Mr Atkinson’s comment:
P5B has had a brilliant time participating in Maths Weeks Scotland activities and we hope that you enjoy viewing what the pupils have been up to both in the blog and on the schools Twitter account. Next week the class, with help from the catering team, will be creating sushi balls as part of their study into Japan. An email has been sent by the office kindly requesting for pupils to please bring some sort of container for Monday to allow them to bring home what they create. In addition, any cardboard donations would be appreciated for our upcoming Science lessons.
Maths Week Scotland
This week in Maths we were learning about function machines and the strategies needed to work them out. We have also been improving our knowledge of divisions involving two digit numbers and remainders.
For Maths Week Scotland we created our very own step counters by coding and programming the Microbits. We programmed them to recognise movement such as as shake or step. We then tested them out by walking around the school a checking who got the most steps. Mr Atkinson also took part as he was doing the staff steps challenge!
Literacy and English
This week we read the second last chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We also looked through the book and wrote down some WOW words that we did not know the meanings of. Afterwards, we used the strategy of reading the sentences around the words to make sensible guesses and then we used dictionaries to get the exact definitions of them.
In our Spelling lesson this some of us were looking at how to make words plural.
We each created a fact file about ourselves for our Writing lesson. We were challenged to organise our information and draw pictures that matched some of our facts.
French
During French with Miss Campbell we learned how to say what we are wearing.
IDL
Over a couple of lessons we worked in groups and pretended to be travel agents! We created information posters on Japan which had key facts that linked to Maths Week Scotland, such as the time difference between Tokyo and Glasgow, how many kilometres it takes to get from Scotland to Japan, we used holiday booking websites to find the cheapest and most expensive flights to Tokyo from Glasgow and we determined the difference in price between them. We then presented our travel posters to the upper school assembly!
