Author: Mrs Rae

This morning we used multilink to make some mixed numbers and improper fractions.

 

We had to think about how many pieces were in each cake and how many were left over.  If there were 4 pieces in the cake we were measuring in quarters and if there were three pieces in the cake it was thirds.

 

We disucussed that there is a numerator and denominator in a fraction.  The numerator is at the top and the denominator is the bottom.  In a proper fraction the denominator is bigger.  In an improper fraction the numerator is the biggest number.  The denominator decides how many pieces the whole number is split into.

 

We also used examples of chocolate bars on the smart board and it was in halves to begin with.  We knew this because each chocolate bar had 2 pieces. It got harder when the chocolate bar was in 4 pieces as this was quarters.  We had to use division to help us.

Some of the sums were fun to do but quite tricky.  We used our knowledge of times tables to help us too.

We have some photos of our work this morning to share.

This morning we are looking at the word nurtured as it is our word for the month in Healthy.

 

We worked together to look at what it means and created a whole class definition.

Mrs Rae is very impressed with the words and phrases we used when creating our definition.

 

Have a read and see what you think…

 

Nurtured

Comes from the verb nurture.

It means caring, loving, having encouraging family and friends around you. You are being brought up well in a safe and caring environment and are being encouraged to take part in different activities.

 

We are now going to create a poster showing how we are or can be nurtured either in school or at home.

Today it is Fairtrade Friday.  There was stalls and the stalls were face paiting, fairtrade food tasting and colouring in and games that you had to to with a partner.  Then later on we had a quick assembly about what fairtrade is and how fair it is.

 

 

Here are some of our thoughts of today :

 

Joelyn – Jocelyn liked the video that we watched in the hall.

Josh  – Josh liked the food pots at the food tasting stall.

Grace  – Grace also liked the food tasting stall.

Evan – I  liked the video in the hall.

Carmen – I liked the face painting stall and I got a blue loveheart.

 

Today we used Glow to learn about electrical circuit symbols.  We watched a video about it and took some notes.  We downloaded a document from our class page to label and then we uploaded it back to our own class area.  After that we used our new understanding of circuit symbols to create circuits using circuit diagrams.

 

Look at our comments below to find out what we learned and what we found challenging this afternoon.

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Our new topic is electricity.

On Thursday, we used different equipment to light a bulb.

The equipment was – lightbulbs, battery pack, batteries, crocodile clips and leads and a bulb holder.

To make a circuit you needed to join up the clips and the battery pack and then join the other end to the lightbulb holder.  A circuit is like a circle.

When lighting two bulbs it was quite tricky but some groups even managed to light 4 bulbs.

 

We are going to do more electricity this afternoon so we will report back on how we get on.

 

This afternoon’s update!

This afternoon we put switches and motors into our circuits.  We put our lego men onto the motors and watched them spin around and around.  Lots of us got  a surprise when the lego men started spinning as we weren’t expecting it.  Some of the lego men flew off as they were going so fast so we used blu tac to try to stick them on.

 

Challenges – It was really hard to turn off the bulb with the switch.  We hadn’t connected the switches properly.  We learned that the switch has to be inside the circuit for it to work properly.  Some of us made a loop onto the circuit and it didn’t switch the light off completely.

Our next challenge was to make the motor spin the other way round.  To do this we swapped the wires attached to the motor round the other way.  This changed the direction the electricity was flowing through the circuit.

 

 

p5-homework-march

 

Here is the P5 homework for the first two weeks in March.

 

I am really impressed with the improvement in effort and presentation over the past month or so.  Keep this up!

 

 

This morning we went on a trip to St Mungo’s Museum and the People’s Palace.  First we went to St Mungo’s Museum .  We got into partners and the man told us where to go.  There were three floors which told us about different things.   They were all about different world religions including, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism.

We went to the People’s Palace in the afternoon. We had a snack outside at the water fountain first.  The statue at the top of the fountain is of Queen Victoria.  This was the second Queen Victoria statue as the first one was blown up by lightning.  We went to the first floor to look around at all the artefacts before we had lunch.

After lunch we had a workshop called “Changing Glasgow”.  It looked at how housing, children’s play, health and working lives have changed in Glasgow since 1900.

Jordan – It was a really fun trip.  One of the best I have been on.

Ava – I had a great day.

Grace – I enjoyed learning more information about Glasgow.

Jake – I enjoyed the trip but it was exhausting.  We had to walk up and down the stairs a lot!

Kali – My favourite par twas the workshop as we got to go to all the floors in small groups to find out facts.

Isla – I really enjoyed it but it was very warm.

Angus – I enjoyed the People’s Palace and St Mungo’s.  I especially enjoyed the workshop.

Please look at our photos.

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Today was the day that these 3 pupils beat their best ever score!  We are so proud of you.  Very well done.

 

 

This afternoon we have been making models of different monuments and landmarks in Glasgow.

We used different types of materials to make these such as clay, straws, knex and multilink.

One group was also using iPads to create a document using an app of their choice to show what they have learned about Glasgow during our topic.

This afternoon these were our challenges and how we overcame them:

Jocelyn – Getting the knex to stay together.  We asked Christopher for help and he showed us how to push the pieces together.

Isla – Trying to keep the clay together.  I found out that adding water to it helps it to stick.

Lewis- Jake and I found out that we had to measure how big the crane was to stop it toppling over.  We had to add smaller bits of knex in between the bigger bits to stop it from falling over.

Jordan – I found it tricky working out how to create the clay model and make it stay together.  I got it together and used water as a glue to keep my model together.

Ava – When I was using the clay it kept sticking top the table.  I used a ruler to slide under it to scrape it off.

Kali – When Ben, Abbi and I were trying to get the crane to stand up it was difficult.  We used tyres to balance it and used the radiator to help.

We hope you like looking at the pictures of our afternoon.

 

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Following on from the work we started before the holidays, this afternoon we were looking at inside out characters.  We got a piece of paper and an inside out character and we had to write  different meanings of the feeling here  are the characters we done Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear here is some of our words –

for Disgust Maggie thought of the word Yuck.

And for Anger Jake thought flaming hot.

For  Sadness Taylor thought of unhappy.

Abbi thought of scared for Fear.

And for Fear Kali thought of thought of the word haunted.

Each group get to paint a part of the emotional rainbow for our health and wellbeing wall.

 

Here are some pictures of us thinking and doing our work –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Isla and Carmen