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Health & Wellbeing, Home, Literacy, Numeracy, Primary 7, Remote Learning, Technologies

REMOTE LEARNING TAKE 2: DAY 3

Happy Wednesday!

Today is the third day of our remote learning and I must say that I am so impressed with the engagement level of the class.

I love logging on in the morning and receiving comments alongside the register of ‘Good Morning’, so thank you for this.

Also, I really appreciate those who are keeping me in the loop regarding their family situations. It can be extremely difficult and a very stressful situation trying to complete work at home, especially if people become unwell. That being said, please make sure you are looking after your mental and physical health first and foremost. Do what you can, if you cannot get everything completed – don’t worry. I would much rather you did a few things, very well.

We started the day by revising some previous concepts and converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages. The children then learned some new information about adding and subtracting fractions, before undertaking their differentiated tasks.

The Grammar Police were out in full force today looking for the misuse of apostrophes. Interestingly, lots of mistakes spotted on social media and from a number of celebrities.

Ibrahim pointed out that he’s seen someone say “Not many Tuesday’s left until…” and knew that this was incorrect. An eagle-eyed pupil also caught me out for forgetting an apostrophe in my post on the Google Classroom. Was it done intentionally to catch you out, or a genuine mistake by me…?

We also continued with our learning in RSHP this afternoon. As if I would miss out on our favourite part of the week! We thought about what makes a good friend and the qualities that we possess which make us a good friend for someone to have. We completed a google form to assess what qualities we have in 7.27 that make us good friends to others, and what areas perhaps we should work on. Here are the results.

With this information and then we created a wanted poster, showing the characteristics, qualities, and traits of a good friend.

Kara created a brilliant poster demonstrating some things which she looks for in a friend.

As did Zaina,

and Henry

Our final ‘extra activity’ today was a link to Kevin Quantum’s website where we could watch some of his tricks and videos, or have a go at some as there is a ‘how-to’ section. I received a lot of comments saying that people enjoyed this addition to the google classroom.

Thanks again for all of your hard work. Keep it up, I think you’re all amazing, and remember it is a tough time for everyone so be especially kind to yourself, as well as to others.

Over halfway through the week now… time really does fly when you’re having fun!

Health & Wellbeing, Home, Literacy, Outdoor Learning, Primary 7, Remote Learning, Technologies

REMOTE LEARNING TAKE 2: DAY 2

Today is day number two of 7.27’s remote learning experience. I have taken the children’s views from their Jamboard into account and have created an interactive poster for them to show their learning for today.

If we had been in school today, this morning would have seen the start of outdoor learning with Mrs. Kelly for three periods. The class would then have had three periods of either recovery time in the kitchen, or recovery time with me – where we would have hosted the ‘Mearns Film Festival’ to watch your creations.

For this reason, today’s learning has been designed closely to what we should have been doing in school, and we will still celebrate the Film Festival when we return as the children worked so hard on their projects.

It seems everyone enjoyed their learning today! Here is a snippet of what some pupils got up to…

Aatish, Wint, and Zaina completed some film reviews of their favourite moving images.

Ibrahim took his learning outdoors today and created a map of his local area. Very detailed!

Amaya also undertook some outdoor learning and sent a hilarious video of her completing an obstacle course that she designed.

Delisha went outside and investigated which 2D and 3D shapes she could make with natural materials. She also created an amazing animation too! What a busy day of remote learning.

In the image below, you will see that Olivia took part in a scavenger hunt in her garden with a little help from her Mum hiding some rocks for!

Jamie decided to build on his filmmaking skills by planning and producing an animation. Well done Jamie!

Lea has also created an animation which is BRILLIANT but unfortunately too large to upload, so I will post a screengrab of her film instead.

Lucy spent a lot of the day writing and working on her film as well. Unfortunately it is too large to upload the whole thing but here is a little taster of it…

Some people chose to bake as well. I said that I would have a go at the banana bread recipe, as I had some bananas going off, and I didn’t disappoint. Below is my bread in the oven and then once it was out and cooled. I must admit, it doesn’t look great but it tastes amazing. I had to drizzle some extra chocolate on top to make self-isolation a little bit ‘sweeter’!

Jemma baked banana bread as well, she did this completely independently with only a FaceTime to her gran to find out how to work the oven and mixer. Amazing! Jemma also confirmed that it tasted scrumptious.

Here is Olivia’s banana bread mix before it made its way to the oven.

Not everyone made the same thing, Lewis and his family baked some brownies together. I think that’s something that I’ll be trying next time. Sounds delicious.

I hope everyone continues to stay safe. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

Well done everyone. Day two – complete!

Home, Literacy, Numeracy, Primary 7, Remote Learning

Remote Learning Take 2: Day 1

Well, what an unexpected Sunday/Monday! Primary 7.27, and I, find ourselves in self-isolation! I hope that everyone is keeping well during this time and that you are all looking after yourselves.

We started our first day of remote learning very similarly to how we would usually start our days in class – by watching Newsround.

I then asked the children to collaborate on a Jamboard to get their views on what they would like from their remote learning experience. It also gave us some time to chat with each other which was lovely!

