Maths Board Games
Hi, it’s Lydia, Hannah and Bella again. Today we’ll be telling you all about the process of making our board games and how we made them. We had to create a board game which had mathematical problems related to the four operations (addition, subtraction, division an multiplication).
Our board games took a lot of creativity, thought and teamwork. Our board games are maths themed so they also sharpened our maths skills.
The first board game was created by Lydia, Hussein, Sophie and Suhaana. It is called Operation Maths.
The second board game was created by Noor, Hannah, Bella, Isaac . It is called Mathopoly.
The third game is called Maths Monopoly and was created by Zain, Aishah, Amelia, Dylan CF and Kyle.
The fourth game is called Monopoly Maths Edition and was created by Khadija N, Khadija M, Kadi and Shreya.
The fifth one is called Maths Mayhem and it was created by Alex, Adam, Naomi, Emma and Mila.
The one below is called Maths Monopoly and was created by Riyad, Dylan D and Himmat.
The last one is called Mathematical Cluedo and was created by Roma, Erin, Olivia and Zainab.
Our first week in P6!
Hello, its Bella, Hannah and Lydia, we are your class bloggers. We are going to be telling you what we have done the past week. First a little bit a about us. Our first day of primary six was very exciting we had so much fun. We have the best teacher ever her name is Miss McLaughlin she is very nice! On our first day everything was different because of the social distancing and washing hands all the time, we also have a new pupil called Khadija!
Hand washing: this is one of the things that has changed. We have to wash our hands 6 times a day, it’s sometimes really annoying because we’re late for break and lunch, we wash our hands in the morning, before break, after break, before lunch, after lunch and before we go home or anytime we go out of the classroom.
In class we have been doing the rights of the child and we have chosen the 6 most important rights to us as a class, all rights are important but we chose the ones that are relevant to school (See photo below to view our rights and class rules).
In health and wellbeing, everybody made a ‘me behind the mask’ portrait to describe themselves, the amazing person underneath the mask. It was so much fun here is some displayed in class (see below).
Country of the Week: In class we have this map of the world and on Friday we choose a pupil from the class and they get to scribble out a country. Last week we picked India and on Friday people will write some facts about India it was an optional Homework.
We hope you enjoyed reading our first blog post about P6!
20/21
Sounds and Waves
This week we used wire coat hangers and string for our sound investigation. We worked in pairs to bang the hanger off the table. We each held the end of a piece of string that was attached to the hanger and we could hear the sound quite quietly. When we wrapped the string around our fingers and then placed our fingers in our ears the sound was much louder.
Following this, we took turns individually, held onto both pieces of string and placed our fingers in our ears. The sound was even louder it sounded like ‘booongg’.
We watched a video on how vibrations make sounds for example when we sing our vocal cords vibrate and create a sound.
Communication and Sound
As part of our science work we have started investigating sound and animal communication.
As an introduction Mrs James showed us a video on TigTag showing how some animals communicate. It was interesting to see what an important part vibration plays in the creation of sound.
We carried out a task that required us to attach two plastic cups together with a piece of string. We tried it out with different lengths of string and we could hear a little of what our partners were saying.
It was suggested that we pulled the string tight in order that it would vibrate. It was fun to hear the laughs and giggles as the voices at either end of the string became clearer.
We discussed how stringed instruments work and a few musicians amoung us shared their experience of tuning instruments which required us to tighten the strings.
Friction Experiment – Rice
Last week we investigated friction using rice and plastic bottles.
Mrs James asked us to fill the bottles with rice and then pick it up using only a stick.
To begin with we thought she had missed out something but then as we followed the instructions and gave it a try there were shrieks of laughter as we all managed to pick up the bottles.
We had to make sure that the bottle was filled tightly right up to the top with rice and then we pushed the sticks in carefully.
The fact that all of the air had been pushed out of the bottle allowed friction to be created between the stick and the rice particles. Therefore when we tried to lift the bottle the stick held it up – FRICTION!
Science – Friction
For the last few weeks we have been carrying out investigations on friction.
As an introduction we worked in groups to record the results when rolling different balls over different surfaces – the pitch, the grass and the playground. We noted which balls travelled well and which balls did not travel far on the surfaces.
The ball that travelled the furthest was the hockey ball on the pitch and the one that got stuck was the spikey ball rolling on the grass. We discovered that this was due to the amount of friction being created as the two surfaces touched each other.
The sponge ball did not travel well either. This was because the ball was quite light and did not have the force of the weight pressing down on the surfaces.
Raft Building – Outdoor Learning
Before the October holiday we went on a twig hunt around the playground. We managed to collect some sticks and twigs which we then made into miniature rafts. We worked with a partner or in a group of three to tie the twigs together and make a raft that would hopefully float in the classroom sink.
Some of us succeeded, others had rafts that tipped over and sank. As well as being a simple science experiment we also had to work together to design and create our rafts in the first place. We gathered the required materials then set to, trying to build our boats.
Have a look at some of our creations!
Shelters
Following a discussion on the Right’s of a Child, we discussed the need for shelter. We decided instead of making a few big shelters that instead we would work together to make smaller shelters.
We collected the required objects then we started to build!
We all managed to create a shelter for our small mouse friends using the natural materials that we could find.
