P6 Den

Congratulations to all our P6 Cross Country Runners

2009-11-23T23:24:00.002Z

On Saturday 21st November 26 of our runners took part in the Cross
Country Competiton at Mugdock. Despite difficult conditions- and the
odd lost shoe- they won an amazing total of 14 medals.
In the P6 boys event Andrew Turnbull finished 8th, Adam Stanley was 17th and
Euan McClenaghan 22nd. As a team the boys finished in third place winning bronze medals.
In the girls race Erin Halliday matched Andrew's 8th place. However,as we need 3 runners to
make upa team Erin was unable to be considered for a team position.
If we had more P6 girls running we would be in with a chance of winning a team medal.
SO COME ON GIRLS ! Get those running shoes on and come and join us at the next race.
It's good fun and we'd love to see you.

Japanese Cooking

2009-11-23T09:44:00.000Z

P6 Room 17 have been cooking our own Japanese food and Mr M was tasting our food. Some of us made sushi, sweet potatoes, noodles and Japanese pancakes.

Ingredients for suchi (seaweed, rice, raw fish and tuna)

Ingredients for sweet potato (condensed milk, sugar, butter and sweet potato)

You can find more recipes here. http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cook/index.html

Tangrams

2009-11-23T09:40:00.000Z

We have been learning about tangrams in our class. tangrams are different sized shapes that fit together to make a picture of anything. First you make sure you can make a square using all of your shapes. In tangrams you have to use all your shapes in every tangram you make. This is a great website that shows you how to cut out and form shapes for your tangrams. You can find some really cool tangrams that you can make simply. If you find it too hard you can click solution and it will tell you how to do it.
http://www.tangrams.ca/index.htm
We watched the Japanese animated film 'Laughing Moon' which is all made from tangrams. It was really funny.

Cross Country 21st November 09

2009-11-15T15:39:00.001Z

CROSS COUNTRY

The next race is on Saturday 21st November 09. Details are listed
below.

VENUE
Craigend Visitor Centre, Mugdock Country Park, near
Milngavie

RACE TIME Primary 5 Boys and Girls – 2.2km – 10am
Primary 6 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.20am
Primary 7 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.40am
All distances approximate

ENTRY FEE £2 per athlete per race

RESULTS Results will also be posted on the
internet at www.garscubeharriers.co.uk Click on the Downloads page.

Names and money have to be given
to school by Thursday 19th November AT THE LATEST as names have to be
forwarded to the event organizers.

RM 17 manga

2009-11-11T21:28:00.000Z

We were learning about Manga which is the japanese style of comic book drawings. Manga is different to most of our traditional drawings because the hair styles mostly used on Manga drawings is made up of big, thick clumps of hair and the eyes on Manga drawings are much bigger than most of our drawings but other facial features such as nose and mouth are very small compared to the eyes!
In class we are watching a Manga film called Howls Moving Castle. It has a great plot so we are always eager to watch on! It is about a wizard named Howl who has a walking castle. There is a girl named Sophie, who works in a hat shop and gets turned into an old aged pensioner by the Wicked Witch of the Waste! Will Sophie ever lift the curse?

Japanese Art Work.

2009-11-11T21:25:00.000Z

On Friday 4th November our class made a carp streamer each. Carp Streamers are used to represent when a baby is born, and they are put up all over Japan on Childrens Day!
We also tried out some Japanese block prints of the great wave. Block prints were invented by a Japanese artist called Hokusai. Block prints are very easy and quick to make and that meant from then on it was much easier to aford paintings to display around your house and local places.
We are aiming to make 1000 paper cranes, so our class are trying to make 500 paper cranes so the other P6 class can make another 500, and then we'll reach... 1000!

Kimono Dress Up

2009-11-11T21:23:00.000Z

2 weeks ago we got kimonos + happy jackets sent to us from the Japanese Embassy in London. We have started wearing them and they are comfortable and cool! Our teacher Mr M wore one and it was really funny+ awesome! It's hard to tie the kimonos but they colourful. You can get men and women kimonos. Happi jackets are a bit like normal short jackets but they are colourful + have patterns on them.

Japan Mania

2009-11-11T14:50:00.000Z

Konnichiwa,

In class this term our topic is Japan. We have done alot of things including:

Making Wind Socks
Translating our names into Japanese
Designing our own Kimono
We have heard the story of 1000 paper cranes
Made origami
Wrote Halloween Haiku
Tried on Kimono

Our favourite things so far have been making the wind socks, crane origami and designing the Kimono. We have been designing our own computer games and we are excited to see how they turn out. We are enjoying the story of 1000 paper cranes and we can't wait to find out what happens next.

Sayonara from P6 room 12

2009-11-11T14:24:00.002Z

Hindu Temple 29th October

2009-11-11T14:21:00.000Z

On the 29th of October our class went to the Hindu Temple. The bits we enjoyed were dressing up in saris and turbans.After we got the saris and turbans off we got henna done.Henna is a plant that is like a paste that the Hindus add water to.

The girls also really enjoyed the dancing, as did Mckenzie and Miss Livia.We all enjoyed the story telling. Inside the praying area it was HUGE!!! and very colourful we got to explore the massive area. We enjoyed the day at the Hindu Temple and we dream of going again.

