This year’s theme for Maths Week Scotland is Wild Maths to encourage us to look for the maths in the outdoors.

To combine this with our work towards the Junior Forester Award, we measured trees outdoors.  To do this, you walk away from the tree and look upside down between your legs – when you can see the top of it, that should be the height of the tree if it was lying on the ground! We also created a forest with chalk in the playground by measuring the height of different British trees as saplings and at one year and two years.

 

 

And then… the Colour Run!

 

This week we have started our work on RME.  We have been learning about Sikhism.  We researched some important information about the faith using the Chromebooks.  We had told Mrs Allan this was one of the ways we liked to learn and she was impressed with our skills.

Later, we learned about the life of Guru Nanak, who is the founder of Sikhism and sequenced key events in his life.

One day we was protected from the sun by a snake (H H)

We learned that when Nanak went to the river to bathe and meditate, he disappeared for three days and then when he came back he told everyone that he had a vision from God. (SS)

We went outside for maths instead of the classroom and we made graphs about the lunch orders that we made that day. After exploring examples of bar charts, we made our success criteria by ourselves before we went out with our whiteboards to create our bar graphs. then we peer assessed to look for the key parts of a graph: labelling axis is tricky!

Last week, we were learning about graphs and we drew graphs outside with chalk (AM).

The salmon was the most popular option (HA)

 

 

 

Health  and wellbeing focus

Our Happy Place

We created triaramas (3d paper diagrams) to celebrate our happy places.  We created the scenery across the back and then wrote a description using our senses on the bottom. We have displayed them in our classroom and we hope that if we are having a tough day they will act as a reminder of a happy place and help us to begin to feel better.

PE

on the MUGA, we have started working on football skills, beginning with passing and dribbling. In the gym hall we did fitness stations and talked about how these stations made our hearts beat faster.   We counted how many of each exercise we did and set a goal for next time.

We did a game where you had to make it to the other side without someone tackling you – L)

Outdoor learning

We did some outdoor learning in the fresh air too.  Working with your friends outdoors is a great way to help your feel happy. We worked in teams to create artwork using what we could find in the woodland.

We were working in groups to make a art picture out of nature – K

My group made a rabbit called Willis – A