{"id":20181,"date":"2021-12-22T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/?p=20181"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:31:37","slug":"p6w-christmas-blog-22-12-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/2021\/12\/22\/p6w-christmas-blog-22-12-21\/","title":{"rendered":"P6W Christmas Blog 22.12.21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Primary 6 Blog<\/p>\n

It has been a busy few weeks in Primary 6W!<\/p>\n

In numeracy we have been continuing to work on our fractions, decimals and percentages topic.\u00a0 We have been learning how to create equivalent and simplified fractions as well as learning how to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to percentages.\u00a0 In Maths we have been learning to calculate the area and perimeter of a shape.<\/p>\n

In literacy we have been working on improving our poetry skills by creating our own poems based on the themes of WW2 and Christmas.\u00a0 As part of our listening and talking topic we have been learning to create small weekly presentations about \u201cOur Weekend\u201d to share with the class.\u00a0 We make some notes in our jotter to help us remember the key parts we want to share.<\/p>\n

In Health and Wellbeing we have been continuing to develop our abilities in balance and control through Parkour.\u00a0 We have designed and created our own Parkour Agility courses using a variety of gym equipment to really test ourselves.\u00a0 We have also been improving our rhythm and timing through the context of dance, in preparation for our Christmas Party.\u00a0 We learned the steps to The Slosh, 5, 6, 7, 8, The Macarena, The Cha Cha Slide and The Superman Dance.\u00a0 We even got to teach the entire school the dances in our whole school Christmas Danceathon.<\/p>\n

We have also been learning about The Earthshot Prize as part of our Health and Wellbeing Topic. We have listened to all the nominations for each of the categories and voted for the ones we think are the best ideas.\u00a0 Then we watched the prize ceremony to see if our guess was correct.<\/p>\n

In art we have been creating winter mosaic scenes using torn paper in different shades of blue.\u00a0 We will share some pictures once they have been completed.<\/p>\n

In Science we took part in a whole school STEAM Challenge.\u00a0 Our class had to make a reindeer that could fly.\u00a0 We were given balloons, string paper and pegs.\u00a0 This was a difficult challenge but some of us managed to do it.\u00a0 We learned how to improve our experiment by understanding how friction and thrust works.<\/p>\n

In French we have been investigating how people in France celebrate Christmas and learning French vocabulary linked to Christmas.<\/p>\n

As part of our enterprise topic we created some \u201cMelted Snowman Slime\u201d and some green \u201cGrinch Slime to sell at the Christmas Fair.\u00a0 We also had some decorated CD decoration to sell too.\u00a0 We were really pleased to see that all our items sold out in the first few ours of the fair and so we have managed to make a profit which will go into school funds to help buy more art resources.<\/p>\n

We are also very pleased to hear that The Windyknowe Christmas Window Display, which was organised by Tesco Bathgate, won first prize!<\/p>\n

We have also enjoyed our Christmas Party, Christmas Lunch and Movie morning since our last Blog Update.<\/p>\n

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We hope you all have a safe, happy and healthy Christmas and New Year!!\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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