P5/6 KNex Challenge

We are getting ready to take part in the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Challenge next week.

We sorted our Knex and worked together to organise the different parts into our storage boxes. We loved this challenge and showed fantastic collaborative skills to tidy up our resources. Mrs Ross was very impressed!

 

We then had a go at making some of our own designs to practise building with Knex.

 

Next step : work in teams to plan, design and build a structure from our chosen theme.

 

Next week we will take part in a times team event. Watch this space to see our COP26 inspired designs.IMG_6729

P5/6 Fractions and Decimals

We have been learning all about tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

In class we have been writing fractions in decimal notation and learning about their place value.

Today we used this skill in a real life context  using decimal points when measuring in metres and centimetres .

We also timed each other using hundredths of a second to record our time accurately.