Engineering and Maths outside today !
Challenge – work in teams to design and measure your longhouse/longboat. Ensure you have enough space for your plan. Adapt your design to fit in to the space you have been given.
We had lots of fun adding details to our full scale technical drawings.
Today we used our knowledge of money to calculate the costs of the ingredients to make a banana loaf. We calculated that each loaf would cost £2.50 to make. We then baked banana loaves using some fairtrade ingredients.
In class we sliced the loaves in to 1/10s and then calculated the price of each slice. We decided we would add 10p to each slice if we were selling, making a total profit of £1 per loaf. Then we all got to eat a delicious warm slice !
Today we followed a recipe to make salt dough. We had to measure in 1/2 cups and whole cups. We found this easy now that we understand fractions. When our salt dough was ready we divided the dough into 25equal pieces. Everyone got 1/25 th .
We have been learning all about fractions in maths. Today we made shortbread and then cut our shortbread shapes into fractions. We then decided what fraction of the shortbread looked bigger ( and which fraction we would like to eat!)
We even cut our tray of shortbread into 1/14ths so that all the staff could try our delicious shortbread.
We are enjoying our class novel This Morning I met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo. We took our maths outdoors and measured the size of different whales and then drew them in our groups.
We could not believe how long a humpback whale is !
