Thursday, April 30, 2015

Maths and Literacy in S6

As part of their maths programme children get the opportunity to play maths learning games on the iPad, always a popular choice. Today Daniel is checking the time in other parts of the world, after our earlier conversation about time differences around the world.
In writing last time we looked at how to stretch a sentence. Today we are going over this and remembering to add who, what, when, where and why to our sentences.

Another example of how to make a sentence using who, what, when and where. This could be built up to include WHY? as children become better writers.
Children wanted to know if they could change the order in their sentences and many added the reason for what was happening. They came up with some interesting sentences and raced each other to come up with weird and wonderful sentences about what their siblings or pets were doing. Great fun.




Friday, April 24, 2015

ANZAC Day Commemorations 2015

M2 being attentive while listening to speeches and proudly wearing their poppies.
The whole school outside on a lovely, sunny autumn day. School Council did a great job of running the assembly and children were showing great respect. Well done everyone.

Bucket Ball

Bucket ball with M1 & M2 at the park.
Both classes extremely competitive but both playing very fairly.

Making poppies in M2

Really cool and simple idea for making poppies found on YouTube. Great end result, well done M2.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Artwork and ANZAC Art in M4

Holly created this masterpiece in Term One - one of our talented Year 6 artists.

The whole class creating their own poppy fields with simple finger painting techniques.






Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Finger painting poppy art in M3

Easy to do but effective. Finger painting to create a field of poppies.

Writing in the trenches


Class writing diary entries or letters home about their time in the trenches, after much discussion about how difficult it must have been.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

I hope everyone has a great Easter and an lovely autumn break with their children. I look forward to seeing everyone back refreshed and full of energy in the new term - isn't this year flying? Next term is the cross country competition at school, so remember to keep running over the holidays in readiness for this event.