EWHCF Class of 2022

After being introduced to our exciting new maths resources during Maths Week last week, P5a’s Spheres group have been enjoying using the geo-boards as part of their grid-references topic.  They designed patterns and pictures and wrote out the corresponding grid references to see if their partner could recreate their image.

The Cubes have also been using the geo-boards as part of their perimeter and area topic.  They created a floor-plan for a house and measured it out in their jotters before recreating the design on their geo-boards.

This week has been Maths Week Scotland! We have had a great time using geoboards to explore the link between perimeter and area. We were creating shapes with the same area but different perimeters. We have using been using tens and units to help us with carrying and exchanging when adding and subtracting. Some of us used polydron to create different 3D shapes. We really enjoyed using a new resources.

We have been learning about chemical reactions. Melting, freezing, evaporating, condensing and dissolving are examples of reversible physical changes. These are physical changes because no new materials are created. They are reversible changes because they can be changed back or reversed.

Mrs Lamont set up Google Classroom for us and we were looking at some of the maths games that are on it so far and enjoyed playing them.

We were learning about the Grand Canyon and we found out that it is so deep that if we put all the water in the world in it the water level would only fill about half of the Grand Canyon.

We made TV adverts about the Great Barrier Reef to try and convince people that it needs to be saved. We really enjoyed using our drama skills.

In writing we wrote a descriptive piece about what we could see in a snow day. We were trying to use similes and metaphors.

In ICT we are making posters about staying safe online.

In PE we have been playing different possession games and working on communicating in a team.

In French we were learning about schools in France and compared them to school in Scotland.

In numeracy we have been learning about division, multiplication and addition. We are getting the hang of it!

We were also excited to find out who the new house captains were.

P5b ~ Our First Week

We have been learning about the Northern Lights, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. We looked at all of the different causes of the Northern Lights and found out it is to do with the Earth’s magnetic field and gasses in the atmosphere. Chinese Legend though it was caused by good and evil dragons having a fight and they thought their fire was the lights!

We did an Art lesson based on Thank You x who is a street artist. It was very cool and we enjoyed making a great piece of art.

We worked with Mrs Lamont on new maths games to play and we taught her some as well!

We created our class charter and spoke about our rights and what we would do in class to make sure everyone has those rights. Our design is a cake!

 

 

 

Last week, we were very lucky to have some fantastic visitors to our class who told us all about how they use Mathematics in their world of work. We heard all about pensions, computer generated images, being a GP, working with leather, creating spreadsheets, being an archaeologist and how high school maths links with design and manufacturing sports equipment (though the children were much more interested in the job at McDonalds that pays for all of the expensive trainers).

We’ve launched our new topic, but Sssh! It’s a secret.

In Maths we’ve been working with numbers, identifying Place Value, ordering numbers almost to 1,000,000, practicing our mental maths addition and subtraction skills and dividing with remainders.

We’ve linked Literacy with Health & Wellbeing, analysing the words to “This is Me” from the Greatest Showman which led to some fantastic discussion in class about what it means to be different and how society’s view on disability was very different in the past.

While the children were off on Tuesday, the teachers were completing HeartStart Training and so the children will be coming home with new First Aid Skills very soon.

Today we have been combining art and maths. Looking at shapes –

“Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.” Paul Cézanne

We spent time looking at sunflowers to see what patterns were visible. Ask your child about the Fibonacci Sequence…

 

 

Literacy and English

We have been learning how to use speech marks to show if someone is speaking.  It was quite easy but we enjoyed it.  We will use speech marks in our writing.

Numeracy and Mathematics

We did our Numeracy SNSA this week. We did a practice first which was very easy and then we did the real one.  It was really fun and quite challenging.

Trip

On Thursday we went to the Museum of Rural Life.  At the farm we learned how to milk cows by squeezing the udders.  There was also a quiz in the museum where we had to solve clues to find the answers.   Some of us were able to pat a lamb, a calf or a horse. Some of us were able to hold chicken’s eggs. At the workshop we were learning what soil was used for.  We learned that 95% of food starts with good soil and that soil is made of grass, water and minerals but it takes 1000 years to make a centimetre of soil.

Did you know horses grow moustaches when they get to a certain age?

We were very lucky with the weather but Group 3 got a little soggy!

Today Primary 4 were very lucky to have a visit from the SSPCA. We enjoyed listening to ways we can care for animals and understand the animals have welfare needs. We now feel confident we can be responsible animal citizens of the future.

Part of our workshop enabled us to work as part of a team to build a robot rabbit out of a certain number parts and use an iPad to programme the rabbit to move. It was great fun and required communication and problem solving skills to be successful in the task.

 

Mrs Denholm and Mrs Dougall were very impressed with how well we all worked together and how respectful all of the boys and girls were towards the visitors.

Another busy week in P4B, the children have been trying Reciprocal Reading, playing tennis, creating Venn Diagrams of the difference between Wants and Needs relating to the UNConvention on the Rights of the Child and they have been wallowing in mud. The pictures say it all really!

 

P4a had great fun making their way around the mini mudder course in the woodland area. The sun was shining and the mud was EVERYWHERE! Here are some snaps of the pupils in action.