Welcome back!

We enjoyed sharing our holiday news with each other after our October break.

This week we completed our Chinese inspired dragon art with Miss Campbell.

In Outdoor Learning, we added our ideas to our LEAF Challenge action plan, then headed outside to estimated the height and age of trees in the playground.

1. First we turned our back to the tree we had chosen.  Then we bent forward and looked between our legs to see the tree.  We then walked forward until we could see the tip of the tree between our legs.

2. Then we measured from our partner’s feet to the tree trunk with a metre stick or a trundle wheel.

3. Then we measured the length of the person’s leg that had walked from the tree to where they could see the tip of the tree between their legs.

4. Finally, we added the distance from the tree to the length of our partner’s leg to give us an  estimated height of the tree.

Some of us estimated the age of trees by measuring the circumference of the tree and dividing this number by 2.5, as trees grow an average of 2.5cm in diameter every year.

“We have been learning how to reflect shapes and patterns in lines of symmetry. ” Oliver

“Today some of us were able to make patterns with Lego using two lines of symmetry.” Lewis

After a three week break, we were back learning how to play different games in hockey.  We played line ball, no goalie and number ball. We were learning how to manage and referee the games ourselves.

This afternoon we made cogs to replicate what happens inside a wind turbine, as we have been learning about ‘Powering the Future.’ We learnt that smaller cogs have more rotations a minute than a larger cogs.

This week we learnt that P5 are going to participate in the Leaf Challenge as part of the Forrest Schools initiative.  We have lots of ideas about what we could do to look after our school environment, but we have yet to agree on our action plan.

‘Maths in Motion’

As part of Maths Week Scotland we used the website Code.org to program characters to do different activities.

‘It was fun doing coding on the Chrome books!’ Matthew

As it was so wet this week during our outdoor learning time, we decided to draw symmetrical pictures of insects.

We we worked in groups to create maths games.  We decided as a group what our theme was and created a range of board games and escape rooms.

We also created a dance where we had to follow a sequence to the beat of music.

‘I really liked doing the dance.’ Aayshah

‘The dance was really fun.’ Mariia