It certainly has been a busy few weeks in P6W since we last shared our learning!
We participated in a number of tasks as part of “Languages Week” at the beginning of February. Each task undertaken earned us points towards a school competition which we won jointly with P2C. Here are the activities we took part in and some pictures of the tasks.
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| – Get Set Activity – Learn how to say “How are you?” in 6 different language – French, Spanish, British Sign Language, Russian, Chinese, German . Respond to register call (Individual task)-
Freestyle – (Pupil Led Lesson) Paper Origami Tiger Bookmark to celebrate Chinese New Year (Individuals task) – Listen to a story in a different Language – The Eejits in Scots (Class) |
| – Sing a song in another language -Chu Chu Wa (Class)
– Find and cook a recipe from another country – chicken noodle soup (5 Groups) – Wordwall Language Quiz (Class) |
| – Design a badge featuring a word or phrase in another language (Individual Task)
Languages Week Quiz – completed in jotter and peer assessed (Individual task) – Create a piece of art inspired by a famous artist from another country. Piet Mondrian stained glass windows (Individual task) – Free writing in Spanish – Carmen (Individual) |
| – Children order lunch in Spanish – respond to register call (Individual task)
– Spanish Lesson – Freestyle Challenge. Ordering food in Spanish – Listening and talking challenge (individual task) – Watch a story you know in another language – El Grufalo (Class) |
| – Freestyle Challenge – Get Set Task- Duolingo Lesson (Individual task
– PE/ IDL – Learn how to dance like a Russian Kossak (Individual task)
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In addition our special language focus, we have also been developing a number of other skills;
Numeracy – We have been learning all about how to manage finances by creating a budget. Mrs Welsh set us the task of planning a holiday with a set criteria and a budget. Here is one of the proposals put forward for consideration.
IDL – We have continued to work on our Russian topic, which has had even more relevance now given how much Russia has been in the news lately. We have been learning about the physical and human geography of Russia – learning about its varying biomes. To link with our writing theme of “information texts,” we have also been investigating and learning about famous Russians like Putin, Rasputin, Gagarin and Tchaikovsky. We will make notes and then use our notes to write a biography.
Next week we will be beginning a mystery topic. Mrs Welsh had been giving us clues each day this week to help us guess what it is. Do you think you know?
As well as developing our ball skills in PE, we have also been learning how to do orienteering. We have been learning how to read maps accurately and even participated in an orienteering course around the school grounds. We also became quite interested in the Winter Olympics, especially when Team GB were doing so well. Miss Foote and Mrs Welsh arranged for some indoor curling equipment to be delivered so we could practise the skills we had observed.
In science we have been investigating materials by carrying out a number of different experiments. We were separating materials by filtering (sand/water), sieving (Flour/ raisins), Evaporation (Salt/water) and magnetism (rice/paperclips). We have also been investigating reversible and irreversible reactions by mixing warm milk and vinegar to create casein plastic and bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to create carbon dioxide.
