Today in 6.22, we took our maths learning outdoors and created our own co-ordinate grids using chalk and metre sticks.
Once our groups had completed our grids, we labelled our axis and went on a class nature walk. In our forest we collected a range of different items from leaves to sticks to small pine cones.
Afterwards we returned to the playground and placed items that we collected onto our grids. Then we made a list of all co-ordinate points, for example leaf (14,2), flower (6,16).
Stay tuned for more of our maths week work!
We have been very busy Designers in 6.22 as we started the build of our eco-homes. Our classroom was transformed for the day into our own workshop and we took on a series of different roles from builders, to planners and wood cutters.
We used a range of different materials during our build including wood, tape, lollipop sticks, rubber bands, cardboard and glue.
We created a range of different eco-houses including a tree house, earth covered homes and soon to be rotating eco-dome.
Next we are moving onto decorating our houses!
Yesterday the whole school competed in our first House Challenge of the year – Highland games. Our pitch was transformed into a series of different challenges and activities. We completed an obstacle course, discuss throw, shot put and a caber toss.
6.22 showed excellent resilience and team spirit, with all of us encouraging others throughout the different stations! We are all looking forward to our next house challenge.
Over the last few weeks we have been enjoying our P.E lessons out on the pitch and have developed our hockey skills!
We started out with passing and dribbling and enjoyed doing various drills and games in our teams.
Today we played a round robin tournament of matches – some great skills were on display and lots of goals were scored. Next week we are going to move onto defending!
In 6.22, we have started our first block of Mearns Masters – Designers! In our first lesson we discussed the advantages of modern, renewable energy and investigated how solar panels produce energy which can power houses. We then decided as a class that we would like to design our own eco-friendly home as our project in order to help towards building a more sustainable community.
First we had to design what we thought an eco-friendly home should look like, then following some research all of the groups changed our designs when we learnt about the wide range of houses that have been developed in recent years. These range from a rotating solar panel dome, to Earth covered houses to environmentally friendly treehouses!
After our period designing our houses, our class learned about the problems of unsustainable housing and why it was important that we solve these issues through our eco-homes. We voted and decided that reducing CO2 emissions was the biggest problem that we want to solve during our Mearns Masters.
We can’t wait for our next Mearns Masters where we will be investigating different types of structures for our homes and outline our design process ready for our build!
We were very busy in 6.22 throughout week 3, particularly in Numeracy and Mathematics. As a class we discussed all of the different facts that we could like to calculate and measure in the school. This ranged from what the perimeter of the pitch is, to the width of our class library, the height of our climbing wall in the playground and the number of desks that are required for the entire school.
We used a range of different measuring tools but our favourites were the meter stick and the trundle wheel. In our groups we collected data in our class and outside and shared with others.
We also created a map of our school with co-ordinates, plotting the various points of interest and making a key.
We are looking forward to developing our measuring skills further in the coming weeks!
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