Mr Atkinson’s comment:
It has been a very busy week for P5B! We welcomed a special guest on Friday afternoon who recorded a video of the class engaging in different STEM activities! I will share a link to the video in a future blog when we are given it. It was also great to meet with parents and guardians this week at the Parents Evening sessions and share the progress of the pupils.
Literacy and English
In our Writing session we were encouraged to replace the word said and some of us wrote endings to our Midnight Fair stories!
This week most of the groups finished creating our Alice in Wonderland drama scripts after summarising the main events from the storybooks. We worked together to decide which characters we would need and then we each chose parts. When we were writing the scripts we included stage directions to help us when we perform next week!
Our new comprehension focus is answering different types of questions on instructions.
Numeracy and Maths
In Maths some of us have discussed how to divide and multiply 4-5 digit numbers and how to convert kg and g. We have also been working on becoming more confident with using calculators to help solve word problems. Later in the week we learned some new strategies such as how to find factors and multiples, the best method to add ten to different numbers and what steps to follow when adding and subtracting 3 digit figures.
STEM
On Friday we had a special visitor come to our class to record us in action at our STEM stations! We were all very excited about this and were eager to share our knowledge of energy. At one of our stations we had to create a dam experiment and measure which hole in the milk container would best place to help generate energy in real life. We used a stopwatch to help us to accurately track the times of when we needed to measure the length of the water stream coming from each hole. We achieved this by using a measuring tape and recording our results in cms. At the other stations we used Tinkercad to design a sustainable town, created working wind turbines out of K’NEX and programmed the micro:bits to become an automatic light system that turned on when placed in our dark LEGO houses. It was so interesting taking part in all these different activities!
