Today primary 6 went to Scotland Street Museum to experience what it was like to be a Victorian child in school. It was really scary! There was a real Victorian teacher there. She was very strict and petrified most of us. We had to line up smallest to tallest in silence and then we were ordered into class by the aggressive teacher. We learned our times tables, the alphabet and handwriting.
We did complete the lesson with a fun activity with the Victorian Janitor! Thank goodness we live in the 21st century.
Primary 6a have been looking at artifacts from the Victorian era. We discussed what the items looked like, what they could be used for and created questions about them. We were able to work out some of the answers to the questions through discussing them in a small group. We also thought about the modern day equivalents of these items. Can you guess what any of these items are used for?
In December the Triangle group were learning how to create surveys and present information. Here are some photos showing them asking very important questions and recording the information in a tally chart.
In September Primary 5a had lots of fun doing a maths treasure hunt. Each card was placed somewhere in the gym hall and we had to read the card, find the answer and then look for the card around the hall which had the answer on it. It was a great way of practising our skills and knowledge of addition, subtraction and multiplication.
Pr 4/3 collected information on our favourite rainforest animal using tally marks. We then displayed this information by creating a bar graph. What was our favourite rainforest animal ?
Primary 4/3 worked with a partner to decide on success criteria for creating a poster. They looked at a variety of ready made posters and decided with their partner why it was successful. They then used their ideas to create a list of success criteria to use when they make their own posters.
Primary 4/3 have been enjoying learning about ‘The Skeleton’ and ‘The Organs’ in Science. Primary 4 carried out research using videos and the internet to make notes. They used their notes to create these informative and eye-catching posters on their chosen human organ. Primary 3 created these labelled diagrams to show that they know the names and position of important bones of the skeleton.
P4 have been looking at adjectives and how they help to make a picture in a sentence. They had to write about someone who lived in their house. This was to make it easier as they would know lots of details about that person. We had some very good pictures painted with words.
Here is the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janiero. We discovered that it looks over the city of Rio and is 38 metres in height. It is also 28 metres from finger tip to finger tip. We worked out how many classes would need to be put on top of one another to reach it and how many classes side by side would fit into the outstretched arms.We were shocked. It did make it very real for us though, as none of us have actually seen it. It also weighs 30 tons.
We have been learning to use linked script to improve our handwriting skills. We have been learning how to join letters together without taking our pencil off of the page. Many of us enjoy handwriting and are beginning to use these lovely joins in our day to day class work.
