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Today we looked at a poem by Ian Serraillier which was called Mountains.

We had a lot of fun doing it and we are looking forward to writing our own poems and making some mountain pictures this afternoon.

Max-I found this easy and i am looking forward to making the mountain pictures.

Carmen-i enjoyde looking at the peom that  Ian Sarraillier wrote and looking foward to making my own peom and making the pictures of mountain with tissue paper.

These are some pictuers of our mountains

by Max & Carmen on behalf of P4/5

 

 

 

This morning we have been thinking about what we already know about fractions before we start our new fractions topic.

 

Here are some of our fractions facts….

Angus – If there is a circle and you split it into 4 it is called quarters.

Jake – 3/3 means three thirds.  This is the whole thing.

Cole – If you cut something into fractions it has to be equal.

Keavie – If you have a circle and you draw a line down the middle and cover one side up you have half.

Brooke – Fractions have to be the same size.

Hannah – If you get a circle and don’t cut it at all that will be a whole which is 1.

Kali – Fractions have to be the same size.

Jordan – 1/1 is one whole. 2/2 is also a whole. 3/3 is also a whole……we could go on and on!

 

We made posters and books about what we already know about fractions and are going to display them on our wall.

 

We hope that when we are finished we will know lots more such as….

How many different types of fractions you can make out of a circle or square.

What the name of the numbers on the top and bottom are.

How to use decimal fractions.

 

 

 

Our class are seeing a lot of different changes in our fish like faster swimming getting fatter and there tank is starting to smell really bad because as they grow there water hasn’t been the nice so every day we have 2 pairs going to check the fish to see how they are doing. When they are up there they check what the tempreture is how the fish are doing and the change the water to give the fresh water for them to swim in. When we go home at the weekend we make sure that the water want go up during the night so what we do is we get at least 2 ice paces in and when we come back in on Monday the tempreture will be down but we just takes a bit longer for the fish longer to grow.

In class we have been doing some work on life cycle of a brown Trout. We have learned that the first stage is a baby egg,then early Alevin,then a late Alevin,then fry and then after fry they become a proper brown trout

by Aimee and Kara on behelf of p4\5

Over the weekend we kept the fish eggs in the coldest cupboard in the school.  When we came in this morning we were disappointed that we had 11 dead eggs.  Codi took most of them out with the turkey baster.  She said it was really tricky to make sure you got the right egg and not one that was alive.

 

The good news is that two have “hatched” from the egg and they look like small creatures with a bag round the middle.

 

If you look at our photo you will maybe see one of them!  Look closely for a small line poking out from one of the eggs.

We are looking forward to seeing more of them hatch this week.

On Monday the hatchery arrived at school.  Our scientist, Willie, came into class to install them.  We have had to check the temperature of the water three times a day so we have it right for when the fish eggs arrive.  The water needs to be between 7 and 12 degrees.  We are putting in ice packs made from water bottles to keep the water cool.  We are not sure how it will go at the weekend.  We  plan to put extra ice packs in this afternoon to keep the water as cold as we can until Mnnday.

 

Yesterday we learned about fish body parts by playing  fishy dice game.  We drew a fish each and are going to complete them today.

Some body parts we can remember are:

anal fin

caudal fin

gill cover

dorsal fin

scales

eyes

mouth

pelvic fin

adipose fin

Today we have been finding out about how people used the River Clyde in the past.

We found out that it was used for shipbuilding and we saw a video which showed lots of cranes which were used to load engines onto the ships.

It was also used for travel and people travelled up and down it.  It was also used forfor transport and cargo was brought in and out of Glasgow on the Clyde.

People also used it for leisure activities like swimming and fishing.