Last week in P7J we had lots of different learning experiences.

We completed our work on Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ music by composing some tunes of our own.  Each group had a selection of instruments and were tasked with creating an 8 beat tune, inspired by winter.  This was good fun and everyone worked well as part of a team to count beats and come in at the correct time.

Our numeracy focus was on adding and subtracting fractions.  We had to use our prior learning, from last week, about mixed and improper fractions to help with these calculations.

Continuing with our study of poetry, we looked at limericks.  These are funny, five line poems which rhyme. Here is Codey’s for you to enjoy!

There once was an unusual parrot,

Who for some reason loved to eat carrots,

The bigger the better,

He said in his letter,

Oh, what an unusual parrot!

 

As part of our topic on China, Miss Little set the challenge of researching the giant panda.  Notes were collected and then used to write non-chronological reports.

 

John Muir Award and Outdoor Learning

We started a four week rotation for outdoor learning on Thursday.  We were so glad it wasn’t raining!

Group one was helping P3/2 pupils to make bird feeders out of plastic milk cartons. Group 2 was weeding the raised bed and sowing seeds: we planted lettuce, sweetcorn and courgette seeds this week.  Group 3 was hunting for animal tracks hidden around the playground and trying to identify them.  Group four was given a S.T.E.M challenge to build a bird’s nest; this was not as easy as everyone first thought! Lots of problem solving was going on, testing designs and improving them. 

We’re looking forward to another interesting week this week.

Remember to look out for the homework folder on educationcity.com.