Right now we are looking at art by Vincient Van Gogh, right now we are looking at two of his paintings.
Field Under Thunderclouds and Sunflowers
by Fionnlagh
After some revision and new learning in division P6 got to take their new skills out for a spin, first in some active learning where they played games and recorded their findings and secondly in a challenge. The groups were challenged to find the cost of different games consoles and work out how much each member of their group would have to pay to buy them if they were sharing the cost.
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.
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.
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.