Favourite ideas seemed to be:

Kahoot quizzes, Goodnight Mister Tom book to be made available, time incorporated for homework, ‘Fun Fridays’ with activities like Origami, opportunities for filming and writing scripts/plays/alternative endings, interactive posters, outdoor learning, and also some cooking!

Flipgrid was also a popular suggestion but unfortunately, this cannot be used at the moment as the council is having to ensure that it is GDPR-secure.

People also said they felt it would be important to keep it similar to school with literacy, numeracy, and another task for each day and I tend to agree.

I’m ever so glad that Mr. McKenna has worked with the class this term on improving and enhancing digital skills, and that they’ve been able to teach me, as we are now more ready than ever for the next few weeks.

Today we worked on a variety of literacy skills whilst reading about Polar Bears and then self-assessed our work. Some people chose to then use their new knowledge to create a new text – which was AMAZING!

George chose to create a leaflet, with some outstanding artwork!

Ibrahim created a really impressive poster about Polar Bears, using Google Drawings. Fantastic!

We also completed some numeracy work where we consolidated last week’s class learning of calculating percentages of amounts.

I’ve taken everyone’s views into consideration when planning our day tomorrow.

Bring on day 2…

Expressive Arts, Literacy, Primary 7

Recovery Project

 

This week we are writing our scripts in class but we have to make sure to include some new vocabulary. We have worked on vocabulary enrichment tasks and also using context clues to find the meaning of words that we are unsure of. We have been looking at the John Muir Trust ‘Lost Words’ which was very interesting!

We will hopefully be able to apply our newfound vocabulary to our scripts this afternoon, before the filming commences…

 

 

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Primary 7

Recovery Project

 

P7 have been delighted to welcome Miss Harrison as our recovery teacher this term. She will be working with half of the class on a Tuesday afternoon cooking, while the other half work with Miss Thomson on a super fun literacy project. After 4 weeks we will swap over. Exciting!

Here’s a snippet of what we’ve been up to in the kitchen and the class…

 

 

 

We will keep you updated with our weekly activities.

Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Science, Social Studies, Technologies

MODELS

 

WOW! Everyone was absolutely blown away by the exceptional models which 7.27 created to showcase their individual concepts for learning which they had been working on. I’m sure you’ll agree they are absolutely fantastic and show such high levels of creativity and problem solving. We all peer- assessed the models and wrote some excellent feedback for each other.

Well done!

 

Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Primary 7, Technologies

A Day of Discovery

We started our Friday morning in an integrated way with lots of different tasks being undertaken. Some children decided to develop their comprehension by playing games, some worked on their speedy numeracy skills, others did some drawing and crafts. We loved picking our tasks and deciding when we did them.

As we had so much fun this morning we decided to continue this discovery and equity approach through the day. We learned some new skills during writing time and then chose how we wanted to apply them. Some people created blackout poems, others created stories and some chose to write letters and diary entries. We had to come up with our own success criteria depending on the type of text that we were creating.  We will show some of the finished pieces later on.

Here are some pictures of us working on our writing. Of course we used technology to help us!

 

Expressive Arts, Primary 7

ORCHESTRA ONLINE

Today we had the pleasure of a video call with Andrew Duncan, a tuba player in the BBC symphony orchestra, as part of BBC’s symphony sessions.

Andrew showed us his tuba, played us some tunes, and we were able to clap along with them too. We got a chance to ask him some of our questions and he was great at answering hem all for us.

Thanks so much, Andrew. It was great fun and we learned a lot!

Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Numeracy, Outdoor Learning

MATHS WEEK PART 3

 

Maths this week finished sensationally last week with us being crowned runners up in the P7 East Renfrewshire Quiz. We were so excited and the tense atmosphere in the class was so exciting!

This week we’ve taken aspects of maths week that we loved and used them during a normal week to make sure that we are all engaged and motivated in our learning. The children were keen to continue the outdoor learning so we went outside to work as a group and decode various ciphers as a treasure hunt activity.

After researching famous mathematicians during maths week we were really interested in Katherine Johnson and the discrimination that she faced being an African-American woman. This got us thinking about the Black Lives matter movement and also the women’s rights campaign and women’s suffrage.

We chose an area that interested us, researched it and produced a piece of writing. We generated our own success criteria depending on what type of text we were creating. Some of us made posters, me leaflets and others wrote newspaper reports.

Alesha continued to impress us by writing out pi to 100 decimal places! Well done!

We explored budgeting and worked as a group to make sure that our  fleet had enough equipment.

 

We we are very much looking forward to the October week and a well-deserved break. We have been working so hard in P7 to recover learning and relationships that suffered during our months in lockdown. We are learning and progressing in fun, engaging ways and everyday we try out best to meet our potential! Keep up the great work 7.27.

Expressive Arts, Numeracy, Primary 7

MATHS WEEK PART 2

We LOVED using our problem solving skills outside yesterday! We had to follow the map to find the calculations and we worked with others to solve the problems. We are going to try this again next week to solve some codes outside!

 

      

Today we took part in a live origami YouTube lesson. It was great to be creative and use expressive arts skills, while learning about, and reinforcing our knowledge of 3D shape.

     

It was challenging but we used our growth mindsets to persevere until we got there in the end.

 

A successful morning in 7.27!