French!!!

In school we have been learning how to speak French with our French teacher, Madame. Coles. We have been learning about what natural disasters and weather names are called in French! We’ve learnt the most common phrases like “il pluet” and “il y a du soleil”

When we first started weather we drew a person in a weather of our choice. We head to write what weather it was that we chose to do in French! We had to draw clothes that would be appropriate for wearing in that weather. We had people drawing snow, rain, sun and even ice! To make it even more of a challenge we had to use a French dictionary to search up clothing names in French! We had to name at least 3 items of clothing we had put into our drawing! These are some of the clothing and weather names we’ve learnt!

Not only have we been learning about weather and clothes, we’ve also learnt the numbers from 0 all the way to 69!!!! We’ve learnt how to pronounce and understand ALL these numbers! When we first started primary seven some of us only knew up to 20!!! Sometimes we’ve even played bingo! By playing this we’ve, 1. Learnt how to understand a French number when someone says it and 2. Had fun!

Next I’m going to tell you about natural disasters in French! We’ve been reading paragraphs about the natural disasters in French and figuring out what they say by using the 2 following rules. We can figure out words in French by… 1. Words that look similar to English words and 2. Words in French that we already know! Here’s some natural disasters in French:

Volcan- Volcano

Tsunami- tsunami

Avalanche- avalanche

Gouffre- sinkhole

Blizzard- blizzard

Ouragan- hurricane

Tornade- tornado

Inundation- flood

By Emma

First badminton. Badminton is a club that is on during lunch for P6 to P7 on Mondays. We get lunch early so we can have the full time. The club is run by Miss Fraser, (she is also the schools FAB P.E teacher!) badminton is also played in courts like tennis. So sometimes Miss Fraser can split us into two groups and we can play two different games at the same time, one game on each court. Every once in a while we change games so we can practise different skills. Badminton is different to tennis because badminton players use shuttle cocks. Badminton is super fun and we get to do competitions outside of school sometimes as well. I LOVE BADMINTON

Now for netball. Netball is also at lunch. It is for P5 to P7 and Miss Fraser also runs this club. Sometimes we do training exercises before we start the big games. My favourite training exercise is when we have two lines one in front of the other facing each other. We get a ball and we start passing it diagonally but when you pass the ball you have to run to the end of your line. So when you finish both the lines are at the other side of the room. In real games you have bibs that say your positions so you know where to go. Here are some positions.

• GA-goal attack
• WA-wing attack
• WD-wing defence
• GD-goal defence
• C- centre

When we play the big netball games we are in two teams it’s a bit like basketball but you are not allowed to bounce or move with the ball. You are only allowed to hold the ball for five seconds before you need to pass it to your team mate. Beware though, you have to stay an arm’s length away from someone that has the ball and isn’t in your team or else they will get an advantage with the penalty! I love netball so why don’t you try it out?

For homework we had to research a natural disaster. For example: avalanche, tornado, sinkhole, volcanoes, tsunami, blizzard, hurricane, flood and forest fire. Then we took it in to school.

In school we were put in to groups of people with different natural disasters. The groups were of about 4 or 5 students. In our groups we picked a news reporter. The news reporter would open the show and close it. They would introduce every speaker. The speaker would talk about their natural disaster. The news reporter would get to have 2 names because they don’t want people to know that there are the same person. You then pick an order for your news broadcast. The order is for when you speak.  Then you would write a script. Your script would have what you are going to say. Your group would have different disasters each. After you finished you need to go and practice. Once each person is ready, you practice as a group. Then we showed it to the class before going on to create our news broadcast green screen.

We shared our green screens for the whole class which was very funny and embarrassing for everyone! We hope parents will get a chance to see the green screens (Mr. Flett thinks they look brilliant!)

By Ben Mc and Callum K

Last week we started doing a weather project on a country of our choice.

P7 and P1/2 have been put into groups to research a country of our choice. In each group there were at least two P7s and two P1/2s.

Since both the classes have similar projects for this term (Savage Earth and Weather) this would be the perfect opportunity for us to share our learning.

We first had to research our country’s culture and weather. The kind of things we had to research were:

• The weather in that country

(And any extreme temperatures and weather)

• Animals in that country that live there

(And how they adopt to it)

• How people live there

(What kind of houses? Clothing? Languages?)

Not only that we had to have good research and we also have to have good teamwork. We are aiming to get full marks on all of this.

Once we had finished our research we then had to put our information into a page per topic and put in pictures to make it exciting. During this we also had to teach our buddies to use Book Creator. Our buddies had so much fun!

When we had finished researching this we then can then choose if we want to do anything else about our country, for example:

• Religion
• Population
• Food and drink

Once we had finished our Book Creator project we can then show it to the whole two classes.

We all enjoy doing our Book Creator projects!

Each group chose a different country. For example there were countries like India, USA, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia and Brazil.

By Uma

The Scream Paintings

In art, P7F have been very busy drawing / painting / making the famous ‘The Scream’ Paintings.

This is the original painting:

But we think that ours are WAY better than it!

Everybody in P7F did a painting but we all made our look different. All of our finished products are unique and we like them that way.

