Last week in Woodland we made a tripod to melt some chocolate. – Lily-Anne

We collected 3 sticks, a tray and a coffee cup lid. First we got the 3 sticks and made it into a triangular shape and and tied the sticks at the top with string and put the sticks into mud. – Lily

In my group we firstly put a log in the middle and put 3 planks around it and tied it at the top with string. After that we put the chocolate on top of the log and then we tried to use the sunlight’s rays to make the chocolate melt. We did this using mirrors to reflect the sun’s rays onto the chocolate. – Arjun

I found it fun because we got use hot water to try and melt the chocolate with steam. – Olivia-Rose

Most groups managed to melt the chocolate and for those that didn’t, we tried really hard and got to eat it in the end anyway! – Roslyn

We have learnt that if you heat up a solid, it will become a liquid. – Amy

This is because the particles in the solid start to break apart when it is heated, becoming a liquid. – Joshua

 

In Science we have started to learn about solids, liquids and gases. Solids are something that you can hold. – Amy

Solids are made up of tiny particles that are stuck together and can’t move around. – Maddison

Some examples of solids are bricks, spoons, water bottles and tables. – Eilidh

Liquids are something runny that you can’t hold. The particles are less tightly packed together and can move a little bit. – Finn

Some examples of liquids are water, juice and oil. – Nicole

Gases are like smoke and the particles are not close together so can move freely. – Isaac

Examples of gases are helium, oxygen, nitrogen, smoke and carbon dioxide  – Olivia-Rose, Matthew and Finn

Gases are something that you can inhale and exhale instead of eating and drinking. We played a game to help us. As a group we had to stand close together to pretend to be a solid, hold hands and stay close but move a bit to pretend to be a liquid and when we were gas particles we had to spread out around the room. – Alexander

 

We were being solid particles, standing closely together.

 

We were being gas particles, slightly further apart.

 

We were being gas particles, easily moving and spread out.

This week the Dedicated Decimals have been learning about symmetry.  We have been trying to create our own symmetrical patterns as well.

The Marvellous Multipliers have been learning the 4 times table and skip counting in 4.  We counted the corners of squares to practise doing this.

The Flawless Fractions have also been learning about symmetry.  We have been finding the lines of symmetry in different shapes.

We have all been creating our own maths and numeracy board games in groups.

In P.E we have been learning basketball with Mr. McMillan.  We have been developing our dribbling, passing, shooting, and rebound skills.  We also played games of basketball and worked on our team skills.

In French we have been learning how to say who is in our family.

In Science we have been learning about extinction and endangered species.

In Health and Well-being we drew a portrait of ourselves and wrote words to describe ourselves (positive and/ or negative).  We then asked our friends what they thought about us and we wrote these words down too.

This week was Maths Week Scotland. We were focusing on different types of jobs which involve maths.

At one group we were being an architect and the P4’s used squared paper and P5’s used blank paper to draw out a floor plan of a bungalow. – Amy

We were using maths in our floor plan because we had to use a ruler to measure out the rooms. – Maddison

We multiplied the length and breadth to work out what the area of each room was and and every cm we drew out was 1m. – Arjun

We were also pretending to be businessmen and women. We had to figure out when we were doing calls to other countries and write it on our schedule. We had to add on or take away in hours and tell the time to work out the time difference in other countries. – Ellis

The last station was to be a teacher and make our own maths lesson. The P5’s had to teach multiples or factors and the P4’s had to teach 3 times table multiplying or division. On our lesson plan we had to conclude a starter task, main task and a fast finisher. – Eilidh

3 people in our class got to teach their lesson including me, Finn and Subhan. Finn and I got to teach the P5 and Subhan got to teach the P4’s. It was really weird being the teacher and it was challenging to get everyone to listen. I enjoyed that I had the chance to experience these jobs so that I have future references if I want to do that job in the future. – Alexander