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The Journey of a river

Over the last fews weeks we’ve been learning about the journey of a river and applying this knowledge to our topic ‘ The Craigie to the Clyde’.

We’ve explored the upper, middle and lower parts of the river and the different features of each part. We’ve followed the journey of Aurs Burn, to Brockburn all the way to the River Clyde.

We have recognised how features of rivers such as waterfalls, gorges and meanders are formed.

Finally we recreated our own river journeys using makedo kits and cardboard. We applied our craft and mathematical knowledge to make freestanding 3d objects and just slopes and lines to control the flow of the water. We worked in teams to plan, cut and create some fabulous designs.

Maths Week Scotland

Great fun creating our own memory transporters as part of our Stem Challenge. In teams, they created different routes, some different levels and some with obstacles using a range of strategies. Many developed paper attachment strategies to make their route sturdy. It was great to see how different children demonstrated leadership skills, whilst others were creating and explaining their process.

For our topic, we have been learning about transport in the past and present.


We can tell you lots of differences between the first cars on the roads and cars now! Here we are circling the differences we can spot.

We had lots of fun designing and building our own cars to take home. It took a lot of concentration to put all the parts together!

    

On Tuesday, a visitor came in to tell us all about the transport around Barrhead. We learnt all about the old trams and the different routes they took around the local area.

We worked in groups to look at different maps of the area. We could identify lots of roads and buildings on the map.