Today Year Six presented their Geography presentations.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Monday, 12 October 2009
12.10.09
This morning year 6 went down to the infant playground to do some science. We looked at how the heart functions and we acted as de-oxygenated blood and oxygenated blood. After we learnt the cycle of the blood: First, the de-oxygenated blood comes from being pumped around the body. It is currently de-oxygenated because it has given all its oxygen to the mucles. Next, the de-oxygenated blood gets pumped to the lungs and it picks up oxygen from them. Soon after, the now oxygenated blood travels back to the heart and gets pumped around the body once again. Once we had finished outside, we went upstairs and labeled, with detailed descriptions of what the arrows showed, a diagram of the heart.
After break we went to our junior hall to act out Macbeth the Shakespere play. Our teacher then explained the events of the story while some children acted out the main parts. The story is about a young man named Macbeth and he won the war for scotland. He then betrays many of his friends and murders them except from one, Macduff who ends up killing Macbeth. Our teacher drew us a chart of how the characters feel confident to do something but then they lose confidence. Like at the start Lady Macbeth is really confident about killing King Duncan but near the end she thinks that it was'nt such a good idea. Also, Macbeth was'nt very confident at the start about killing the King but his confidence grew throughout the story and nearing the end he was very proud of himself for making the right decision.
First thing after lunch we went into the enviromental area and we had to find the sheets of paper that were put around the area by our teachers. On these peices of paper were some of the main events of the story of Macbeth and we had to put them in order and attach them up with string, still in the right order. Once we had finished that task we went inside to draw a picture, using chalk, of one of the scenes or a symbol to represent the story. Some people drew induviduals but some drew a whole picture with more than one character. Also some people drew a symbol to represent the story such as a dagger with blood dripping from it or a skull that represented death.
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Super Shakespeare
The next day was an active reading day where they all read the whole book and were given different activities to do. This included:
- Dilemma checkers
- Art critics
- Action retellers
- And more.
At the end of the lesson they showed the class all of the things that the groups had done in the lesson. The Dilemma checkers found 12 Dilemmas in the time that they had, and answered 10 of them. Some of the questions were:
- Should Tybalt have murdered Marcutio?
- Should the prince have banished Romeo from Verona?
- Should the priest have given Juliet the potion?
- Should Juliet and Paris have been betroved without Juliet's say so?
- And a lot more!!!
Friday, 2 October 2009
Getting creative
For the last two weeks at Portswood School, year 6 have been creative with their literacy work and homework. Their super minds were set on Great Expectations and Oliver Twist both written by Charles Dickens.
On the 23rd of September they created fantastic playscripts as a guide for their brilliant storyboards. This was all done during the literacy hoursbut they were given the opportunity to use a wide range of settings to take their photograps in the school grounds . They all had to work in pairs and to be a sucess they also had to write a short description about each photo.
Their homework was to write a playscript on Oliver Twist. They were allowed to choose any scene from these choices:
- Oliver asking for more
- Meeting Dodger
- Visiting Fagin and the boys
- Going on the robbery with Bill Sykes
there was some excellent homework presented on the 28th such as:
Books
Boards
Books
Boards
Scripts
Sign post
Sign post
Year 6 Geography Project
During the past couple of weeks year 6 have been doing a project about natural disasters in the world. We were allowed to choose our groups and we had to choose one topic. These topics were:
Earthquakes in Indonesia
Global Warming
Swine flu
So far we have used the internet to research, looked in starter packs and watched videos on Youtube. We also have found out the six questions that summerise geography. They are:
What and when it happened?
Why and how did it happen?
How did it affect the people?
How did it affect the place?
What are the problems?
what are the solutions?
We will be putting our information on boards and presenting our work to our teachers.
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