It has been another very busy few weeks in P6, especially in the lead up to Christmas!

In literacy we have developing our comprehensions skills by reading extracts from Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” and have been learning how to create imagined recounts by writing dairies from the point of view of people living through the war. As part of our STEAM project we created activities to teach to infant classes using Christmas Stories as inspiration – we chose “The Snowman.”  Some of our children visited the Primary One classes to do snowman vegetable prints and snowman inspired Beebot tasks where the children could practise their coordinates, direction and ICT Skills.  We have also been creating Christmas Comic strips and listening and talking, we presented our class talks on famous World War 2 figures.

In numeracy we have been learning how to convert fractions into decimals and investigating percentages and how they link to fraction and decimals.  In Maths we have continued to investigate different ways to measure, specifically learning how to measure area and perimeter of simple and compound shapes.

In art we have been creating “Blitz Art” to display on the walls.  We created an oil pastel background using red, yellow and orange colour and then created a foreground of silhouettes using black card. In health and well-l being we have been thinking about our dreams and goals for the future.

We had our Christmas party where we played games such as Christmas Musical Statues, Christmas Corners and Musical Arms. We also did some of the dances we had been practising in PE including The Slosh, The Macarena and The Cha Cha Slide.

We have been working on developing our STEAM skills through a variety of tasks including creating a moving sleigh for Santa using straws and a balloon, creating melted snowmen biscuits and 3D paper models of gingerbread houses, snowmen, spitfires and Anderson Shelters.We went on our Community Christmas walk wearing the Elf headbands that we had created – we managed to get 76 “toots” from people passing in their cars.