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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!

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!

 

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.

 

Numeracy, Primary 6, Science, Special event, Technologies

STEM Fortnight: Day 6

Today we had two visitor assemblies, the first from Matthew who is building a cob oven for Mearns Primary school. This is an oven made of clay that has been used for thousands of years.

Our second visitors were  the authors of a the book The Highland Falcon Thief, M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. The book is about a boy detective called Harrison (Hal) and in each book he solves a mystery on a real-world famous train.

Finally, we concluded our insulation experiment and identified the best and worst insulator and gave reasons why they were so.