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Maths Week Scotland 2019

We counted seconds as part of our game in PE, we learned about Roman numerals as part of our topic work and we did some listening and talking activities about using maths in our lives.

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In P.E we have been learning how to play tennis.  We have been moving around the hall and have selected an activity to challenge ourselves; balancing the ball, bouncing the ball etc.  We select an activity which we find challenging but where we are always in control o the ball.

In ICT we have been logging on to GLOW.  We have a P3B Google Classroom page where Mrs. Grieve and Mr. McMillan can put up work and links to websites for our Roman research.

In French we were learning instructions like listen, sit down etc.  We also learnt some greetings this week.

We have been learning more about theRomans this week.  We did some research and answered questions on what life was like in the Roman army.

In writing today we were writing an application to join the Roman army.  We said why we wanted to join the army, why we thought we would make good soldiers and also wrote down any questions we had about joining the army.

Today is Jeans for Genes day.  We brought in money to donate to charity if we wore jeans today.

We had a whole school assembly.  We had Mrs. Cartwright from Newton Mearns Baptist Church in to speak to us about the harvest.  All of the pupils who are in councils and committees stood up in assembly to introduce themselves and were given their badges.

In Health and Wellbeing we were doing work on bounceback.  We talked about humour.  In R.M.E we listened to a parable about the wise man and the foolish man.  The wise man built his house on the roacks, the foolish man built it on the sand.  The wise man knew it was going to rainand there was going to be a flood.  The foolish man’s house got destroyed and the wise man’s house didn’t.  The meaning of the story is to take your time and listen to God.

In maths the Obtuse have been learning to add in tens and how to answer vertical addition calculations (chimney sums).  The Acute group have been learning to add in numbers that end in 9 (19, 29).  The Reflex have been learning about multiplication and division by doing fact families.

In science we have been learning about the human skeleton and this week we were finishing off our skeleton art and labelling the diagram.

This has been our first week in Primary 3 with Mrs. Grieve and Mr. McMillan.

In P.E we went in to the MUGA and met our new P.E teacher Mrs. Kincaid. We played different games; we made a big circle and had to try and get the ball through people’s legs, we had to jump up in a circle one at a time and call out our name.

We have been reading Fantastic Mr. Fox with Mrs. Grieve. We have identified words to describe the farmers. We have said which farmer we would like to work for if we had to pick one, we were learning about alliteration and had to make up weird and wonderful flavours for our ice creams.

We voted for our class charter which is going to be a Mario themed charter and selected which rights we are going to display in our class.

We did drama with Mrs. Grieve. We played games and did an activity where you had to change your voice and another person had to try and guess who was speaking.

We voted for which pupils in our class are going to be on each committee. They are;

• Pupil Council – Harley Gilmore
• Eco-Committee – David Whitton
• Sports Committee – Jamie MacKenzie
• Rights Respecting Schools – Harry Findlay

We have also chosen our group names for our tables in the class. They are Minecraft characters; Steve, Axel and Alex.

We have had different maths problem solving challenges this week.

School Show

We watched the P7 dress rehearsal on Monday. We thought the show was…. “amazing, spectacular, tremendous, fabulous, fantastic, heroic, super, awesome, good, wonderful , cool and lovely”.  Some of the songs have been stuck in our heads since we heard them! We know that the Primary 7s worked very hard amd we’re very proud of them.

Celebration of Achievement

We went to Newton Mearns Baptist Church for our Celebration of Achievement.  Our friends in P5 walked along with us. Fleming won the House Shield for Sports Day.  Stevenson won the House Shield and will go to Five Sisters Zoo on Monday for a wonderful day out.  We sang songs together.  We liked all the songs so much we couldn’t decide which one was our favourite.

Woodlands

All of P2 went to the woodland this week as the weather was better. We played games with the fort that some of the children built, we played on the tyre swing.  Some of us found a secret entrance near the fort.

Playdoh recipe

We have been making playdoh in our Science area.  If you would like to make it at home you will need

8 tablespoons of flour

2 tablespoons of salt

1 tablespoon cream of tartare (you can do without it this, but it makes it easier to shape)

1 tablespoon of oil

8 tablespoons of water

any colour of food colouring or glitter you might like to add.

We have worked on Pointillism in Expressive Arts this week. We could choose to use paint or pen to create a real or imaginary landscape view from a window. We added the window frame and a set of curtains.

In Mathematics we are exploring capacity. “That’s how much a thing can hold in it” (E.T). First we used marbles and cubes but we all got different answers.  Now we are measuring capacity using litres.

On Tuesday afternoon, we had Sports Day. There was a house relay race, which some of the children in P2a ran in.  We all cheered them on. We also did house races in Priamry 2. We did lots of different activities like spacehoppers, obstacle courses, hulahooping, football, hurdles, under and over with a ball, balancing, rugby and throwing.  Our family, friends and neighbours came to watch us. We had lots of fun at Sports Day.

In Literacy we have been learning the skill, clarifying.  This is when there is a word we don’t know the meaning of and you have to work it out.  We used a Dictionary to help us.

