Maths Week Scotland

For this years MWS, we were celebrating maths through books! P6 were given ‘Fractions in Disguise’ to read. In this story, when a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-gotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducer—a tool that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction and revealing its true form.

After reading the book, P6A had some fraction mysteries to sort too! We had to escape the fraction maze by simplifying fractions and spelling out a key word.

“We made it!”

We had lots of fun simplifying and finding equivalent fractions this week and look forward to learning more about it.

Writing

Over the last few weeks, we have been building an imaginative story, based around a theme park. We have had to consider the setting, as well as a main character before this week’s task of creating the main storyline and plot.

We started off our lesson by recapping a grammar technique we might need in our writing this week, the use of speech marks.

We then moved onto thinking about plots in popular books or movies.

“The main problem in the first Harry Potter movie is when Harry has to face Voldemort.”

“In Inside Out 2, new emotions are introduced and this is the rising action. Then the main plot is when the old emotions are all captured and imprisoned. The resolution comes when the magical wizard sets them all free.”

We then moved on to planning and writing our own plots for our imaginative story.

We even got to bring our theme parks to life with Kapla!

We took our first class photo this week!

French

We were recapping some French language this week! We had fun remembering how to ask peoples names and ages and got to play a game to help us with this.

Someone was picked to stand in front of the board and ask a friend “Comment t’appelles-tu?” which means “what is your name?” The person would respond by giving one of the characters on the board, like, “Je m’appelle Aladdin” and the person would then guess what their name should be, based on who their famous friend was. In this case, it would be “Je m’appelle Jasmine”.