As part of our Social Studies topic, Scotland, we explored the production of oats from field to bowl then we made some delicious Scottish porridge 🏴
We have been using Venn Diagram to sort 3D shapes by their properties. The class were then challenged to create their own criteria to sort the shapes by.
With our knowledge of 2D shape, we have been exploring tessellation.
We created our own tessellation patterns by hand and then used Shapes within Word to create tessellations too!
We used the shape tool, the fill tool and learnt the keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste.
We are focusing on learning times tables. We are doing this through the exploration of arrays, sequencing, recall of facts and modelling the times tables.
We have been investigating 2D shapes including more complex shapes such as rhombus, parallelogram, octagon. We created posters explaining the properties of these shapes including the number of sides and the number of vertices.
This week in Number Talks, we have been revising all the different addition strategies we have learnt. We selected a chilli challenge calculation and then completed the addition calculation using 4 different strategies – adding in chunks, vertical calculations, place value and compensation.
We had great discussion about which strategy we preferred. We also recognised that sometimes our favourite strategy might not always be the quickest or most efficient. Great work, P4/5!
P4/5 wrote a recipe for the Christmas Eve they have at home as part of the genre procedural writing.
As part of our learning about procedural writing we followed a recipe to make cakes. We also used our numeracy skills to weigh and measure.
In literacy we have been learning to create pieces of procedural writing and this week we focused on a recipe for a jam sandwich.
As part of our forces topic we learnt about the famous bridge and canal Scottish engineer Thomas Telford. The task was then to build a bridge that would hold a car.
