During maths we have been exploring the good habits that people can develop to improve their understanding and attainment in maths. These are know as the Mearns Maths Habits.
Today we took a closer look at them and over the next few weeks we will be extending our understanding and skill of using these habits within our maths. We even have a handy wee record sheet to track our use of these habits in our learning.
To mark World Teacher day we spent time this morning discussing what makes a great teacher. Then we each created a character profile to show the qualities we look for in a teacher.
Some qualities we looked for included:
This morning the janitor arrived at our classroom with a mystery parcel! When we opened it we were delighted to find a whole pile of books about the Queens Jubilee and there were enough copies for everyone to take one home. What a lovely treat!
Every day we keep abreast of world events by watching Newsround. We enjoy discussing the news and following different stories across the week.
The website contains the new broadcast, further information linked to the stories and a range of quizzes.
Congratulations to this weeks certificate winners!
We have been exploring information handling and looking at ways of collecting, sorting and displaying information. Today we took our learning outdoors.
First we organised ourselves into teams and collected various natural items.
Then we sorted our items into different sets using our own criteria.
Once we had done that we created tables to display the items we had found.
Then we used our tables to create and answer questions on what we had found.
Yesterday in class we checked the weather forecast to see when this week to plan our outdoor maths activities. We used the Met Office site and this lead to great excitement amongst the children who wanted to know what the weather was like in various places around the world.
As they requested here is a link to the site so that they can explore weather around the world in more detail
Over the next few weeks we will be creating self portraits using a variety of different media. Today we started by creating line drawings of our faces focussing on the proportions of our faces and the placing of our facial features.
Now that we have had a first attempt we are going to create another line drawing self portrait later in the week to improve our technique.
