Classroom Economy

Welcome to Primary 5

Hi and welcome to our class blog!

This week’s blog is about our class economy. The class economy is a way for the teachers to reward us and to help us to take responsibility for our behaviour and work. It also provides a real life situation for handling money. We have to keep a record of what we make, spend and get fined, which gives us daily maths practice.

In our class economy you can make money, lose money and spend money.

How to make money
Everyone has a job in the class and every Friday they get paid £2 for doing their job. The jobs are Eco Monitor, Equipment Monitor, Mail Monitor, Bread Monitor, Teacher’s Assistant, Cloakroom Monitor, Hebrew Monitor, Finance Manager, Librarian and Merchant. You can also make money by coming in to school on time, handing in completed homework each week, being on task, ‘caught being good’, group points and receiving a positive comment from an adult.

How to spend money
Each month we have to pay rent for our desk and chair. We also have to pay rent for our text books. We need to pay if we would like a pencil, a rubber, a water cup, a new white board pen or if we need a replacement jotter because we have lost one. If we save up enough money we are able to buy a ‘Computer Pass’ that allows us to work on the computer all day or a ‘Sit with a Friend pass’ which allows us to sit with our friend for the day. If you’re kind enough you can give some money to charity.

 How to lose money
Now people sometimes have to get fined in our class and you probably know that if you get fined you lose some money. You lose    some money by going to the toilet during class, going to fill up your water bottle during class, not writing your name on work, not lining up sensibly, receiving a negative comment from another adult, not handing in homework, damaging property, leaving your coat on the floor in the cloakroom, producing messy work, shouting out and messing with the class economy.

This week’s blog was written by Daniel and Zak

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Sumdog May Competition

Last week, Primary 4 entered the Sumdog National competition against other schools in the UK.In the competition we had 1000 questions to answer. There was 299 classes taking part and WE CAME 7th!!!!! trophy
In Sumdog, you have to answer maths questions but it is actually really fun because you get to choose which game you want to play and you can also play against other children in the class or in the world.
The most popular game in the class is, ‘Soccer and Disguise.’

If you want to try it out, go to www.sumdog.com. If you don’t have an account you can click on the ‘try Sumdog’ tab.

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Our Fun Gymnastics lessons

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Primary 4 have been doing gymnastics during their P.E lessons.

We have been practising different rolls. The rolls we have been learning are: forward rolls, backward rolls, the teddy bear roll, log roll, tuck roll, the seal roll and one group created a roll called the split roll.
The most popular roll in the class is the ‘seal roll'(lie on your back with bent legs and arms straight behind your head).
The least popular was the log roll because it is very easy and boring!
During P.E we have been talking a lot about our core muscles. To help us improve our core muscles, we have been learning different moves:
1. The bridge
2. The straddle (put your legs in a ‘V’ shape and try to touch your toes)
3. Putting our bodies into letter shapes.
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Ciao for now!

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All About Matilda

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In Primary 4, we have a new class novel, called Matilda.

Matilda is about a little girl who is very special because she can do lots of things at a very young age. She has some mean parents and a brother who don’t care about her.
Matilda is a very intelligent child, at the age of 4 she could read. It is amazing how a 4 year old child could visit the library herself.

In class, we all made posters to describe the characters of the story. The characters were: Matilda, Mrs Wormwood(Matilda’s mother), Mr Wormwood(Matilda’s father) and Mrs Phelps.
We had to write an adjective to describe the character and back up our ideas with a quote from the book. Once we had written this on our post-it, we stuck it onto the poster.

Matilda is a great book, why don’t you try reading it?

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Electric Fun!

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Welcome to Electric Fun!

Primary 4 are going to show you what we have been learning in Science this week.

At the beginning of the week, we did some research on the computer which helped us to learn a little bit more about electricity. We visited http://www.hyperstaffs.info/science/work/child/main.html and play some games on this website.

Later on in the week, we were pretending to be scientists by doing a science experiment with electricity.

During this experiment, we had to make a circuit using: 1 x light bulb, 1 x light bulb holder, 1 battery and 3/4 x wires. We tried using different materials (e.g. ruler, pencil, 10p/2p coin, metal and plastic spoon, a nail and tin foil.) in between the circuit to check if the light bulb would go on. These special materials were called insulators and conductors.

An insulator means that the electricity won’t flow whereas a conductor lets the electricity flow round the circuit.

Before we started our experiment, we had to predict if the materials would turn on the light bulb or not.

Once we tested out the various materials, to see if the light bulb would turn on, we had to write our results into a table.

Goodbye for now.

See you next week!

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