ROGER OVER AND OUT!!!!
P6 RM 12

P6

2009-11-10T09:28:00.001Z

Turnip Lanterns

2009-11-01T19:05:00.007Z

On the week of Halloween we were challenged to carve a turnip lantern. Weird, huh! There was millions of things on the turnips like hair, hats, halos + even earrings.When your parents were little they used turnips instead of pumpkins because the pumpkins are American + they had to pay a lot of money to buy a pumpkin. A lot of people brought them in and they were excellent! The class was horribly smelly so if you ever try to carve one you better hold your nose!

1000 Paper Cranes Drama Workshop

2009-11-01T19:02:00.002Z

At the beginning of term we had a couple of people in to do a workshop with us about the play 1000 Paper Cranes.There names were Lizzie + Lisa. They got us to write down the characters and what they did. We did actions to represent what the characters were doing + imagining. Finally we got into groups to do a still picture of our favourite scene. It was fantastic + fun!

Autumn Haikus

2009-11-01T18:53:00.000Z

Japanese names posters

2009-11-01T18:52:00.002Z

In the ICT suite we made name tags that had our Japanese names + symbols. We put the Japanese seasons on them. In Spring + summer it's very colourful + all the cherry blossoms bloom everywhere. They even have a weather channel for it! In Autumn + Winter it's quite dull + dreary.

Cross Country Training

2009-10-08T16:58:00.002+01:00

Cross Country training will start on Thursday 22nd October at 3pm.
However, you will not be allowed to start until you have filled in
and returned the EV6

parental consent form given to you by the school.This form will be
given to you when you
return from the October Holiday.

Tron Theatre Visit

2009-10-07T14:27:00.000+01:00

On the 6th of October we went on a school tripto see a sneak prieview of a play called One Thousand Paper Cranes. The story was based on a true Japanese story about a girl called Sadako who set outto save her life by making 1000 paper cranes.
            When Sadako finds herself in Hospital, she hates it, but nobody has a scooby about what is wrong with her, they just know she is very very ill. Her best friend, Chiziko tries to get the test results to find out what is wrong, and she passes by the cleaner and tell her how to save her best friend...
      After the play , we tried to make our own flapping paper cranes, when you pull their tail, their wings flap, we made them in all different colours.
      We enjoyed it and we highly reccomend that you go and see it too. It is being performed from the 13th- 17th of October at the Tron Theatre. 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB. Tickets cost 6 pound and you can get them at http://www.tron.co.uk/ or phone 0141 552 4267. We hope you enjoy it. Bye
p6 room 17

SSPCA visit

2009-10-07T13:52:00.000+01:00

On Thursday 17th of September a man from SSPCA aka Scottish society prevention of cruelty to animals. He talked about wildlife in Scotland and told us a story about a bird in England because he got stuck in rubbish and lost his leg really badly but the other leg stopped working and he can't touch the ground and the SSPCA took him to scotland and they helped the seagull. He showed us the equipment for capturing animals and he also showed us a powerpoint presendation on animals from Scotland!
We have adopted a panda and a tiger. The tiger's name is called Mal Upothi and the panda' sname is called Zhu Xiong. they send us some information and little fuzzy teddy bears.

Cross Country

2009-09-29T09:45:00.002+01:00

Hi,
Cross Country will be having it's first race on Saturday 14th November
at Mugdock.
See you there.
Mrs McAulay

This is Primary 6 Room 12 - Kaboom!!

2009-09-16T13:56:00.001+01:00

Hey,
this is Primary 6 Room 12 and we would like to tell you a wee bit
about what we have been learning in school so far. In art we have
been
finding out about Andy Warhol. We began by drawing a Simpsons
character
and used this to create our own colourful Pop Art. We have also
painted
a water colour picture with a Climate Change theme.

Both classes have had two Science Activity Afternoons that we all
really enjoyed. These involved games, activites and experiments on
extreme weather including: Tornado in a bottle, hot air rising, making
static electricity and measuring a tsunami.

Thanks for reading our blog.

See you later alligator!!
P6 Room 12

Welcome to P6 Room 17 - Wazzup?

2009-09-15T13:49:00.004+01:00

Hi, we are the P6 class from Room 17. This is our first time
blogging. We would like to tell you a little bit about what we have
been learning about in class so far.We have been finding out about
Climate Change. We discovered that a lightning bolt is 5 times hotter than the sun.
We made some great artwork based on thunder and lightning storms using
masking tape and shaded colours. We also made lots of static
electricity using balloons and metal. Thanks for reading, come back and
see what else we are up to soon!!
P6 Rm 17

Sport Relief

2008-04-02T13:31:00.003+01:00

On the 14th of march Angus Morton, Ross Durnin, Euan Walker and Gabriel Campbell-Young did 100 laps round Bearsden Primary School for Sport Relief. It took 1 hour and 20m minutes. We raised over £200. I was really pleased with myself!!

Gabriel

Highland Family Fortunes soundtrack

2008-04-02T13:27:00.000+01:00

Highland Clearances

2008-04-02T10:59:00.002+01:00

Highland Emigration

2008-04-02T10:57:00.002+01:00