Another amazing week full of new learning and experiences!
On Monday we used Look-Cover-Write Check to work on our spelling patterns for the week-c-tch-ou-ck. Area was the Numeracy Topic of the day and we learned to find the area of rectangles by counting the squares and multiplying the length by the breadth. The class were very accurate when learning about the homophones to/too/two and can now used them correctly in Writing.
Time was available for the learning trios to finalise the poster and information for the Egyptian God task. Some incredible facts and detailed illustrations of the Gods.
On Tuesday we travelled to Edinburgh to visit The National Robotarium at Heriot Watt University. It was incredible…and huge! We were greeted by a robot dog called Spot which could dance and roll over. Our hosts let us ask lots of questions and we learned how robots can help humans do dangerous, dirty and dull jobs. We spoke to a robot head receptionist and had a tour of all the robots being built and tested before a tour of the sports facilities. There were so many different halls for football, rugby, dancing, table tennis, hockey. The list goes on… We saw a special wall that had holes in it to represent the notes for Flower of Scotland. After lunch a fantastic activity was organised for us to learn about robotics and how joints move. It was fun working in groups with different materials and testing our creations in the air fan. A super day enjoyed by all. Thank you to the National Robotarium.
On Wednesday we were calculating the area of rectangles in centimetres which required us to draw and measure lines accurately and then multiply the sides. A bit trickier but we did well. The class completed questionnaires on How I Am Smart and found out about Multi-Intelligences. They were pleased to find out the top scoring sections and were interested in the results. We found it can help us when thinking about future careers. Poster were designed to show all the individual results. Later, two class members made up a super quiz after watching Newsround and focused on good quality, open questions.
Thursday’s task was to write a Letter of Thanks to The National Robotarium for a super visit. The focus was upskilling vocabulary and using a set of words related to electronics, technology and robots. That was fun with some tricky and long words like Artificial Intelligence. We played interactive games about Area on our Chromebooks and found some challenging ones where we had to build shapes of a specific area and perimeter. The French Alphabet was the lesson of the afternoon with a catchy song and the class doing a French Alphabet Dance Off! It was a fun way to learn the trickier letter names. Later the class played Dodgeball to test their skills of aiming, strength and strategy. It certainly got the competitive spirit going.
On Friday the class learned all about the locations of volcanoes in the world and looked at types of rocks. We completed our posters showing our intelligences in order and had a lovely afternoon reviewing tasks done and having time to spend playing games with our classmates. We hope you all have a lovely long weekend.
