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.
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