P7a have been hard at work today building models as part of their Floating Gardens STEM challenge inspired by Practical Action and their great work world wide.
Come Learn With Me!
Thank you to the parents who joined us in our learning yesterday afternoon. We loved having you!
Learning the value of money
P7 have spent the past couple of days learning about the value of money and budgeting. There have been some excellent and insightful ideas and opinions shared!
Division
Today we were solving division problems using ourselves by splitting into groups and in some cases there were remainders! Primary 5 were able to apply their team building and problem solving skills for this activity. 
We love multiplication !
This week P5a have been working hard on multiplication. We have been looking at active learning and various pupil led activities within our maths time to help us  improve on timestables and problem solving.
Treasure hunt!!
This morning P5a did a treasure hunt using maths strategies and working in teams to solve the answers to the maths questions. Maths week completed !!
Maths week !
Primary 5a were trying to escape from the manor yesterday by using problem solving strategies and working in teams. 
Outdoor Learning
Over the past few weeks we have been making the most of the lovely weather by taking our learning outside. We love being outside learning new and exciting things. We went outside to practice telling the time on numeracy. We used natural materials to create a clock face on the ground together working as a team.
We also went outside to practice our numbers to 100. We spoke about odds and evens and created our own number lines.
We also worked with P3b outside to practice our times tables. We used stones, sticks and leaves found in the playground to show each calculation and the answers.
Digital Learning Week
This week we celebrated Digital Learning Week. Throughout the week we got the chance to use lots of different digital technologies in class to enhance our learning.
To kick off our week we visited the hall to see and use all the digital equipment we have in the school. The digital leaders showed us how to use it all.
We then used the chrome books to practise our spelling for this week. Â We used google docs to type up our words and also created stop motion films that show us spelling our words.
During literacy we started learning about comic books. We looked at the layout of comic books and spoke about why we enjoyed reading them. We then worked together in groups to create our own comic books. We created characters and a storyline and drew this on our storyboard. Using the app ‘Book Creator’ on the IPads we then began to create our own digital comic book. We had so much fun using our imaginations and working together.
We had so much fun using digital technologies this week!!!
World Book Day 2019
We kicked off World Book Day with some maths and numeracy. The book we are reading this term is Esio Trot. We are really enjoying this book so far and learning about Mrs Silvers Tortoise. We used our numeracy skills to weigh out the different weights of the torotises in Esio Trot. We had to change our scales into ounces and we learned that 16 ounces was the same as 1lb.
We then ordered our objects from lightest to heaviest. We all had a turn to feel the weight of all of the objects and imagined them as tortoises.
After break we spent some time pair reading. We shared our favourite stories with our peers, telling them what we liked about the book. We had a great time!
Miss McFlynn and Primary 3a 🙂