Skills Academy

We have had two sessions of Skills Academy this week.  In Life Skills we made pompoms using cardboard and wool. We have been using them to decorate out school bags and our bedrooms. In Learning for Sustainability we have been planting dill. We used seeds, water, soil and a cardboard pot.  We’re looking forward to watching them grow. In Design and Manufacture we used sticks and marshmallows to make towers.  We had to decide how to spend £100 on materials to make the towers. We tested them using jelly to make an earthquake. In Digital Technologies, we used Kodable on laptops and computers.  We worked with partners to create algorithms to collect stars with our fuzzy creatures.

Mathematics and Numeracy.

We have been learning to give change and make totals to £1 with coins.  It was tricky! We have also been learning about symmetry.  If something is symmetrical, one side is the same as the other.  We have explored shapes and patterns.  We have also looked at the edges, vertices and faces of 3D shapes. We have looked at spheres, triangular prisms, cones, cubes, cuboids, cylinders and square based pyramids. We even made some of the shapes out of paper and lots of sellotape.

We also used symmetry in our play… look at this symmetrical robot base!

Literacy

We have been practising our clarifying skills.  This means working out the meaning.  We have used picture clues, other words in the sentences and dictionaries to help us work out the meaning of unknown words.

Science

We have been linking our Social Studies and Science work to make our own tornadoes. We used yellow water and red water and shook it in a circle to make the shape in the jar. It was inside out becuase there was water in the eye of the tornado.

Maths and Numeracy

We have been learning about 3D shapes like cubes, cones and spheres and square based pyramids. We did a scavenger hunt inside and outside the classroom to find the shapes. We have been working on our money and calculating change.  You have to do a subtraction to work out the change. When you buy things you have to use addition. We have been developing our skills in telling the time using half past and o’clock on digital and analogue clocks.  Most of us found putting the half past hands on correctly the hardest part.

Literacy

We have been learning to compare and contrast.  Compare is what is the same, and contrast is when you tell them apart (D.B) We have been using Venn diagrams, photographs, questioning and developing talking and listening skills by comparing and contrasting monsters.

We have been working on alliteration in our writing.  Can you spot some in our blog title?

Science

We have combined Science and Social Studies to learn about different types of wind.  There are four different types: typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones and tornadoes. You can usually see a tornado coming. Some of the types of wind are called different things in different places. We learned that these types of weather can be a catastrophe.

PE

In PE we were working on fitness in the classroom and balance and gross motor skills in the gym hall.  Our jumping and rolling skills are really improving. For our cool down, we played sleeping lions.  Ask to see our funny faces…

We have all received our Sumdog logins and practised how to log on. Our log in cards are in our schoolbags. Go to www.sumdog.com and you can compete in the Eastwood Cluster Competition!

We made some clouds and learned the names for different types. Cumulous clouds are fluffy and puffy. Cirrus clouds look like toothbrushes or feathers in the sky. Cumulounimbus have storms inside. Stratus clouds are thick like a blanket.

In PE we played Steal Ball and Scatter Ball. We use our running, catching, throwing, kicking  and stealing skills. This week we learned that f you hit the balls into space, the fielding team has to work harder….

We have using our addition skills this week in three-digit calcuations, money and change and number families.

We have been working on cause and effect… Here are some examples from our day.

I was outside so I got muddy (K.F)

There wasn’t enough tinfoil for the spy base so we had to sit down (O.B)

I was sitting nicely at assembly so I got a house token (S.D)

I was feeling down so my friend helped me. (D.B)

We made a dam so I got muddy (R.C)

I made a lolly so I took it outside (E.T)

We ran out of paper in the art area so I couldn’t draw a picture (M.K)

I was playing with the water tap so I got wet (A.D)

The water tap was fully on so it flooded the dam. (Z.M)

In P.E we were doing gymnastics with Mr. McMillan.  We worked on our forward roll, jumping and landing and balance.

In writing we created poems about school.  We described our senses, used WOW words and alliteration. 

In social studies we have been learning about the weather.  This week we learnt about the different types of clouds and their names; cirrus, cumulus, stratus and nimbus.  We used cotton wool to recreate these clouds.

In maths the hexagons have been learning about money and identifying coins and notes, the circles have been continuing number patterns, the squares have been learning to calculate the correct change with money and the triangles have been working on addition and subtraction to 20.

In art we have been learning about pointillism, where we used small dots to create a larger image.

We’ve had lots of interesting visitors to our classroom this week.  We learned about pensions, and that Heena’s mum’s job is to take other peoples’ money and look after it.  You have to use time and addition skills in her job. We also talked about chocolate buttons!

Andrew’s dad is an Air Traffic Controller so he looks after aeroplanes in the sky. He adds to 11 to keep the keep the planes at the correct time.

We learned about different types of bridges…. stone bridges, arch bridges and suspension bridges. We made paper bridges.  Did you know that if you fold paper like a fan it is strong enough to hold Lego bricks?

Mr Norman sets up big displays and makes films for customers.  He uses time and measurements to get the stage right and to make the films properly.

We took our learning outside this week too. Our huge cardboard box was……

a teleporter into the land of dinosaurs and to Sweetie Land

a den…

a sausage box….

a car…

and an aeroplane….

A group of children were digging in the trench for gold.  Then they decided to make a dam for the water to make the mud wetter.  The mud was higher than the water, so it stopped it.  They got very muddy!!