After a lovely week at camp last week, it was time to get our heads down and back to the grind stone.
Literacy: We took some time to reflect on our camp experience. Mrs Matos shared with us some of the photos of us that were taken during our time at Dalguise. We had a few good giggles at some of the photos, but they were all good memories of a fun time together. Together with our fond memories and photos, we designed our very own brochure for PGL Dalguise. Before our creative juices started flowing we discussed the main elements and features of a brochure. We took some time to analyse and discuss some travel brochures, we specifically looked at the layout, Title, who the brochure is aimed for ( audience) and lastly we analysed the purpose. We used all this knowledge and created informative PGL Dalguise brochures….. perhaps Dalguise may want to use some of our brochures for marketing purposes. We continued to make our way through our class novel, the mysterious journey of Edward Tulane, we read a few more chapters in the book, and discussed how the character is evolving and how his adventures is the cause of the change. We looking forward to reading more next week, to hear what adventure will he be on next.
Numeracy and Mathematics: We have been working with time this week. We have looked at how we use time in our everyday lives. We’ve been solving time problems and been calculating the difference between time on a travel time table. Our favourite,the TV guide, we have been calculating the duration of TV shows. During Number talks Mrs Matos gave us a very challenging division problem to solve, and after some discussion and sharing of different strategies it was a lot easier to solve than we thought. Using the stratgeies shared we were able to complete the remaining string of problems.
IDL: Industrial Revolution – this week we discussed the 5 factors that lead to the Industrial Revolution, we worked in groups to read through some facts and create a poster that best described each factors part in the cause of the revolution. We also had a read through various different sources of what life was like for child workers during the revolution. After reading some alarming facts and stories this lead to a discussion and comparison to life as a child now and the rights that children now have… we really are very lucky, and we all agreed that if we were to choose, we would definitely to choose to be a child now.
HWB: Did you know that storks no longer deliver babies? This week we learnt all about how babies are made and how they are born. Although some of us felt a little nervous and shy to hear about this, we really found it interesting and Mrs Matos was very impressed by how mature we all were and was pleased with some of the mature questions that were asked.
PE: This was our first week of athletics training. In May we will be taking part in the cluster cross country and we are determined to be prepared and ready to win. We warmed up with some jogs around the pitch, and later we completed some various circuit training activities.
Expressive Arts: Not long to go now, until our long awaited Lion King production. We were back to rehearsals this week. It is all starting to feel real now after our full day of rehearsals at the Linlithgow Academy on Thursday. The production has help to build our confidence in both drama and music, and we are looking forward to sharing this experience with all our families and friends next week.
Primary 6 and Mrs Matos
