Congratulations to all our P6 Cross Country Runners

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hindu Temple 29th October

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

Turnip Lanterns

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

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

 

 

 

Japanese names posters

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.