Year 6: The Meerkats: Blog items
More festive fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Dec 2017 @ 3:33pm
We enjoyed another breakfast with Santa this morning and had fun decorating our mini Christmas cakes, hope they taste good!
Feeling Christmassy, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 19th Dec 2017 @ 3:43pm
The Penguins 🐧 enjoyed making their Christmas cakes and are looking forward to decorating them tomorrow. Breakfast with Santa was fun and our party was fabulous! Thank you Thomas and Sam you did a great job as DJ's🙂👍👍😎
Last week reminders, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Dec 2017 @ 5:15pm
Just a few reminders for next week.
Christmas party 🎉Tuesday afternoon.The children should come to school in their uniform as usual and bring their party things to change into.
Breakfast with Santa 🎅 is on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
Christmas carol service is Thursday afternoon, please note school closes on Friday.
A big thank you to those parents/ grandparents who have volunteered to help on Monday and Wednesday morning. We are making mini Christmas cakes, baking them on Monday and decorating them on Wednesday, we really do appreciate your support and help.
Hope you all have a fab weekend 🙂
Christmas dinner fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 14th Dec 2017 @ 8:11pm
We all enjoyed our Christmas lunch today, thank you Sylvana and the team👍
Week beginning 11th December , by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Dec 2017 @ 8:29am
This week we are :
Maths - using a number line to help us add up coins and work out change
English - some imaginative writing based around Christmas adverts, Mogs calamighty Christmas, The greatest gift
Science - finishing off our topic by looking at keeping clean and safety around medicine
Jigsaw - continuing work on bullying and looking at being a good friend
Christmas crafts
...and of course we have our pantomime trip tomorrow and Christmas lunch and jumper day on Thursday.
Wedding day fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Dec 2017 @ 5:42pm
Thank you for helping the Penguins look super smart for the wedding day, they all looked 😉
First we looked at how Christians traditionally plan and celebrate marriage.We then looked at how Hindus celebrate marriage,we found out the bride wears a purple and white dress,the groom,white. They move round a flame 4 times, the bride receives a necklace to show she is married and they give garlands to show the joining of the 2 families.We had a go at making our own paper garlands, we had to use a growth mindset because it was tricky! By the end we were experts and they looked great.
Lights,Camels,Action!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Dec 2017 @ 7:56am
A big well done to the Penguins for their fantastic production, you were fabulous darlings, definitely a 10 from me!
Lights, Camel, Action!, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Dec 2017 @ 10:20pm
I am so proud of all the Bongos and Penguins, they have all been Superstars this week for their Christmas Play. Fantastic singers, dancers and actors, we truly have some very talented children. Well done everyone x
Mrs Catterall
Penguins looking good!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Nov 2017 @ 6:42pm
The Penguins had a fab visit today from Warburtons, we learnt some of their history, about eating healthier and made our own "rainbow" sandwich. We had to wash our hands and put on hats to stop germs from spreading. We got to taste our fillings first and then choose, best of all we could eat it!
To help with homework I have photographed some facts and the healthy eating chart.👍
Wednesday learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 29th Nov 2017 @ 7:17pm
Today the children enjoyed playing the "cup game" in Maths.Filling up a cup with cubes and then investigating whether their cubes could be divided in to 1/2. 1/3 and a 1/4. If it could they scored 2, 3 or 4 points.
In Science we were thinking about why excercise is important and what happens to our heart rate. We set up different activities, thought about how they would affect our heart rate and then tested it out. Some of the activities definitely got our pulses racing!
Week beginning 27th November, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th Nov 2017 @ 4:35pm
This week we are busy putting the final touches to our fabulous production, please send costumes in by the latest, Thursday. We are practising on Thursday in our costumes so the children get used to them and we can see what we still need. Tickets are on sale at the office.
In Maths we continue with our fraction work.
In English we are using our imaginations in some creative writing.
We have our visit from Warburtons on Thursday afternoon.
In Jigsaw lessons we are thinking about what bullying means and how it makes us feel if people are unkind.
In Science we are getting our hearts beating with some excersises and understanding how important excercise is to keeping healthy.
Survival!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th Nov 2017 @ 4:05pm
The Penguins were stranded on a desert island this afternoon and had to think what they would miss, what would make them happy and what they would absolutely need to survive. They had to write a note asking for things and ssend it out in the sea in a bottle and hope that someone would find it.
Yesterday we looked at road safety and discussed things we should do to keep safe around roads and crossing the road.
Hop you all have a lovely weekend 😀👍
Fraction fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Nov 2017 @ 7:13pm
We had fun this afternoon with fractions, we folded paper in different ways to show halves and quarters. Next we shared "sweets" between different numbers of children and used different grids, we even found a quarter of 48! Last but not least we had to choose whether we would rather eat half or a quarter of a chocolate bar and explain why. Then we could eat half but had to take half home. A big thank you to those parents and grandparents who were able to make it, a copy of notes and example questions will be coming home tomorrow in the homework bags.
We also had fun and did some really amazing thinking finding fractions of amounts on Tuesday. Our challenge was to find different ways of making half - we came up with some really clever ideas👍
This weeks learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Nov 2017 @ 8:19pm
This Week in our learning we are in:
Maths- finding out about fractions - shading fractions of shapes and sharing objects, using the term numerator and denominator.