We used our imaginations to think what the ‘alien’ is staring at.

Some of us think that he is gawping at a tornado, a monster, or even a helicopter!

We used the original copy as a helper but we made it our own.

Once we were finished sketching it out with a light pencil we used acrylic paints to fill the sketch in.

After the paint had dried we used coloured pencils and oil pastels to liven the painting up a bit.

We are really proud of our finished products and we would love to repaint a very famous painting like this one again!

xBy Sophie x

Estimating and Rounding

In maths we have been doing estimating and rounding. We started by rounding numbers to the nearest 10,100 or 1000 depending on what level we are in. For example:

347 rounded to the nearest 100

would be 300 because looking at the digit next to the hundred (The tens) it would round down. 1,2,3, and 4 round down and 5,6,7,8 and 9 round up.

347 rounded to the nearest ten

would be 350 because looking at the digit next to the tens (The units) it would round up.

Once we got the hang of that we rounded decimals and significant figures. When rounding decimals it’s the exact same as above apart from you look at numbers after the decimal point. For example:

2.8364 rounded to a whole number

would be 3 because looking at the tenths it rounds up.

2.8364 rounded to 1 decimal place

would be 2.8 because looking at the hundredths it rounds down.

For significant figures you have to count along:

26.4578

12 3456

For 1 significant figure we are looking to round so that there’s only one number and the rest are 0s. This sum equals 30.0000. It works the same for all significant figures (1 sig fig, 2 sig fig, 3 sig fig). We always start counting from the first digit that isn’t 0.

We have been also doing estimating so if we got given a large or complicated sum we would be able to estimate so when we actually do the sum we can check our answer. For example:

254.23 + 34.78 =

That’s quite hard so if we round to 2 sig fig the sum becomes:

250 + 35  285

To help us we have played lots of games some we played online others we played against each other. One of the games we played was a game called ZAP!!! Our teacher Mr. Flett made it up and it’s so easy that you can play at home. Here’s the rules:

 

1. Get some lolly sticks and on them write numbers like 12.34 or 56.8. On about 2 or 3 sticks write the word zap. Only write one number on each stick.
2. Put them all in a cup with the end you wrote the numbers on facing down.
3. On a piece of paper write the numbers 1 to 6 like you would in instructions.
4. Beside each number write something like “Round to sig fig” or “Round to 2 decimal places” Also write beside one free point and miss a go. Make sure it’s different for each number.
5. Write everyone’s name or initial that is playing the game on another piece of paper to keep points.
6. Now you can start. The first player picks a stick out the cup. You then need to roll a dice. The number that it shows will correspond with an instruction on the paper. Do what it says. If it was rounding then the people you are playing with need to check. If you get it right you win a point. If the stick you pick out says Zap then you lose all your points!

I hope you enjoyed this game! If you find this game easy then you could pick 2 sticks out, roll the dice, follow the instruction and then add or subtract the two numbers.

 

 

Some links to online rounding and estimating games:

 

• https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/menus/roundestimate.htm
• http://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Rounding
• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2

By Rhianna

P7F has been very busy this term and one of the things we have been doing is art!

In class we have been doing a number of art projects including:

• WOW Posters, – (Which we have already posted about so you can look out for them!) where we drew and wrote about things in life that make us feel WOW!

• Silhouettes, – (Which we have also posted about!) where we drew around our head and inside them we drew things that made us – us!

• Dream Jars, – (Guess what! We have posted about them!) where we drew our dreams in a jar with our P1 Book Buddies!

• The Class Charter, – (This time we haven’t actually posted about them!) where we drew ourselves and wrote our qualities around us,

• And lots, lots more!

In our art classes we have been making:

• ‘The great wave’ paintings – (Which we have posted about!),
• ‘The great wave’ prints,
• ‘The Scream’ paintings,
• And lots, lots more!

 

The skills P7F have been developing through art are:

• Hand / eye co-ordination,
• Art skills,
• Art knowledge,
• And having fun!

 

The main things P7F have learned during art is:

• How to control your brush / pencil,
• How to paint / colour carefully,
• How to develop our art skills.

 

Art is Ace!

x By Sophie x

Genius Time is when you get to work on what you want. People that work at Google even get to work on what they want for 20% of their time. That was how Gmail and other sites were created.

Here is a link to a video explaining what Genius Time is – have a look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFQUtHsWhc

For Genius Time we got to pick what we wanted to learn. We first needed to do research and then create some form of presentation about what we have learned (we could present a PowerPoint, a model, a website, a game, a knitted cat… whatever fit the project we chose!). Here are some are some projects that were doing right now.

• Learning Languages
• Making games
• Making Websites
• Making Animations
• Making A Model (For instance the Empire State Building, a Pyramid and pokeballs)
• Making complex graphs in Excel
• Learn Magic Tricks
• To learn Knitting
• To develop their skills on Scratch
• How to make a lava lamp
• And Lots Lots More

Here are some links to some games and websites we have made so far:

http://flowlab.io/game/view/546270

http://eddiestobartisawesome.bravesites.com/

We are really enjoying doing genius time. Make sure to come back later to see our finished projects!

By Joao and Callum C.