We spent the morning outside being wildlife ecologists collecting information for the British Ornithogical Society. We measured a patch of grass, then Mrs McGregor dug it for us and we sifted through it to find minibeasts. We then recorded the information on the types of minibeasts we found, along with their length….although measuring the length of a wriggly worm is not as easy as it sounds!
Category Archives: Numeracy and Mathematics
Wind Turbine Engineers
On Friday Mrs Jamil spent the day with us in school. She gave us a presentation on renewable energies as well as talking about how engineers all over the world work to make a difference to our lives. She talked too about how important Science and Maths are and how we should all work hard in these subjects in school.
After the presentation she came round each class and we got a chance to learn about designing, building and testing a wind turbine. We had a marvellous day and really appreciate Mrs Jamil spending her day with us, encouraging us to investigate, design and create just like real engineers.
Here are some pictures of us, future engineers in the making.
Fractions
We’ve been outside today learning about fractions. We learned that to half an object it has to be the same on each side, so we put elastic bands round sticks and showed halves that way. We discovered two halves make one whole. Learning outside is great fun. Look at all these smiles!
Outside orienteering
Fortunately we had some lovely weather this week and that meant we could get outside and learn more about orienteering. We played some games and had a competition to learn how to spot symbols and meanings using a key.
Parent Visit
Thank you so much to Jonathan’s mum for coming in and telling us all about her work.
We were all amazed to hear the number of customers and hear about all the numbers she deals with every day.
She spoke to us about saving money and we learned why that’s a really good idea.
We also learned all about why she works there and how much she enjoys her job. It certainly made us all think about how she uses numbers every day and how important it is to learn about maths
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