English - work based around Prince Cinders, our stories with a twist continue.
Science- what we need to survive if we were on a desert island, what are the essentials for survival?
Jigsaw - celebrating our differences, starting to understand that people make assumptions about boys and girls. Understand some ways in which boys and girls are different and that this OK.
We are continuing with our Christmas rehearsals , tickets are on sale from the office, don't forget to send in costumes and let us know if any problems.
On Wednesday you are invited in to class for a lesson in Maths, hope you can join us.
Parliament week, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Nov 2017 @ 5:10pm
This week it has been Parliament week and the Penguins have been finding out about the Houses of Parliament, who the Prime Minister is, the House of Common and the House of Lords and what colour the seats are. Today we had a debate discussing if we should let people bring in chocolate, crisps or sweets as a snack at playtime. We designed posters to persuade people and then discussed the ideas. The children then had to vote by marking a "ballot paper" and I have counted them and..........17 votes for keeping snacks healthy (the chocolate,sweets and crisps 12) so the Penguins have definitely got the healthy message😀
Our learning so far this week, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Nov 2017 @ 7:01pm
This week so far we have enjoyed another story with a twist, The true story of the three little pigs. We are writing our own versions changing some parts of the story , today we thought about our story maps.
In Maths we have been finding out all about pictograms and collected some data on our favourite fruit - which was a resounding vote for strawberries. We had to think about what to do when the picture was worth more than 1 and how to make the different amounts.
Today we have looked at finding out the different stages we go through as we grow older , the children enjoyed looking at some photos of me with my family when I was their age. The children are welcome to bring in some baby photos so we can see how they have changed! ( And can see how cute they were, sorry still are of course!!)
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Nov 2017 @ 5:39pm
The Penguins all looked fantastic today as we thought about past wars and wars still today an d all those people who served so we can live or lives today. We wrote an acrostic poem spelling "poppy", wrote about what we had dressed up as and also designed a medal. We had a school assembly and observed the 2 minute silence, Poppy told us about her Great Grandad and his efforts in the war.
Busy, busy, busy.., by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Nov 2017 @ 8:04pm
The Penguins have enjoyed practising their moves for our Christmas production, they were very enthusiastic!They have also been finding out about arrays and how they can help with multiplication.
In our Jigsaw work we were thinking about celebrating differences and how we can't assume for example, all girls like pink and all boys like football. We played a fun game where we had to choose either agree, disagree or not sure to various questions.
Today we have been learning about how baby animals grow and change, how some babies are not like the adults and that a baby snake is hatchling, a baby elephant is a calf and a baby goat is a kid!
Welcome back!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Nov 2017 @ 10:14pm
Hi and welcome back, hope everybody had a great holiday and is ready for the next exciting term!
This Week in our learning:
English - we are looking at the story of Jack and the beanstalk with a twist!
Maths - learning multiplication and linking to repeated addition
Science - finding out about our new topic, Animals and keeping healthy
Jigsaw - new theme of celebrating our differences
Learning our Christmas songs and dances.
Remembrance day activities
Holidays!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th Oct 2017 @ 3:38pm
The Penguins had fun collaging Halloween and bonfire night pictures. We talked about keeping safe and found out about the gunpowder plot.
Have a great holiday, enjoy the fun but keep safe ,
Mrs Pratten and Mrs Regan
Last week!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Oct 2017 @ 6:23pm
This Week is our check up week in Maths and English. We are also finishing off topic and RE work, creating some Halloween pictures and finding out about Bonfire night.
Last week we enjoyed our music lesson with Mrs Bolton, playing the glocks.
Apparatus fun, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 18th Oct 2017 @ 4:05pm
The Penguins enjoyed using their gymnastic skills in the large apparatus today and were amazing, very creative and showed great skills🙂
They have also designed their tile all about Longton and some have started to print, they are looking good!
My reading are enjoying the reading corner and finding facts about dinosaurs
This Week In the Penguins......, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 15th Oct 2017 @ 7:35pm
In our learning this week we are in ......
Maths - adding and subtracting, using apparatus and drawing pictorially
English - non fiction work, finding out facts about looking after dogs and cats, how fiction is different to non fiction
Writing- if I went back in time what adventure would I have?
PE - gymnastics, using apparatus to continue our work (2 lessons this week!)
Music - learning about percussionist instruments
History- finding out about street names and thinking about questions to ask about old Longton, what school was like and who might have lived in their house.
Art- making a template out of a polystyrene tile, choosing their design
PSHE - feelings when we are being a good friend and when we fall out with our friends
Longton Village, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Oct 2017 @ 6:42pm
We walked in to Longton today and had a look at the shops and street furniture . We drew some great pictures and had lots of fun as people waved to us (a lot!) and trucks honked their horns, we loved it!!
Leaflet research, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th Oct 2017 @ 8:41pm
The Penguins enjoyed finding out about leaflets this afternoon.They looked at them and then we discussed what we could see on them e.g. photos, maps, directions, writing. We wrote out a check list for when we are writing our own leaflets about Longton.
We are looking forward to finding out more about Longton tomorrow🙂
