Welcome back to the P5a blog! We hope you enjoy reading about what we have be exploring with Mr Atkinson in his Learning Journeys.
Last term we finished our cost of tourism Learning Journey which has helped us to learn about different parts of the world. We explored the links between travelling and the impact tourism can have on the environment. Mr Atkinson also helped us to translate different types of vehicles and common phrases that you might use at an airport into French. The class was then challenged to construct modes of transport using K’Nex and create labels for them in French. As we become more confident with how to read and write different directions in French we then created maps of towns and wrote key locations in French. Working with partners, we provided instructions for our friends to see if they could navigate around our drawings and list the places they could visit. Afterwards we investigated which areas and countries around the world speak French and through applying our knowledge of time we calculated the time differences between these locations. We also solved Maths questions about time to find out durations of flights and how to convert 12 and 24 hour time. Equipped with all of this knowledge we then considered how you would organise a trip to Paris. In groups we discussed the different travel options, researched famous places tourists would want to see, reflected on how long it may take to reach each place and how much time would be needed to eat at locations. Finally we compared the cultural differences between Scotland and France.
After returning from the holidays we have started our new Learning Journey, Earth’s Resources. In class we have been learning about the properties of different types of rocks and we have been pretending to be geologists by going outside and looking for unusual stones.
