Another busy week in Year 6!
In English, we have been wearing out our pens, writing the long-awaited Day of the Dead stories. The children have worked hard, focusing each day on a different part of the story. On Monday, we started with the opening, setting the scene and introducing a character; we followed this by writing the build up and moved on to the main action / problem.
We put our thinking caps on in RE to consider in the Christian faith, how Jesus became a refugee. In the lesser known part of the Christmas story, Mary, Joseph and Jesus fled to Egypt to escape persecution and the threat of death from King Herod. The children were tasked with writing a poem or song about this, with some surprising results.
The stand out lesson of the week had to be the topic lesson on chocolate. Mayans were the first people to discover the precious cacao beans and they believed they were a gift from the gods. They would dry, grind, and mix the beans with water and chilli to create a drink and even used them as currency to trade. The children had the opportunity to touch, smell and taste cocoa nibs, cocoa butter and then four different types of chocolate of varying from 90% dark chocolate to extra creamy and then a final chocolate where they had to identify the missing ingredient!
Google classroom is undergoing some updates this weekend and so we decided that there would be no online homework this week.
Have a great weekend.
The Year 6 Team
