Primary 6A class blog
On Monday we had a fun day, first we did some work on 3D shapes by making our own shapes with paper. We had an early lunch and at 12.00 we set off to go to the Loch to have an interesting time with the rangers! We did some art using only the resources around us which were nature. Next we made the green man out of clay, we moulded the clay into the face of the green man on the trees and after that we stuck grass and autumn leaves on the green man’s face. On Tuesday it was Halloween!!! Mrs Matos turned into a witch, and sang us the song, ‘The witches of Halloween’. We learned the history of Halloween and the meaning behind it. After that we did paintings of a Halloween night and tried to make it as spooky as possible. We did some assembly practise and we all got our lines. On Wednesday we learned about the artist Henri Rousseau and tried to do some jungle art inspired by him we also did some more work on our shapes. Some people went to help with the p2s to help them on the netbook. While the others practiced their spelling on Sumdog .We had science with Mrs Tulloch and made an electric game which was very fun, next week we will show them to the primary 2 classes . On Tuesday afternoons the Primary 6’s are very busy. Some children attend band rehearsals and others attend a golf lesson, which leaves some of the P6A and P6B learners join together to do some combined learning. This week we worked on our team building skills. Mrs Matos tried to encourage us to work with learners from P6B as this is a good way to form new friendships and to work as part of a team no matter who the team members are. Our team building exercises were lots of fun, we worked hard but we also laughed a lot. We completed three activities, one activity involved trust. One member of the team was blind folded and the other member had to guide us through an obstacle course, we really had to listen to the instructions for this one. Second activity was called – group knot, we had linked hands but had gotten tangled and we had to untangle ourselves. Lastly we had to save Sammy the gummy snake, you had fallen off his boat and needed his life jacket (polo sweet), we could only use a paperclip to save Sammy – we managed this ‘sweet’ activity, with talking and a lot of problem solving.
On Thursday we enjoyed some spooky music with Mrs Bain. In Maths we used hula hoops to create a Venn diagram, we used the Venn diagram to sort out the 3D shapes that we found at home.
After a busy week, it is finally Friday. Today we have been creating Grammar characters to help us remember the different parts of speech that we have been learning. Our characters will be displayed in our classroom, where we can always refer to them for help if needed. Committee time- today we all attended our chosen committees where we all worked on a variety of activities.
It’s been a fun week, an Environmental art trip, some spooky art, shape sorting and some team building. What more could we possibly do next week?
Joanna, Joseph M and P6A
