A massive warm welcome back to all our learners in Primary 6A. It has been a busy fun first week back. We have enjoyed spending time learning more about our class mates and familiarising ourselves with our new classroom.
We started our week off designing a name tent for our tables, this has helped Mrs Matos and Miss Hardie to help them learn our names much quicker. Our name tents allowed us to be creative with our names, we also wrote three truths and a fib and everyone needed to guess which one was a fib. This was great fun, with a lot of laughter but we also learnt a lot more about each other.
To help us set our expectations for Primary 6, Mrs Matos wrote various questions on a large sheet of paper , e.g. What can we do to make our class run smoothly and how can Mrs Matos help me be successful this year? Mrs Matos gave us time to think and reflect on these questions. We wrote our answers on a post it note and stuck it under the questions. We then worked in groups to organise the answers and we displayed the responses in a bar graph.
Our first week in Primary 6 has been a real ‘sweet’ week. One of our favourite activities this week was the M&M ice breaker game. Can you believe we got to eat the M&Ms too?? We played the ice breaker game in pairs. We were also given a list of the instructions. Each colour M&M was a different topic that we needed to tell our partner about, for example, if we chose and orange M&M we needed to tell our partner our dreams and hopes for the future. This was another activity that helped us learn more about each other.
An important part of our learning is being able to work together in a group. To help us learn what makes group work effective, Mrs Matos set us on a challenge. We were given three large sheets of tinfoil and some pipe cleaners. We were only given 45 minutes to come up with our own creative structures. For us to complete this challenge we needed to make sure we communicated effectively and that all team members agreed on the design, we had to plan our design and then ‘build’ it, all of this in just 45 minutes!! We all quickly learned as the clock was ticking how important listening and co-operation was in order to complete the challenge. There were some really creative designs. We all had an opportunity to vote for our favourite and the winning group was Mack, Morven and Luke with their house design, well done.
Our final highlight of the week was our trip to the Edinburgh Book Festival. We were fortunate to have an interactive author talk from Dave Rudden and J R Wallis. The talk was not only funny and entertaining but we learned from these two authors that writing is like a muscle, the more you practise the better you will become. We were spoilt with a £3 book voucher which we were able to use towards purchasing a new book. We finally had the opportunity to get our books signed by the authors.
After a busy week, we can only wonder what next week will have in store for us.
P6A and Mrs Matos
