today we investigated EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS! we used a packet of skittles and counted how many we had in total to find the denominator. Then we organised the skittles by colour to find the different numerators. We used multiplication skills to create equivalent fractions that have the same value as the original.
We then created a proper fraction using a domino. We used multiplication skills to create equivalent fractions for our domino!
Today we learned about the structure of a limerick!
A limerick is a funny poem where lines 1, 2 and 5 all rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. The poems should also have a natural flow and bounce using a beat.
Mrs Clarke was very impressed with some of our limericks, we wrote them on spooky gravestones as epitaphs for Halloween characters!
We were so happy to be invited to the EAC Children and Young People’s Climate Conference via TEAMS today. We joined with other primary 7 classes across the authority to listen to speeches and take part in question sessions using the interactive presentation app, MENTI.
The 4 main themes for today’s conference were ENERGY, WASTE, TRANSPORT and ENVIRONMENT. The council also launched their new Clean Green School Award which our 2 Class Climate Reps and House Captains, Aiden and Mason, will be taking forward.
At the end of the afternoon, all children were encouraged to make a Green Pledge; something they will strive to do to help with the climate crisis. Here are some of our pupils sharing their pledges:
Well done to the boys who before the holidays had been working collaboratively on this flags of the world jigsaw!
I think all our geography has improved and we had lots of team spirit!
To celebrate maths week, we laughed at some maths based jokes! Do you know any good maths jokes? Pop them in the comments below!
As part of our initiative to Poverty Proof the School Day, we read “The Invisible” by Tom Percival. It highlighted to us the importance of gratitude and how poverty can impact communities.
We created our own gratitude jars to tell each other all the things we were grateful for in our own lives. We realised we all had a lot more in common than previously thought.
our author of the month for October is the poet Joseph Coelho.
We we’re inspired by his feelings poem to create our own using figurative language and description.
We have been learning about the Order of Operations when completing calculations in maths.
We split into teams to solve an “operating theatre” escape room task, solving the calculations in the correct sequence and to complete each surgery! Each of the calculations were chilli challenged so everyone could take part and contribute.
Our new class charter is displayed in our classroom!
There are no imposters among us in Primary 7!
The class charter sets out our rights and responsibilities in the classroom, how the teacher will help ensure our rights are fulfilled, and which UN articles we feel are most important for our learning.
As part of our learning around “The Boy At Ghe Back Of The Class” by Onjali Q Raúf, we investigated attitudes towards refugees both in the news and in popular culture.
We read Bill Bilston’s poem “Refugees” which when read from bottom to top has a different meaning from reading top to bottom.
We used our class colours of the world pencils and crayons to create drawings of an Afghan refugee girl, and wrote the poem inside her Hijab.
