-and-mathematical-shapes-in-p6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/2016\/11\/24\/winter-poems-and-mathematical-shapes-in-p6\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Poems and Mathematical Shapes in P6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 6 were looking at using similes in our writing this week and then using our knowledge to create interesting IMAGERY in our poetry.\u00a0 We worked as a class to think of as many nouns and adjectives relating to Winter and then created our own simile poems about Winter.\u00a0 The cold weather this week really helped us to think about what it felt like!<\/p>\n<p>We liked this poem by N.M. Bodecker<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>When Skies are Low and Days Are Dark<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>When <\/b><b>skies are low<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>and days are dark,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>and frost bites<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>like a hungry shark,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>when mufflers muffle<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>ears and nose,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>and puffy sparrows<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>huddle close \u2013<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>how nice to know<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>that February<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>is something purely<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>temporary.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>N.M. Bodecker<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In maths we have challenged ourselves to calculate the area of compound shapes (those made up of more than one other shape) and investigated shape patterns and tilings, here is one of our tilings, which was created using a variety of 2D shapes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_3143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_3143-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_3143\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_3145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15239\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_3145-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_3145\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also had the opportunity to visit the travelling art gallery which complemented the STEM work that we have been doing on bridges and engineering.\u00a0 The virtual reality tower block was the most popular!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 6 were looking at using similes in our writing this week and then using our knowledge to create interesting IMAGERY in our poetry.\u00a0 We worked as a class to think of as many nouns and adjectives relating to Winter and then created our own simile poems about Winter.\u00a0 The cold weather this week really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/2016\/11\/24\/winter-poems-and-mathematical-shapes-in-p6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Poems and Mathematical Shapes in P6<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7565],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-6-classes","tag-primary-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions\/15240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StNicholasPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}