Another week gone filled with fun and learning. Our week started off with some lucky sunny weather for us to take part in some Pond Dipping at the Loch. Using our nets we tried to find and identify as many pond creatures as possible.
Literacy: It’s the early 1900’s and we have moved to the big city for work, plenty of work in the new factories, but our living conditions are not what we expected…….This week during literacy we imagined our lives during the Industrial Revolution, because we had imagined moving to the city we wrote postcards home describing what our living conditions were like. During our grammar lessons we learnt the importance and purpose of punctuation in our writing. We consolidated our knowledge of using the full stop, comma, question mark and exclamation mark, and we are beginning to understand and present the colon, semi-colon, brackets and ellipsis in our writing.
Numeracy: We finished learning about time with a fun stopwatch activity. We were learning to read and record timings from a stopwatch. This week we have started with fractions, we had a ‘sweet’ lesson working out the different fraction of colours in a bag of Skittles. Who knew learning about fractions could be so tasty!
IDL: We’ve come to the end of our Industrial Revolution topic. We learnt about the three mains form of transport during the revolution and discussed the pros and cons of each. We also discovered the living conditions that the poor had to experience during the revolution. We learnt about how these conditions lead to the spread of germs and illness. We also had a look at photographs of slum housing and back to back housing. We compared living conditions from during the Industrial Revolution to living conditions now and we are now very grateful for having our own private toilets at home. We have also been looking a lot through the research we have done to present out class talk on the Industrial Revolution. Mrs Matos has been very impressed with the quality of our presentations and talk.
HWB: On Wednesday the 9th May we will be taking part in the cluster cross country, so to get us prepared, during PE we worked on athletic agility. As part of our school values, being respectful and kind to others is very important, this week we learnt how important it is to carry these values even further than the school and we discussed ways on how to be responsible, respectful and kind global citizen. This week we investigated different food allergies and described the effect it has on a persons body. We had a look at the back of food packages and were surprised of some of the ingredients.
Science: It was all about the skeleton in science this week. We had closer look at the human skeleton and it’s function we have also been learning the correct biological terms for the different bones – ask us about this.
P6A, Mrs Matos and Ms Crombie
