Year 6 Kearsley West Primary School Autumn Term 2014
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Role Play We started with a role play area outside our
classroom. Everyone took turns to work in pairs, completing tasks
either literacy, numeracy or science based, related to what we had
been learning about in class.
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Homework Some even made creatures at home to add to our
displays!
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Some people created their own rainforest creatures that had
adaptations to allow them to live in this habitat.
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Branching databases Our first lesson was all about branching
databases. We went out onto the school field and collected
different leaves from the trees. It was hard at first to think of
questions that would classify the leaves but we got the hang of it
in the end.
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Adaptations Our next task was to think about how different
animals are adapted to their habitat. We learnt new words such as,
brachiating, bill and primate.
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Sketching We practised our sketching skills, were very proud of
the results.
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Logo in flowers We had used The Butterfly Lion as a text to
support our learning and in the story there is a part where the
image of the lion is created by blue butterflies. We liked the idea
so much that we thought we would have a go ourselves, only we would
create an image of our school logo. The white school shirt will
appear in the spring when the snowdrop bulbs, which are currently
hidden under the soil, appear.
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Maths too Maths was a major part of our rainforest project,
with problem solving, data handling and measuring all being
involved.
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To wash or not to wash that is the question? When we came to
learning about micro-organisms we took all the important facts that
we had absorbed and put them into an information leaflet.
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In the style of David Shepherd How good are these pictures in
the style of wildlife artist, David Shepherd?
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Skitch on the iPad We used an app called Skitch on the iPad to
allow us to combine pictures and text to describe the
rainforest.
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Lakeland Wildlife Oasis Our learning was enriched by a visit to
the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis. We were able to see, touch and handle
some of the creatures we had been learning about, it totally
brought our learning to life.
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And to finish... Our learning was completed by a team activity
where we were tasked with making our own model rainforest, it had
to include a reference to all our learning about habitats,
adaptations, variation of species, endangered animals etc. We
learnt a lot about ourselves through doing this activity, such as
who had strong personalities, who was a good team player and who
was a good organiser.