Category Archives: Numeracy

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!

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…

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!

Numeracy, Outdoor Learning, Primary 7

OUTDOOR LEARNING

A week ago we went outside to apply our problem solving skills. We had been learning about angles within triangles and quadrilaterals, and also different types of these. We drew some outside and then got our peers to answer questions about these. We asked people to find the missing angles and also challenged others to find some exterior angles too! It was great.

Numeracy, Primary 7, Technologies

MATHS WEEK

 

This week is maths week! We had a wonderful long weekend and have returned ready for a week of maths fun. So far this week we have been working in groups to research and investigate a famous mathematician. We all chose someone that we are interested in and we chose a sensible group to work in. Together we generated our success criteria for our presentations. We will be presenting these on Friday so hopefully we can post an update then. We created ChatterPix of some famous mathematicians too.

 

We’ve also been learning about coding and decoding which has been quite tricky but so much fun! We are looking forward to taking part in the p7 quiz on Friday and using our knowledge.

This afternoon we are heading outside for some numeracy orienteering and we can’t wait to update on how it went.

We also researched famous mathematician Katherine Johnson as a class, by using QR codes and our note-taking skills. We found out lots of information regarding women’s rights, the black lives matters movement, and also NASA and space. We are bursting with knowledge and will use this knowledge to complete a writing task on Friday.

 

Numeracy, Primary 6, Science, Special event, Technologies

STEM Fortnight: Day 8

Today, we designed and constructed a Mars lander module that would safely deliver a payload to the surface of the planet.

We were given a design brief and a budget of £100,00,000! Our briefing stated that dropping a manned module on the Red Planet is the equivalent of dropping an egg from a height of 4 metres.

After a first test and any modifications, we finally dropped our eggs.

Well done to the winning team that successfully dropped their lander without any damage to their egg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numeracy, Primary 6, Science, Special event, Technologies

STEM Fortnight: Day 7

Following on from our Animal Adaptation lessons, we explored the benefits of having a layer of blubber to surviving Arctic Ocean temperatures of between -2 and 0 oC.

The Blubber Glove experiment involves first timing how long you can keep your hand in cold (2.4 oC) water.

Most people can only tolerate this for less than a minute.

Secondly, we covered our hand in lard to replicate a layer of blubber.

Again, we put our hands in the water and time it again.

Finally, we used our results to create a spreadsheet and create a chart to show our results.

This afternoon, Mr Hull visited us to demonstrate the app Bloxels which is used to create our own games.