Christmas Art in 5th and 6th

Breaking News in Kilcoskan! It is with great pride and joy, that I announce the following. A boy in 6th class, completed a long division problem using 30 digits this week. THIRTY! It took up two copy pages! The 6th class curriculum goes up to dividing by four digit numbers, so this is quite the extraordinary feat. I think we have unearthed a mathematical genius! 

In other news, we are busy working on our Christmas stockings! A big thank you again to the two parents who came in last Friday to help with the sewing of the stockings. We had a mixture in the class of people who have never sewn, and those who sew regularly with their parents or grandparents. So we all did really well. The stockings will hopefully be finished this Friday.

Gingerbread Men art!

5th and 6th Class prepare for Christmas!

Hello everyone,

Just a quick update! We finished our World War One unit last week. We made these war scenes using old shoe boxes and materials.

 We had a very special visitor who kindly came to speak to us and show us war artefacts. Our visitor's grandfather fought in world war one! He showed us medals for bravery, discharge papers, old letter and photographs, and pay slips! It really brought the whole experience to life for us.

 Now that it is December, we are ready for Christmas!We started making decorations in art. We also put up our tree today, the excitement is just palpable! It isn't decorated yet but when it is we will share photos!

We are making Christmas stockings in art too. We are all working hard on our sewing skills, and some of us even brought the stockings home and finished them off. Well done everyone!

 And... our classroom door has had a festive overhaul!

November Updates in 5th and 6th

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome once again to our class blog. Grab a cup of tea, make yourself comfortable and have a read of our little blog! We have been wrapping up our learning of world war one this week. We have almost completed our projects, and we will present them to our class tomorrow. We are experts at this stage! We have been busy rehearsing for the Peace Proms, and learning tin whistle. We have all mastered the scale, and we are now learning 'Wake Me Up' by Avicci. We have been acting out war scenes in drama, and there's definitely some budding actors and actresses in the room!

May the battles begin! The boys playing soldiers on a rainy Tuesday lunch time.

 We were making up stories with our story cubes in drama.

 Drama Games..

 We have music every morning for twenty minutes. Usually we practice the tin whistle and our peace proms songs. Today, Tristan brought his guitar to school, and he played 'Wake Me Up', which we have been learning on the tin whistle! We all joined in and had a sing song. What a lovely way to spend a Thursday morning! These are they types of days we will always remember fondly.

Jammin'!

 
Brian brought in war artefacts to show us today. We got to see these real war objects! Thank you Brian!

 We have a new soccer coach. Here we are practicing away.

We are almost at the end of our Private Peaceful novel. 

Science Week in 5th and 6th

Hello there!

Another week has passed us by, and as you probably know, it was Science Week.! We learned a lot about science throughout the week, which culminated in a Science Assembly on Friday. It was such a fun assembly, we loved seeing what the other classes learned about, and they showed us all the cool experiments they did. It was most thought provoking indeed!

We presented two experiments in assembly. We are still learning all about the human body in science, and this week we studied the tongue and our taste buds. Here are some photos of our experiment. Well done to the volunteers who took part to make it a fair test!

Our second investigation was to study the amount of oxygen in the air, and how it affects the lighting of our candles, and the effect oxygen has on the burning of a flame.

The presenters were outstanding in the assembly. I couldn't have explained it better myself. I was so proud of them! 

 On another note, we started learning how to play the tin whistle this week. We have mastered the scale, and some have learned to tunes songs already!

We produced some simply magnificent pieces of writing, using our toy soldiers as characters.

 

And one student presented this masterpiece!

Our homework on Thursday night was to start organising all the information we had gleaned about the war, and to put it in order for our projects. One child produced this! It is a timeline of the events of the war, from June 1914 to November 1919. Isn't is amazing?! And the relevant country flags are on each fact. I was so impressed!

 

That's all for now!