P-6 Blog

French Bowls

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Modern Languages.

Primary 6 leared a new game on Thursday the 8th of May when Monsieur Curt took the children outside for a spot of bowling. In France this game is called ‘petanque’ and the rules are different from the bowling we are used to. Ryan was in charge of the camera and I think he has got some good shots of his classmates enjoying some active learning!

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Europe Map Challenge

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Expressive Arts, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics, Social Studies.

In their new home-teams the Primary 6 children at Gullane Primary were given the following challenge.

Produce a large map of Europe, showing the different countries and their flags. Your map should indicate which countries are members of the European Union and which have adopted the Euro. Your map must include a key. As well as your map, you should include a written piece of work which explains simply, what the E.U. is and how/why the flag was designed.

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In the News

Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Literacy and English.

We have been looking at how information is organised in a newspaper. The class were given this challenge.

Use a current newspaper to find and cut out articles on the following - an accident report, a local news item, an international news item, a letter to the editor, a book/film/theatre report, a birth/death notice, a science/environmental item, a classified ad and a weather forecast.

Using a large sheet of card/paper print the newspaper’s name and date in bold heading at the top.

Glue and label your articles onto it. Use sub-headings for the different sections.

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Comic Characters

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Literacy and English.

Primary 6 have been learning to write more detailed character descriptions. They have focused on facial features and expression, height and body shape and the way the character moves. On Thursday, Mr Dagger brought in lots of different comics for the class to study. They were asked to choose one character and write a 3 paragraph description about them. Well done to James, Gregor, Matt and Liam who wrote fantastic descriptions and became the star writers for the week! All the descriptions were so good that Mr Dagger hung them all up as a display.

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Apple Poems - Active language!

Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Literacy and English.

On Friday 15th February P6 wrote poems about apples. Here is how we went about getting inspired! We were all given an apple as a stimulus. On the board was an apple tree, with apples on it ready to be picked! We took it in turns to come out to the front of the class and pick an apple. Underneath each one was an instruction to follow. We wrote our answers in our ‘ideas for writing’ books. Making a list of our answers gave us a very simple poem. We were challenged to take our simple poems, and using our knowledge of Kit Wright’s style, create a more complex poem, which included simile, contradiction, opposites and alliteration. We then had to follow a set of instructions to create an apple for our poem to fit into.

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The Magic Box

Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Literacy and English.

P6 have been reading poems by the author Kit Wright. After discussing them they were challenged to write their own poems in the style of Kit Wright. They were thinking about expanding ideas using alliteration, contradictions, opposites and similes. Here are their favourite lines.

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