Primary 6.24 undertook a STEM paper chain challenge. We had to work in groups to create the longest paper chain. We had to measure the chains with a ruler and make sure they were 4cm in width. The overlap had to be 1cm.
We used our Meta skills and there was lots of good teamwork on display.
P6.24 enjoyed sharing their Scratch games we created during our Coding lessons.
We enjoyed a great warm up game today involving consonants, vowels and golden question marks. What great fun we had creating lots of words giggling and laughing the whole time too. 😂
After that we used ‘Sammy snakes’ to help us learn a bit more about estimating before taking our Sammy snakes exploring in our outdoor area searching for items that measure 1 metre.
“Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. On two days of action each year, teachers take children outdoors to play and learn.”
We are so fortunate here in Mearns that part of our school improvement plan is encouraging teachers to take children out EVERY day!
Today we had a marvellous time observing and recording details about leaves that we found. We took part in some activities to help us understand the importance of recording clearly and observing closely.
We then enjoyed working in teams to produce some really creative symmetrical patterns. What a lot of learning went on as we worked together, chatting and excitedly creating them.
This morning we were challenged to collect six number stones to create three two digit numbers giving the highest total possible.
What marvellous discussions we had throughout the challenge as well as on the way back to class! We are certainly sharpening up our mental maths and problem solving skills in primary 4.
After that we designed and made some really cool outdoor hi tech clipboards and headed out to collect some leaves and flowers to press over the October break.
What a super day for some outdoor maths today! After a fun warm up game revising place value we moved on to investigating the properties of 2D shapes and well as learning about obtuse, acute and right angles.
We also created some marvellous shapes and patterns by joining others together and using the materials in interesting ways.
